"There is something missing from our world." "The amazing animals that time has left behind." "But what if we could bring them back?" "What if extinction didn't have to be for ever?" "We're going back in time on a safari with a difference as wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven plunges into prehistory to rescue creatures on the brink of extinction." "His plan is to bring them back to the safety of the present and give them a second chance." "On his very first mission, he hopes to rescue one of the last of the dinosaurs from the most dramatic extinction ever." "Welcome to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary." "Welcome to Prehistoric Park." "It's a big day at Prehistoric Park." "Throughout this huge reserve, everyone is busy preparing for the first arrivals." "Come on, lads!" "Quick as you like!" "Can you get a 10-foot pole down to the bottom of the paddock." "They've almost finished the enclosures for everyhing from giant insects to dinosaurs." "Check everything!" "This is home to a dangerous creature!" "If Nigel can make extinct animals feel at home anywhere, it's here." "(Nigel) The natural geography will help us contain the animals." "There's the ocean to the south and, to the north, a mountain range." "Everything I need in terms of habitats - savannah, forest, rivers." "There's even a waterfall." "Perfect environments for prehistoric animals." "All they need now are the prehistoric creatures themselves." "One day Nigel plans to breed extinct animals in captivity." "But his first step is to only bring a few of each species back to see how they get on in the 21st century." "And Nigel knows exactly what he wants to start with." "The meanest and scariest of them all " "Tyrannosaurus Rex!" "(Roar)" "He's already worked out when and where he'll have to go to track one down." "The most widely accepted theory about why dinosaurs became extinct is a meteorite smashed into the Earth." "This is the Earth 65 million years ago." "This is where the impact was, somewhere in Mexico." "You can still see the crater." "Around that time there were masses of T-Rex here, somewhere in Montana." "I need to go back there to find them." "To rescue the last of the T-Rex," "Nigel is going back to the very end of the age of dinosaurs, as close to the meteorite impact as he dares." "65 million years ago Montana looks very different." "This is a world before grass, where volcanoes dominate the landscape." "Here, T-Rex is king." "Now all Nigel needs to do is to find one." "In a place with so many potential dangers," "Nigel and his team know the sooner they accomplish their mission, the better." "I just hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew." "We've got so little time." "There's some wonderful forest over there." "Perfect habitat." "I think that's where we'll begin our search for T-Rex." "T" " Rex is a monster." "At a staggering 45 feet long and five tons, it shouldn't be too hard to track one down." "(Distant animal cries)" "What he'll do when he does find one is not exactly clear." "(Animal screeches)" "T" " Rex are not the only creatures around." "This must be a track way." "Look... you can see here these leaves have been nibbled, these twigs have been snapped off." "There's been a vegetarian browsing here and..." "Ah!" "The first evidence of dinosaurs." "Hard to see, but you can see this footprint here." "Three toes." "This is the classic theropod dinosaur, the same family as T-Rex." "They stand on two legs, they're bipedal." "It looks like there's a whole group." "Not as big as T-Rex, and vegetarian, as you can tell by the leaves." "And they've gone this way." "This is a big track way." "There must be a few of them." "And they've gone down this way." "His hunch is right." "An animal is rustling." "(Rustling)" "This is what normally happens with reptiles." "You hear them before you see them, hear them scurrying through the bushes." "(Whispers) It's still moving around there." "This could be our first dinosaurs." "(Animal screeches)" "Can you see that?" "Ornithomimus." "I've seen the fossils in museums." "Ornithomimus means "bird mimic"." "You can see why." "Exactly like an ostrich." "(Whispers) See how close we can get." "(Screech)" "That went right through me!" "That was a warning." "And look..." "All the others are all looking up." "He must have been the sentry." "The others are looking at us now, heads popping up all over the place." "(Screech)" "And they're vegetarians." "But they won't turn their beaks up at the odd insect or bit of meat." "And completely the opposite of what you'd imagine a dinosaur to be like." "These beaks at the front have ridges inside, just like modern ducks and geese, and they use those to crush their food." "This is terrific." "Our first dinosaurs." "(Screech)" "These Ornithomimus will soon be extinct, too, unless, of course, Nigel can save one." "I'd love a breeding herd of Ornithomimus, but we need a technique for catching them." "And I think this will work." "I've done it with ostriches." "You slip a sock over their head." "As soon as you cover their eyes, they calm down." "The only trouble I've got is that these things can run at 40 miles per hour." "There's so many in this herd, if I can get in their midst there will be a commotion and hopefully I can grab hold of one of them." "(Shrieks)" "(Squawks)" "(Growls)" "But now there's something else to contend with, something much, much bigger." "Something's chasing them." "It looks like the T-Rex have found Nigel before Nigel could find them." "(Roar)" "No sudden moves." "(Roar)" "Nigel does have one advantage." "T" " Rex is so top heavy, that if they trip, the fall can kill them." "(Roar)" "A bite of Nigel isn't worth the risk." "Down, mate!" "Get down!" "(Roar)" "That was a close one." "Predators don't like confined spaces like this." "And that's why the T-Rex are staying back there, I'm sure." "I think what we've got to do now is go back to camp." "Day One over and there's no T-Rex to take home." "At least there's no sign of the meteorite, either, but it can't be far away." "The following morning, the camp has some visitors." "(Animals growl)" "More creatures in the last throes of their existence." "A glorious sight to wake up to." "A big herd of Triceratops." "This is a tremendous sight." "When the fossils were found, they named these Triceratops Horridus." "It means "horrid three-horned face", but how could they?" "They are gorgeous." "And big, too!" "Eight tons." "And one over there, it's a big male, is at least 25 feet, eight metres long." "The good thing for us is there are a lot of them." "They're prey animals for T-Rex." "I've seen tracks of the predator over there." "Prey and predator attracted to waterholes." "I'm going to follow the tracks and see if we can find a T-Rex lair." "The footprints are fresh and it looks like a well-used track." "T" " Rex are fast movers, reaching 40 miles an hour when they need to." "Nigel's hoping these ones aren't too far away." "The tracks are really beginning to tell a story." "Look here." "A depression in the ash." "That was a big tail sweep." "There was a kerfuffle here." "Another tail drag over there." "The tracks are going on." "We're getting towards the centre of the territory." "What Nigel doesn't realise is he's already in the centre of their territory!" "(Roar)" "(Shriek)" "Crouch down!" "Get over here." "Get down." "This is their home." "There's bones scattered all over." "They obviously bring food back here." "It's terrific." "That kerfuffle back there, that must have been the juveniles fighting over scraps of food." "It's dangerous play." "T" " Rex have huge jaw muscles, giving them a bite 10 times more powerful than a lion's." "And there's males and females here." "In the fossil record, T-Rex skeletons have been found together." "That's a clue that they associate." "(Roar)" "They're a real mob, like a gang looking for trouble." "They really interact." "I wonder if they hunt in packs." "(Roar)" "Suddenly they all started moving this way." "It's one thing to find a T-Rex, but it's another thing to take one home." "Fortunately, dinosaurs lay eggs and they're a lot easier to carry." "I can go and have a look now, see if we can find any eggs or a nesting site." "Amongst the remains of the T-Rex victims littered across the den," "Nigel finds what he's looking for." "Unfortunately, he's too late." "This is all I can find, empty T-Rex eggshells." "They've been broken into by a predator, or more likely, they're last season's eggs." "It's so disappointing." "If we could have found a fresh nest and got the eggs, that would have been the easiest option." "Another day and he's still no closer to saving a T-Rex." "And up above are the first signs that the meteorite is closing in." "Streaking across tonight's sky are shooting stars." "Huge boulders plough into the Earth's atmosphere at 20, 000 miles an hour." "They are the precursor of something much, much bigger." "Look at this cosmological activity." "Those are meteors." "They burn up in the atmosphere, but they're in the bow wake of the meteorite." "And the meteorite, when that comes, will smack into the Earth." "That's the problem." "And we really have got such little time here." "I'm hoping tomorrow goes better and we can save a T-Rex or two." "The next day, the pack of T-Rex turn up, looking for trouble." "They're after their favourite food - Triceratops." "(Roar)" "They're charging for the Triceratops, right in the midst of the herd there." "What the T-Rex will do is find the weakest." "A fully-grown Triceratops is far from defenceless." "Their frill is made of solid bone." "But the younger Triceratops know better than to stand their ground." "Aagh." "I feel like I've been hit by a train!" "A baby Triceratops has run the wrong way." "The more it struggles, the more trouble it's in as the T-Rex's 13-inch serrated teeth sink deeper and deeper." "But help is at hand." "There's a Triceratops here fighting back the big female T-Rex." "(Roar)" "The horn's gone right into the upper thigh." "(Screech)" "And the males have just left her." "They've just skedaddled." "So much for the pack!" "Now the injured female has to make her own kill." "It looks like she's spotted her next victim - another youngster." "(Roar)" "For Nigel, it's the chance he's been waiting for." "He sets up the time portal." "Maybe I can get two dinosaur species for the price of one." "If I can lure the Triceratops through the time portal and then maybe the T-Rex will follow." "Aagh!" "Come on!" "Come on, T-Rex." "(Roar)" "That's certainly not a T-Rex!" "But, weighing in at three tons, this young male Triceratops is a great start." "It's not long before news spreads that Prehistoric Park's first dinosaur has arrived." "The park's vet, Suzanne, heads over to take a look for herself." "It's a Triceratops!" "It's a Triceratops!" "He's done it!" "Our first dinosaur, and look at him." "He's magnificent." "Park-keeper Bob is keen to move the newcomer into a secure enclosure." "Whoa!" "That's far enough." "Although he was an unexpected arrival," "Nigel thinks they've got the perfect place to put him." "Come on, I need to have a look at that." "Up you go." "Triceratops - our first dinosaur." "We need a good place to keep him." "I want to call him Theo." "It's a great name." "But he needs vegetation to browse on." "Over here there's too much grass." "So Bob's found the perfect spot, down here by the river." "That's where his enclosure will be." "They're just about to unload him." " How are you, Nigel?" " Thrilled to bits." "Our first dinosaur." "It's short notice, but I forgive you as our new visitor is magnificent, to say the least." " How's the enclosure?" " A bit makeshift, but it will do for now." "I've given him a name as well." " Theo the triceratops." " Theo." "Good name." "(Yells) All right!" "Let him out!" "Here he comes." "Whoa, whoa!" " (Laughs) Hey!" " Look at that!" "Plenty for him to eat." "Well done, Bob." "It's great." "All right, lads." "Come on." "Get the boards away and the truck out of there." "(Nigel) Really pleased with this habitat." "Grass is no good for dinosaurs." "It hadn't evolved when they were around." "Triceratops is not like a cow." "It doesn't graze." "It browses like a black rhinoceros." "It needs low shrubs and trees." "There's plenty of those for Theo here." "And its beak can snap off branches as thick as my arm." "This is gonna be great for him to thrive." "For Theo to grow to eight tons, he'll have to spend most of his life eating." "With the park's first dinosaur settled," "Nigel turns his attention once again to T-Rex." "And the pressure's back on Bob to finish off the enclosure." "I didn't have a clue how to build a compound for a T-Rex." "I've only seen one in a story book, but Nigel thinks this will do." "There's lots of area to run around, lots of shade to get out of the sun." "And if it wants to, it can stand up on the hill and survey its domain." "The enclosure will have to be finished soon because Nigel's on his way back to where he left off... 65 million years ago." "And this time he's promised to return with a T-Rex." "It's not just the dinosaurs that will be wiped out by the meteorite hit." "Nigel knows that everyhing he sees around him will be devastated." "(Animals squawk)" "What a magnificent place!" "Pterosaurs swooping overhead." "You can hear them calling all the time." "And sweet water." "It's hard to believe that this stream will be choked with ash and dust." "The meteorite will hit not too far away." "Time is running out." "This is my second rescue mission." "I am determined to save some T-Rex for Prehistoric Park." "There are lots of dinosaur tracks to follow, but Nigel is interested in one set in particular." "There's something strange with these tracks." "Look." "The toes have been dragged along." "I think it's the female T-Rex that was gored in the stampede." "We're close to where the Triceratops stampede was." "She's dragged her toes." "She's injured and she'll be moving pretty slowly." "If we head downstream and follow these tracks, we may catch her up." "The track takes him down river, where he's hoping to gain ground on the T-Rex." "With any luck, her leg injury will make her slower and a little easier to catch." "Listen." "Her footfalls are reverberating around the valley." "She's up there somewhere." "And an animal that weighs six tons can't walk quietly." "There, that's what she's after." "There's a Triceratops corpse and she can smell that." "That's why she's been moving along the river." "(Pounding footfalls)" "(Whispers) Come on!" "Get on the bank." "She's there." "I don't want her to see us." "(Roars)" "(High-pitched cry)" "She's starting to move away." "I'm certain it's the female that was attacked by the Triceratops." "She's been able to track down this free meal despite being on her own and badly injured because T-Rex's have a superb sense of smell." "(Roars)" "She's in luck." "The triceratops carcass has become stuck." "This is Nigel's chance to get really close to her." "She must be so hungry." "She's desperate for an easy meal." "Even though T-Rex is everyone's ultimate monster, you feel sorry for her." "She's a top predator." "They're so top-heavy." "If she went in this fast-flowing water, she'd be flipped over." "But she's desperate for the meat." "You just feel so sorry for her." "She's desperate to get out there, but she's got no chance." "The T-Rex limps off, leaving Nigel to figure out what to do next." "(Bob) Keep the camera on him." "Back at Prehistoric Park," "Theo the Triceratops is displaying some unusual behaviour." "Bob has asked vet Suzanne to come and take a look." " What is he doing?" " He's done it all morning." " What do you think it is?" " Haven't a clue." "He just keeps charging at that tree!" "Gosh!" "Oh, my goodness, look!" "What?" "Oh, my goodness!" " The poor thing!" " Any ideas?" "His frill has changed colour!" "It wasn't like that before." "(Growls)" "Maybe he's having a testosterone surge and he thinks that's a mate and he's charging him." " You think he needs a playmate?" " I think he thinks that tree's a friend!" " (Laughs)" " What?" "I've just had a very good idea." " What?" "Tell me." " Wait and see." "Oh." "OK." "Thanks, fella." "Just round the side." "Bob has a plan." "He's convinced he can tame even Theo's teenage tantrums." "Meanwhile, Nigel has, at last, come up with a plan of his own." "We're trying a technique used by game capture teams for things like antelope." "The T-Rex is working her way down river." "We've got ahead of her." "She won't go onto uneven ground and she won't go near the water." "We've built this palisade of logs and we'll funnel her towards the time portal and back to the safety of the 21st century." "We hope." "Hi, Adam." "Give us a hand." "The meteorite is getting ever closer." "So is the T-Rex." "And a herd of Ornithomimus are running scared." "(Ornithomimus shriek)" "There she is, the T-Rex." "That's why they're spooked." "(Roars)" "(Ornithomimus shriek)" "If we're lucky, she'll chase them through the time portal and we can have a breeding colony of Ornithomimus at Prehistoric Park." "Trapped between the T-Rex and the 21st century, they opt for the portal." "Yeah, one, two." "They are belting through!" "A whole phalanx of them!" "Bob is gonna get a real surprise." "Oh, my giddy aunt!" "Nigel, Nigel, what have you done?" "Suzanne, we've got a bit of a situation here!" "(Shrieks)" "But one Ornithomimus is slower than the rest." "Aagh!" "(Ornithomimus shrieks)" "(Crunch)" "That was close." "She took the Ornithomimus right there." "It's just a snack for her." "It was a juvenile." "Time's running out." "We must follow her." "With its catch still uneaten, the hungry T-Rex limps off back the way she came." "I can't understand." "Why doesn't she just devour the Ornithomimus?" "We cannot afford to lose her." "I do not want to go back to Prehistoric Park empty-handed." "(Animals Squawk)" "Back at Prehistoric Park," "Bob is settling in the herd of highly-strung Ornithomimus." "They're still a bit stressed out from the capture." "They're walking round and round the perimeter fence." "They're checking out their new home, but they'll be all right." "I'm not gonna feed them till tomorrow, just let them settle in a bit." "With thatjob done, Bob's back to his workshop where his plan for the bad-tempered Triceratops is now in full swing." " (Man) Tie her up." " We want that one up there." "Up you go." "You're doing a grand job, but I need this finished this afternoon." "Nigel's still tracking the T-Rex." "She's almost on her last legs." "Moving so slowly now, Nigel's had a chance to catch up." "But where she's going remains a mystery." "Nigel is about to find out." "(Nigel) It's been a long climb, but worth it." "There's babies there." "She's badly injured, but the babies need food, so she's brought the Ornithomimus all the way here." "Palaeontologists suspected that dinosaurs showed parental care." "For us, it's fantastic." "We can get a whole family of T-Rex back to Prehistoric Park." "But Nigel's optimism is short-lived." "(Roars)" "(Roars)" "The male really wants that carcass." "And the young are hiding." "If he sees them, they could be in trouble." "I'm sure, like all reptiles, T" " Rex can be cannibalistic." "(Roars)" "(Roars)" "(Roars)" "(Pounding footfalls)" "I think she's fully stunned." "The babies, there's no chance for her." "Mum's fallen." "I can't see any movement at all here." "(Roars)" "Hundreds of miles away, the meteorite has finally entered the Earth's atmosphere at 20, 000 miles an hour." "(Rumbling)" "The sonic boom it creates is one of the loudest noises the world has ever known." "(Thunderous boom)" "As it strikes the Gulf of Mexico, it causes an explosion seven billion times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb." "It releases a blast front moving at a hundred times the speed of sound." "This devastation is just the start." "(Thunderous rumbling)" "The cloud of ash will soar into the sky and molten rock will start raining down, igniting global wildfires." "And as it mushrooms out, it will engulf the entire world in a blanket of darkness." "All this is just three minutes away." "Nigel will have to think fast." "Has anyone got any food, anything that smells?" "We need the odour to entice the T-Rex babies through the time portal." "I just hope we can make it." "This must work." "We've only got seconds left." "They should be curious about the meaty smell of the sandwich." "They're more likely to lunge at me and attack me." "Come on." "You've got to come." "We've got to get you back." "That's it, come on." "Yes!" "(Thunderous explosions)" "Yeah!" "Whoo-hoo!" "There are only two!" "Our first T-Rex!" "Nigel has finally managed to rescue T-Rex from extinction." "The two T-Rex babies are now safely in the observation pen." "Suzanne is making sure they're in good health before they're taken to their permanent enclosure." "They look undernourished, but Bob will sort that out." "They're eating really well." "They're only little, but they're still so powerful, aren't they?" "They're cool, aren't they?" "(Roars)" "Prehistoric Park is now home to its first ever dinosaurs." "But vet Suzanne is concerned that one of them doesn't seem happy about being here." "He really doesn't look very happy." "Not when he stares like that." "He doesn't like me." "Back, Suzanne, he's charging!" "You are trying to shake us up." "Theo has got such attitude now!" "He's taken such a dislike to you." "He doesn't like you." "I hand-reared a fox before and when it got mature - it was a male as well - it started biting and attacking me." "He's mature and his hormones are fizzing through his body." "Too much testosterone." "Males always have to win!" "(Engine whirs)" " (Suzanne) My goodness!" " Bob, what have you done now?" "At last, Bob's plan is unveiled." "Look at this contraption!" "Wa-hey, stop!" "Suzanne, get the gates!" "This is man's work!" "Guys!" "On we go!" "Watch out, Theo, we're coming!" "Good luck, boys." "You'll need it." " Come on, Theo!" " Come on!" "Where are you?" "Oh!" "He charged from over there." "He charged from the bamboo!" "Bob's contraption is not as daft as it seems." "The tyre-padded tractor is a worthy opponent for Theo, giving him something to take his aggression out on." "It's a tactic gamekeepers use on rhinos." "OK, Bob!" "And it looks like it's working giving all the boys a chance to let off steam." "Men!" " Look at him staring us out!" " We're getting at him!" "That's why he's got breeding colours." "It's his first breeding season." " He'd take on anything!" " He's taking on us!" "Yee-haw!" "Charge!" "(Grunts)" "That was great fun, exhausting work." "Never thought I'd joust with a Triceratops!" "But that's what they did in the wild." "Look at this." "You can see injuries on the frill and neck." "They had jousting tournaments in nature." "It's keeping our boy occupied!" "But he's got to win every time." "We can't get too excited with him." "I don't want him to get injured cos he's magnificent!" "Nigel's dream ofhaving a park full ofprehistoric creatures he's saved from extinction is beginning to take shape." "The Ornithomimus are getting used to their new home." "The Triceratops has calmed down." "And the T-Rex babies have been put into their new enclosure." " Fantastic." "Well done, Bob." " It wasn't just me, it was the lads." "It's overkill now, when they're tiny, but when they're big, it's a perfect enclosure." " Have you seen them at all?" " Not since I put them in there." "There's places for them to hide." "They're not gonna be stressed." "Look, there!" " Give them some names." " I've done that." " OK, what?" " Matilda for the big female." "Then Terence, he's a bit puny, for the younger male." "(Bob) Very nice, Nigel." "It's kinda cute really, I guess." " They're not going to stay cute for long." " No." "Nigel's right." "The T-Rex will double their body weight every year until full size, turning Terence and Matilda into the most ferocious killing machines for 65 million years." "Let's hope Prehistoric Park knows what it's letting itself in for." "(Roars)" "Next time, Nigel sets his sights on a mammoth from the Ice Age." "But he's going to have to overcome the cold climate and a hostile reception." "(Roars)" "Get these vet samples!" "Managing the prehistoric creatures will not be as easy as they first thought." "Close the gate!"