Valley of the Moon/Transcript

* (We open in a lush rainforest, cut to two female eoraptors. Running through a small puddle.)
* Narrator: “The reign of the dinosaurs is like a road, It's long, mighty and yet only a few stop to admire it. And like all roads the reign of the dinosaurs must start somewhere.“
* (The eoraptor sisters look around, seeing a burrow. One of them digs it open revealing some eggs, They gobble them all up. behind the eoraptors some ferns shake and suddenly out bursts a Saurosuchus! The saurosuchus snaps its jaws, grabbing onto one of them, throwing her to the ground. Before snapping its victim’s neck then It begins to eat the eoraptor, the other female eoraptor runs off. As the saurosuchus feeds we get a closeup of its teeth ripping through flesh.)
* Narrator: ”This colossal carnivore is no dinosaur, It is a crocodilian. They are the rulers of the rainforest. The dinosaurs are their prey, these crocodiles are fast and ferocious on land.“
* (We see the other female eoraptor running away from the rainforest into a savannah.)
* Narrator; “This is an eoraptor, the oldest known dinosaur. She and the rest of her kind are under the tyranny of the crocodiles.“
* (We see the eoraptor run past a grazing ischigualastia)
* Narrator: “They are not welcomed into the rainforest, nor are they welcomed into the savannah home of most of the crocodillian’s prey.“
* (We see the eoraptor run into a desert and we see some pisanosaurus look at her running.)
* Narrator: “This is the home for all evolutionary dead-ends. Even this eoraptor is one of few survivors, Her sister, which was her only surviving family. Has just been eaten by the saurosuchus.“
* (We see the eoraptor run past a shringasarus skull. She enters a burrow. We cut to a night vision camera inside the burrow. We see three baby eoraptors in the den walk up to her. She vomits up some remains of eggs.)
* Narrator: “This is the only way they can feed, their teeth aren’t developed enough to hunt themselves. So she chews it for them.“
* (They begin to feed. We cut to some ischigualastia gazing in the savannah of ferns.)
* Narrator; “ The last extinction event on earth wiped out 99% of all life on the planet, these new plants evolving called: ferns have appeared everywhere on the ground. “
* (We see the ischigualastia chewing on the ferns.)
* Narrator: “ Their giant beaks are specifically for cutting the thickest of vegetation. Like a giant scissor. “
* (On the other side of the river we see the saurosuchus looking at them.)
* Narrator: “ This male saurosuchus, despite having just fed , is considering going after an ischigualastia. “
* (Cut to the herd walking around. We see the rapid river.)
* Narrator: “He can’t cross the river though, ironically this crocodilian is terrible at swimming.“
* (The saurosuchus walks off. We see the saurosuchus placing the bones of the eoraptor around.)
* Narrator: “These bones aren’t crushed, they're left around the territory. As a warning.“
* (The saurosuchus starts hissing before urinating.)
* Narrator: “ This territory is ruled by him. “
* (We see a baby eoraptor walk outside of the burrow following the adult. She lets out a call, suddenly flying down from the sky is a kryptodrakon.)
* Narrator; “ This is a pterosaur, kryptodrakon to be specific. These animals are the first vertebrates to ever fly. And they have a symbiotic relationship with the eoraptor. “
* (The kryptodrakon walks towards the eoraptor children, checking up on them, before running off and flying into the air. Above the desert. We get multiple shots of it flying and beating it's wings.)
* Narrator: “ It's always helpful to have eyes in the sky. “
* (The articodactylus looks down, seeing the corpse of a pisanosaurus. It lets out a call.)
* Narrator: “ The pterosaurs let out a specific call if it finds food. Only eoraptors understand. “
* (We see the mother eoraptor running with her babies as the kryptodrakon continues calling. We see the dead ischigualastia; the eoraptors begin to feed on it. Kryptodrakon also begins to eat.)
* Narrator: “ It's not much, but if she wants to continue finding food. She needs to share with the kryptodrakon. “
* (We see the ischigualastia herd moving through the rainforest.)
* Narrator: “ Most ischigualastia prefer the plains of the triassic. But this is a migration to a more lush savannah. “
* (We see an ischigualastia stray from the herd and then excrete dung. We pan around, It's surrounded by mountains of other dung from ischigualastia.)
* Narrator: “ The herd for millions of years has used this migration pattern, they map out specific areas to relieve themselves in. Giant prehistoric bathrooms. “
* (The ischigualastia leaves as another enters. We see a cave, the kryptodrakon flies overhead. We see the eoraptors following.)
* Narrator: “ In her last journey she didn’t have time to get water. Now she needs to come back to the forest. “
* (We see the eoraptor babies eating the bioluminescent moss growing in the cave.)
* Narrator: “ Eoraptor's are omnivores, They have evolved to be able to eat whatever they can find. “
* (They step out into the light. They jump down from a rock to a nearby puddle, they all start drinking. The kryptodrakon flies down and landing he joins them.)
* Narrator: “ Usually she would be cautious of crocodilians, but she knows the crocs have priorities elsewhere. “
* (We see the ischigualastia walking through the rainforest. We see some saurosuchus watching them.)
* Narrator: “ Their biggest hunt all year. “
* (We see an ischigualastia turn into see the crocodilians it lets out a bellow and runs.)
* Narrator: “ The conniving carnivores have been spotted “
* (We see the herd begin to look around, and then run in panic.)
* Narrator: “ The panic causes a stampede. “
* (We see two saurosuchus walk through the rainforest.)
* Narrator: “ Exactly what the saurosuchus want “
* (We see one ischigualastia limping behind.)
* Narrator: “ These herbivores haven’t evolved to protect the weak. “
* (We see the saurosuchus surround the ischigualastia)
* Narrator: “ She has been abandoned “
* (The panicked ischigualastia roars, the crocodilians snap at her. One lunges from behind her, biting onto the throat, she tries to struggle free before two more tackle her to the ground.)
* Narrator: “ One saurosuchus means danger; a gang of saurosuchus is a death sentence. “
* (We see the saurosuchus begin to feed two snarl at each other for getting too close as others rip chunks of flesh and bone out of the carcass. We see the eoraptor family walking through the forest and suddenly the ground starts shaking.)
* Narrator: “ Something disastrous has happened, for the first time in millions of years tectonic plates have collided. “
* (We see lava explode out of the ground and suddenly a forest fire starts.)
* Narrator: “ Pangea’s forests are burning. “
* (We see some saurosuchus look at the approaching flames and run. We cut to the ischigualastia, crashing through the forest then swimming through a river. We see the eoraptor family running away from the fire. We see in the sky the kryptodrakon calls to the eoraptors.)
* Narrator; “ The kryptodrakon has a perspective from the sky, he is mapping out a route for the eoraptor family. “
* (We see the mother eoraptor nearly run off a cliff before stopping herself at the last second. We see her run out of the forest with two of her children.)
* Narrator: “ She is mostly alright but one of her children was lost in the fire. “
* (The ischigualastia continue migrating We see rainfall in the triassic forest, The fire dies down and the lava hardens.)
* Narrator: “ As destructive as this can be, It can make the soil more fertile, making more life in the future. “
* (We see a time-lapse. Ferns growing from the ruins. We see some pisanosaurus approaching the ferns they begin to feed.)
* Narrator: “ Nearly all of the larger reptiles have left this rainforest. The dinosaurs begin to inherit it. Their tiny appetite means the development of the small trees will not significantly be damaged by the herbivores. “
* (We see two pisanosaurus playing, and suddenly a snarl is heard. They all look up to the smoke and see the saurosuchus walk out.)
* Narrator: “ This saurosuchus was separated from his gang. He is lost and hungry. “
* (The pisanosaurus flee at the sight of him. The saurosuchus sniffs the air. We cut to the eoraptor family making their way through the desert. The kryptodrakon is walking with them.)
* Narrator: “ Pterosaurs like modern birds sometimes need to conserve energy. So this loyal kryptodrakon walks with the eoraptors. “
* (We see them looking over the coast. An entire flooded desert.)
* Narrator: “ Yesterday this was their home, where their burrow was dug. The shifting of the plates has covered it up. “
* (We see the earth from space, we see huge cracks of magma spread across pangea.)
* Narrator: “ The gravitational center of planet earth is being challenged, as such the once completely tight plates begin to crack. In a few million years the continents will split apart entirely. “
* (We see the eoraptor family walking through the desert, we see a beached juvenile ichthyosaur.)
* Narrator: “ They weren’t the only animals the flood displaced. “
* (We see the eoraptors tuck into the carcass.)
* Narrator:” Fortunately, the young ichtyosaurus’s bad luck is useful to the dinosaurs. “
* (The kryptodrakon also feeds on the ichthyosaur. We see the kryptodrakon flying in the air and suddenly it starts calling. The eoraptors rush to look at what the kryptodrakon is alerting them about below the cliff. They see a savannah, with some pisanosaurus and eoraptors running around as kryptodrakons fly in the air.)
* Narrator: “ At last paradise. “
* (The eoraptor family prepares to get down, suddenly they hear a hissing sound. Suddenly a herrerasaurus approaches them.)
* Narrator: “herrerasaurus, nearly 2 meters tall. It currently holds the title of the largest predator dinosaur on earth. “
* (When the herrerasaurus approaches the mother eoraptor, the baby eoraptors huddle behind their mother.)
* Narrator: “ She’s not interested in the smaller dinosaur. “
* (The saurosuchus enters.)
* Narrator: “ She’s interested in a fight. “
* (The two predators snarl at each other.)
* Narrator: “ This mother herrerasaurus is establishing her territory, she can’t have a stray saurosuchus endanger her young. “
* (The saurosuchus snarls.)
* Narrator: “ And the crocodilian isn’t backing down. “
* (The eoraptors back away, the herrerasaurus jumps onto the back of the saurosuchus gnawing onto its tail. The saurosuchus screeches in pain. The eoraptor family runs away before the mother realizes one of her babies is missing. We see one baby eoraptor barely avoiding a herrerasaurus flung towards it. The saurosuchus charges at the trapped baby before the herrerasaurus grabs its throat and starts dragging it around, croc still trying to snap at its throat. The mother eoraptor walks around the fighting, before grabbing her scarred hatchling. She begins climbing up a steep ledge making her way out. We see the herrerasaurus dragging the saurosuchus towards a steep cliff. The saurosuchus falls up but bites onto the herrerasaurus; the two of them fall to their death. We see the two bodies from an aerial perspective.)
* Narrator: “ Something remarkable has just happened, for the first time in the history of evolution a dinosaur has killed an adult crocodilian. “
* (The eoraptor looks down and runs away. We see kryptodrakon fly over the forest. Pisanosaurus drink and nest in the savannah. We see the baby eoraptors running around playfully as the mother watches sadly.)
* Narrator: “ They're old enough to defend themselves now."
* (She hears a call and turns around, it's a male eoraptor.)
* Narrator: “ Time to start over. “
* (The herrerasaurus jumps on top of a rock and looks over the savannah and forest.)
* Narrator: “ The other reptiles have deserted these lands, dinosaurs for the first time. Have dominion over paradise. The reign of the dinosaurs is like a road. This is where that road begins.”
* (The herrerasaurus calls to the sky as the sun shines, blinding the camera.)
* **Post credit scene:**
* (We see the saurosuchus pack walking through the forest. They see a bunch of eoraptors running around. A foot stomps in front of the camera, the crocodilians look in horror. A group of herrerasaurus.)
* Narrator: “ The larger predatory dinosaurs are now breeding, Now with two families of reptiles vying for the same territories. The earth will become a battleground for dinosaurs and crocodiles. “
* (The two sides snarl at each other.)
* **End of episode**