2021 Dinosaur Outbreak

Remembered as the day "Jurassic Park" became reality, the **2021 Dinosaur Outbreak** led to devastating consequences for ecosystems across the United States and Canada. Many remember it as the "Start of a New Era". Others literally called it a real life "Jurassic World".

## How it started

In 2021, an English copy of the Codex of the Omega was put on display at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Two months later, a group of burglars broke into the museum on a successful heist to steal the book, wanting to read the book's contents. One of the burglars, known only as "June", casually read the "Omega Phrase", a Latin chant that could resurrect the dead. Unbeknownst to the burglar, the Omega Phrase actually worked; June had accidentally resurrected a family of Thanatotheristes by reading the Omega Phrase. Upon resurrecting, the Thanatotheristes family proceeded on a rampage through Canada and eventually crossing into the United States of America, where they caught the attention of the US government. Alarmed that someone had successfully used the stolen book to successfully resurrect an extinct animal, the US and Canadian governments simultaneously authorized a manhunt for the burglars, who proceeded to use the book to experiment its power to resurrect the dead on many different animals. June eventually hid in Tennessee, but was later discovered and apprehended by park rangers.

June was turned over to the Canadian authorities and the book was returned. However, authorities later found out that the Thanatotheristes wasn't the only dinosaur brought back; during the burglars' escapade through Canada and the USA, they also resurrected a herd of Triceratops within the same vicinity, and the Triceratops fled across the Canadian border into the USA. Furthermore, a pack of Allosaurus was resurrected in Wyoming, and at some point, the burglars accidentally resurrected and released 12 Ichthyosaurus, 6 Mosasaurus, 9 Plesiosaurus, and 3 Tylosaurus into the world's oceans.

### Species confirmed to have been resurrected and escaped

* *Albertosaurus* (five adults)
* *Allosaurus* (five adults)
* *Ankylosaurus* (five adults)
* *Apatosaurus* (five adults)
* *Atrociraptor* (eight adults)
* *Baryonyx* (three adults)
* *Brachiosaurus* (three adults)
* *Carnotaurus* (two adults)
* *Cearadactylus* (four adults)
* *Ceratosaurus* (three adults)
* *Coelurus* (ten adults)
* *Compsognathus* (eleven adults)
* *Corythosaurus* (six adults)
* *Datousaurus* (four adults)
* *Deinonychus* (seven adults)
* *Deinosuchus* (four adults)
* *Dilophosaurus* (five adults)
* *Dimetrodon* (seven adults)
* *Dimorphodon* (eight adults)
* *Dreadnoughtus* (three adults)
* *Dryosaurus* (nine adults)
* *Edmontosaurus* (six adults)
* *Elaphrosaurus* (five adults)
* *Euoplocephalus* (seven adults)
* *Gallimimus* (eight adults)
* *Geosternbergia* (five adults)
* *Giganotosaurus* (three adults)
* *Gigantlocustae* (twelve adults)
* *Hadrosaurus* (five adults)
* *Herrerasaurus* (seven adults)
* *Homalocephale* (eleven adults)
* *Hoplitosaurus* (six adults)
* *Hypsilophodon* (ten adults)
* *Iguanodon* (seven adults, three juveniles)
* *Kentrosaurus* (five adults)
* *Lesothosaurus* (eleven adults)
* *Lystrosaurus* (twelve adults)
* *Maiasaura* (five adults, two juveniles)
* *Mamenchisaurus* (two adults)
* *Metriacanthosaurus* (four adults)
* *Microceratus* (ten adults)
* *Monolophosaurus* (six adults)
* *Moros* (eleven adults)
* *Mussaurus* (twelve adults)
* *Nanosaurus* (nine adults)
* *Nasutoceratops* (two adults)
* *Nipponosaurus* (seven adults)
* *Nothosaurus* (five adults)
* *Ornitholestes* (five adults)
* *Ouranosaurus* (five adults)
* *Oviraptor* (nine adults)
* *Pachycephalosaurus* (seven adults)
* *Pachyrhinosaurus* (four adults)
* *Parasaurolophus* (six adults)
* *Peloroplites* (five adults)
* *Proceratosaurus* (seven adults)
* *Procompsognathus* (thirteen adults)
* *Pteranodon* (three adults)
* *Pyroraptor* (eight adults)
* *Quetzalcoatlus* (four adults)
* *Segisaurus* (eleven adults)
* *Sinoceratops* (five adults)
* *Smilodon* (eight adults)
* *Spinosaurus* (one adult)
* *Stegosaurus* (six adults)
* *Stygimoloch* (five adults)
* *Styracosaurus* (seven adults)
* *Suchomimus* (four adults)
* *Tarbosaurus* (five adults)
* *Teratophoneus* (three adults)
* *Thanatothresties* (two adults, three juveniles)
* *Therizinosaurus* (four adults)
* *Triceratops* (six adults, two juveniles)
* *Troodon* (eight adults)
* *Tyrannosaurus* (six adults)
* *Velociraptor* (nine adults)

## Notable incidents

### Bear vs. Triceratops

Two days after the burglars crossed into the USA, a group of college students shooting a documentary on wildlife in Alaska happened upon a Grizzly Bear and her cubs. As the students continued filming, one of the cubs happened to wander off, where it encountered a baby Triceratops. One of the students, Erasmo Weedman, was stunned to find himself looking at a living dinosaur, believing himself to be hallucinating at first. He was proven otherwise when the mother bear, sensing that the baby Triceratops was threatening its cubs, decided to attack it. This provoked the Triceratops herd, which proceeded to surround the baby Triceratops and attack the mother bear, eventually killing it by goring it to death. This incident marked the first time a modern day animal interacted with an extinct creature.