New Arrivals (Episode 4.1)

Once we finished our rescue on the dinosaurs we began to rescue various mammals from ones that grew to gigantic sizes and ones that evolved into powerful killers such as the famous Saber-Tooth Cats and even ones that laid claim to the oceans. About 3 million years ago, we rescued mankinds own origins in a type of ape that came down from the trees and walked upright. Our mission through that epic time finished just 10,000 years ago with the Ice Ages when the planet turned cold but our ancestors hunted the realm of the mammoth.
This time, we go back and fourth through to rescue more animals for the park from North America Terror Birds, and apes that showed the earliest signs of two legged walking.

## New Arrivals

### Episode

35

New Arrivals is the first episode of Series 4 and the thirty fifth episode of *Prehistoric Earth: A Natural History*.

## Synopsis

Having already gone through every prehistoric time period and bringing back the animals of those periods, a staff member asks Allen if he could bring more creatures to the park. He agreeds and the team goes through time to bring back more animals such as more dinosaurs, North American Terror Birds, and even bringing the earliest European Hominids.

## Plot

At Prehistoric Earth, the mission of rescuing prehistoric animals have been a success. Many of them have adjusted to their new environment and have been well feed by staff members. Allen heads down to the Aviary to check on the Polly and Patrick, the park's resident Phorusrhacos who were saved Early Pleistocene South America 1 million years ago. The two birds started to develop the habit of dust bathing much like other birds, however the two terror birds have been taking a bath too close to the fence as staff members fills the hole with big stones to keep them from escaping. A staff member asks Allen if he could bring some more animals back to the park despite having already through all of the eras of prehistory.

He agreeds as he prepares to continue the mission to find more creatures of the park. As Allen watches the park's terror birds, he realized that South America wasn't the only place Terror Birds were living in. He knew that when the land bridge was formed and connected North and South America together, the terror birds were one of the few animals from South America to migrate to North America during the Great American Interchange along with glyptodonts and ground sloths. Allen heads to Joanna's office and tells her that he planning to rescue the terror birds that lived in North America with one of them being a terror bird called Titanis. The team opens the portal and arrive in the Early Pleistocene on the spot where what will become the state of Florida to find Titanis.

As Allen and the team scouts the Floridan landscapes to find Titanis, Allen soon stumbles upon one which peers down at him. Ruby tries to shoot her rifle at it as Allen escapes. The team heads to the jeeps as the terror bird pursues them. After a while of being chased by the bird and the rest of it's pack, Rebecca and a few team members make their way to the open plains they came across a flock of Titanis. However Allen soon arrives and opened the portal to get the flock back to the park. The team takes the Titanis flock to the Aviary enclosure so it would be near their cousins from South America.

Allen then heads to the outskirts of the park to visit the park's resident Neanderthals. Once he arrived, Allen watched them gather food such as hunting fish for their tribe who were living in a cave in the park's outskirts. He knew that Neanderthals were the most successful human species in Europe during the Ice Age until a few thousand years ago, but Allen wondered when hominids arrived in Europe and evolved into Neanderthal which gave him an idea of what he will rescue next. He reports of Joanna that he will head to Europe half a million years ago to rescue the first humans that came to Europe.

The team arrives in Mid Pleistocene England 400,000 years ago to find the first European hominids. They eventually came across a Megaloceros grazing, however they spot three early European humans called Homo Heidelbergensis hunting the massive deer. They attack the Megaloceros and surround it as the deer was wounded and couldn't escape. One of the Homo Heidelbergensis gets injured by the Megaloceros by swinging it's massive antlers. One of the other Heidelbergensis kills the deer by impaling it with his spear through the stomach.

## Animals

* Alphadon
* Barbourofelis
* Dodo
* Giraffatitan
* Homo Ergaster
* Homo Heidelbergensis
* Homo Sapiens Idaltu
* Kentrosaurus
* Lycaenops
* Lycosuchus
* Megacerops
* Megaladapis
* Megaloceros
* Megantereon
* Mesohippus
* Nothronychus
* Orrorin
* Sahelanthropus
* Suskityrannus
* Teleoceras
* Titanis
* Woolly Mammoth
* Zuniceratops