Eye of the Beast (Episode 1.3)

**Eye of the Beast** is the third episode of the first season of *Prehistoric Earth: A Natural History*.

## Synopsis

Allen and his team goes to the Late Ordovician to rescue a Giant Orthocone that ruled the seas.

## Plot

With the first prehistoric animals already rescued and put into the park's aquarium, Allen now reports to his boss Joanna that he is going to rescue a giant orthocone called Cameroceras from the Ordovician. Rebecca does well with her after operationing the injuries of one of the Anomalocaris the rescued from Late Cambrian North America 530 million years ago. The team sets up the portal and heads to Late Ordovician North America 450 million years ago and arrive on a landscape with no plants and animals as they use air tanks filled with a special oxygen mixture to help the group survive as the Earth's atmosphere had more carbon dioxide than oxygen.

Allen and the team arrives at the sea and find some bait as his dog Caine sniffs at the rotting animal carcass on the beach. He finds the corpse of a jawless armor-plated fish called Astraspis and puts it on a pole to find an unpleasant arthropod as Allen heads into shallow water. He spots something and grabs a species of sea scorpion called Megalograptus, until he releases it back into the water and allows it to feed on the dead Astraspis. However, once the Megalograptus finished off its meal, it moved onto Allen and attack him and slashed his leg with it's massive claws. The team goes into the water to rescue living Astraspis and a larger species of Trilobite called Isotelus back to the park as Allen uses a dead Trilobite to find and bait Cameroceras.

He pops out one of the Isotelus' eyes so he can insert a camera into the carcass so they can find Camerceras. As the Earth was spinning fast than back in the present 21 hours go by making a watch useless for Allen and his team as they set up camp for the night. The next day Allen and Rebecca puts on their scuba suit with a special breathing tank and prepares to dive into the sea to rescue Cameroceras and also wears a bite-proof shark suit for protection despite the fact that sharks have not evolved yet. They take a small boat out into the bay to find Cameroceras and use the trilobite carcass Allen put the camera in. He tosses it into the water so they use the camera to look around the ocean floor for the Orthocone.

While getting live footage and put the line that camera is connected to another Megalograptus approaches the Trilobite carcass and feeds on it until Allen repel it by knocking it off with a pole. Later that afternoon something grabs the carcass and Allen believe that it's a Cameroceras as he pulls the line to get the camera until it snapped taking it. They suit out and heads into the water to find the Cameroceras and finds the line which meant that it wasn't far away. Allen and Rebecca spots a group of Megalograptus heading towards the shore so they opened the portal and gets Meglograptus group back to the park have them put into the aquarium enclosure. They spot a Cameroceras swimming above them. Allen flashes the light he was carrying to discourage the massive orthocone.

The Cameroceras grabs a nearby Megalograptus with it's tentacles and eats it as more Cameroceras attacks and eats the sea scorpions. Allen and Rebecca goes on the tip of a Cameroceras' shell and rides on the cephalopod. They let go as the orthocone was dragging them deeper into the water so they set up the portal and brings four Cameroceras back to the safety of the present and puts them in the park's aquarium.

## Animals

* *Astraspis*
* *Cameroceras*
* *Megalograptus*
* Trilobite