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 forever?

We're going back in time on a safari with a difference as animal enthusiast Fluttershy plunges into prehistory to rescue creatures on the brink of extinction. Her plan is to bring them back to the safety of the present and give them a second chance.

Her next adventure is into the Ice Age, where she'll come face to face with a woolly rhino, survive a showdown with a colossal bear, and solve the mystery of what is killing some of the last mammoths on Earth.

Welcome to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary. Welcome to Prehistoric Park.

Time: Present Day

Location: Prehistoric Park

Current Species:

• Triceratops prorsus (1 male)
• Edmontosaurus annectens (1 male, 5 females)
• Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis (2 males, 5 females)
• Ornithomimus velox (5 males, 8 females)
• Tyrannosaurus rex (2 males, 2 females)

A new day begins at Prehistoric Park. It has been over a month since Fluttershy’s rescue mission to the late Cretaceous. Things have been going well, and everyone couldn't be happier.

Prehistoric Park is starting to come to life. Amongst the hills and valleys of this huge reserve, dinosaurs are getting used to their new surroundings.

At the creek, Theo the Triceratops and Edmonton the Edmontosaurus and his herd are thriving in their new home. The nearby herd of Pachycephalosaurus has finally accepted their new home and are thriving as well. The Ornithomimus flock mostly watches the staff walk by their enclosure.

One day, Fluttershy hopes to breed extinct animals in captivity. But for now, she's starting by only bringing a few of each species back to see how they adapt to the 21st century.

Speaking of Fluttershy, she is now beginning her day by driving down to one of the Park's enclosures: 'T-Rex Hill.'

The Park's latest newcomers seem to be settling in well.

"Alright, stop right there," Twilight shouts to the man in the truck. "Alright, keep the tension in the back."

Fluttershy arrives at the enclosure just in time because Twilight and a few other keepers are preparing two large pieces of meat for the residents inside. Recently, a large crane was placed just outside of the enclosure. Twilight installed it to allow easier feeding, especially since she and a few other keepers have been working hard to build a positive relationship with the predators. However, it has proven quite difficult, which was no surprise to anyone at the Park. They all hope that, in time, the T. rexes and the other dinosaurs at Prehistoric Park will become comfortable with their keepers and work with them willingly. Until then, this is the best they can do.

"What an amazing contraption," Fluttershy says, pleased with the crane. "How are they doing?"

"Oh, not too bad, but they're big beasts with big appetites," Twilight answers. "Get that line under tension."

The keepers hook the first hunk of meat to the crane and lift it over the fence.

Inventor and former Crystal Prep Academy student Twilight Sparkle is facing her first big challenge.

Terrance and Matilda rush out from the trees, hearing all the commotion and smelling the meat. They stop briefly to examine the strange yet peaceful creatures preparing their food. Matilda snaps at her brother, and he hisses at her in response.

Keeping the Park's two juvenile T. rex happy.

When Fluttershy found them, they had nearly lost their mother, Elika, after she was almost killed in a fight, that is until Hank arrived.

Their mother manages to free herself from the jaws of one of the sub-adult males, but it causes her to smash her head hard into a tree. The impact stuns her, allowing the three sub-adults to knock her down and just about to kill her when the reverberating footsteps of Hank fill the air. When the father arrived and saw what had happened, he went into a furious rage and slaughtered the eldest sub-adult, causing the remaining two to make a hasty retreat.

Fluttershy managed to save them all from certain death just seconds before a massive meteorite hit.

The meteor crashes into the Earth, but before the blast wave reaches them, Terrance, Matilda, and their parents rush through the Time Portal, taking them to the safety of Prehistoric Park.

"Take it away," Twilight orders the men, who lift the meat over the fence with the crane. "Yep, alright, bring it around."

Feeding the T. rex means meat and plenty of it. When they arrived at the Park, the juveniles were half-starved. But they've been making up for it ever since.

Upon seeing the meat rising up and over the fence, the T. rex siblings rush toward the fence as their parents watched and relaxed in the shade, having already been fed. Before these creatures arrived, the juveniles struggled to survive in their native environment. After reaching adolescence, their mother and father never fed them and rarely shared their food with them despite being allowed to live in their territory for safety. They hunted animals such as Pachycephalosaurus, Ornithomimus, and Leptoceratops, which they were relatively good at hunting. But as they got older and grew bigger, it started becoming harder and harder for them to catch prey. They only managed to survive for so long because they had each other. They had no other siblings to rely on, and now all they have left was each other, as well as Mom and Dad.

Twilight knew a thing about T. rex feeding habits; and boy, was she upset!"

Fluttershy has a point. T. rex juveniles grow incredibly fast. Terrance and Matilda will add hundreds of pounds to their weight every year until they grow to the length of a double-decker bus and weigh ten tons.

Speaking of which, Terrance and Matilda have arrived at the feeding point. Both are attempting to reach the meat that is now hanging over their heads. They both snap and stand upright, which amuses everyone there.

"They're really hungry, aren't they?" Fluttershy says to Twilight. "Look at them. Reaching for that."

The meat is then dropped, and both Tyrannosaurs begin to dig in.

"Woah!"

"You see those teeth? They've got blade-shaped teeth that are perfect for grabbing hold of smaller prey animals like Pachycephalosaurus and Ornithomimus, and they're just slicing off chunks of flesh; no wonder they eat so much." Fluttershy explains as she, Twilight, and the team watch them feed. "I mean, they're polishing that off."

Matilda hisses at her brother, warning him to back off. Normally, they've been able to share before, but each portion they've received has only been enough for either her or him. Granted, they both receive their own portions, but it has caused some competition between them. Matilda has been getting the first chunk of meat delivered since she and her brother arrived, showing she is more dominant than Terrance.

"I wouldn't like to be in there, I'll tell you for sure."

Matilda drags her portion away as Terrance follows after. The team begins to load the next portion of meat for him as he becomes agitated. He calms down and eagerly waits once he sees his portion being prepared.

While Prehistoric Park is built with extinct creatures in mind, it is home to modern-day species. Some are native species that migrated or were already established in the region, while the rest were brought in. One of them is a herd of African bush elephants. African bush elephants are endangered, and the park has allowed the herd to reside here. They are cared for by the Park's staff and have formed a strong bond with their caretakers. Currently, the herd is enjoying themselves with mud and dust baths to help keep cool in the intense heat. Fluttershy has come to spend some time with the elephants, not only because she loves them but also because she is excited.

Now Fluttershy’s planning her next adventure. She’s decided to rescue one of the most famous of all extinct animals: the woolly mammoth, a long-lost relative of modern-day elephants.

"I adore elephants," Fluttershy says. "And, of course, they have a long history. There were many different species of the elephant family in the past, such as the deinotheres, gomphotheres, stegodonts, mastodons, and mammoths. People think they have the same family life, and the same social history. But what I want to do is travel back in time and find out whether that's true, and maybe even bring a woolly mammoth or two back to Prehistoric Park."

Fluttershy then turns her attention to the elephant she has been petting. "Would you like to meet a woolly mammoth? You would, wouldn't you?"

Fluttershy is now walking into her office and pets a Sulcata tortoise along the way before entering and picking a veiled chameleon up from the phone on her desk.

As with any conservation project, it's the most endangered species Fluttershy wants to rescue. So she's got to travel back to the time that mammoths were on their last legs. That was at the end of the last Ice Age. Freezing plains were home to huge herds of mammoths. But 11,000 years ago, it all changed. Their world was turned upside down because of global warming. The ice was disappearing, and so were the mammoths.

Fluttershy is now back to the wall where the map of late Cretaceous Earth was hung, but now there is a map of Earth at the end of the Pleistocene.

"This is at the end of the last Ice Age," Fluttershy says. "And what was happening, it was still cold, but the ice sheets were receding northwards, and the mammoths were going there too. The last mammoths lived on the islands of St. Paul in Alaska and Wrangel Island in Russia. The St. Paul mammoths died out around 5,600 years ago, and the Wrangel mammoths around 4,000 years ago, around the time the pyramids of Egypt were constructed. As much as I would love to save those mammoths, both populations were too small to create healthy ones, and they died out due to a lack of resources and incredibly high amounts of inbreeding. I would love to breed extinct animals in captivity one day, but I need individuals of each species to be physically and genetically healthy. Which is why I'm going to search for the last of the mainland mammoths, and according to Twilight’s research, the last surviving ones were found here, just east of the Urals in Siberia."

Fluttershy grabs the gear she needs for her mission and gives the chameleon a little pet before leaving her office.

By going back to the brink of extinction, she’ll see for herself what killed off these magnificent beasts.

The Time Portal activates and is set to the time and location Fluttershy and her team are heading.

And get her chance to save the woolly mammoth. The Time Portal is set to take her back to the last Ice Age 11,000 years ago.

Fluttershy slides on her dense winter coat. This may be the coldest mission Fluttershy has ever done, but she knows it will be worth it. With everything ready, Fluttershy and her team walk through the Time Portal.

Author's Note

I might have to let Martha’s sister die in this version, just like in the original show, but I have bigger plans for this mammoth and can't wait to get to them.

One of the things I wanted to address was the mammoth populations on both the St. Paul and Wrangel Islands. While they were the last mammoths, they were way too inbred to be rescued. The initial populations weren't big enough to create healthy long-term populations.