Primeval

Dinosaurs.

Terrible Lizards. That’s what the word means.

When their bones were found, people wondered if they were the remains of biblical giants and dragons.

Today, after decades of scientific investigation and research, we know that life on this planet is billions of years old, and has taken many forms—such as the titanic, savage dinosaurs.

Dinosaurs were wiped out in one of the periodic extinctions that strike our world. They’ve been gone for sixty-five million years.

What if they came back?

PRIMEVAL

‘Anomalies are starting to appear, doorways in time to worlds we can barely imagine. The Anomalies are conclusive proof that the past exists in a fourth dimension as real and solid as those we already know. Our job is to predict and contain them.’

In Primeval, there are Anomalies, rips in the fabric of space and time that connect our world to the distant past. Anomalies can open anywhere, at any time, dropping velociraptors into shopping centres and Mammoths on the motorway. These Anomalies are happening more frequently—every day brings more and more sightings of prehistoric beasts invading the present.

The Anomaly Research Centre (ARC) is a government-run team of scientists, soldiers, explorers and other specialists, tasked with investigating the origin of these Anomalies and containing the threat to the public. The existence of these rips in space/ time—not to mention the rampaging T-Rexes and other beasts—must be kept secret or it would cause mass panic.

In their work, the ARC team has discovered three vital facts about the Anomalies.

First, the Anomalies can go forward as well as back. There are gateways to our future as well as our past.

Second, at some point in the near future, humanity is driven extinct by an unknown catastrophe, possibly a new species of super-predators. We may only have a few years, or possibly only a few months left.

Third… time is mutable. History can be changed.

Extinction can be averted.

That’s where you come in.