The first egg began to wiggly around nearly toppling over before the robotic arm reached over sitting it upright and holding it in place offering the small dinosaur some assistance.
"What's hatching?" Lily asked Winston.
"This batch is our little Pteranodons."
"You're joking, right?"
"No ma'am." Winston smiled.
The egg cracked and Lily witnessed a small beak attempt to peck it's way out. She sat back on a stool in pure shock.
"Are you alright, Ms. Goodwin?"
"That's...th...that's a baby dinosaur hatching." she said.
Winston chuckled. "Indeed it is."
The baby pecked it's way through before tumbling out with it's small wings. Lily squealed jumping up to her feet. She looked over to see Winston watching her in amusement. She looked away awkwardly.
"It's alright, I reacted the same my first time."
"Did you?"
"Yes, although I squealed a hell of a lot louder."
She giggled, Winston reminded her of a mix between her father and Mr. Rogers.
"You can hold it if you want?" Winston offered her.
"H-h-hold the dinosaur?" she stammered.
"Of course, all hatchlings are handled from the moment they hatch." he lifted up the first hatched pteranodon and placed it in her hands. It squawked slightly gripping her fingers with it's small little hands.
"Pinch me I must be dreaming."
"It's no dream Ms. Goodwin, it's reality."
The little winged dinosaur pecked at her hand and tried to clamp it's beak down on her finger.
"Oh boy, she's a hungry little one." Winston said moving to grab a feeder and handing it to her.
"Oh, I have no experience feeding an animal let alone a baby dinosaur."
"Relax, it's just a dropper, just give it a gentle squeeze, she'll do the rest."
Winston assisted a few others before grabbing a few other droppers and feeding them.
"So the eggs are actually ostrich eggs..."
"Or emu." Winston said. "I prefer the ostrich eggs though."
"So you insert the embryos right into the yolk of the egg..."
"That's correct and then with added hormones of whatever dinosaur we are looking to create, the baby dinosaur begins to take form."
She looked around the hatchery.
"Are any of these nests actual nests that have been taken from the fields?" she asked.
Winston frowned. "It's rare that we keep them." he admitted. "Our facilities like to be in control of the sexes and normally by the time we find a nest, it's often too late. We have to be careful."
"Pretty much all the dinosaurs out there are lab based?"
He nodded in silence.
Dr.Wu entered in. "Hey Lily, um..I have a message for you. Claire is running late, so she said that she'll meet you at Margaritaville restaurant." he handed her a worker's pass. "This is yours."
"Margaritaville?" she repeated looking the pass over before looking up to him.
"Oh you'll like it, they have the best burgers there." Winston told her.
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FanfictionLily Eleanor Goodwin didn't go into the paleontology field for the money. Quite frankly, there wasn't any money in the field. With the failing economy, dig sites and museums suffered the most, losing grants and getting hit hard with budget cuts. Ho...