New Fossils

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Kana and Mira watched the fierce reptile of the sea dive out of the water and snap its jaws onto the Great-White, dragging it under the water within the lagoon and sending an entire pools' worth of water over the audience in the front three rows.

Soaked in water, the audience cheered and clapped in total excitement and awe to what they just witnessed. Kana was grinning ear to ear and clapped along with everyone else. The bleachers then began to move downwards.

"Alright, hold on folks. We're going to get a closer look at the Mosasaurus." The announcer said.

When the bleachers stopped moving, the audience was sitting in an Underwater Observatory and had the view of the huge reptile. Noise filled the attraction with cheering and clapping. The Mosasaur grabbed the last of the Great-White shark, eating it whole.

"Woah! It has eighty-eight teeth!" Kana told her sister excitedly.

Mira grinned. "Hey, wanna see something else cool?" She asked.

Kana nodded rapidly and they left the Observatory.

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Several men and women sat around, eating their lunch.

The construction crews were on break as Suguro and Rin got out of the car. Rin stared up at the towering walls, looking unconvinced and more than a little uneasy. If the walls had to be that tall, something already wasn't right.

"We've been pre-booking tickets for months. The park needs a new attraction every few years in order to reinvigorate the public's interest. Kind of like the space program." Suguro informed the man, walking ahead. He walked over to the flight of stairs leading up to the observation tower. Rin followed.

"Corporate felt genetic modification would up the 'wow' factor." Suguro kept talking as he led Rin to the Control Room of the facility.
"According to our focus groups, the Antonomus Rex makes us relevant again."

"Do you info dump when you're nervous or is that just a thing you do? And Antonomus Rex? Really?" Rin asked, unimpressed.

"Stop judging! We needed something scary and easy to pronounce. You should hear a four year old try to say Archaeornithomimus." Suguro snapped.

"You should hear you try to say it...." Rin snorted, doing his best not to laugh while Suguro rolled his eyes.

They entered the observation room. The Supervisor was sitting at his desk on his lunch break, munching on a sandwich. Besides them, he was the only one present. They walked over to one of the windows. As before, the Antonomus Rex was nowhere to be found at the moment, just the dense jungle of the paddock interior beyond the glass.

"So, what nasty Dino did you cook up in those mix and match labs of yours?" Rin asked.

"Ah, the base genome is a T. rex, the rest is....classified." Suguro answered carefully.

Rin grimaced. "You made a new dinosaur but you don't even know what it is?" He asked dubiously.

Suguro was annoyed by the line of questioning. Did Rin have a few points? Maybe. Who was the expert here? Suguro, that was who.

"The lab delivers us new assets and we show them to public. Easy money." He turned to the Supervisor. "Can we drop a steer, please?"

The Supervisor, annoyed at them bothering him on his lunch break, turned and pressed a button or two.

"How long has the franken- dino been in here?" Rin questioned.

"All its life." Suguro responded.