Deinocheirus

Experienced adventurer Mike Hatcher has taken on the expedition of a lifetime—to survive a year by himself deep within the Mesozoic. More than just reality TV, while testing new technologies for future visitors of the past—like Mike’s base camp, the secured environmental habitat called the Compound—he will face the challenges of this new world alone with only the dozen state-of-the-art micro-cameras tracking his progress at all times for companionship.

- Phil Hore

“While the Compound was being built, it was important to keep the builders alive, and so many warning posts were established in the surrounding countryside to pick up movement and sound of anything large enough to be dangerous, and although most have either been shut down or stopped working for various reasons, including in one case being sat upon, yesterday one of these posts alerted me to something moving through the area.”

Mike is sitting behind his main computer desk, a can of open soft drink on the table before him. “This post had only its microphone working and sent back a recording of one of the strangest noises I have heard since arriving here. The sound was so strange and so loud that I headed out this morning to check out what it belonged to, and I found something I never expected to see! It was like seeing a giraffe built like a sloth and moving like an ostrich.”

With a click of the computer’s mouse the room disappears and is replaced by Mike outside. The camera angle switches, revealing Mike is standing up through the skylight of the Bushmaster armored car. The vehicle’s great height provides a clear view of the surrounding countryside.

“For those of you keeping score, my normal ride is a Quest offroader, but a while ago it ran afoul of a rather testy ankylosaur. While I continue repairs, I get to pull out the emergency vehicle that has been sitting idly by since I first arrived.”