" Captain, there's a problem in the lab."

Captain Emory Trous turned around. She was a wholly average woman, brunette, with a tree-trunk build and a galaxy of tiny scars peppering her round face.

" What is it Lieutenant?"

Lieutenant Cora Scull looked awkward. She tugged at her hair, and actively avoided eye contact. 

" Doctor Coriander is having trouble sedating the lead Tyrannoraptor." Cora said sheepishly.  

" Remind me what that is?" Emory said.

Cora sighed.

" The biggest raptor ever recorded. They grow up to two tons, and are twice the length of the Utahraptor from Old Earth."

Emory nodded to hide the fact that she did not have the slightest clue what a Utahraptor was.

Cora led Emory down the hall and into the laboratory, where Doctor Shiyah Coriander was sprawled on the ground with the broody juvenile Tyrannoraptor perched over her. The doctor was slim, and very ill suited for her work with Earth 6's native fauna.

" Hi Captain! I was just trying to tranquilize specimen A19!"

Specimen A19 hissed and puffed up her decidedly scraggly head crest.

Emory sighed heavily.

" So that's what a Tyrannoraptor is."

Shiyah nodded and wiggled free.

" Yeah! They're the dominant species up in the mountains, where there aren't any big predators."

Specimen A19 ran out the outside door before anyone could stop her.

" Well, that's unfortunate." Shiyah muttered.

" She's about to run into a Toromimus nesting field."

" And What are those?" Cora asked.

" Think big nasty ceratopsians with armor." Shiyah said.

Emory looked outside and made a face.

" Point made. What predators do they have?"

Shiyah thought for a while, then pulled up the image of a massive theropod with unusually long legs and arms.

" Sometimes a Daspletorex will take a juvenile or hatchling. Other than that, they're invincible."

" Noted." Cora muttered.

Outside, the Toromimus herd trumpeted, their nasally cries echoing across the land for miles.