Hesperornis are antagonists in Primeval, appearing in in episode 3 of series 1 : "Helen makes contact". They are flightless aquatic birds from the Late Cretaceous.
Biography[]
A Hesperornis came through an Anomaly into the Dexter house's flooded basement in the present. There, when a plumber investigated the cellar, the Hesperornis attacked him. It is unknown what happened to the Hesperornis after, but it had apparently disappeared from the cellar by the time the Home Office and Special Forces had arrived at the Dexter residence.
When Nick Cutter swam through the Anomaly into a bay in the Cretaceous, a flock of Hesperornis were swimming around him. On the shoreline, Cutter encountered a rookery of numerous Hesperornis. Two investigated him and Helen Cutter, but Helen distracted them by throwing a stone into the nearby water.
Appearance[]
Hesperornis was a large bird reaching up to two metres or 6.5 feet in length. It had a long, thin, conical beak filled with tiny sharp teeth, tiny wings which were virtually useless, and powerful hind legs primarily for swimming. Though Hesperornis were cumbersome and slow-moving on land, in the water, they were very fast and powerful swimmers.
Personality[]
Hesperornis nested in onshore rookeries, like modern penguins, and seemed to hunt in the nearby coastal waters for food. They were aggressive towards other animals when panicked, or when these animals entered their rookeries; but Hesperornis were also easily distracted from these other animals by splashes, and were (according to Helen Cutter) highly unintelligent and thus easy to distract.
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Primeval Primeval: New World
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