Dracorex
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| Scientific name | Dracorex hogwartsia |
| Home era | Late Cretaceous |
| Creature type | Ornithischian Dinosaur |
| Deaths caused | 0 |
| Appearances | Episode 3.7 Episode 4.1 |
Dracorex was a species of pachycephalosaur (bone-headed) dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous. It was mistaken for a dragon by a medieval knight. In the first promotional image of the Dracorex, its visible that it very accurately resembles a dragon as depicted in medieval artwork and literature. The wings of the 'dragon' are represented by fin-like crests on the back of the dinosaur.
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In Primeval
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Episode 3.7Edit
A female Dracorex (Later dubbed Princess) came through an anomaly to a forest sometime in the Medieval ages. The people of the town sheltered in the church while Sir William de Mornay pursued the creature, believing her to be a Dragon. She was unfortunately chased by the knight through an anomaly into present day London and was almost killed by a worker in the car trashing area. The team stopped the man operating the crane and Abby noticed the Dracorex had something stuck in its side. The Dracorex charged, but Danny led the team in forcing it to back away by ganging up on it and making loud noises, pushing it towards the anomaly. However it didn't want to go through and bolted away, as de Mornay came through the anomaly to the present day, and began his search for the creature.
Abby and Becker went off to pursue the creature as well, and noticed it running through a field. The Dracorex went into a strawberry patch, scaring off the workers. Abby and Becker caught up with it as it was eating the fruit, and the dinosaur noticed them. It charged at Becker, but before he could shoot it it collapsed under the stress of its wound. The pair transported the creature back to the car yard, and Abby, with Becker's help, began operating to remove the stake. Later, de Mornay arrived to slay the beast, believing it would send him back home, but the team stood against him and Sarah convinced him to stand down. After he returned to his home, Abby said she'd send the Dracorex back through the next anomaly to its time, and Connor joked that she wouldn't be able to keep it in her flat.
Episode 4.1Edit
The Dracorex was contained in the ARC and was later moved to the menagerie when the ARC was revived, where it stayed. While maintenance work was being done, Jess accidentally let the Dracorex out by releasing the airlock too early. After rampaging through the corridors and a brief confrontation with Matt, the Dracorex made its way into the main hub. Jess tried to flee but the dinosaur cornered her as Lester arrived and distracted it. Becker arrived with his men as Matt lured the Dracorex with a bucket of water into Lester's office and locked it in. Once the Dracorex finished drinking the water, it began trashing the office, much to Lester's annoyance. It was later tranquilized by Becker and returned to the menagerie.
Episode 4.4Edit
Due to the inconvieniences of keeping and caring for the ARC's creatures and arguing that they have miserable lives in a world they don't understand, Philip Burton planned to have them, presumably including the Dracorex (note it didn't actually appear in the episode), put down. After some persuasion from Abby, Lester blackmailed Burton, implying that if and when the anomalies become public, he'd let slip about what Burton had done to the creatures, convincing him to withdraw the plans.
Episode 5.4Edit
During the lockdown from the invasion of the Future Beetles when Connor explained his idea to cause a gamma ray Abby said the creatures in the menagerie including the Columbian Mammoth,the Dracorex, and possibly the Dromaeosaurus from Episode 5.3 and Sid and Nancy, would be safe from the gamma ray.
TriviaEdit
- Dracorex hogwartsia is Latin for dragon king of Hogwarts. The name is a tribute to the Hungarian Horntail dragon species and fictional school Hogwarts from Harry Potter.
- The Dracorex is the fourth dinosaur in Primeval and the first and only non-theropod dinosaur to appear in the show. It is the only herbivorous dinosaur to appear.
- Matt revealed the Dracorex in Primeval is female. The staff ironically named her Princess since she looks like a dragon. In his Sketchbook, appears two male dracorex in fight without spines in his back, suggesting that the spines in the back of the dracorex are a sexual diphormism. In this case only the females would have them as the ARC Dracorex has one and she is female.
- Dracorex is either a herbivore or omnivore. Due to its sharp pointed teeth, the Dracorex in Primeval is likely the latter, although Connor calls it a herbivore. However if it were to eat meat, it would only eat small insects or invertebrates for protein.
- The horns are longer and thinner than they were in life and look more like the famous devil horns of a different species called Stygimoloch spinifer. The wing like sails shown on the animal in the show are perfectly possible but speculative.
- This is the fifth animal to be kept in the present (excluding the creatures kept by Oliver Leek in his Creature Prison) by a member of the team and the fourth species to do so (the Smilodon was kept in the present not by a member of the ARC)
- This is the only creature that did not kill anybody in Series 3 apart from the Diictodon. However it may have killed some people in the Medieval Forest as the Little Boy in Medieval Town that Sara talks to said that noone who goes to the forest, comes back
- The Dracorex and the Terror Birds (if the Terror Birds in Series 3 and 4 are the same species) are the only Series 3 creatures to appear in Series 4. Coelurosauravus and Dromaeosaurus don't count as they appear before Series 3.
- This is the first creature to appear in Series 4 discounting the cretures shown in Lester's flashback in the title sequence of Episode 4.1.
- This is the first dinosaur not to kill a human.
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