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Once upon a time, Dinosaurs ruled the Earth. But the Mesozoic era – the Age of Reptiles – came to its cataclysmic end sixty-five million years ago. The Age of Monsters begins tonight. And the world of humankind will crumble. Some will call it Judgment. Some will attempt to fight. Others will simply run. Most will just try and survive. But no one will escape. In the mountains. In the oceans. In the cities and towns. Even up in space.

It is an Age of Monsters and all that remains of humanity are scattered encampments of ragged refugees. Mark Bakker has survived the prehistoric wilderness alone... until now. After unwittingly plundering a tyrannosaur-nest, he finds himself relentlessly hunted by the wrathful mother. But it is not salvation he finds when he stumbles across a young woman and her mysterious band of sisters living in the mountains. Even in the Age of Monsters, humans are always the most dangerous animals. And the female is always the deadliest of the species.

Doctor Jack Wright runs the Venom Lab, keeping mambas, cobras, and vipers of all kinds. He risks his life daily, extracting toxins directly from the fangs of the most venomous serpents in the world. But after a break-in at the lab, dozens of these deadly reptiles have escaped into the surrounding neighborhoods.

Sixty-five million years ago... An artificial alien intelligence has come to strip-mine the prehistoric Earth but when their robotic automations kill a mother T. rex, they start a war. One of her hatchlings has survived, traveling with an adoptive raptor pack and as the orphaned tyrannosaur grows, they wage a guerrilla war against an invading army of war-bots and giant cloned-cyborgs.

Man-eating crocodiles have invaded the Everglades. In a desperate effort to save lives, Ranger Daniel Reid has partnered with Gator Glades reptile park to trap and remove the invasive hybrids. But crocs breed in high numbers, and park director Jen Summers predicts an ecological disaster. Abigail O'Neil has returned home, just ahead of a past come back to haunt her. A man named Colin Mason is coming to settle a score, and he is privy to the darkest secrets of Abigail's life—her crocodile-infested home has now been invaded by a monster more cold-blooded than any reptile.

The reticulated python is the largest and most dangerous of the giant constrictors – documented to swallow humans whole. But people still keep them as exotic pets. Frank has raised Buffy from a hatchling. She measures over twenty-four-feet and more than three-hundred pounds. She is Frank's pride-and-joy. She is also his secret – a black-market purchase, kept illegally – unbeknownst to his neighbors, who might fear for their pets... or their kids.

Crocodiles are born man-eaters. Given the opportunity, it is the one big predator that will go for you every single time. Two people have been killed inside a month, and now a monster croc has been captured – a hybrid – grown huge with 'hybrid-vigor' – and in the Everglades, a new and deadly invasive species – the most aggressive predator on the planet.

Carson Sheridan has dedicated her life to shark conservation, but can't deny the horrific series of attacks that point unerringly to a massive Great White–all off the same beach–all at the same time of year. Great Whites in California are in historically large numbers and record sizes. But the waters off Surf Shore are particularly deadly, and Carson is about to discover why.

Before the Age of Monsters, there was Monster Island. Top-secret habitat for genetically-resurrected dinosaurs. But something has gone terribly wrong. Somehow, the beasts have escaped – first there were scattered sightings worldwide – then people went missing. But now a pleasure-cruise shipwrecked on a tropical beach has discovered an entire savage prehistoric jungle.

The piranha–razor-toothed terror of the Amazon–attacking in swarms, stripping flesh off the bones of helpless victims in seconds. Piranha have never been successfully introduced into American waters...until now.

For centuries, legends have told of the Kraken - nightmarish, tentacled beasts, attacking ships, and devouring sailors. Now, they have arrived off the shores of Beach City. Researcher Travis Prescott has been hunting these elusive beasts for years. For reporter Ashley Wells, it is the story of a lifetime. For Professor Clyde Spencer, it is the culmination of a lifetime's search. And for the wealthy and connected Colin Mason, it is a new and deadly obsession. But for Beach City, it is the beginning of a nightmare. Sometimes legends are real.

When the ragged group of castaways stagger ashore, they think they are saved. Instead, they find themselves prey. But they are not alone in this lost world – and dragons are not the only predators. Reptilian savagery gives way to human nature – primal instinct becomes betrayal and murder – and they will all soon learn that sins of the past are never truly buried. But the lost world knows no judgment – and survival knows no sin. The dragons wait for them all. And they're hungry.

Great White sharks lurk off popular beaches – killer crocodiles and man-eating pythons prowl the Everglades. But for Abigail O'Neil, raised on the swamp, the most terrifying monster was her own father – a black-market croc-farmer notorious for feeding unwary victims to his jagged-toothed pets. Growing-up privy to unspeakable horror, when Abigail finally fled home, she thought she'd left it all behind. But now someone is stalking her – and they know all her deepest, darkest secrets.

Twenty miles off the coast of San Francisco, this small chain of islands hosts a yearly migration of seals... and during this time of year, the sharks are here too – the biggest, hungriest Great Whites in the world. Attempting to swim off these shores is attempted suicide. Colin Mason – wealthy, connected – with one leg bitten off by a white shark in these very same waters – now hosts his own yearly event – a marathon swim through the Great White-infested Farallons.

"Major Tom" Corbett has come home–but it is a very different world than he left behind. His life-pod has touched-down into the middle of a nautical war, as massive mega-tooth sharks clash with gigantic reptilian sea-monsters–a conflict that spreads as giant prehistoric alpha-predators struggle for ultimate dominance on both land and sea.