It makes one appearance in the TV Series nearing the end of the episode, "Making Good" when David on Free-Fall throws the containment case that holds the T. On the surface, the Scotts only see the wreckage float up, including Cyrus' wooden leg. It devours Cyrus and tears straight through the Volly to the other side, the Volly falls apart after this, only rubble remaining. Cyrus, horrifed, says "No.not like this!" The Fish then charges directly at the Reginald Volly. As he desperatly tries to find a sunstone that fits in the engine, the Fish passes by the Volly's window, its eyes reflected in the Volly's lights. Later on, when Cyrus betrays the boys, and tries to escape, the Volly's power dies. As they pass through the Diamond Cave, the Fish watches them from the nearby Razor Reef. When the submersible, the Reginald Volly passes by the wreckage of the Scott's plane, Cyrus remarks about what may have happened to Frank: "The Fish would've had." before being told to shut up by Karl. It is implied that Cyrus knows about the Fish since he heard Zippo say that something guards the southeren entrance.
Cyrus walks past them with a large harpoon, and when asked by Karl: "What the hell is that for?" Cyrus ignores him, singing to himself. Later, as Cyrus Crabb, David Scott, and Karl Scott prepare for their expedition to the World Beneath, David questions if Mosasaurus and Pteranodons guard the North Entrance to the World Beneath in the temple at the swamp (where Cyrus possibly lost his leg trying to find a way to the World Beneath which is why he warns the Scotts not to return there after their last time there) then what guards the South Entrance. It was first seen from a distance, following Frank Scott's plane as it sank beneath the waves for the simple reason that the plane-crash disturbed it. Despite this, it more closely resembles an eel in appearance, with wide eyes and sharp curled teeth. It is none other thanĭunkleosteus, a form of giant prehistoric fish and the last Dunkleosteus in Dinotopian seas. In 2002, Hallmark Entertainment produced a lavish television miniseries for ABC TV based on the Dinotopia books that received record-setting ratings and an Emmy award for best visual effects.The Fish was an inhabitant of the Razor Reef, and the guardian of the Diamond Cave, an entrance to the World Beneath. A fourth volume, Dinotopia: Journey To Chandara was published in the fall of 2007. Gurney has written and illustrated three other volumes in the series, Dinotopia: The World Beneath and Dinotopia: First Flight. His first Dinotopia book, Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time, appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies. The lively cast of characters includes the inquisitive Professor Denison Will and Sylvia, the adventurous young Skybax riders-in-training the devious curmudgeon Lee Crabb the beautiful musician Oriana Nascava and a multilingual, diplomatic Protoceratops named Bix. The society has its own language, alphabet, colorful festivals and parades. The faraway land of Dinotopia-wholly the product of Gurney’s fertile imagination, scientific knowledge and meticulous artistic ability-is a civilization like no other. The Dinotopia storyline chronicles the adventures and remarkable experiences of Professor Arthur Denison and his son Will on Dinotopia, a mysterious “lost” island inhabited by dinosaurs and shipwrecked travelers. The plot device has waned in recent years as the blank spots on maps have been explored, but modern examples include Dinotopia and its sequels by James Gurney Subterranean by James Rollins and Greg Bear’s Dinosaur Summer, a pseudo-sequ el to The Lost World set in an alternate timeline. “It might be hard to believe that mermaids and dragons really existed, but we know that dinosaurs did-we can see their footprints and skeletons but we can’t photograph them or see them, except in our imagination.” “The thing I love about dinosaurs is that they are on that balance point between fantasy and reality,” says Gurney. Inspired by archaeology, lost civilizations, and the art of illustration, James Gurney’s children book Dinotopia creates an extraordinary place where humans and dinosaurs live in harmony.