Heartwarming / Prehistoric Earth

• Despite having only fairly recently interacted with her for the very first time and equally recently befriended her, Leon is very quick to jump in to save Yolanda when she ends up accidentally knocked into a holding tank containing a swarm of hungry brontoscorpio.
• Following a harsh sandstorm, Alice works to nurse a subadult female Gorgonops (later named Rey) back to health in time to get her through the portal during The New Rulers.
• While this may very well have been before she started seriously considering him a possible suspect of being Novum's mole, CYNTHIA (of all people) makes sure that Drew thanks Jack for thinking up the idea that both made it easier and safer for carnivore feedings to be carried out as well as prevented her from being fired.
• In Degrees of Greatness, Drew and Adrian manage to save the female Postosuchus.
• Although there was ultimately nothing that could be done to save the baby cynodonts, they were at least able to rescue the parents, which will now hopefully have a successful second chance at parenthood in the safety of the park.
• The birth of the ophthalmosaurus pups in "The Cruel Sea".
• At the conclusion of Age of Giants, Jack, Adrian, and Alice manage to rescue the male ''Ornithocheirus''. As the next chapter shows, he's starting to recover.
• As of "Storm in the Desert," Jack and Leon appear to be finally allowing their friendship to become much less vitriolic and more genuine. They have clearly come a long way since their squabbling in "Life in Transition."
• Furthermore, also as of "Storm in the Desert" the relationship between Jack and Collete that was first teased in "Passport to Hell" appears to have only gotten stronger. By the time of the beginning of "Storm in the Desert," it seems as if they're practically already a couple. The fact that the happy go lucky Jack and the guarded and aloof Collete are capable of getting along and having a relationship this sweet between them is actually quite heartwarming in and of itself.
• And sometime later, in Spirits of the Silent Forest, Drew and Cynthia also manage to officially hook up!
• When Drew is stuck in the post KT-Event cretaceous landscape during A Continent of Blight, he manages to form a very unlikely bond with another unlikely survivor, the adult female t-rex.
• When Drew finally makes it back from his accidental time stuck in the past, the understandably relieved Cynthia goes so far as to first hit him for scaring her, and then kiss him 'for everything else'.
• And also as of the end of phase 2, Cynthia and Drew are joined up in the Official Couple department by none other than Collete and Jack.
• As of Nightmare Labyrinthine, Cirrus not only appears to have formed a strong bond with Linda, but he even successfully defends her against the escaped velociraptors that manage to get inside the veterinary facility before the lockdown is initiated. Also counts as a moment of awesome.
• In a sense, the fact that, despite heavy evidence against her, Cynthia turns out to in fact truly be on Drew's side as of A Glorious Dawn.
• In another case of Spared by the Adaptation, Cynthia and the Denhams manage to send the prehistoric ants to the park in time to prevent them from killing and eating the mother gastornis's newly hatching chick. And even better, the mother gastornis herself appears quite grateful for this, and naturally gets to successfully live alongside her rescued offspring at the park.
• And as if two couples weren't enough, another may soon be on the horizon as of A Glorious Dawn. Specifically, the potential romance that was initially teased several times between Leon and Yolanda during the first two phases is once again teased. And this time, it seems entirely likely that this possible pairing, much like Collete and Jack and Drew and Cynthia, could soon blossom into full on romance as well by the end of the story! Considering how much Leon felt like a 3rd wheel around Drew and Cynthia during one mission and may very well have not felt any better about his status as a single dude when he found out about Jack and Colette being together, the fact that the resident autistic animal expert of the park may very well find love amongst one of the first people working at the park apart from Drew and Adrian that he actively approached to try to work and form a bond with is truly heartwarming to think about. And Yolanda has certainly proven herself compatible when you consider how there were probably several meaner girls amongst the bullies who tormented him when he was younger.
• In Serpents of the Nile, not only are Leon and Alice shown to indeed be seemingly good friends at this point, but Leon even trusts her with the knowledge of his feelings for Yolanda to the point of asking her advice on how to handle the situation. And in a parallel of this, Yolanda herself is trusted by Will with the knowledge of his own feelings for Alice. Yolanda and Alice even give Will and Leon (respectively) the exact same advice on how to handle their respective situations.
• In The New Giants, an orphaned baby cynodictis is rescued and subsequently placed under Yolanda and Alice's care.
• Sure enough, at the end of Anthropomorphous Apes, Leon and Yolanda DO in fact become an official couple!
• While saddening as well, Alice and Will's mutual sharing of a potentially deadly secret as of Beyond the Sea also has shades of heartwarming to it. They may be unable to allow this information to spread to anyone else and rendered forced not to trust many of their friends (i.e. Leon, Jack, Yolanda, Drew, etc.) for fear of getting themselves or someone they care about possibly fed to the andrewsarchus by von Grimm's mole; but at least neither of them has to suffer through it alone.
• While ultimately unable to save one of the two bachelor smilodon brothers, Drew and Adrian do manage to give the other one a safe and happy home at Prehistoric Earth. And in another act of kindness, Leon works to see if he can allow said smilodon brother to join up alongside mated smilodon pair Diego and Shira.
• In a very fortuitous turn of events, Will and Raksha get to tag along with Alice when she travels alongside Jack for the mission in "Full Fathom Five".
• Alice, at great risk to her own health, works (much like she did with Rey all the way back in The New Rulers) to help heal a grievously wounded, half blind, and seriously battle scarred male cave bear sufficiently enough to allow herself and her companions to get him through the portal to where he can get further veterinary care.
• For the sake of allowing Martha to stay alive long enough to be safely transported through the portal despite her seriously wounded state, Alice, Jack, Will, and Raksha stand vigil by her side throughout the entire night, even going so far as to fight an entire pack of cave hyenas and send them through the portal in order to prevent them from finishing Martha off and eating her.
• In a rather selfless act, Drew and Leon save a lone neanderthal man from getting trampled by a male woolly mammoth and a woolly rhino. This same neanderthal later repays his debt by intervening in time to prevent Leon from getting killed by a male cave lion in the time it takes for Drew to get in position with the portal after having already sent said lion's mate through.
• The reason Drew and Leon work to get the mated cave lion pair through the portal in the 1st place? For the sake of saving a baby mammoth from getting killed and eaten by them.
• Leon and Drew's efforts at earning the trust of the larger mammoth herd first prior to attempting to get them through the portal pays off big time when these efforts ultimately culminate in the matriarch allowing herself to trust them in time for them to help safely guide her and the rest of the herd away from a large cliff edge being hidden from sight by a blizzard and to the safety of the park.
• Will's bond with Baloo, and the fact that it culminated in Baloo attacking and killing Zander in time to prevent Zander from killing Will and Alice.
• In a rare moment of this on the villain side, Ursula's reaction to becoming aware of the deaths of Zander and Ed make it clear that, as much as they got on her nerves, she still genuinely considered them her friends and partners.
• While somewhat saddening that Cynthia and Drew break up at the end (with the fact that Cynthia herself so far has no guarantee of making the jump to subsequent reboot, Prehistoric Park Reimagined, alongside Drew and the rest of the 'main cast' making this possibly even more so), it is nice that they are at least able to stay on good terms as friends and were able to split and part ways on good terms. And then there's the fact that Drew doesn't at all seem to mind the situation.
• On a similar note, in contrast to Drew and Cynthia, Jack and Collete and Leon and Yolanda are still together at the end of the story and already have high chances of hooking up all over again in the subsequent reboot, Prehistoric Park Reimagined, thanks to all four of them having already managed to successfully make the jump together from this story to that one.
• In the end, after all the hard work and drama, the park is successfully opened to the public. Theodore's dream has come true.
• Remember the hostile t-rex that was summoned to the park by the smuggling operation? Turns out, she ends up getting to successfully stay at the park (and be named Rhea in the process).
• Leon's idea for attempting to set up a separate pride for the lone smilodon brother to live with is working smoothly as of the epilogue.
• The ending of the story:
  • The entire rescue team, plus several key head staff members, Yolanda, Will, Colette, and even a few noteworthy named animals take part in a Team Shot for the sake of 'immortalizing the moment' before the big opening day of the park.
  • While there are multiple animals that played major roles over the course of the story present such as Sharptooth, Zira, Keehar, and Baloo, among others, also included are none other than Spiny the dimetrodon (who'd faded into the background after his last significant appearance all the way at the end of Phase 1) and Rey the gorgonops (who only appeared in her introductory episode before than never appearing again).
  • In the way that the members are positioned, not only are both official couples standing together, and Will and Alice doing the same despite the unclear status of their own standing, but Drew and Adrian are also positioned together and close to Leon (as much as his role may have been supplanted by Jack, Adrian is still very much True Companions with Leon and Drew even now).
  • And finally, it is entirely possible that, for the sake of this photo, Nikolai and Colette may very well have granted themselves the opportunity to show off one of their rare smiles.