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Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon
ふっかつ!? かせきポケモン！ Resurrection!? Fossil Pokémon!
Broadcast dates
Japan	May 28, 1998
USA	February 27, 1999
Theme songs
Opening	Pokémon Theme
Japanese theme songs
Opening	めざせポケモンマスター
Ending	ポケットにファンタジー
Credits
Animation	Team Ota
Screenplay	武上純希 Junki Takegami
Storyboard	井上修 Osamu Inoue
Assistant director	井上修 Osamu Inoue
Animation director	梶浦紳一郎 Shin'ichirō Kajiura

Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon (Japanese: ふっかつ!? かせきポケモン！ Resurrection!? Fossil Pokémon!) is episode 46 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on May 28, 1998 and in USA on February 27, 1999.

At a "fossil rush" at a canyon, Team Rocket take the easy route by simply blowing it up. They end up awakening fossil Pokémon including an Aerodactyl that wants to eat Ash for its dinner.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Major events 2.1 Debuts 3 Characters 3.1 Humans 3.2 Pokémon 4 Trivia 4.1 Errors 4.2 Dub edits 5 In other languages

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash's Charmeleon evolves into Charizard.
• Ash finds a Togepi egg.

Debuts

• Omanyte
• Omastar
• Kabuto
• Aerodactyl
• Ash's Charizard

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Misty
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Nurse Joy
• Officer Jenny
• Gary
• Gary's cheerleaders
• Fossil hunters

Pokémon

Who’s That Pokémon?: Kabutops

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Charmeleon (Ash's; evolves)
• Charizard (Ash's; newly evolved)
• Squirtle (Ash's)
• Geodude (Brock's)
• Arbok (Jessie's)
• Weezing (James's)
• Jigglypuff (anime)
• Omanyte (debut)
• Omastar (debut)
• Kabuto (debut)
• Kabutops
• Aerodactyl (debut)

Trivia

• This episode hints that Pokémon need to defecate upon mention of fossilized Pokémon manure.

Errors

• When the camera is panning over all of the Pokémon to show their red eyes, Kabuto has the colors of its claws and shell swapped.
• When Charizard fires his Flamethrower at Aerodactyl, the part of his wings that were previously blue turn yellow.
• When Ash falls, asleep, and rolls to the Togepi egg, all of the shapes are red, instead of half red and half blue.

Dub edits

• The sign at the beginning of the episode states the name of the canyon in the Japanese version. In the dub, the sign is a picture of a pick-axe and shovel.
• The point where Meowth actually lights the fuse is cut in the dub. Instead, the camera zooms in to Meowth's face so the lighter isn't seen visibly.
• When digging through the rocks, Misty says Ash had better not die on her. In the dub, she reminds him that he still owes her a bike.

In other languages

• French: L'attaque des Pokémon préhistoriques
• Italian: Avventure preistoriche
• Latin American Spanish: ¡El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos!
• Spanish: El ataque de los Pokémon prehistóricos
• Swedish: Förhistoriska Pokémon