There are a small number of cryptozoologists, rejected by the scientific community but often repeated in the press, who believe the Underground Lake is proof that Kabuto and Omanyte were never extinct to begin with; like Relicanth. In reality, geology clearly shows the lake formed during the early Eocene, millions of years after Omanyte disappear from the fossil record – and hundreds of millions of years after Kabuto. The truth about how a lake in the modern age came to fill up with revived fossil pokemon has often been obscured by the sort of people who believe in Missingno, but it is a tale worth telling of its own.

Kabuto and Omanyte are recent re-arrivals to the world of the living, but great numbers have been reanimated since the Cinnabar Laboratory made its discovery, and trainers the world over have taken to these ancient pokemon – and, sadly, quite a few have abandoned or predeceased them. There are very few places underwater in our world today which approximate the water and air conditions of Earth before the Chixculub impact, and the shells of fossil pokemon, forged in ancient times, do not stand up to over 65 million years of power creep.

Most Kabuto and Omanyte released into the wild do not last very long there. Those who did survive instinctively made their way to the Underground Lake, creating an ancient yet novel throwback of a community. Once their colony began to grow, caring yet overwhelmed trainers released their fossil pokemon in that same location. And for the first time in the Cenozoic era, in this strange lake which has converged with prehistory, Kabuto and Omanyte have been born not from fossils, from but eggs!