The first part of the series premiered on Paramount+ on March 21, 2024 with the second part set to premiere in 2025. The series is based on the video game Ark: Survival Evolved. Helena Walker is an Australian paleontologist from the 21st century who recently woke up on the Ark. The main series antagonist and scientist from the 19th century is Sir Edmund Rockwell.
Helena Walker, an Australian paleontologist on 21st-century Earth, becomes a grieving widow after the death of her wife, Victoria. One night after drowning her sorrows in pills and wine, she wakes up suddenly to find herself in the middle of a vast ocean. Escaping from a large, charging megalodon, she soon washes up on a strange island. Once there, she befriends a wild dodo, only to discover it was being hunted by a human male tribe hunter.