The first part of the series premiered on Paramount+ on March 21, 2024 with the second part set to premiere in 2026. 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.
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.