Max Taylor, son of the paleontologist Spike Taylor falls out of bed early one morning and witnessing a meteor fall from the sky sets out with his friends, Rex Owen and Zoe Drake into the forest where the meteor crashed. There they find the lightning, wind and grass element stones. Chomp, a Triceratops, is accidentally activated when Max rubs its card on the lightning stone. The D-Team meet their new enemies, the Alpha Gang, when they come to catch it and are defeated with Terry, their Tyranosaurus. After this, Max and Chomp come good friends, Rex and Zoe find their own dinosaurs (respectively Ace, the Carnotaurus and Paris, the Parasaurulophus), and the D-Team beside Dr. Taylor and his assistent Reese Drake have now the mission of saving the world and the dinosaurs from the Alpha Gang.