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== Time doesn't pass normally in Paradise Falls. ==
Several evidences for this. A few times in the film, characters (Young!Ellie for one) says that it's a "land lost in time". Muntz states that he's been chasing Kevin "for years". This, coupled with Muntz's 'youth' and Carl's gradual increase in strength (straightening up, becoming [[Badass Normal|more athletic]] and the 'swordfight', and that [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Kelenken |Kevin]] is not extinct, time is screwey. Not backwards, not stopped, but ''different''.
* One early story idea was that Kevin's eggs functioned as the fountain of youth.
* Perhaps the idea of Paradise Falls being a Land Lost in Time could be related to a labyrinthine map. The only way out of the screwy timeline or what year/day/hour it is in Paradise Falls is up. This could also explain why being away from home for three days wouldn't have worried people as much as it would have, and how they could have gotten back on the same day as the badge ceremony for Russel. This is a good theory. Headcanon forever.
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* This is now my personal canon.
** And part of my personal canon is that it's [[Humiliation Conga|actually called a snipe]], thanks to the oddity of it (wouldn't be the first time a funny-looking critter was named after something mythical) and as a stand-in name that became widely accepted by the time they gave up [[Unfunny Aneurysm Moment|sending people to look for Muntz]] so he could give it a proper name.
** Snipes... [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe |aren't mythical.]]
** Ok, so it's the Paradise Falls Greater Snipe. Scientific name: ''Aepyornis ellieae.''
*** ''Aepyornis'' [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|is not a real snipe]], it is actually more closely related to ostriches. Besides, [[Misplaced Wildlife|it only lived in Madagascar]].
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== Kevin is not a snipe. ==
He is actually a form of [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_bird:Terror bird|terror bird]]. To survive competition by saber-toothed cats, it turned omnivorous. What Muntz discovered was a chimera between it, a dinosaur, Phorusrhachos, and Titanis. It was dismissed as a hoax, and no proof has been found since. Then the events of Up took place. Its genus is not of any known terror bird, since none are confirmed omnivores. He was nicknamed a snipe by Russell and Carl. Kevin probably doesn't have a common name.
 
== Russell has Downs Syndrome ==
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