Doctor Fossil is a fictional character created for the Disney animated television series Darkwing Duck. He appears in the episode Jurassic Jumble and is voiced by Barry Gordon. Dr. Fossil is a paleontologist who worked at the natural history museum in St. Canard until, for reasons best known for himself, he turned himself into a humanoid pteranodon using his invention, the Retro-Evolution Gun. He later did the same to Stegmutt, the museum janitor, and Stegmutt became his unwitting henchman. It is not known precisely why Fossil de-evolved himself into a pteranodon, but his new form made him an outcast among the other animals in St. Canard, and he began to resent their stares, jeers, and cries of, "Look! It's Godzilla!" He also began to see that, to modern people, dinosaurs were nothing but a source of entertainment and amusement. Fossil began plotting to bring about the end of the world. A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ... Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... This article is about the animated series. ... Barry Gordon (born December 21, 1948) is an American film and television actor. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines. ... The Louvre Museum in Paris, one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. ... St. ... Species Pteranodon (from Greek πτερ- wing and αν-οδων toothless), from the Late Cretaceous of North America (Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota) was one of the largest pterosaur genera, with a wingspan of up to 7. ... Stegmutt is a fictional character in the Disney animated television series Darkwing Duck, a large, green anthropomorphic stegosaurus with a shaggy mop of orange hair. ... The word henchman (irregular Germanic plural: henchmen) referred originally to one who attended on a horse, that is, a horse groom. ... The term devolution, which normally means a delegation of powers, is sometimes erroneously used to refer to the evolution of a species into more primitive forms. ... Godzilla, as portrayed during his latest film from the Millennium series . Godzilla ) is a fictional monster featured in Japanese films and has become one of the worlds most recognized movie characters of all time. ...

At the time the episode is set Fossil has sent Stegmutt to abduct tax attorneys Shyster and Loophole to use as test subjects for his Retro-Evolution Gun and to make them part of the select few de-evolved people who would survive the cataclysm alongside himself and Stegmutt. This attracted the attention of Darkwing Duck. Sort of. While Darkwing suspects that Shyster and Loophole have been kidnapped on the order of their former client, Numero Uno, Gosalyn and Honker follow Stegmutt's footprints back to the museum where they encounter him and then Dr. Fossil and the de-evolved Shyster and Loophole. Stegmutt shows them Fossil's underground lair, and Fossil imprisons the two in a cell after explaining his plan to destroy the world. He then sends Stegmutt to Camp Canard to steal a super-magnet, with which he plans to bring down the passing Cleanser Comet and recreate global extinction, only with modern people and not dinosaurs. In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away of a person against the persons will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment (confinement without legal authority) for ransom or in furtherance of another crime. ... Gosalyn Mallard is a fictional character created for the Disney animated series Darkwing Duck. ... Honker Muddlefoot is a fictional character in the television series Darkwing Duck. ...

Darkwing, having hit a dead end with Numero Uno, is on his way home when he encounters Stegmutt stealing the magnet, and thus makes it his business to thwart Fossil's evil scheme and rescue Gosalyn and Honker. He accomplishes neither and gets zapped with Fossil's Retro-Evolution Gun and turned into a skyscraper-sized half duck, half dinosaur, and Fossil's plan is foiled when Stegmutt turns against him and realigns the magnet. This sends the comet away from Earth, but also attracts a variety of metal things, including a ship which slams into Fossil and knocks him unconscious. He is last seen, dazed, tied up on the museum rooftop.

Fossil's fate following the end of the episode is not known. Darkwing was returned to normal (despite a minor setback where he accidentally de-evolved further and turned into a fish), but Stegmutt chose to remain a dinosaur. So it is not known if Fossil (and Shyster and Loophole) was also returned to normal. It's possible that, given his hatred of mankind, Fossil remained a pteranodon.