The father of Princess Daisy was the King of the dinosaur realm - a pocket dimension created by the meteorite impact 65 million years ago, in which some dinosaurs have survived and evolved into a form externally indistinguishable from humans - until he was overthrown by the evil General Koopa, who made himself President and sentenced the King to the Devo Chamber to be devolved, transforming him into a massive, amorphous fungus growth.