History Characters / WalkingWithDinosaurs

* UncertainDoom: After a male in heat loses a horn in a fight, the narrator says that it will never mate again. It is unclear if this is because the male will never win a fight, due to lacking one horn, or because it will die from its injuries and will never have the chance. Naturally, [[MetaphoricallyTrue considering that the asteroid hits just months after]], it could be that it will not mate again for the same reason no other non-avian dinosaur will.

* UndergroundMonkey: It's depicted as a darker-coloured, stockier version of ''Diplodocus'' with a shorter neck and no spines on its back.

* GiantEqualsInvincible: Such a huge animal that very few predators ever try to attack them.

* TailSlap: Its only means of defense against large predators like ''Allosaurus'', other than its size.

[[folder:Liliensternus]]

* CanonForeigner: The only dinoaaur in the show to appear solely there and nowhere else.

* AnachronismStew: The formation in which the South American ''Ornithocheirus'' (now known as ''Tropeognathus'') was known is dated to around 110 million years old, making it about 17 million years too old in the episode.

* AnachronismStew: If it's indeed ''Ornithostoma'', who lived during the late Albian, about 12 million years after the date of the episode. Though later finds would show that a crested ''Ornithocheirus''/''Tropeognathus'' relative called ''Caulkicephalus'' did live in Barremian Britain.

[[folder:''Iberomesornis'']]
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A small gregarious bird that harasses the ''Ornithocheirus'' briefly during his travel.

* WackyWaysideTribe: The biggest offender in "New Blood", as it only appears twice and very briefly. First as the kill of the male cynodont, and later, it gets compared with the ''Peteinosaurus'', who took the evolutionary leap from gliding to powered flight.

* WackyWaysideTribe: Only mentioned in one paragraph in ''Spirits of the Ice Forest'', to show that enantiornitheans continue to thrive after the events of ''Giant of the Skies''.

* TheHeroDies: The lead female ''Tyrannosaurus'' dies from internal injuries after being hit by the ''Ankylosaurus''' tail club, though given the asteroid crashes on Earth and the morning after her death, she was not long for this world anyway.

* ShoutOut: Its design is clearly heavily inspired by Greg Paul's influential 1988 text ''Predatory Dinosaurs of the World'', which first portrayed ''Ornitholestes'' with a crest of feathers and nose horn (the latter of which has since been discredited).

* AllThereInTheManual: Only called "sharks" in the episode. Averted in the American cut.

* AnachronismStew: At the time of the show's production, ''Hybodus'' was still used as a wastebasket taxon, with hybodont fossils ranging in age from the late Devonian to the Maastrichtian being lumped into it,[[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Hybodus_fraasi_%28fossil%29.jpg including some exceptionally preserved fossils from Late Jurassic Europe]]. Late research concluded that ''Hybodus'' was restricted to the Lower Jurassic.

* AllThereInTheManual: It's not named in the episode or any of the tie-in books. It's identified as ''Plesiopleurodon'' in ''Dinosaur Worlds'', a series of games based on WWD.

* AnachronismStew: Shown nearly 30 million years before it evolved.

[[folder:''Plesiopleurodon'']]

* AllThereInTheManual: Not named onscreen.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: The North American species is striped like a zebra, walks around in herds, and even makes a zebra-like whinny at one point.

* NoNameGiven: It's only called a "gliding reptile". Given the Late Triassic setting, it's likely meant to be a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuehneosauridae kuehneosaurid]], specifically the North American ''Icarosaurus'', who made a proper appearance in ''WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica''.

* UndergroundMonkey: Other than lacking a nose crest, they are essentially identical to the Ornitholestes, being another coyote-sized opportunistic coelurosaur.

* WackyWaysideTribe: They appear numerous times in the novelization of "New Blood" but only briefly and don't contribute much to the plot other than to showcase more of the Late Triassic wildlife, though they are shown to be a predator of young ''Placerias''.[[/folder]]

[[folder: ''Coelurus'']]
A small Jurassic theropod. Appears only in the novelization.

* CurbStompBattle: A trio of them get confronted by an adult female ''Diplodocus'' and she instantly kills one by slamming it into a tree. Given the massive size difference, it's to be expected.
* EekAMouse: A herd of 20-ton sauropods gets spooked by a trio of jackal-sized theropods. Unfortunately for the ''Coelurus'', the ''Diplodocus'' quickly retaliate and kill one of the predators.
* UndergroundMonkey: Other than lacking a nose crest, they are essentially identical to the Ornitholestes, being another coyote-sized opportunistic coelurosaur.
* WackyWaysideTribe: They only show up twice, both times getting spooked by the ''Diplodocus''.

* EndOfAnAge: Competition with riparian reptiles such as phytosaurs is shown as being one of the reasons why the dominance of temnospondyls (like the local metoposaurids) is coming to an end.

* AmphibianAtLarge: It's a large amphibian, though nowhere as big as ''Koolasuchus''.