History Fridge / TheLandBeforeTime

** Maybe InUniverse she's named after a species of duck-like bird from the Late Cretaceous waterfowl, like Vegavis or Polarornis, and the movie calling her "Ducky" is just TranslationConvention.

* Fridge-Heartwarming/TearJerker: Littlefoot sees his tree-star as the only [[TragicKeepsake memento]] of his [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest late mother]], since there were so few of them in the Great Beyond. Now that he and his friends live in the Great Valley, every he eats his fill of tree-stars, he'll always remember her.

* Petrie surviving [[spoiler:being dragged into the sea by the Sharptooth]] could be explained by the fact that ''Pteranodons'' were surprisingly skilled swimmers.

** They're getting too old? Alternatively, they're sacred because they've never seen anything like it. They're used to plain T-rex's and raptors, not this weird thing. Topsy would also realize what it could do with its horns.

** Honestly? [[ShaggyDogStory Nothing.]] They ''thought'' they were preventing the sun from falling out of the sky when in reality, it was just an eclipse that resolved itself. Although that doesn't explain where the shard prophetic dreams came from...

* May not be fridge, since i have realized this as a child, but consider the fact that their dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are extinct. That means that no matter [[Main/LongRunner how long]] the series goes, how many sequels are made, and how many times they defeat the sharpteeth, these characters are [[Main/DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists.]]

* Why did Rhett make up those stories to begin with? Let's think about Ali for a moment. She helped Little Foot and Co. brave the dangers of a Belly Dragger and a Flying Sharptooth just to get some night flowers to heal Little Foot's grandfather... all without the help of grownups. Rhett wanted to impress Ali with his own made up tales!
** Except that Ali’s tale ACTUALLY HAPPENED, unlike Rhett’s.

* Is Chomper gonna lose is ability to speak with the gang when he grows up, given that NO adult Sharptooth in the entire franchise, can speak English, and just growl?

*** Not a second language-- a mother tongue. Studies show that the brains of babies who are adopted into a different country actually register both languages as mothertongues, even if they were too young to learn their original language. Herbivore was the first language Chomper's brain learned to recognize, and Carnivore was the language he grew up in. He may have had to practice Herbivore by himself, but he's actually raised bilingual. Wait...How did he learn to speak Herbivore so fluently? How many of his friends have been eaten by his parents? Was he exerienced in hiding his friends by the time Littlefoot & co found his island?

* Also probably unintentional, but with the exception of Ali and her herd, all the supporting characters in "Journey Through The Mists" are animals from lineages that would survive past the age of the dinosaurs--Tickles is a mammal. Archie is a turtle. The villains, Ichy and Dil, are a bird (avian dinosaur) and a crocodilian respectively.

** If you want to get technical, Littlefoot's species is actually more closely related to Chomper's than to any of the other main cast. He's a lizard hipped dinosaur like Chomper and the rest are bird hipped dinosaurs (except Petrie obviously, who isn't a dinosaur)

* "Treestar" - as in, the word. Assuming TranslationConvention is in effect, dinosaurs apparently have words for trees, and for stars... but the only word they have for the things that grow ''on'' the trees, much closer and more relevant to their lives than the stars themselves, is "treestars." Actually for that matter "bright circle," as well. To have a word for stars but not the sun is just as odd as having one for trees but not leaves.