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* PrehistoricMonster: Not the worst case, but not a realistic portrayal either.
* PteroSoarer: ''Almost'' avoided with their ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Quetzalcoatlus]]''. They flap their wing membranes a bit too fast. ''So close!''
** Their ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Eudimorphodon]]'' nearly made the cut, too. In one scene, however, it's shown to be bipedal. ''Damn!!''
* RaptorAttack: A ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Velociraptor]]'' with the wrong skull shape and a pair of naked ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Troodon]]'' that take down a subadult [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs hadrosaur]].
** Cameos by ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Byronosaurus]]'' aren't any better.
* PteroSoarer: ''Almost'' avoided with their ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Quetzalcoatlus]]''. They flap their wing membranes a bit too fast. ''So close!''
** Their ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Eudimorphodon]]'' nearly made the cut, too. In one scene, however, it's shown to be bipedal. ''Damn!!''
* RaptorAttack: A ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Velociraptor]]'' with the wrong skull shape and a pair of naked ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Troodon]]'' that take down a subadult [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs hadrosaur]].
** Cameos by ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Byronosaurus]]'' aren't any better.
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* PteroSoarer: ''Almost'' avoided with their ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Quetzalcoatlus]]''. They flap their wing membranes a bit too fast. ''So close!''
** Their ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Eudimorphodon]]'' nearly made the cut, too. In one scene, however, it's shown to be bipedal. ''Damn!!''
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* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' appears in both Cretaceous episodes. A hungry and desperate ''Tarbosaurus'' also appears in the second Cretaceous Episode.
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%% * EverybodyDiesEnding: Invoked but averted. The opening lines of the Permian episode are "What would it take to exterminate life on earth? To kill every living thing?". The Triassic episode starts by showing the planet Mars and claiming that the Triassic extinction had the possibility to kill all life on earth and rendering the Earth a barren rock like the red planet ([[ForegoneConclusion it doesn't]]). Of course, both extinctions had surviving species that would go on to define life on earth in the next Period, and there is still life on Earth today.
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%% * LemonyNarrator: By documentary standards, the narration in this episode is hammy and sensationalist, describing extinctions as conscious and actively trying to kill all life on earth, using poetic and military terms like describing extinctions as "wars" or "assaults", or invoking the possibility of an EverybodyDiesEnding ([[ForegoneConclusion that obviously won't happen]]) and melodramatic cliffhangers.
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* SoleSurvivor: Of the named species in the Cretaceous episodes, ''Purgatorius'' is the only one that survives the Chicxulub impact.
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* DownerEnding: A given, seeing that ApocalypseHow is the main point of the series.
* DragonAscendant: In several episodes, a secondary or even tertiary predator becomes the new Apex predator after the old one goes extinct or goes into decline- including sea scorpions in the Ordovician episode, ''Proterosuchus'' in the Permian episode, ''Staurikosaurus'' in the Triassic episode, and hawks and rats in the near-future episode.
* DragonAscendant: In several episodes, a secondary or even tertiary predator becomes the new Apex predator after the old one goes extinct or goes into decline- including sea scorpions in the Ordovician episode, ''Proterosuchus'' in the Permian episode, ''Staurikosaurus'' in the Triassic episode, and hawks and rats in the near-future episode.
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* DragonAscendant: In several episodes, a secondary or even tertiary predator becomes the new Apex predator after the old one goes extinct or goes into decline- including
%% * {{Irony}}: The Permian extinction was the most severe mass extinction in prehistory, with nine out of ten species going extinct. And of the four animals depicted at the beginning of the episode- ''Lystrosaurus'', ''Thrinaxodon'', Dicynodonts, and Gorgonopsians- only two of them (Dicynodonts and Gorgonopsians) go extinct during the episode, and a fifth animal (''Proterosuchus'') appears halfway through the episode and becomes the apex predator in the early Triassic.
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* MonstrousCannibalism: Both ''Dunkleosteus'' and ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' are depicted resorting to cannibalism when all other sources of food have been exhausted.
* OutrunTheFireball: Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, with implied {{Outrun the Fireball}}s in episodes 2 (or is it Outswim the Fireball?) and 8.
* OutrunTheFireball: Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, with implied {{Outrun the Fireball}}s in episodes 2 (or is it Outswim the Fireball?) and 8.
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* MonstrousCannibalism: Both ''Dunkleosteus'' ''Dunkleosteus'', ''Rutiodon'', and ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' are all depicted resorting to cannibalism when all other sources of food have been exhausted.
* OutrunTheFireball: Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, with implied{{Outrun the Fireball}}s instances in episodes 2 (or is it Outswim the Fireball?) and 8.
* OutrunTheFireball: Episodes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, with implied
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%% * PredatorsAreMean: Each of the apex predators in the series- Straight Nautiloids, ''Dunkleosteus'', Gorgonopsians, or ''Tyrannosaurus Rex''- are portrayed as TheDreaded, and go extinct at the end of the episode (or in the case of the Straight Nautiloid, are usurped), while 'underdog' species like Eurypterids and ''Thrinaxodon'' are portrayed more sympathetically and survive the extinction.
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* ScavengersAreScum: Averted. Animals are often shown scavenging carrion when their normal sources of food have been exhausted, without being judged for it by the narrator.
** ''Thrinaxodon'' is introduced in the Permian episode as scavenging a carcass abandoned by a Gorgonopsian, and is presented more sympathetically than the apex predator.
** ''Thrinaxodon'' is introduced in the Permian episode as scavenging a carcass abandoned by a Gorgonopsian, and is presented more sympathetically than the apex predator.
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* AlienSky: Mentioned in the Triassic episode, when the oceans being filled with purple bacteria causes the sky to be tinted yellow with ammonia.
** Also implied in the Permian episode, with atmospheric clouds of Hydrogen Sulfide.
** Skies in general are sometimes tinted red, yellow, orange, brown, or gray due to clouds of ash and dust in the atmosphere.
** Also implied in the Permian episode, with atmospheric clouds of Hydrogen Sulfide.
** Skies in general are sometimes tinted red, yellow, orange, brown, or gray due to clouds of ash and dust in the atmosphere.
* BittersweetEnding: An ApocalypseHow happens, more than half of all species go extinct, the landscape is reduced to a barren desert, the oceans have become cesspools, and a geological Period is brought to an end (or an entire ''Era'' in the case of the Permian and Cretaceous episodes), but the survivors of the extinction are always able to rebuild, and the next Period begins.
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** ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' is introduced scaring away a pair of Troodons from a wounded hadrosaur, rips the Hadrosaur's head off, and swallows it whole.
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** ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' is introduced scaring away a pair of Troodons from a wounded hadrosaur, casually tosses one of the Troodons aside, rips the Hadrosaur's head off, and swallows it whole.
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*** To be fair for ''Proterosuchus'', a close relative called ''Archosaurus'' was known from the end of the Permian.
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*** To be fair for ''Proterosuchus'', a close relative called ''Archosaurus'' was known from the end of the Permian.Permian, and is the earliest known Archosauriform.
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*** To be fair for ''Proterosuchus'', a close relative called ''Archosaurus'' was known from the end of the Permian.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Really, it's enough to make paleontologists cry. Though their tears might prevent them from getting a clear view at those awful [[ComputerGeneratedImages CGI critters]]. To list some problems besides their hideousness:
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Really, it's enough to make paleontologists cry. Though their tears might prevent them from getting a clear view at those awful [[ComputerGeneratedImages CGI critters]]. A recurring problem, especially given the [[SpecialEffectsFailure TV-grade CGI]]. To list some problems besides their hideousness:the special effects:
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%% * ShownTheirWork: All of the talking heads. Hey, they even got Mathew Wedel (and unlike in ''[[Series/ClashOfTheDinosaurs another show]]'', he wasn't {{quote mine}}d! Though they did spell his name wrong again).
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* StockDinosaurs: Orthocones and Eurypterids in the Ordovician episode, ''Dunkleosteus'' and ''Icthyostega'' in the Devonian episode, ''Lystrosaurus'' and Gorgonopsians in the Permian episode, ''Rutiodon'' and ''Eudimorphodon'' in the Triassic episode, and almost every named species in the Cretaceous and Toba episodes.
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%% * {{Threatening Shark}}s: They survived the Cretaceous extinction event.
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* BadassDecay: Orthocones, identified in the show as "straight nautiloids", are hit hard by this in the Ordovichian episode, as a result of the Ordovichian-Silurian extinction. At the beginning of the episode, an orthocone is described as "a merciless killer feared by all", and casually dining on Eurypterids. After being hit hard by the extinction, the tables have turned and Eurypterids have the upper hand over orthocones. By the Devonian, an orthocone only cameos to [[MonsterMunch get eaten by a Dunkleosteus]] in the giant placoderm's EstablishingCharacterMoment.
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* BadassDecay: Orthocones, identified in the show as "straight nautiloids", are hit hard by this in the Ordovichian episode, as a result of the Ordovichian-Silurian extinction. At the beginning of the episode, an orthocone is described as "a merciless killer feared by all", and casually dining on Eurypterids. After being hit hard by the extinction, the tables have turned and Eurypterids have the upper hand over orthocones. By the Devonian, an orthocone only cameos makes an unnamed cameo to [[MonsterMunch get eaten by a Dunkleosteus]] in the giant placoderm's EstablishingCharacterMoment.EstablishingCharacterMoment.
** Inverted for the ancestors of Tetrapods in the Ordovician and Devonian episodes. Jawed fish are depicted evolving during the Ordovician extinction, and Tiktaalik evolves into Icthyostega during the Devonian extinction.
** Inverted for the ancestors of Tetrapods in the Ordovician and Devonian episodes. Jawed fish are depicted evolving during the Ordovician extinction, and Tiktaalik evolves into Icthyostega during the Devonian extinction.
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* DragonAscendant: In several episodes, a secondary or even tertiary predator becomes the new Apex predator after the old one goes extinct or goes into decline- including sea scorpions in the Ordovician episode, ''Proterosuchus'' in the Permian episode, ''Staurikosaurus'' in the Triassic episode, and hawks and rats in the near-future episode.
* TheDreaded: Straight Nautiloids in the first episode, ''Dunkleosteus'' in the second, ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the third episode, and Gorgonopsians in the fifth episode are all depicted as this. Unfortunately, nature doesn't care about their reputation, and doesn't spare them from extinction.
* TheDreaded: Straight Nautiloids in the first episode, ''Dunkleosteus'' in the second, ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the third episode, and Gorgonopsians in the fifth episode are all depicted as this. Unfortunately, nature doesn't care about their reputation, and doesn't spare them from extinction.
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* MonstrousCannibalism: Both ''Dunkleosteus'' and ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' are depicted resorting to cannibalism when all other sources of food have been exhausted.
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* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' appears in both Cretaceous episodes. A hungry and desperate ''Tarbosaurus'' also appears in the second Cretaceous Episode.
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* StockDinosaurs: Orthocones and Eurypterids in the Ordovician episode, ''Dunkleosteus'' and ''Icthyostega'' in the Devonian episode, ''Lystrosaurus'' and Gorgonopsians in the Permian episode, ''Rutiodon'' and ''Eudimorphodon'' in the Triassic episode, and almost every named species in the Cretaceous and Toba episodes.
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** At one point in the Cretaceous episode a ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' can be heard making the stock roar from ''Film/TheLandUnknown''.
** Since the special effects were from the same studio that made ''Series/{{Dogfights}}'', ''Animal Armageddon uses much of the same StockMusic as the latter show.
** Since the special effects were from the same studio that made ''Series/{{Dogfights}}'', ''Animal Armageddon uses much of the same StockMusic as the latter show.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Most episodes give one to an apex predator of the time period- Straight Nautiloids for the Ordovician, ''Dunkleosteus'' for the Devonian, Gorgonopsians for the Permian, and ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' for the Cretaceous. Each of these apex predators is given a scene showing them hunting and eating, shortly before the extinction begins.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Most Half of the episodes give one to an apex predator of the time period- Straight Nautiloids for the Ordovician, ''Dunkleosteus'' for the Devonian, Gorgonopsians for the Permian, and ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' for the Cretaceous. Each of these apex predators is given a scene showing them hunting and eating, shortly before the extinction begins. begins.
** Straight Nautiloids are described as merciless killers who prey on sea scorpions.
** A Dunkleosteus swims up to a Straight Nautiloid, [[BadassDecay the apex predator from the previous episode]], swallows it whole, and then chomps down with a powerful bite.
** A Gorgonopsian is shown stalking a herd of ''Lystrosaurus'', chases one, bites down on the neck while shaking it to death, then takes one bite and abandons the carcass.
** ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' is introduced scaring away a pair of Troodons from a wounded hadrosaur, rips the Hadrosaur's head off, and swallows it whole.
** Straight Nautiloids are described as merciless killers who prey on sea scorpions.
** A Dunkleosteus swims up to a Straight Nautiloid, [[BadassDecay the apex predator from the previous episode]], swallows it whole, and then chomps down with a powerful bite.
** A Gorgonopsian is shown stalking a herd of ''Lystrosaurus'', chases one, bites down on the neck while shaking it to death, then takes one bite and abandons the carcass.
** ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'' is introduced scaring away a pair of Troodons from a wounded hadrosaur, rips the Hadrosaur's head off, and swallows it whole.
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* AfterTheEnd: The immediate aftermath of a mass extinction has the landscape as a barren desert, the percentage of species that has gone extinct in the upper double digits, and a small handful of surviving species left to rebuild. Downplayed in that after a few million years it becomes a DawnOfAnEra.
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* BadassDecay: Orthocones, identified in the show as "straight nautiloids", are hit hard by this in the Ordovichian episode, as a result of the Ordovichian-Silurian extinction. At the beginning of the episode, an orthocone is described as "a merciless killer feared by all", and casually dining on Eurypterids. After being hit hard by the extinction, the tables have turned and Eurypterids have the upper hand over orthocones. By the Devonian, an orthocone only cameos to [[MonsterMunch get eaten by a Dunkleosteus]] in the giant placoderm's EstablishingCharacterMoment.
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* JustBeforeTheEnd: Each episode begins shortly before the mass extinction, to establish what a healthy ecosystem in the time period looks like. Then the extinction hits.
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** Jawless fish are mentioned as going extinct in the Devonian extinction. While hard-shelled jawless fish did go extinct in the Devonian, Hagfish and Lampreys are jawless fish and are still extant.
*** Not to mention that the show used stock footage of ''Astraspis'' from the Ordovichian episode to mention jawless fish's extinction.
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** ''Lystrosaurus'' is also described as ''related to'' Dicynodonts, and and that Dicynodonts went extinct in the Permian extinction while ''Lystrosaurus'' survived. ''Lystrosaurus'' is a type of Dicynodont, and a clade of Dicynodonts called the Kannemeyeriformes survived until near the end of the Triassic (however, most Dicynodonts, including the eponymous ''Dicynodon'', did go extinct at the end of the Permian).
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** ''Lystrosaurus'' is also described as ''related to'' Dicynodonts, and and that Dicynodonts went extinct in the Permian extinction while ''Lystrosaurus'' survived. ''Lystrosaurus'' is a type of Dicynodont, and while most Dicynodonts (including the eponymous ''Dicynodon'', which the Dicynodonts in the show apparently represent) did go extinct at the end of the Permian, a clade of Dicynodonts called the Kannemeyeriformes survived until near the end of the Triassic (however, most Dicynodonts, including the eponymous ''Dicynodon'', did go extinct at the end of the Permian).Triassic.
* DawnOfAnEra: Each episode ends on an optimistic note by mentioning how the survivors of the mass extinction go on to dominate life in the next Period.
* EndOfAnAge: Each mass extinction (except the Toba Super-eruption) represents the end of one geological Period and the beginning of the next.
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* StockSoundEffect: One roar is used for the ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Triceratops, Velociraptor]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Quetzalcoatlus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dicynodon]]'', and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Elasmotherium]]''.
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** Volcanic eruption shots from the Devonian episode are recycled for the Permian and Triassic episodes. Volcano footage from the Permian episode is also recycled for the Triassic episode.
** Destroyed, desolated, and deserted landscapes from the Devonian and Cretaceous episodes are also recycled for the Permian and Triassic episodes.
** Footage from the Permian episode is also used to recap the Permian Extinction in the beginning of the Triassic episode, establishing that the Earth has only just recovered from one mass extinction and is about to face another.
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** One roar is used for the ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Triceratops, Velociraptor]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs Quetzalcoatlus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Dicynodon]]'', and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammalsElasmotherium]]''.Elasmotherium]]''.
** The Gorgonopsians in the Permian episode use the same generic Large Animal Roars used in ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'', and ''Film/GingerSnaps''.
** Volcanic eruption shots from the Devonian episode are recycled for the Permian and Triassic episodes. Volcano footage from the Permian episode is also recycled for the Triassic episode.
** Destroyed, desolated, and deserted landscapes from the Devonian and Cretaceous episodes are also recycled for the Permian and Triassic episodes.
** Footage from the Permian episode is also used to recap the Permian Extinction in the beginning of the Triassic episode, establishing that the Earth has only just recovered from one mass extinction and is about to face another.
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** More noticeable in "The Great Dying", which somehow put the crocodile-like ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Proterosuchus]]'' and the mammal ancestor ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Thrinaxodon]]'' in the Permian, while they are known only from the later Triassic.
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** More noticeable in "The Great Dying", which somehow put the crocodile-like ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Proterosuchus]]'' and the mammal ancestor ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Thrinaxodon]]'' in the Permian, while they are known only from the later early Triassic.
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* ApocalypseHow: The basic premise of the series. Generally, the scope is planetary, along with major species extinction. A future with societal disruption or societal collapse is implied, with regards to humanity.
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* ApocalypseHow: The basic premise of the series. Generally, series is to depict real-life examples of Class 4 Apocalypses that happened in prehistory, including the scope is planetary, along 'big five' (Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, and Cretaceous) and the Toba supervolcano. A hypothetical near-future extinction event with a chicxulub-sized asteroid hitting New York City is also presented, and humanity faces major species extinction. A future with societal disruption or even societal collapse is implied, with regards to humanity.in this scenario.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: One of the weaknesses of Gorgonopsians as depicted in episode 5 is that they cannot chew, and instead take one bite out of a carcass and then abandon it, which serves them well in good times but proves their undoing in the extinction event. Real-life predators that cannot chew will instead tear out chunks of meat and swallow them whole, and would never be so wasteful as to abandon a carcass after just one bite.
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** The Permian Synapsids (such as ''Lystrosaurus'', Gorgonopsians, and Dicynodonts) are described as "mammal-like reptiles". [[ScienceMarchesOn Therapsids are currently considered proto-mammals rather than true reptiles]].
** ''Lystrosaurus'' is also described as ''related to'' Dicynodonts, and and that Dicynodonts went extinct in the Permian extinction while ''Lystrosaurus'' survived. ''Lystrosaurus'' is a type of Dicynodont, and a clade of Dicynodonts called the Kannemeyeriformes survived until near the end of the Triassic (however, most Dicynodonts, including the eponymous ''Dicynodon'', did go extinct at the end of the Permian).
** ''Lystrosaurus'' is also described as ''related to'' Dicynodonts, and and that Dicynodonts went extinct in the Permian extinction while ''Lystrosaurus'' survived. ''Lystrosaurus'' is a type of Dicynodont, and a clade of Dicynodonts called the Kannemeyeriformes survived until near the end of the Triassic (however, most Dicynodonts, including the eponymous ''Dicynodon'', did go extinct at the end of the Permian).
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* RaptorAttack: A half-arsed ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Velociraptor]]'' with the wrong skull shape and a pair of naked ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Troodon]]'' that take down a subadult [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs hadrosaur]].
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* SeaMonster: [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Straight nautiloids, eurypterids,]] ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures Dunkleosteus]]'' and [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs mosasaurs]].
* ShownTheirWork: All of the talking heads. Hey, they even got Mathew Wedel (and unlike in ''[[Series/ClashOfTheDinosaurs another show]]'', he wasn't {{quote mine}}d! Though they did spell his name wrong again).
* ShownTheirWork: All of the talking heads. Hey, they even got Mathew Wedel (and unlike in ''[[Series/ClashOfTheDinosaurs another show]]'', he wasn't {{quote mine}}d! Though they did spell his name wrong again).
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''Animal Armageddon'' is a 2009 SpeculativeDocumentary series that aired on ''Creator/AnimalPlanet''. Each episode (there are eight in total, although the DVD only includes the first four) focuses on a different extinction event in Earth's history (although there are two episodes about the end of the Cretaceous, because, you know, [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]]). The basic plot is that several creatures are shown before the extinction occurs, and that only a few of those shown will survive the extinction event. It also features cutaway scenes of paleontologists talking about the extinctions and apocalyptic quotes from Literature/TheBible and other sources.
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''Animal Armageddon'' is a 2009 SpeculativeDocumentary series that aired on ''Creator/AnimalPlanet''. Each episode (there are eight in total, although the DVD only includes the first four) focuses on a different extinction event in Earth's history (although there are two episodes about the end of the Cretaceous, because, you know, [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]]).dinosaurs). The basic plot is that several creatures are shown before the extinction occurs, and that only a few of those shown will survive the extinction event. It also features cutaway scenes of paleontologists talking about the extinctions and apocalyptic quotes from Literature/TheBible and other sources.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Three of the episodes feature these great reptiles, with cameo appearances in the eighth episode.
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* MisplacedWildlife: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Lystrosaurus]]'' in Kansas. It's never been found in the Americas.
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* MisplacedWildlife: MisplacedWildlife:
** ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Lystrosaurus]]'' in Kansas. It's never been found in the Americas.
** ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Lystrosaurus]]'' in Kansas. It's never been found in the Americas.
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** ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifePrimitiveSaurischians Staurikosaurus]]'' in North America. It never made it outside South America.
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** ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifePrimitiveSaurischians ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs Staurikosaurus]]'' in North America. It never made it outside South America.
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** What's ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifePrimitiveSaurischians Staurikosaurus]]'' doing at the very end of the Triassic?
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** What's ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifePrimitiveSaurischians ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs Staurikosaurus]]'' doing at the very end of the Triassic?
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Missed this. Small Taxonomy Pools is a definition-only page. Also, gushing.
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* SmallTaxonomyPools: Gorgeously averted. ''Astraspis''? ''Materpiscis''? ''Proterosuchus''? ''Desmatosuchus''? ''Purgatorius''? ''Stegodon''? What shows have ''these''?
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Stock Dinosaurs is no longer a trope. Commented out some zero-context examples.
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* SpeculativeDocumentary
* StockDinosaurs: Not that many, compared to the rest of the cast. Among the great stock dinosaurs, there's ''Triceratops'', ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Velociraptor,'' and the woolly mammoth. Among the semi-stock dinosaurs, there's hadrosaurs. Among the rare stock dinosaurs, there's mosasaurs.
* StockDinosaurs: Not that many, compared to the rest of the cast. Among the great stock dinosaurs, there's ''Triceratops'', ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Velociraptor,'' and the woolly mammoth. Among the semi-stock dinosaurs, there's hadrosaurs. Among the rare stock dinosaurs, there's mosasaurs.
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* StockDinosaurs: Not that many, compared to the rest of the cast. Among the great stock dinosaurs, there's ''Triceratops'', ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Velociraptor,'' and the woolly mammoth. Among the semi-stock dinosaurs, there's hadrosaurs. Among the rare stock dinosaurs, there's mosasaurs.SpeculativeDocumentary
* StockDinosaurs: Not that many, compared to the rest of the cast. Among the great stock dinosaurs, there's ''Triceratops'', ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Velociraptor,'' and the woolly mammoth. Among the semi-stock dinosaurs, there's hadrosaurs. Among the rare stock dinosaurs, there's mosasaurs.
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* {{Threatening Shark}}s: They survived the Cretaceous extinction event.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: A healthy variety. ''Astraspis'', straight-shelled nautiloids, eurypterids, ''Tiktaalik'', ''Materpiscis'', ''Bothriolepis'', ''Purgatorius'', gorgonopsians, ''Thrinaxodon'', ''Proterosuchus'', ''Eudimorphodon'', ''Rutiodon'', ''Desmatosuchus'', ''Staurikosaurus'', ''Megazostrodon'', and ''Stegodon''.
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Everythings Better With Monkeys has been turned into a disambiguation. Zero Context Examples and examples that don’t fit existing tropes will be removed.
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* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Gigantopithecus]]'' [[AnachronismStew 226,000 years after they went extinct.]]
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* ShownTheirWork: All of the talking heads. Hey, they even got Mathew Wedel (and unlike in ''[[Series/ClashOfTheDinosaurs another show]]'', he wasn't {{quote mine}}d!).
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* ShownTheirWork: All of the talking heads. Hey, they even got Mathew Wedel (and unlike in ''[[Series/ClashOfTheDinosaurs another show]]'', he wasn't {{quote mine}}d!).mine}}d! Though they did spell his name wrong again).
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Disambiguating; deleting and renaming wicks as appropriate. Moved to discussion
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: After killing a juvenile [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs hadrosaur]], two ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Troodon]]'' are driven from their kill by a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurus]]''.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: After killing a juvenile [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs hadrosaur]], two ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Troodon]]'' are driven from their kill by a ''[[TyrannosaurusRex Tyrannosaurus]]''.'' Tyrannosaurus''.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Quite a number, but the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Lystrosaurus]]'' and young [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs hadrosaur]] stand out. In the first case, a [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles gorgonopsian]] bites down on its neck, [[CameraAbuse spurting blood on the camera]]. However, the gorgonopsian's jaw structure means that he can only shear off one piece of meat, leaving an enormous pool of blood. What's left of the lystrosaur is scavenged by the protomammal ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Thrinaxodon]]''. As for the hadrosaur, it is attacked by two ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Troodon]]'' who fail to actually kill it. They are chased away by a ''TyrannosaurusRex'', who slits the hadrosaur's throat and eats its foot.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Quite a number, but the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Lystrosaurus]]'' and young [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs hadrosaur]] stand out. In the first case, a [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles gorgonopsian]] bites down on its neck, [[CameraAbuse spurting blood on the camera]]. However, the gorgonopsian's jaw structure means that he can only shear off one piece of meat, leaving an enormous pool of blood. What's left of the lystrosaur is scavenged by the protomammal ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeNonDinosaurianReptiles Thrinaxodon]]''. As for the hadrosaur, it is attacked by two ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Troodon]]'' who fail to actually kill it. They are chased away by a ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', who slits the hadrosaur's throat and eats its foot.
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* TyrannosaurusRex: And its Asian relative ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Tarbosaurus]]''.
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