History Series / ClashOfTheDinosaurs

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Poor Mathew Wedel. He wasn't only quote-mined on national TV, his helpful emails explaining dinosaur science was dismissed by the creators which nearly made him a fool in the eyes of his colleagues... the bastards even misspelled his name on screen! Oh, and they also misspell ''Sauroposeidon'' as "Sauroposeiden" during a quiz bit.[[note]]Though to be fair this was the Discovery Channel's doing and not Dangerous'.[[/note]] Though Wedel wasn't the only one. All of the scientists had their words edited to make it sound like they supported non-sensical theories and made up facts.

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides the incredibly [[StockFootage repetitive footage]], ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts, and even make's up facts of their own, while providing no evidence to back them up. Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Poor Mathew Wedel. He wasn't only quote-mined on national TV, his helpful emails explaining dinosaur science was dismissed by the creators which nearly made him a fool in the eyes of his colleagues... the bastards even misspelled his name on screen! Oh, and they also misspell ''Sauroposeidon'' as "Sauroposeiden" during a quiz bit.[[note]]Though to be fair this was the Discovery Channel's doing and not Dangerous'.[[/note]] Though Wedel wasn't the only one. All of the scientists had their words edited to make it sound like they supported non-sense theories and made up facts.

** ''Triceratops'' is said to be the only animal capable of swiveling it's head around almost 360 degrees when there are plenty of modern animals that can do that.

* SpeculativeDocumentary: One of the worst examples of this. The series constantly treats speculation as pure fact and gives zero evidence to back it up besides out of context statements from the scientists.

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides the incredibly [[StockFootage repetitive footage]], ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts, and even make's up facts of their own, while providing no evidence to back them up . Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides the incredibly [[StockFootage repetitive footage]], ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts, and even made up facts of their own, while providing no evidence to back them up . Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides the incredibly [[StockFootage repetitive footage]], ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts while providing no evidence to back them up and even makes up facts of their own. Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides the incredibly [[StockFootage repetitive footage]], ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts while providing no evidence to back them up. Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Poor Mathew Wedel. He wasn't only quote-mined on national TV, his helpful emails explaining dinosaur science was dismissed by the creators which nearly made him a fool in the eyes of his colleagues... the bastards even misspelled his name on screen! Oh, and they also misspell ''Sauroposeidon'' as "Sauroposeiden" during a quiz bit.[[note]]Though to be fair this was the Discovery Channel's doing and not Dangerous'.[[/note]] Though Wedel wasn't the only one. All of the scientists had their words edited to make it sound they supported non-sense theories and made up facts.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Poor Mathew Wedel. He wasn't only quote-mined on national TV, his helpful emails explaining dinosaur science was dismissed by the creators which nearly made him a fool in the eyes of his colleagues... the bastards even misspelled his name on screen! Oh, and they also misspell ''Sauroposeidon'' as "Sauroposeiden" during a quiz bit.[[note]]Though to be fair this was the Discovery Channel's doing and not Dangerous'.[[/note]]

** ''Triceratops'' is said to be the only animal capable of swiveling it's head around almost 360 degrees. Because other ''Ceratopsians'' and humans totally aren't capable of doing that.

** ''Triceratops'' is said to be the only animal capable of swiveling it's head around almost 360 degrees. Because other Ceratopsians and humans totally aren't capable of doing that.

** ''Quetzalcoatlus'' being depicted as an aerial hunter that searches for prey using UV-seeking vision like a kestrel. While ''Quetzalcoatlus'' most likely did have very keen eyesight and the flight abilities for giant azhdarchids are looking better than they ever have before, it's highly unlikely that any azhdarchid did most of its hunting in flight nor had UV-seeking vision. Instead, it more likely hunted on the ground like a stork. Additionally, it's depicted as being covered in scales rather than the fuzz it was covered with in life.

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides the incredibly [[StockFootage repetitive footage]], ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts with no evidence to back it up. Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides its use of StockFootage, ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts with no evidence to back it up. Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

%%* BewareMyStingerTail: ''Ankylosaurus''.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The Earth that we see in Last Day of the Dinosaurs is clearly just a slightly modified version of modern Earth. This creates a few problems.

The series was followed by a special titled ''Last Day of the Dinosaurs''. This time, the producers told us their story of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin how these majestic creatures went extinct]]. This one had fewer problems.

** Wedel was trying to clear up the misconception that large dinosaurs had two brains (one in their head, one in their hip-region). The editors made it sound like he was confirming the notion (luckily, they did fix this on the DVD release though it doesn't excuse them from doing it in the first place). He clearly said that [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs sauropods]] most likely covered their eggs with vegetation. The CGI clip shows a sauropod leaving its eggs ''out in the open''.

* AnachronismStew: Easily avoided, since not that many animals appear, and the ones that do were contemporaries in RealLife. And yet the program implies that ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs Deinonychus]]'' fed on juvenile [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs tyrannosaurs]], while there was a 30-million year gap between the two. The last episode also show's ''Sauroposeidon'' witnessing the asteroid impact when it was long extinct by that point.

* AnachronismStew: Easily avoided, since not that many animals appear, and the ones that do were contemporaries in RealLife. And yet the program implies that ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs Deinonychus]]'' fed on juvenile [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs tyrannosaurs]], while there was a 30-million year gap between the two. The last episode also show's ''Sauroposeidon'' witnessing the asteroid impact when it was already long extinct by that point.

* AnachronismStew: Easily avoided, since not that many animals appear, and the ones that do were contemporaries in RealLife. And yet the program implies that ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs Deinonychus]]'' fed on juvenile [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs tyrannosaurs]], while there was a 30-million year gap between the two. The end of the last episode also show's ''Sauroposeidon'' witnessing the asteroid impact when it was already long extinct by that point.

* AnachronismStew: Easily avoided, since not that many animals appear, and the ones that do were contemporaries in RealLife. And yet the program implies that ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs Deinonychus]]'' fed on juvenile [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursSaurischianDinosaurs tyrannosaurs]], while there was a 30-million year gap between the two.

''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' (2009) is one of Creator/DiscoveryChannel's many dinosaur-related [[{{Documentary}} documentaries]]. It was produced by Dangerous Films, a British production company, and is presented in a MiniSeries format, containing a grand total of four hour-long episodes. Each concentrated on different aspects of the dinosaur lifestyle, such as how they coped with environmental changes, how they hunted and defended themselves, and how they reproduced.

The show received notoriety even before its TV debut, thanks to the heavy advertising campaign the TV station gave it. When it finally aired, it quickly gained a bad reputation due to the several serious problems that plagued it. Besides its use of StockFootage, ''Clash of the Dinosaurs'' infamously ''[[QuoteMine quote-mined]]'' paleontology expert Mathew Wedel who appeared on it, and presented wild (and sometimes even ''disproven'') theories as solid facts. Thanks to these shortcomings, the program is nowadays considered by dinosaur fanatics to be one of the worst, if not the worst, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology dino-documentaries]] of recent times, and the offended scientist actually [[http://svpow.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/lies-damned-lies-and-clash-of-the-dinosaurs/ encouraged his fellow paleontologists to boycott the now-defunct production company]].

** The western interior seaway is completely missing, it was a lot smaller in the late Cretaceous than it was when it first formed but it was still there.

** It is implied that ''Sauroposeidon'' used it feces to deter predators like ''Deinonychus'' from attacking it... Even though that's exactly what would attract predators in the first place and there is no modern example of a animal doing this. This also contradicts what is said in a previous episode which stated that feces attracted ''Deinonychus''.