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** The predatory pterosaurs referred to as "Scavengers" combine a toothy snout with a ''Pteranodon''-like head crest (a common depiction of fictional pterosaurs at the time, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology despite its apparent inaccuracy]]). Just over a decade after the series ended, the pterosaur ''Ludodactylus'' was discovered which shows precisely this combination of features.

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** The predatory pterosaurs referred to as "Scavengers" combine a [[ToothyBird toothy snout snout]] with a ''Pteranodon''-like head crest (a common depiction of fictional pterosaurs at the time, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology despite its apparent inaccuracy]]). Just over a decade after the series ended, the pterosaur ''Ludodactylus'' was discovered which shows precisely this combination of features.
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** The predatory pterosaurs referred to as "Scavengers" combine a toothy snout with a ''Pteranodon''-like head crest (a common depiction of fictional pterosaurs at the time, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology despite its apparent inaccuracy]]). Just over a decade after the series ended, the pterosaur ''Ludodactylus'' was discovered which shows precisely this combination of features.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Dink in terms of Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}} reruns is one that in the earliest of days ran here and there before being dumped fairly quickly. The entry above on circulation before the dvd release made the joke you could see it on Boomerang at ''4 in the morning'', and that hadn't been true for several years before that.

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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Dink in terms of Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Boomerang}} reruns is one that in the earliest of days ran here and there before being dumped fairly quickly. The entry above on circulation before the dvd release made the joke you could see it on Boomerang at ''4 in the morning'', and that hadn't been true for several years before that.that.
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** "Sea Rescue" has plesiosaurs getting stranded on land just like how a shark or a whale would. We now know this is exactly what would happen to plesiosaurs if they ended up out of the water, but back when the show aired they were thought to be able to crawl onto beaches in the style of a sea turtle.

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** In "Sea Rescue" has the protagonists have to help two plesiosaurs getting who are stranded on land just like how a shark or beach after a whale would. tidal wave. We now know this is exactly what would happen to plesiosaurs if they ended up out of the water, but back when the show aired they were thought to be able to crawl onto beaches in the style of a seal or a sea turtle.
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* FollowTheLeader: Conspicuously, the series premiered one year after ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' (the 1988 original).

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* FollowTheLeader: Conspicuously, the series premiered one year after ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' (the 1988 original).original), and is also about a group of young prehistoric animals with a sauropod protagonist.
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** One episode featured ''Quetzalcoatlus'' (called "big wings") attacking the cast. Back then, ''Quetzalcoatlus'' was thought to have been a scavenger, but years later it would turn out to be a predator of smaller animals, including young dinosaurs. However, it would have hunted on the ground like a stork rather than in the air like an eagle as portrayed in the episode.

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** One episode featured ''Quetzalcoatlus'' (called "big wings") attacking the cast. Back then, ''Quetzalcoatlus'' was thought to have been either a scavenger, scavenger or a piscivorous skim-feeder depending on who you asked, but years later it would turn out to be a predator of smaller animals, including young dinosaurs. However, it would have hunted on the ground like a stork rather than in the air like an eagle as portrayed in the episode.
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Decided to remove the redundant trope link entirely, since the example is under Science Marches On to begin with. Altered phrasing slightly to reflect this.


** Whenever dromaeosaurs show up, they are of the old-fashion scaly variety, [[ScienceMarchesOn though that was considered accurate for the time]]. Less forgivable is how they often lack their sickle claw and also walk fully erect, even though their killing claw and avian-like posture/anatomy are the features that made them famous in the first place.

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** Whenever dromaeosaurs show up, they are of the old-fashion scaly variety, [[ScienceMarchesOn though that was considered accurate variety. Forgivable for the time]]. Less time, but less forgivable is how they often lack their sickle claw and also walk fully erect, even though their killing claw and avian-like posture/anatomy are the features that made them famous in the first place.
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Fair For Its Day is an entirely different trope that doesn't cover outdated deinonychosaur portrayals.


** Whenever dromaeosaurs show up, they are of the old-fashion scaly variety, [[FairForItsDay though that was considered accurate for the time]]. Less forgivable is how they often lack their sickle claw and also walk fully erect, even though their killing claw and avian-like posture/anatomy are the features that made them famous in the first place.

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** Whenever dromaeosaurs show up, they are of the old-fashion scaly variety, [[FairForItsDay [[ScienceMarchesOn though that was considered accurate for the time]]. Less forgivable is how they often lack their sickle claw and also walk fully erect, even though their killing claw and avian-like posture/anatomy are the features that made them famous in the first place.

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