History WesternAnimation / TheLostWorld

* InformedSpecies: The Kua'chi are identified as ''Pteranodon'' by the explorers, but they hardly look like real pterosaurs, having webbed fins on their heads and long tails.

* SavageSpinosaurs: PlayedWith. One episode has Roxton getting menaced by a ''Baryonyx'', [[MonsterIsAMommy due to him scaring her young away]].

* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: As can be expected, ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' makes several appearances starting with the first episode, and is something of a recurring threat.

* DomesticatedDinosaurs: The Ayara ride on saddled ''Parasaurolophus'' just like horses/camels, and also keep ''Troodon'' and ''Protoceratops'' in pens at the village, though it's not clear what they use them for. Maplewhite and Culver ride on ''Centrosaurus'' in one episode.

* RaptorAttack: Both ''Velociraptor'' and ''Troodon'' are shown to be scaly, pack-hunting, and vicious, with the former even displaying MonstrousCannibalism at one point. The ''Troodon'' are apparently docile enough to be housed in the village as livestock and even hand-fed, however.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The pterosaurs all lack pycnofibers and take off like birds, and most don't really resemble real species, especially the ''Pteranodon'' (called the "Kua'chi" by the Ayara) which have webbed fins on their heads and tails. The ''Rhamphorhynchus'' (called the "[[FeatheredSerpent Quetzalcoatl]]" by the Ayara) are much bigger and more aggressive than in real life. That said, they are shown perching quadrupedally just as often as bipedally, and have correct plantigrade feet. Summerlee also correctly points out ''Pteranodon'' don't have teeth.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The pterosaurs all lack pycnofibers and take off like birds, and most don't really resemble real species, especially the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', which have long tails and toucan-like beaks. The Kua'chi (identified as ''Pteranodon'' by the explorers) even have webbed fins on their heads and tails. That said, they are shown perching quadrupedally just as often as bipedally, and have correct plantigrade feet. Summerlee also correctly points out ''Pteranodon'' don't have teeth.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The pterosaurs all lack pycnofibers and take off like birds, and most don't really resemble real species, especially the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', which have long tails and toucan-like beaks. The Kua'chi (identified as ''Pteranodon'' by the explorers) even have webbed fins on their heads and tails. That said, they are shown perching quadrupedally just as often as bipedally, and have correct plantigrade feet.

* DomesticatedDinosaurs: The Ayara ride on saddled ''Parasaurolophus'' just like horses/camels, and also keep ''Troodon'' and ''Protoceratops'' in pens at the village, though it's not clear what they use them for.

* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The pterosaurs all lack pycnofibers and take off like birds, and most don't really resemble real species, especially the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', which have long tails and toucan-like beaks. The Kua'chi even have webbed fins on their heads and tails. That said, they are shown perching quadrupedally just as often as bipedally, and have correct plantigrade feet.

* StockDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus, Velociraptor, Troodon,'' and ''Protoceratops'' are all prominently featured. For non-dinosaurs there's ''Quetzalcoatlus, Dimorphodon,'' and ''Liopleurodon''.
* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: As can be expected, Tyrannosaurus Rex makes several appearances starting with the first episode, and is something of a recurring threat.

* StockDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus/Brontosaurus, Velociraptor, Troodon,'' and ''Protoceratops'' are all prominently featured. For non-dinosaurs there's ''Quetzalcoatlus, Dimorphodon,'' and ''Liopleurodon''.

''The Lost World'' is a Canadian-French animated series that adapts Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's famous story ''Literature/{{The Lost World|2012}}'' and aired in 2002, the same year fellow television adaptation ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', likewise an InternationalCoProduction that involved Canada, ended.

''The Lost World'' is a Canadian-French animated series that adapts Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's famous story ''Literature/TheLostWorld'' and aired in 2002, the same year fellow television adaptation ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', likewise an InternationalCoProduction that involved Canada, ended.

* PteroSoarer: The pterosaurs all lack pycnofibers and take off like birds, and most don't really resemble real species, especially the ''Quetzalcoatlus'', which have long tails and toucan-like beaks. The Kua'chi even have webbed fins on their heads and tails. That said, they are shown perching quadrupedally just as often as bipedally, and have correct plantigrade feet.

* StockDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex, Parasaurolophus, Stegosaurus, Velociraptor, Troodon,'' and ''Protoceratops'' are all prominently featured. For non-dinosaurs there's ''Quetzalcoatlus, Dimorphodon,'' and ''Liopleurodon''.

* FrazettaMan: The ape-men living on the plateau fit the trope to a T: huge, hairy, looking like a blend of human and gorilla, and generally aggressive.

* LivingDinosaurs
* {{Mayincatec}}: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] to a degree. The Ayara people who populate the plateau are very clearly inspired by various Mesoamerican cultures, but are specified as being descended from the actual Incas.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In a first for an adaptation, two members of the expedition are related to one another with Professor Summerlee being Lord John Roxton's maternal uncle.

* LeftHanging: The series ended with no revolution. Jack Turner, Molly's husband and Billy's father, has made it off the plateau and vowed to return, but the show was never renewed for another season.