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1	* AluminumChristmasTrees: The utterly bizarre mating dance of the ''Gigantoraptor''? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l79rgG9bDk Many may not realize that it was based on that of a real bird!]] [[note]]Stock footage of said bird was even shown before the segment started.[[/note]]
2	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
3	** Is Broken Jaw shaking off ''Rhamphorynchus'' and seconds later trying to eat him during the "farewell" scene where all the animals leave the watering hole is because he's only prey animal left in the area now, or because BJ (due to his tragic past and everything that had happened to him when ''Torvosaurus'' showed up in the watering hole) is emotionally unstable and him chasing off ''Rhamphorynchus'' is him declaring "if they are leaving me alone, then i want to be alone!"?
4	** Does Broken Jaw saved Woodstock's son from ''Torvosaurus'' because he wanted a revenge on bigger predator for taking over his spot under tree and [[GroinAttack biting him in the groin]], or does he saved him because he reminded him of himself, due to also having crippling injury (limped leg)?
5	** Does Broken Jaw mother abandoned him because she didn't wanted to take care of offspring with such a grotesque jaw, or because she did it due to the fact that she had other offsprings to protect and couldn't pay extra attention to her handicapped son, [[RuleOfThree or]] didn't know that her son will survive despite his fatal injury? The latter two could be confirmed due to narration leaning into them.
6	* BrokenBase: Despite ViewerGenderConfusion below, fans of the show still can't decide which gender Woodstock is. The fans who think of them as male think that duller ''Dinheirosaurus'' in their herd are [[PaleFemalesDarkMales females]], while those who think of them as a female give counterarguments by citing the theory that in this show ''Dinheirosaurus'' live in matriarchal herds like elephants.
7	* EnsembleDarkHorse:
8	** Broken Jaw the ''Allosaurus'' is easily the most remembered character from the series, due to being an IronWoobie who beats the odds.
9	** The elderly grandpa ''Protoceratops''. It helps that his segment is largely devoid of the controversial comedy and has a beautiful TearJerker ending.
10	* {{Fanon}}: If ''Fanfic/DinosaurAPrehistoricParkAdventure'' is anything to go by, fans of the show portray Broken Jaw as being emotionally unstable due to all bad things that had happened to him.
11	* IronWoobie: Broken Jaw in the second episode. His crippling accident is a TearJerker, but he manages to heal, survive to adulthood, and kick ass.
12	* {{Moe}}:
13	** The ''Eoraptor'' hens if you look at them head-on. Cue the "Dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww...".
14	** ''Probolesodon'' deserves special note, too.
15	* {{Narm}}: Jack (the antagonistic ''Tyrannosaurus'') has a MightyRoar that is so over the top, that [[YouTubePoop some people wonder why it's not all over YouTube]].
16	* NightmareFuel:
17	** The headless ''Ornitholestes'' running around may seem amusing at first, in a highly morbid way, but then when it stops, slumps to the ground lifeless and trembling, spilling blood everywhere... yeah.
18	** The very {{Gorn}}-y death of Jack. Ouch... Ouuuuuuuuuch...
19	** In Episode 4, the female ''Troodon'' [[spoiler:returns to her nest and mate and nudges him, only for her mate to fall over. He's been frozen solid.]]
20	** We see from the point of view of the young ''Protoceratops'' as one of the ''Velociraptor'' looms over its parents' bodies and starts ''feeding''. Then it looks up ''straight at the camera'', as if saying, "You're next". The [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver raptors' design and colorations]] also makes them look downright demonic, showing just how scary feathered raptors can look.
21	%%** Everything involving ''[[PrehistoricMonster Torvosaurus]]'', who is basically dinosaurian equivalent of a SerialKiller:
22	%%*** It's introduction deserves a mention. After Broken Jaw bites off Woodstocks tail, we hear [[HellIsThatNoise loud distant roars]] who make Woodstocks herd look in the direction the roars are coming from and BJ stopping for a moment on chomping on the Woodstocks tail. After a moment, he realizes that he was just imagining it and continues what he was doing when the roars start again, this time ''louder'' than before, while Broken Jaw drops the tail he was holding in his arms and [[OhCrap terrified]] looks into the direction where roars were coming from. Then, the scene cuts into location outside the watering hole where two massacred bodies of miragaias' lay, with ground underneath them covered with blood while the third stegosaurus lies unconscious, breathing heavily with his head shakin. Then [[FeetFirstIntroduction a big]], [[FearsomeFoot red foot]] steps on ''Miragaia'''s neck, and using its claws, ''slashes'' through poor herbivore throat, killing it.
23	%%*** It's arrival at watering hole. When it looks like ''Ornitholestes'' will finally kill and eat ''Rhamphorynchus'', a big shadow looms over them with saliva dropping on the ground. Afterwards, both of them look at what's behind them and get ''[[OhCrap terrified]]'' when they see a giant mouth full of sharp-teeth roaring at them.
24	%%*** Shortly after this scene, we see mother ''Miragaia'' with her three babies. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Sounds cute]], [[TemptingFate right]]? Mere seconds later ''Torvosaurus'' [[{{Jumpscare}} jumps out of the bushes]] and kills one of the babies, while the scared mother begins to rush her two surviving little ones to the safety.
25	%%*** When Broken Jaw finishes drinking from watering hole, he looks to his tree and sees that ''[[OhCrap Torvosaurus]]'' sits now under it. So what's BJ does? Run as far away from here as possible given what this monster did to ''Miragaia'' herd? No, instead he tries to scare off the bigger predator, and when that doesn't work Broken Jaw shoves him, and when the ''Torvosaurus'' stands, Broken Jaw suddenly realizes that [[OhCrap he is NOT the bigger of the two dinosaurs]]. What follows after is a CurbStompBattle in which ''Torvosaurus'' ''[[GroinAttack bites off]]'' [[GroinAttack Broken Jaw gonads]]. After that, ''Torvosaurus'' brutally ''slaps'' BJ with his clawed arm, and if not for ''Rhamphorynchus'' and ''Ornitholestes'' [[AccidentalHero distracting him]], the ''Torvosaurus'' could've killed Broken Jaw by [[NearVillainVictory biting him in the neck]].
26	%%*** The final battle against him, which starts with him wanting to eat Woodstock's son. After he gets a small beat down from Woodstock and ''Miragaia'''s, the ''Torvosaurus'' knocks the sauropod to the ground and then rushes towards her/his son with the intend to kill him, while Woodstock can only watch in fear while trying to put herself/himself to the ground.
27	%%** The ''Beelzebufo''.
28	* OneSceneWonder:
29	** The ''Beelzebufo''.
30	** The ''Ornitholestes'' that won't shut up.
31	* SpecialEffectFailure:
32	** The first episode is ripe with these, but a few particularly bad effects stand out, such as the "disintegrating" ''Inostrancevia'' and the fake lava splash, the ''Saurosuchus'' tail that very clearly phases into solid ground as the animal gets up, and the ''Zalambdalestes'' family who, instead of running convincingly, simply slide and turn in the air above the ground with their feet moving as if they were running in a straight line, and also disappear/reappear between shots.
33	** The primary feathers on the deinonychosaurs in episode 3 frequently merge with the scenery and other animals.
34	** The Devil Frogs are pretty badly animated.
35	** The flock of birds during the last shot of Episode 4 looks like it belongs in an episode of ''Series/SesameStreet''.
36	** Running animation in general is messed up. Most of the time, the animals just slide across the landscape, with their legs doing their own, independent jiggling. In fact most of the motions in episode 1 & 3 have a jarring artificial and stiff quality to them. Only thing missing is visible cursors moving the animals around.
37	** At least one ''Utahraptor'' runs through a bush, and the way the ''Utahraptors'' are imposed onto the environment looks very artificial
38	* {{Squick}}:
39	** Broken Jaw getting his [[GroinAttack gonads bitten off]] by the ''Torvosaurus''.
40	** We see a mosquito sucking blood from the eyeball of a reptile carcass.
41	** The ''Tyrannosaurus'' use their feces to build a nest.
42	** A ''Beelzebufo'' is stepped on by a titanosaur. (Also, the ''Beelzebufo'' has just eaten a young ''Majungasaurus'', so we can somewhat make out squashed remains of the frog's last meal mingled with the squashed frog itself.)
43	* UncertainAudience: Definitely the main reason why the show was controversial with viewers. The often excessively goofy and/or whimsical tone would indicate that this series is aimed more at children than adults, but at the same time, the notable amount of {{Gorn}}, BlackComedy, [[DeathOfAChild killing of baby animals]], and outright NightmareFuel is bound to scare children. Likewise, the amount of ShownTheirWork certainly shows that the producers were trying to appease paleontologists and paleontology enthusiasts (while young children, even those invested in paleontology, are unlikely to care or pick up on it), and they certainly accomplished that on a conceptual level, but again, the aforementioned execution can severely undermine that effort. The fact that the show tends to take both the darker and lighter elements up to incredibly exaggerated levels also creates a lot of MoodWhiplash.
44	* UglyCute: The mosasaur babies. The ''Troodon'', the ''Anhanguera'' babies, the ''Probelesodon'', the ''Ornitholestes'', and a variety of other critters stand somewhere between here and RidiculouslyCuteCritter.
45	* ViewerGenderConfusion: For a while it was thought Woodstock the ''Deinheirosaurus'' was a female, but he's a male.
46	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: What the creators have been bragging about for quite some time, since the first snippets of information about the show had been released. They managed to succeed, partly. By this, we mean the look of the show clearly indicates that it had more than one animation team working on it. The first and much of the third episode was animated by one team, and while they're passable for a run-of-the-mill TVDocumentary, the graphics sadly come off as quite pitiful considering all the hype. Thankfully, the other two episodes play this trope straight with some of the best looking TV-budget dino effects of recent times.
47	* TheWoobie:
48	** The lizard from the first episode. [[spoiler:Killed by a bunch of mosquitoes.]]
49	** The rooster ''Eoraptor'' and ''Gigantoraptor'', also from the first episode. At the least the former gets the mate and has a chick, the latter fails when his courtship display is ruined by unstable ground tripping him up.

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