* AccidentallyCorrectZoology:
** In "Sea Rescue" the protagonists have to help two plesiosaurs who are stranded on a beach after a 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.
** One episode featured ''Quetzalcoatlus'' (called "big wings") attacking the cast. Back then, ''Quetzalcoatlus'' was thought to have been either a 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.
** The predatory pterosaurs referred to as "Scavengers" combine a [[ToothyBird 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.
* FollowTheLeader: Conspicuously, the series premiered one year after ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' (the 1988 original), and is also about a group of young prehistoric animals with a sauropod protagonist.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Released in 2017 after being in limbo for years.
* RealLifeRelative: In the Mexican Spanish dub, Scat and Flapper's voice actors (Israel and Carlos Magaña) are brothers in RealLife, while Crusty's voice actor (the late Carlos Magaña) was their father.
* ScienceMarchesOn: Most of the prehistoric animals in the show are generally fairly outdated by today's standards, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology though being up to date with '80s paleontological consensus didn't seem to be a priority in the show either]].
** Many of the theropods and hadrosaurs walk in the classic tripod stance, and the latter (like Amber) are perpetually bipedal instead of being facultative bipeds, both of which would already have been very outdated at the time.
** The quadrupedal dinosaurs are also depicted with their tails on the ground, when they should be elevated.
** Whenever dromaeosaurs show up, they are of the old-fashion scaly variety. Forgivable for the 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.
** One episode features a pack of ''Spinosaurus'' that are just generic tyrannosaur-like theropods with a sail, a far cry from the crocodile-like and amphibious modern depiction. Another episode features the related ''Baryonyx'', here shown as a ''quadruped'', which was actually a semi-common depiction of the animal at the time, [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology and also as a turtle-eater with a generic theropod skull instead of the fish-eater with a crocodile-like head that it was well-known for being]] (however, it could be the therizinosaur ''Segnosaurus'', which was also portrayed as a quadruped with a large claw at the time, but there is still no excuse for the turtle-eating).
** ''Quetzalcoatlus'' (called “big wings”) show up in one episode, [[TerrorDactyl and besides being eagle-like predators]], they also look like generic, oversized '80s ''Pteranodon'', in sharp contrast to the stork-like animals we now know them as. Ironically though, ''Quetzalcoatlus'' did actually prey on young dinosaurs, [[RightForTheWrongReasons but on the ground]].
** One episode features an ''Oviraptor'' character who, besides being featherless, also sports a small, rhino-like horn which, like the four-legged ''Baryonyx'', was also a common portrayal of the animal in vintage paleoart.
** "Dry River" features a ''Supersaurus'' (or an ''Ultrasaurus'', which is now synonymous with ''Supersaurus'') that is portrayed as a brachiosaurid, as was commonly depicted at the time. The real animal is now known to have been a diplodocid.
* 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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