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* The main villain of ''Film/DevilFish'' is a mutated ''Dunkleosteus''/octopus hybrid. In the movie, [[MixAndMatchCritters ignoring]] [[LEGOGenetics the obvious issues]], ''Dunkleosteus'' is described as a prehistoric [[ThreateningShark shark]]. Real ''Dunkleosteus'' were members of a now-extinct family, the Anthrodira, which left no surviving descendants and was only distantly related to sharks. They also claimed that the pliosaur ''Kronosaurus'' ''was a shark'' that lived during the "Cetaceous period" [sic], which was about 200 years ago (the 1770s?). Another fish that they describe as a prehistoric shark is a very modern, harmless basking shark.
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* The main villain of ''Film/DevilFish'' is a mutated ''Dunkleosteus''/octopus hybrid. In the movie, [[MixAndMatchCritters ignoring]] [[LEGOGenetics the obvious issues]], ''Dunkleosteus'' is described as a prehistoric [[ThreateningShark shark]]. Real ''Dunkleosteus'' were members of a now-extinct family, the Anthrodira, Arthrodira, which left no surviving descendants and was only distantly related to sharks. They also claimed that the pliosaur ''Kronosaurus'' ''was a shark'' that lived during the "Cetaceous period" [sic], which was about 200 years ago (the 1770s?). Another fish that they describe as a prehistoric shark is a very modern, harmless basking shark.
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*** T.rexes in the films' universe have really poor eyesight, so much that they can't see someone at all if they are holding still. It is now known that T. Rex had excellent vision, 5 times as sharp as that of a falcon and 13 times as sharp as a human's, with excellent color vision. Stands to reason, they had eyes the size of grapefruits.
https://daily.jstor.org/five-things-you-probably-have-wrong-about-the-t-rex/
https://daily.jstor.org/five-things-you-probably-have-wrong-about-the-t-rex/
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*** T.rexes Rexes in the films' universe have really poor eyesight, so much that they can't see someone at all if they are holding still. It is now known that T. Rex had excellent vision, 5 times as sharp as that of a falcon and 13 times as sharp as a human's, with excellent color vision. Stands to reason, they had eyes the size of grapefruits.
https://daily.*** [[https://daily.jstor.org/five-things-you-probably-have-wrong-about-the-t-rex/org/five-things-you-probably-have-wrong-about-the-t-rex/ Five things you probably have wrong about the T. Rex shown in this link.]]
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*** T.rexes in the films' universe have really poor eyesight, so much that they can't see someone at all if they are holding still. While we can't tell for sure from the fossils if this was true, most predators have ''excellent'' eyesight, and the few that don't rely heavily on some other sense (such as smell or hearing), so holding still likely wouldn't do any good even if they couldn't see you.
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*** T.rexes in the films' universe have really poor eyesight, so much that they can't see someone at all if they are holding still. While we can't tell for sure from the fossils if this was true, most predators have ''excellent'' eyesight, and the few It is now known that don't rely heavily on some other sense (such T. Rex had excellent vision, 5 times as smell or hearing), so holding still likely wouldn't do any good even if sharp as that of a falcon and 13 times as sharp as a human's, with excellent color vision. Stands to reason, they couldn't see you.had eyes the size of grapefruits.
https://daily.jstor.org/five-things-you-probably-have-wrong-about-the-t-rex/
https://daily.jstor.org/five-things-you-probably-have-wrong-about-the-t-rex/
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*** In the film's defense, in 1954 the idea that the Earth was billions of years old was less than thirty years old. It's comparable to someone making a movie today that used outdated science from the mid-90s. The writers were probably taught in school that the Earth was only about a hundred million years.
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* ''Film/SixtyFive'':
** While pop-culture has immortalized 65 million years ago as the time when the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs occurred, according to radiometric dating it happened closer to 66 million years ago -- about a million years before the movie's events, supposedly, take place.
** Almost none of the dinosaurs in the trailer are feathered, despite research having known for decades that plenty of them were. The raptors do have a faint covering of proto-feathers along the back, when they should have proper bird-like plumage covering their body.
** Additionally, several carnivorous dinosaurs are quadrupedal, which no known theropods were.[[note]]The idea that spinosaurids, at least, may have been semi-quadrupedal has surfaced several times on account of some members of the group having proportionally short legs coupled with unusually robust arms, but most current researchers regard this as highly unlikely.[[/note]]
** The cave dwelling oviraptorid (besides being scaly) has teeth. Oviraptorids all had toothless beaks.
** Most of the dinosaurs are amalgamations of generic saurian features mushed together rather than anything recognizable from the fossil record. Most obviously with the giant quadruped carnivore, which is like nothing known to have existed during the Cretaceous Period.
*** The late quadruped ''might'' be an attempt to depict a rauisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with erect gaits and strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls, some of which like ''Fasolasuchus'' could get to pretty large sizes. Many of them were likely capable of semi-quadrupedal locomotion as well (though some are thought to have been obligate bipeds). If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looks ''too'' much like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and has the wrong body anatomy, and it is still ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs, not at the end of the Cretaceous.
** The raptor-like quadrupeds are identified in the soundtrack as ''Lagosuchus''. This opens a huge can of worms, considering the fact that (A) ''Lagosuchus'' was not a dinosaur (B) the animals depicted are several times larger than ''Lagosuchus'' (C) ''Lagosuchus'' hailed from the Mid Triassic, not the Late Cretaceous.
** At the end, the asteroid is shown striking the exact area the characters just were. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs is thought to have struck in an ocean region (an area now known as the Gulf of Mexico), not dry land.
** The pterosaurs, although fairly good for what is ostensibly a mid-budget B-movie, have teeth and long tails; long-tailed pterosaurs are last known from the Late Jurassic, while pterosaurs with teeth are last known from about ninety million years ago, long before the K-Pg boundary. Furthermore, closer inspection reveals their eyes are modeled in their ''nostrils''.
** The quadruped dinosaurs (the raptor-like ones and the tyrannosaur-like one) are both modelled with bulging rib cages with noticeable waists and mobile shoulders, as though they were mammals, but they are things that dinosaurs, or any reptiles for that matter, do not have.
** While pop-culture has immortalized 65 million years ago as the time when the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs occurred, according to radiometric dating it happened closer to 66 million years ago -- about a million years before the movie's events, supposedly, take place.
** Almost none of the dinosaurs in the trailer are feathered, despite research having known for decades that plenty of them were. The raptors do have a faint covering of proto-feathers along the back, when they should have proper bird-like plumage covering their body.
** Additionally, several carnivorous dinosaurs are quadrupedal, which no known theropods were.[[note]]The idea that spinosaurids, at least, may have been semi-quadrupedal has surfaced several times on account of some members of the group having proportionally short legs coupled with unusually robust arms, but most current researchers regard this as highly unlikely.[[/note]]
** The cave dwelling oviraptorid (besides being scaly) has teeth. Oviraptorids all had toothless beaks.
** Most of the dinosaurs are amalgamations of generic saurian features mushed together rather than anything recognizable from the fossil record. Most obviously with the giant quadruped carnivore, which is like nothing known to have existed during the Cretaceous Period.
*** The late quadruped ''might'' be an attempt to depict a rauisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with erect gaits and strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls, some of which like ''Fasolasuchus'' could get to pretty large sizes. Many of them were likely capable of semi-quadrupedal locomotion as well (though some are thought to have been obligate bipeds). If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looks ''too'' much like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and has the wrong body anatomy, and it is still ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs, not at the end of the Cretaceous.
** The raptor-like quadrupeds are identified in the soundtrack as ''Lagosuchus''. This opens a huge can of worms, considering the fact that (A) ''Lagosuchus'' was not a dinosaur (B) the animals depicted are several times larger than ''Lagosuchus'' (C) ''Lagosuchus'' hailed from the Mid Triassic, not the Late Cretaceous.
** At the end, the asteroid is shown striking the exact area the characters just were. The meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs is thought to have struck in an ocean region (an area now known as the Gulf of Mexico), not dry land.
** The pterosaurs, although fairly good for what is ostensibly a mid-budget B-movie, have teeth and long tails; long-tailed pterosaurs are last known from the Late Jurassic, while pterosaurs with teeth are last known from about ninety million years ago, long before the K-Pg boundary. Furthermore, closer inspection reveals their eyes are modeled in their ''nostrils''.
** The quadruped dinosaurs (the raptor-like ones and the tyrannosaur-like one) are both modelled with bulging rib cages with noticeable waists and mobile shoulders, as though they were mammals, but they are things that dinosaurs, or any reptiles for that matter, do not have.
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** There's also the idea of a race of intelligent dinosaur-descendants looking ''exactly like humans'', not with standing the very fact that there are even dinosaurs at all given that the original Koopas were ''turtles''.
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** There's also the idea of a race of intelligent dinosaur-descendants looking ''exactly like humans'', not with standing withstanding the very fact that there are even dinosaurs at all given that the original Koopas were ''turtles''.
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* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Mr. Freeze knows ''[[IncrediblyLamePun absolute zero]]'' about what killed the dinosaurs.
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* In ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', Mr. Freeze knows ''[[IncrediblyLamePun ''[[{{Pun}} absolute zero]]'' about what killed the dinosaurs.
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[[caption-width-right:350: A caveman fighting an ''Allosaurus''. [[BlatantLies Truly an palentologically accurate scene]].]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: A caveman fighting an ''Allosaurus''. [[BlatantLies Truly an a palentologically accurate scene]].]]
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