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Series: Jurassic Fight Club

Jurassic Fight Club (Dinosaur Secrets in Europe) is a television documentary series that aired on The History Channel. The basic plot involves dinosaurs fighting. Each episode usually has two or more individual dinosaurs fighting with one another over food, territory or mating rights. The show is "hosted" by paleontology expert Dinosaur George Blasing, who plays out his own imaginary scenarios on how the fights would go. In other words, Animal Face Off with dinosaurs.

This series contains examples of:

Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Averted hard in the Majungasaurus episode.
Anachronism Stew: A mild case, Dromaeosaurus and Tyrannosaurus living together. However when the animators had to cut corners, they did reuse many CGI models that shouldn't belong in the time period the episode is set in.
Animated Adaptation: Believe it or not. It's titled Dinosaur George and the Paleo Team. George has uploaded the first (and so far, only) "episode" to his YouTube account, in which his animated self travels back in time to encounter the downgraded CGI dinosaur models of this series. Further episodes are in Development Hell.
Artistic License - Biology: Predators driving off potential prey over 200 times their size because they are territorial. Eh?
- Predators trying to drive off potential rivals by spilling food all over their territory. Eehh??
- Sharks using their denticles (scales) to taste. Eeehhh???
Badass: Most, if not all, of the creatures here are.
Content Warnings: Every episode starts with this or something to the same effect (the last episode replaces "battle" with "apocalypse"):
"The following is a graphic depiction of a violent prehistoric battle. Viewer discretion is advised."
Eats Babies: The mother Majungasaurus eats her dead baby after the male majungasaur kills it.
- A Ceratosaurus kills and eats a juvenile Stegosaurus.
Everything's Better With Dinosaurs:
Everything's Even Worse with Sharks: The Megalodon episode.
Everything's Worse With Bears: The short-faced bear has an episode.
Feathered Fiend: Dromaeosaurus and Utahraptor, though they were depicted as only sparsely feathered. Also Deinonychus, although it's shown with no feathers at all.
Follow the Leader: To Walking With Dinosaurs.
- The allosaurs and ''Utahraptor'' from both shows have near-identical color schemes.
Gorn: What did you expect?
Grand Finale: The show ends with the Cretaceous extinction.
Infant Immortality: Averted quite brutally in the Majungasaurus episode.
- A young Stegosaurus is also killed by a Ceratosaurus.
Insane Troll Logic: Parodied here.
Mama Bear: The mother Majungasaurus until the male kills its baby. The female Tyrannosaurus also qualifies.
Megalodon: Fights against the biting sperm whale Brygmophyseter and wins.
Noisy Nature: Holy heck. Though Dinosaur George himself knows how unrealistic this is.
Prehistoric Monster: The animals don't do much beyond fight each other and act nasty, but that is the basic premise.
Raptor Attack: Dromaeosaurus and Utahraptor were depicted as only sparsely feathered, while Deinonychus is shown with no feathers at all.
Rule Of Cool: What the show operates on.
Science Marches On: Majungatholus is now called Majungasaurus. Some dubs use its proper name.
Sea Monster: Megalodon and Brygmophyseter.
Seldom Seen Species: Albertosaurus, Arctodus, the american lion, Brygmophyseter, Camarasaurus, Ceratosaurus, Dromaeosaurus, Gastonia, Majungasaurus, Megalodon, Montanaazhdarcho, Nanotyrannus, Pachyrhinosaurus, steppe bison, and Tenontosaurus.
Shown Their Work: All of the talking heads.
- Larry Witmer's CAT scans of the dinosaurs' skulls, showing which senses were more developed than others in each individual creature.
- The skull of the show's Edmontosaurus is similar to that of Anatotitan, which is probably an aged specimen of the former.
Somewhere, a Palaeontologist is Crying: When Steve Alten is one of your talking heads, you know you've got a problem. To be specific:
- Naked raptors.
- Wrong forelimb posture on all of the theropods.
- Giving a horn to a dinosaur that got famous because it lacks this feature.
- Depicting a young T. rex as a downscaled version of the adults, even though even the narrator (correctly) claims otherwise.
Stock Dinosaurs: Tyrannosaurus rex, Allosaurus, Stegosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Edmontosaurus, Utahraptor, and Deinonychus (which is the dinosaur commonly thought to be Velociraptor by the general public) all appear in it.
- Strangely, Triceratops doesn't make an appearance, although Pachyrhinosaurus fills much the same role.
Stock Footage
Talking Heads
The Hunter Becomes The Hunted: The subject of one episode, which was appropriately called Hunter Becomes Hunted. It centered around a pair of Ceratosaurus'' and an ''Allosaurus with the latter killing both of the former.
Too Dumb to Live: Nanotyrannus sticking around after the female '' Tyrannosaurus shows up. Also, Ceratosaurus attacking Allosaurus'' instead of running away.
- The Dromaeosaurus pack arguably qualifies as well, attacking prey over 200 times their size because they're territorial. (Possibly subverted, as they somehow succeed.)
Tyrannosaurus rex: Appears in four episodes, including the series finale.
Zerg Rush: The hunting style of Deinonychus and Dromaeosaurus.