Trivia / Monsters Resurrected

• Follow the Leader: To Prehistoric Predators^note Which is ironic considering both series were produced by Creative Differences. but with a greater emphasis on violence and Gorn.
• Science Marches On: Presentation aside, outside of the Spinosaurus episode and the scaly Deinonychus, the science in this show was generally up to date for its time but new discoveries since then have rendered some elements obsolete.
  • Paluxysaurus is generally considered a synonym of the contemporary Sauroposeidon.
  • The Tylosaurus is depicted as rather lanky and with the classic, eel-like tails but discoveries made since then show that mosasaurs were more compact animals (akin to a whale) with crescent-shaped tail flukes (akin to sharks and ichthyosaurs).
  • Rugops was nowhere near 30 feet long but closer to 15 feet and its arms would have been much less developed. Though fossils of sympatric abelisaurids indicate that there were much larger taxa coexisting with Spinosaurus.
  • There is a lot of embellishment surrounding the show's depiction of Spinosaurus, but its typical theropod anatomy was considered accurate at the time based on more complete relatives like Suchomimus. But new finds between 2014 and 2020 revealed that Spinosaurus had very short legs and a paddle-shaped tail, cementing its status as an amphibious predator. And it likely did not reach 60 feet (which were controversial, high-end estimates even back in the 2000s) but more like 45 to 50 feet.
  • Entelodonts are referred to as relatives of pigs, but subsequent studies have recovered them as most closely related to hippos and whales.