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* InfantImmortality: Averted, both of Spear's children are eaten by the horned tyrannosaurs.

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* InfantImmortality: Averted, both DeathOfAChild: Both of Spear's children are eaten by the horned tyrannosaurs.



* InfantImmortality: Averted. The two of them are eaten by the alpha tyrannosaur.

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* InfantImmortality: Averted. DeathOfAChild: The two of them are eaten by the alpha tyrannosaur.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Spear rips off the Ape-Man champion's arms, only to [[GreviousHarmWithABody bludgeon the giant gorilla to death with his own severed arms]].]]

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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Spear rips off the Ape-Man champion's arms, only to [[GreviousHarmWithABody [[GrievousHarmWithABody bludgeon the giant gorilla to death with his own severed arms]].]]
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* MookHorrorShow: Their final scene is this, as they run in terror from [[spoiler: Spear, who is eviscerating them left and right.]]
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: The largest one is about the right size for ''Titanoboa'', a giant constrictor snake from the Eocene.
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* SuperSerum: Have one in the form of black goo that incresases the size and muscle mass of the individual affected. It also makes them super aggressive, doubling as a PsychoSerum.

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* SuperSerum: Have one in the form of black goo that incresases the size and muscle mass of the individual affected. It also makes them super aggressive, doubling as a PsychoSerum.PsychoSerum.
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* ItCanThink: The fact that they can comprehend vengeance and giving DueToTheDead shows that they are not by any means stupid.



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* TheDreaded: They are the reason the local Ape-Men always hide in the dark.

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* TheDreaded: They are the reason the local Ape-Men primitive humanoids always hide in the dark.



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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: Spear rips off the Ape-Man champion's arms, only to [[GreviousHarmWithABody bludgeon the giant gorilla to death with his own severed arms]].]]
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: After [[spoiler: Spear brutally kills their champion,]] all the smaller apes decide to ZergRush Spear.[[spoiler: Unfortunately, Spear was at the time juiced up by their SuperSerum, and reduced them to LudicrousGibs. They decided to do the smart thing and run, but Spear didn't let many of them escape.]]
* CoolHelmet: Their champion has one in the form of a ''Triceratops'' skull.
* FrazettaMan: Played straight. They have a violent. crude culture, and seem to enjoy violence. They kidnap both Fang and Spear for unknown purposes, either as food or entertainment (or both).
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:Their champion gives mortal wound to Fang, seemingly killing her.]]
* KillerGorilla: All of the champion nominees are giant gorilla-men, and kill each other over the title.
* ManiacMonkeys: Unlike most other monsters the duo meet, these simians are not only intelligent, they also exhibit a culture of violence and creulty.
* OneWingedAngel: The effect of the SuperSerum.
* SuperSerum: Have one in the form of black goo that incresases the size and muscle mass of the individual affected. It also makes them super aggressive, doubling as a PsychoSerum.
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: ZigZagged, while Fang odes do some dog-like things (putting her face in Spear's to sniff his food and laying down like one), the show never makes one forget that Fang is very intelligent and a large carnivorous dinosaur that is Spear's equal rather than pet.

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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: ZigZagged, while Fang odes does do some dog-like things (putting her face in Spear's to sniff his food and laying down like one), the show never makes one forget that Fang is very intelligent and a large carnivorous dinosaur that is Spear's equal rather than pet.

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* AnimalsNotToScale: Real-life wooly mammoths were slightly smaller than African elephants. These beasts, especially their matriarch, are at least twice as big, towering over Fang, a ''Tyrannosaurus''.

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* AnimalsNotToScale: Real-life wooly woolly mammoths were slightly smaller than African elephants. These beasts, especially their matriarch, are at least twice as big, towering over Fang, a ''Tyrannosaurus''.


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* SavageWolves: Averted. Their role is scavenging the body of the elderly mammoth.

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* DumbDinos: Inverted; Fang is very intelligent.



* TyrannosaurusRex: A tyrannosaur with an enlarged fang.









* MixAndMatchCritters: It has the long neck and body proportions of ''Quetzalcoatlus'', a long crest on the back of its head like ''Pteranodon'', teeth in its bill similar to ''Ludodactylus'', and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers what appears to be a chicken's comb]].






* InformedSpecies: The ''Ceratosaurus''-like theropods from the first episode are identified as ''T. rex'' by the animatic. Somewhat downplayed in that they do possess the general body size, proportions, and two-fingered hands of ''Tyrannosaurus''.

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* InformedSpecies: The ''Ceratosaurus''-like theropods from the first episode They are identified as horned ''T. rex'' by the animatic. Somewhat downplayed in that they do possess the general body size, proportions, and two-fingered hands of ''Tyrannosaurus''.









* SnakesAreSinister: They are gigantic snakes and hostile predators.
* SomewhereAHerpetologistIsCrying: They resemble pythons or boas, but have fangs like venomous snakes (a common error in constrictor snakes in cartoons).






* AnimalsNotToScale: Real-life wooly mammoths were around the same size as African elephants. These beasts, especially their matriarch, are at least twice as big, towering over Fang, a ''Tyrannosaurus''.

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* AnimalsNotToScale: Real-life wooly mammoths were around the same size as slightly smaller than African elephants. These beasts, especially their matriarch, are at least twice as big, towering over Fang, a ''Tyrannosaurus''.


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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Spear kills it by ramming a ''Triceratops'' horn into its head.

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* BrainsAndBrawn: The brains of the duo, [[DownplayedTrope but he is far from weak]].

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* BrainsAndBrawn: The brains Played with. Neither of the duo, [[DownplayedTrope main characters are either particularly dumb or weak but while Spear is strong he is far from weak]].relies on his weaponry and innovation in combat more than brute strength.



* AllAnimalsAreDogs: ZigZagged, while Fang odes do some dog-like things (putting her face in Spear's to sniff his food and laying down like one), the show never makes one forget that Fang is still a large carnivorous dinosaur.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The brawn, although she isn't stupid.

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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: ZigZagged, while Fang odes do some dog-like things (putting her face in Spear's to sniff his food and laying down like one), the show never makes one forget that Fang is still very intelligent and a large carnivorous dinosaur.
dinosaur that is Spear's equal rather than pet.
* BrainsAndBrawn: The brawn, although Played with. Fang displays human level intelligence but she isn't stupid.is far more simple in her approach to situations than Spear. She makes up for this by being the notably more powerful of the pair.


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* ItCanThink: It's made clear early on that Fang is very intelligent. She's emotive, stubborn, occasionally selfish and capable of abstract thinking/planning.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Fang can be notably more selfish and willful than Spear, stealing his kills and leaving him to drag a large pile of meat that logically she would have a much easier time with. That being said, she doesn't hesitate to risk her life to protect Spear and volunteered as a heat source to protect him from a freezing blizzard.
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* GiantSpider: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ...yes]].

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* GiantSpider: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ...yes]].Emphasis on ''giant''. It's larger than a sauropod.
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* BookEnds: They are seen in the beginning chasing down Fang and Spear. They appear in the end [[spoiler:when Spear decides to lure the Giant Bats into the tall grass where the Raptors live[[EnemyCivilWar so they can deal with each other]].]]

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* BookEnds: They are seen in the beginning chasing down Fang and Spear. They appear in the end [[spoiler:when Spear decides to lure the Giant Bats into the tall grass where the Raptors live[[EnemyCivilWar live [[EnemyCivilWar so they can deal with each other]].]]

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* BrainsAndBrawn: The brains of the duo, [[Downplayed but he is far from weak]].

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* BrainsAndBrawn: The brains of the duo, [[Downplayed [[DownplayedTrope but he is far from weak]].


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* FantasticRacism: In the first episode, he decides to try and kill Fang not because she's a threat but because she's a dinosaur similar to the dinosaurs that killed and ate his family. He does change his mind about her when he sees that she has a family of her own and helps her fight off the dinosaurs that killed both their families.
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* GentleGiant: It's an enormous herbivore that shows no sign of aggression, instead fleeing for its life as Spear and his son try to kill it.


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* AnimalsNotToScale: Real-life wooly mammoths were around the same size as African elephants. These beasts, especially their matriarch, are at least twice as big, towering over Fang, a ''Tyrannosaurus''.
* AntiVillain: The mammoths attack Spear and Fang remorselessly, but its only because they ate one of their own and took away its tusk. Once they're given it, they retreat to [[ElephantGraveyard ceremonial grounds]].
* CruelElephant: Subverted. They're aggressive and try to kill Spear and Fang, but only because they took the tusk of the elderly mammoth with them. Once Spear gives them the tusk, they stop attacking.
* DueToTheDead: They hold a funeral ceremony for the elderly mammoth, swinging side to side while humming and touching his tusk with their trunks.
* ElephantGraveyard: They take the tusk of their fallen herd-mate to one of these, holding some kind of funeral ceremony to him.
* EyeScream: Spear uses a rock to smash the eye of the elderly mammoth into a bloody pulp, although the eye itself remains intact.
* HonorableElephant: The mammoths are presented as particularly intelligent prehistoric beasts who mourn for their dead.
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* EvilIsBigger: They are slightly bigger than Fang, the sympathetic ''Tyrannosaurus'', and their leader is humongous, with a body length between 20 and 30 meters.
* HornsOfVillainy: They have ''Ceratosaurus''-like horns, which the more sympathetic ''Tyrannosaurus'' Fang lacks.
* InformedSpecies: The ''Ceratosaurus''-like theropods from the first episode are identified as ''T. rex'' by the animatic. Somewhat downplayed in that they do possess the general body size, proportions, and two-fingered hands of ''Tyrannosaurus''.
* MadeOfPlasticine: As typical for a gory series. Spear can kill one of them by throwing a spear through its torso like a bullet.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They are the correct size and shape for a ''T. rex'', but they also have ''Ceratosaurus''-like horns.
* MonstrousCannibalism: The horned tyrannosaurs are either the same species as Fang, or at least a closely related species. This does not stop them from seeing Fang's offspring as prey.
* NonMaliciousMonster: They're just predators targeting what they think are prey.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Spear bashes one of the horned tyrannosaurs' legs in with a rock, resulting in a compound fracture, but after a few seconds of screaming it just snaps the leg back into place and keeps attacking like nothing happened, though it does seem to have a limp for the short period it survives after fixing its leg.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: They a dark shade of red with prominent black stripes.


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* TyrannosaurusRex: Despite their ''Ceratosaurus''-like horns, they are indentified in the animatic as ''T. rex''.
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* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: They have blood-red fur.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: They do resemble ''Necromantis'', a relatively large sized predatory bat from the Eocene, even having its characteristic strong jaw muscles and short snout. However, they are about as big as the largest pterosaurs.

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* The main hero, Spear, brutally kills his opponents, but considering that this is a [[DeathWorld dog-eat-dog world]] where our moral standards don't exist yet, it's justified for his situation. Spear is even shown preparing to attack Fang and her family before being interrupted by the horned tyrannosaurs.

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* AntiHero: The main hero, Spear, brutally kills his opponents, but considering that this is a [[DeathWorld dog-eat-dog world]] where our moral standards don't exist yet, it's justified for his situation. Spear is even shown preparing to attack Fang and her family before being interrupted by the horned tyrannosaurs.



* 1MillionBC: Fang is a dinosaur living in a world with a human.



* InfantImmortality: Averted, both of Spear's children are eaten by the horned tyrannosaurs.
* StuffedInTheFridge: They are killed early in the first episode, and their death is what sets Spear on his journey.



* InfantImmortality: Averted. The two of them are eaten by the alpha tyrannosaur.
* StuffedInTheFridge: They are killed in the first episode. Fang's struggle (and ultimate failure) to protect them from the predators is what makes Spear see the two of them are NotSoDifferent.



* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: A hungry predator that lunges at Spear as he is fishing.



* PteroSoarer: It appears to be hairless, has five fingers on its wings (four claws plus the long membrane-holding finger), and has the long neck and body proportions of a ''Quetzalcoatlus'' but the teeth of a ''Ludodactylus''. At least it walks (mostly) on four limbs and does not grasp anything with its feet.



* StarterVillain: The first foes that Spear and Fang fight together.



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* SeldomSeenSpecies: One of the more obscure prehistoric mammals.
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* GeniusBruiser: He has the intelligence that comes with being a human, but he's also strong enough to kill a ''T. rex'' using only his spear and a large stone.
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* MixAndMatchCritters: They look like wolves with ''Smilodon''-like teeth.

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* BladeOnAStick: His weapon of choice, which he is named for.



* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Spear demonstrates almost superhuman-level feats of strength at times. Probably the most prominent example in the very first episode is when he throws his spear straight through a fully-grown T. rex like a bullet.
* DespairEventHorizon: After losing his wife and kids to a pack of horned T. rex, Spear climbs a tall cliff and ponders whether or not he should just step off of it. He ultimately doesn't go through, but he did spend many hours at the edge of the cliff thinking if he should.

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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Spear demonstrates almost superhuman-level feats of strength at times. Probably the most prominent example in the very first episode is when he throws his spear straight through a fully-grown T. rex Rex like a bullet.
bullet. Though he was in a full UnstoppableRage at the time.
* DespairEventHorizon: After losing his wife and kids to a pack of horned T. rex, Spear climbs a tall cliff and ponders whether or not he should just step off of it. He ultimately doesn't go through, but he did spend many hours at the edge of the cliff thinking about if he should.


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* InterspeciesFriendship: With Spear, a caveman.


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* PlayingPossum: She does this to trick the giant bats into bringing her to their lair, where she knows Spear is.
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* The Dreaded: They are the reason the local Ape-Men always hide in the dark.
* Zerg Rush: Their strategy is in numbers.

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* The Dreaded: TheDreaded: They are the reason the local Ape-Men always hide in the dark.
* Zerg Rush: ZergRush: Their strategy is in numbers.
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* GiantSpider: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin...yes]].

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* GiantSpider: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ...yes]].
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*GiantSpider: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin...yes]].
*MookCommander: Apparently it controls the bats, as they handed Spear over to it instead of eating him themselves.

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* PrimalStance: Walk around like this.

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* PrimalStance: *FrazettaMan: Subverted, while definitely more primitive than Spear, they are somewhat intelligent, would rather run from a fight(Justified given the world they live in), and actually give Spear his spear back after he loses it.
*OhCrap: When the one carrying the boar breaks his leg, he begins screaming. Then the rest begin screaming. They know what's going to happen next, and [[BatOutOfHell who's going to come for the injured one.]]
*PrimalChestPound: One does this in both the trailer and the episode.
*PrimalStance:
Walk around like this.
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* AllCavemanWereNeanderthals: Spear, the show's protagonist is a stereotypical neanderthal-like caveman with a bulky physique, hunched posture, thick arms and enormous fists, as well as thick brows and a flat forehead. He also seems to have SuperStrength, considering that in the trailers he fights animals far larger than him with his bare hands. The trailer also shows that one punch from a caveman is enough to tear a smaller ape-man in half.

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* AllCavemanWereNeanderthals: AllCavemenWereNeanderthals: Spear, the show's protagonist is a stereotypical neanderthal-like caveman with a bulky physique, hunched posture, thick arms and enormous fists, as well as thick brows and a flat forehead. He also seems to have SuperStrength, considering that in the trailers he fights animals far larger than him with his bare hands. The trailer also shows that one punch from a caveman is enough to tear a smaller ape-man in half.

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*AllCavemanWereNeanderthals: Spear, the show's protagonist is a stereotypical neanderthal-like caveman with a bulky physique, hunched posture, thick arms and enormous fists, as well as thick brows and a flat forehead. He also seems to have SuperStrength, considering that in the trailers he fights animals far larger than him with his bare hands. The trailer also shows that one punch from a caveman is enough to tear a smaller ape-man in half.
*The main hero, Spear, brutally kills his opponents, but considering that this is a [[DeathWorld dog-eat-dog world]] where our moral standards don't exist yet, it's justified for his situation. Spear is even shown preparing to attack Fang and her family before being interrupted by the horned tyrannosaurs.
*BrainsAndBrawn: The brains of the duo, [[Downplayed but he is far from weak]].
*BarbarianLonghair: Spear sports shoulder-long black hair, and he's a powerful, savage hunter struggling to survive in a primordial world.
*CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Spear demonstrates almost superhuman-level feats of strength at times. Probably the most prominent example in the very first episode is when he throws his spear straight through a fully-grown T. rex like a bullet.
*DespairEventHorizon: After losing his wife and kids to a pack of horned T. rex, Spear climbs a tall cliff and ponders whether or not he should just step off of it. He ultimately doesn't go through, but he did spend many hours at the edge of the cliff thinking if he should.
*InterspeciesFriendship: With Fang, a tyrannosaur.



*1MillionBC: Fang is a dinosaur living in a world with a human.
*AllAnimalsAreDogs: ZigZagged, while Fang odes do some dog-like things (putting her face in Spear's to sniff his food and laying down like one), the show never makes one forget that Fang is still a large carnivorous dinosaur.
*BrainsAndBrawn: The brawn, although she isn't stupid.
*MonsterIsAMommy: Well, she was.
*MamaBear: Fang puts up a hard fight to protect her kids. She still fails.



* BookEnds: They are seen in the beginning chasing down Fang and Spear. They appear in the end [[spoiler:when Spear decides to lure the Giant Bats into the tall grass where the Raptors live[[EnemyCivilWar so they can deal with each other]].]]

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* BookEnds: *BookEnds: They are seen in the beginning chasing down Fang and Spear. They appear in the end [[spoiler:when Spear decides to lure the Giant Bats into the tall grass where the Raptors live[[EnemyCivilWar so they can deal with each other]].]] ]]
*RaptorAttack: Large, featherless, and lizardlike; checks all the boxes.
*ZergRush: Their attack strategy is based only on numbers.


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*PrimalStance: Walk around like this.
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*BatOutOfHell: They are blood-red, gigantic, and incredibly horrifying.
*BerserkButton: When the giant spider is dead, they lose it and hunt down Fang and Spear.
*The Dreaded: They are the reason the local Ape-Men always hide in the dark.
*Zerg Rush: Their strategy is in numbers.
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!!Main Characters
[[folder:Spear]]
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[[folder:Fang]]
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!!Family members
[[folder:Spear's Family]]
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[[folder: Fang's Babies]]
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!!Other Creatures
[[folder:Giant Crocodile]]
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[[folder:Pterosaur]]
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[[folder:Horned ''Tyrannosaurus'']]
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[[folder:Horned Deer(''Synodyceras'')]]
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[[folder:Giant Snakes]]
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[[folder:Mammoths]]
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[[folder:Saber-toothed Wolves]]
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[[folder:Raptors]]
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[[folder:Ape-Men]]
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[[folder:Giant Bats]]
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[[folder:Giant Spider]]
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