History Fridge / TheLandBeforeTime

** Research at the time pictured them like big horn sheep or other caprines. So, they were just very angry that this dumb kid was in the way of their fight. Yes, they were jerks.

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* Why is ducky named "ducky"? The movie never shows birds existing at the same time as the dinosaurs. Although in retrospect it becomes accidental FridgeBrilliance as the earliest waterfowl already existed when Ducky's species was alive.
** It's a kid's movie, not a palaeontology lecture. It's just playing on the fact that the kind of dinosaur that Ducky is had a mouth like a duck's bill.
** It could also be playing on the use of the word "ducky" to mean things are fine, i.e., "everything's just ducky."
** Maybe her name just happens to sound like the word "ducky" and she is not named after ducks at all in-universe.
** Maybe InUniverse she's named after a species of duck-like bird from the Late Cretaceous, like Vegavis or Polarornis, and the movie calling her "Ducky" is just TranslationConvention.
* Cera's father kind of owes Littlefoot an apology. If he'd noticed Cera had wandered off sooner, either they both could have been rounded home before the Sharptooth ever showed, or could have helped protect the kids - maybe the Sharptooth wouldn't have wanted to take on two adult dinosaurs and Littlefoot would have a mother.
* What is up with the fourth episode of the series? Cera asks if Petrie has ever been to the smoking mountain, to which he replies that no, he hasn't... while standing next to Chomper. The whole group went to the Smoking Mountain in the second film, where they MET Chomper. In fact, the reason they were on the Smoking Mountain was because Chomper was chasing bugs there and they didn't want him to get hurt! Especially egregious since that movie is the sole reason that Chomper is in the valley to begin with- he was hatched there and made friends with the locals, who proved capable of defending themselves against sharptooths (like Redclaw).
* In the tenth movie, what exactly did the longnecks save the world from?
** Honestly? [[ShaggyDogStory Nothing.]] They ''thought'' they were preventing the sun from falling out of the sky when in reality, it was just an eclipse that resolved itself. Although that doesn't explain where the shared prophetic dreams came from...
* In ''The Journey of the Brave'', Topsy and Grandpa Longneck cower in fear behind a group of rocks from a single Sharptooth, despite both of them having fought off Sharpteeth on their own multiple times in the past. Said Sharptooth is also a ''Carnotaurus'', a fairly medium-sized theropod.
** They're getting too old? Alternatively, they're scared because they've never seen anything like it. They're used to plain T-rex's and raptors, not this weird thing. Topsy would also realize what it could do with its horns.
*** The horns of Carnotaurus were primarily used to attract mates, similar to the plates of Stegosaurus. They had no purpose in a fight.
*** More likely explanation: another sharptooth fight (one that might have even been ''entertaining'') wasn't in the budget.
* How on Earth did Littlefoot, Spike, Ducky, and Petrie escape the tar pit in the first movie? Right before the scene change, they're pretty thoroughly mired with no apparent way out. The next time we see them, they just show up coated head to toe in the stuff, indicating they were completely submerged at one point. Did they somehow pull themselves out? Nobody after that point was shown pulling that off - even they needed the adults' help in the second movie. Did someone see them going under and rescue them? But then why wouldn't that someone stick around to help save Cera?
** Given how much footage was cut from the first film, maybe some of the deleted footage answers this question.
* Why doesn't Petrie (or his relatives) eat fish? That would be a more accurate diet for their species. Or insects, at least. But they are only ever seen eating vegetation, which ''Pteranodon'' almost certainly did not eat.
** Maybe Petrie and his family at some point encountered an aversion of NoCartoonFish and decided to go vegan after that? Tyrannosaurs in this universe can apparently subsist on nothing but bugs if they choose to, so why not?

** Maybe Petrie and his family at some point encountered an aversion of NoCartoonFish and decided to go vegan after that?

* Why do Ducky and Petrie's speech patterns sound like borderline baby-talk while Littlefoot, Cera and Spike (presumably) talk normally? Because they are of different types of dinosaur. Ducky, unlike the other three is a bipedal dinosaur, so her dialogue is more childish but still pretty understandable. Petrie is further removed being a 'flyer', primarily a flying dinosaur in a group of land-dwellers, so his dialogue would be more strange and out-there. For those of you who say this makes no sense in terms of realistic language barriers, keep in mind that the movie is already farfetched for having all of these species alive at once anyway, and that this addresses the issue of different dino-languages while still being able to be enjoyed by younger viewers. As for there parents and other dinosaurs, all of those cases are in the sequels and may not be what Bluth intended. The only adults to speak in the first movie were Littlefoot's mother, Cera's father and Rooter, all fellow quadrupeds.

*** No, they didn't. They're all Late Cretaceous, but ''Pteranodon'' existed during the Campanian epoch whereas the other three were Maastrichtian (translation, ''Pteranodon'' went extinct nearly 20 million years before any of those dinosaurs existed).

** Furthermore, you all realize that dinosaurs were around for over 160 million years right? The chances that our protagonists are living late enough in the era to witness their own extinction event are infinitesimally small. You might just as well call it FridgeHorror that humans will inevitably go extinct eventually and therefore any story with human characters features [[DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]]. In all likelihood, the gang and their descendants for millions of years to come will be just fine.

** Furthermore, you all realize that dinosaurs were around for over 160 million years right? The chances that our protagonists are living late enough in the era to witness their own extinction event are infinitesimally small. You might as well call it FridgeHorror that humans will inevitably go extinct eventually and therefore any story with human characters features [[DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]]. In all likelihood, the gang and their descendants for millions of years to come will be just fine.

** Furthermore, you all realize that dinosaurs were around for over 160 million years right? The chances that our protagonists are living late enough in the era to witness their own extinction event are infinitesimally small. This FridgeHorror is about as logical as saying "humans will inevitably go extinct eventually, therefore any story with human characters features [[DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]]". In all likelihood, the gang and their descendants for millions of years to come will be just fine.

** Furthermore, you all realize that dinosaurs were around for over 160 million years right? The chances that our protagonists are living late enough in the era to witness their own extinction event are infinitesimally small. This FridgeHorror is about as logical as saying "humans will inevitably go extinct eventually, therefore any movie with human characters features [[DoomedProtagonist Doomed Protagonists]]". In all likelihood, the gang and their descendants for millions of years to come will be just fine.

** Overall this conclusion is a bit of a stretch, given that birds are only distantly related to pterosaurs and wouldn't necessarily have shared behaviours. Keep in mind Petrie was hiding in a tree when we first meet him, so chances are his mother looked for him after the earthquake and just couldn't find him.

** Overall this conclusion is a bit of a stretch, given that birds are only distantly related to pterosaurs and wouldn't necessarily have shared behaviours. Keep in mind Petrie was hiding in a tree when we first meet him, so chances are his mother looked for him and just couldn't find him.