History Series / JurassicFightClub

** Inbreeding causing ''Majungasaurus'''s odd appearance. Eeeehhhh????

* NoisyNature: Holy ''heck''. Though Dinosaur George himself knows how unrealistic this is.

* ''{{Megalodon}}'': Featured in the fifth episode where it fights against the biting sperm whale ''Brygmophyseter''.

* TalkingHeads
* ThreateningShark: ''Megalodon'', natch, being a 50-foot shark that hunts whales.

* RecycledInSpace: ''Series/AnimalFaceOff'' IN PREHISTORIC TIMES!

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' appears in four episodes, including the series finale.

** [[RaptorAttack Naked raptors.]] The producers did try to chalk this up to budget constraints, with realistic feathers being hard to animate, but many argue that since the feathers would lay flat against the bodies anyway (akin to birds of prey), they wouldn't look fuzzy anyway. Also, if one is making a CGI documentary about what are essentially flightless birds, they should really at least try to get stuff like this sorted out. For emphasis, that would be the equivalent of doing a series about ice age animals while lacking the budget to animate fur.

** Every single confrontation between a ''Ceratosaurus'' and an ''Allosaurus'' ends like this in the ''Allosaurus''' favor. It's understandable the first time, given the first two ''Allosaurus were just a distraction for a third to come in and kill the ''Ceratosaurus'', but the other instances aren't so excusable. Even when the ''Allosaurus'' comes roaring in the ''Ceratosaurus'' is too "slow" and "primitive" to register the threat and is similarly dispatched instantly, while the second ''Ceratosaurus'' is utterly outmatched and trounced at every turn against the ''Allosaurus''.

* StockFootage: The final episode uses asteroid impact footage from WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica.

* StockDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', ''Allosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Ceratosaurus'', ''Albertosaurus'', ''Edmontosaurus'', ''Utahraptor'', and ''Deinonychus'' (commonly mistaken for ''Velociraptor'' by the general public) all appear in the show. The show helped ''Majungasaurus'' become more known to the public.

** ''Brygmophyseter shigensis'' is depicted as being as [[BiggerIsBetter big]] as megalodon (50 feet), even though the one specimen we have is only the size of an orca. [[YourSizeMayWary Or more accurately, the talking heads say it reached 35 to 40 feet (which is still too big) but the animation shows it as being 50 feet long]]. Though the discovery of the related ''Livyatan melvillei'' shows that meg-sized raptorial sperm whales did exist.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: A few instances; ''Arctodus'', the American lion, ''Brygmophyseter'', ''Camarasaurus'', ''Dromaeosaurus'', ''Gastonia'', a pterosaur implied to be ''Montanazhdarcho'', ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', and ''Tenontosaurus'' are among the show's roster. ''Nanotyrannus'' is there too, even though it most likely didn't exist.

* StockFootage: The final episode uses asteroid impact footage from WesternAnimation/WhenDinosaursRoamedAmerica

** [[RaptorAttack Naked raptors.]] They did try to chalk this up to budget constraints, realistic feathers being hard to animate. Although some argue that since body feathers lay flush on their bodies anyway, they wouldn't have ''needed'' to make them look all fuzzy. Also, if one is making a CGI documentary over what are essentially birds, they should really at least try to get stuff like this sorted out. Besides, they put pycnofibers on the pterosaurs from Raptor's Last Stand, so...
** Wrong forelimb posture on all of the theropods. For those who aren't familiar, theropod hands face inward like a clapping position, and bending them downwards would break their wrists.

** ''Camarasaurus'' was a very front-heavy sauropod, so it almost certainly couldn't have reared back on its hind legs as depicted in "Bloodiest Battle".

** "Ice Age Monsters" implies that North America's megafauna went extinct solely due to climate change. While that might have played a role, it's odd that human activity is never brought up as a possibility, since many paleontologists believe Paleo-Indians were at least partly responsible.

** None of the evidence available to us suggests that raptors communicated using hand gestures or mimicked the sound of their prey.
** ''Tyrannosaurus'' wouldn't have been able to pick up a entire ''Edmontosaurus'' in real life.
** Chewing sauropods.

* AnachronismStew: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' and ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' living together. It's a common misconception, but ''Dromaeosaurus'' died out just a few million years before ''T. rex'' hit the scene. 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; ''Deinonychus'' shows up both alongside ''Ceratosaurus'' and ''T. rex'', for example.

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted [[spoiler:in the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' episode.]]

** Depicting a young ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs T. rex]]'' as a downscaled version of the adults, even though even the narrator (correctly) claims otherwise.
** Overly long limbs on the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' even though the hosts and the narrator state that it's legs were short and its forearms would have been reduced to just about only a wrist. It also uses the long-defunct name ''Majungatholus''.
** It's claimed that ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Ceratosaurus]]'' was once the dominant predator of Jurassic North America, until ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Allosaurus]]'' evolved and drove it to extinction. This is very unlikely, since they both appear in and disappear from the fossil record at about the same time, and the two coexisted for millions of years.[[note]]For the record, ''Ceratosaurus'' showed up ''later'' than ''Allosaurus'', by a million or two years.[[/note]]

* BearsAreBadNews: The [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursNonDinosaurs short-faced bear]] has an episode.
* BewareMyStingerTail: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeAnkylosaurs Gastonia]]'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Stegosaurus]]''.

* EatsBabies:
** [[spoiler:The mother ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' eats her dead baby after the male majungasaur kills it]].
** A ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Ceratosaurus]]'' kills and eats a juvenile ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Stegosaurus]]''.
** ''Nanotyrannus'' preys on juvenile ''T. rex''.
* DeathOfAChild:
** [[spoiler:The ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' episode]].
** A young ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Stegosaurus]]'' is also killed by a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Ceratosaurus]]''.
** A young ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' is also killed by a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Nanotyrannus]]''.* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs
* FeatheredFiend: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Utahraptor]]'', though they were depicted as only [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology sparsely feathered]]. Also ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Deinonychus]]'', although it's shown with [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology no feathers at all]].

** The subject of one episode, which was appropriately called ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hunter Becomes Hunted]]''. It centered around a pair of ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Ceratosaurus]]'' and an ''Allosaurus'' [[spoiler:with the latter killing both of the former]].
** Also the episode ''T.rex Hunter'' to some extent, where the offspring of the so-called "king of the dinosaurs" [[spoiler:are hunted and savagely attacked by a territorial [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Nanotyrannus]], with one juvenile being killed in the process.]]

* MamaBear: The mother ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' [[spoiler:until the male kills its baby]]. The female ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Tyrannosaurus]]'' also qualifies.
* ''{{Megalodon}}'': Fights against the biting sperm whale ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Brygmophyseter]]'' [[spoiler:and wins]].

* RaptorAttack: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Utahraptor]]'' were depicted as only sparsely feathered, while ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Deinonychus]]'' is shown with no feathers at all.

* SeaMonster: ''{{Megalodon}}'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Brygmophyseter]]''.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Albertosaurus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Arctodus]]'', the [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals American lion]], ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals Brygmophyseter]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeSauropods Camarasaurus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Ceratosaurus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeStegosaurs Gastonia]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'', ''Montanaazhdarcho'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Nanotyrannus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeCeratopsids Pachyrhinosaurus]]'', [[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeMammals steppe bison]], and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeHadrosaurPredecessors Tenontosaurus]]''.
* ShownTheirWork: All of the talking heads.

** The skull of the show's ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Edmontosaurus]]'' is similar to that of ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Anatotitan]]'', which is probably an aged specimen of the former.
* StockDinosaurs: ''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 ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeCeratopsids Pachyrhinosaurus]]'' fills much the same role.
* TailSlap: ''Majungasaurus'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeSauropods Camarasaurus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeHadrosaurPredecessors Tenontosaurus]]'', and ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Edmontosaurus]]'' are all described as having tails as potential weapons. All of them except ''Edmontosaurus'' pull it off against their respective opponent.

* ThreateningShark: The ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeOtherExtinctCreatures C. megalodon]]'' episode.

** ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Nanotyrannus]]'' sticking around after the [[MamaBear female]] ''[[MamaBear Tyrannosaurus]]'' shows up.
** The ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' pack arguably qualifies as well, attacking prey far larger than them ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology because they're territorial]]''. (Possibly subverted, as they somehow ''[[FridgeLogic succeed]]''.)
* ZergRush: The hunting style of ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Deinonychus]]'' and ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]''.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Rather than focus on a fight, "Biggest Killers" is an overview of the show's theropods, while "Armageddon" focuses on the K/Pg extinction event.

!!Provides Examples Of:

* AnachronismStew: A mild case, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' and ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' 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.

** So, kind of the poor man's ''Series/ChasedByDinosaurs'', then?

* ArtisticLicenceBiology:
** Predators driving off potential prey over 200 times their size because they are territorial. Eh?

** Inbreeding causing Majungasaurus's odd appearance. Eeeehhhh????

** [[RaptorAttack Naked raptors.]] They did try to chalk this up to budget constraints, realistic feathers being hard to animate. Although some argue that since body feathers lay flush on their bodies anyway, they wouldn't have ''needed'' to make them look all fuzzy. Also, if one is making a CGI documentary over what are essentially birds, they really should at least try to get stuff like this sorted out. Also they put pycnofibers on the Pterosaurs from Raptor's Last Stand so...
** Wrong forelimb posture on all of the theropods.
** Giving a horn to a dinosaur that got famous ''because'' it lacked this feature. Although some paleontologists suggested the boss nose of ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' was the base of a keratinous horn. Though this was debunked by the same paleontologists who proposed it before the documentary was made.

** Overly long legs on the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' even though the hosts and the narrator state that it's legs were short. Also the defuncted name Majungapholus.
** It's claimed that ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Ceratosaurus]]'' was once the dominant predator of Jurassic North America, until ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Allosaurus]]'' evolved and drove it to extinction. This is very unlikely, since they both appear in and disappear from the fossil record at about the same time, and the two coexisted for millions of years. Also ''Ceratosaurus'' appeared later than ''Allosaurus'' in the fossil record.

** Unlike what the show claims, there's absolutely no evidence of theropods having scent glands like those of modern mammalian carnivores.

** None of the evidence available to us suggests that ''Dromaeosaurs'' communicated using hand gestures or mimicked the sound of their prey.

** Chewing Sauropods.
** Splayed toes wouldn't have helped the ''Ceratosaurus'' and ''Allosaurus'' from getting stuck in mud.

%%* StockFootage
* TailSlap: ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeSauropods Camarasaurus]]'', ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeHadrosaurPredecessors Tenontosaurus]]'', and ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Edmontosaurus]]'' are all shown to do this (or trying to).

** ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Nanotyrannus]]'' sticking around after the [[MamaBear female]] ''[[MamaBear Tyrannosaurus]]'' shows up. Also, ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Ceratosaurus]]'' attacking ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Allosaurus]]'' instead of running away.
** The ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' pack arguably qualifies as well, attacking prey over 200 times their size ''[[ArtisticLicenseBiology because they're territorial]]''. (Possibly subverted, as they somehow ''[[FridgeLogic succeed]]''.)

** [[RaptorAttack Naked raptors.]] They did try to chalk this up to budget constraints, realistic feathers being hard to animate. Although some argue that since body feathers lay flush on their bodies anyway, they wouldn't have ''needed'' to make them look all fuzzy. Also, if one is making a CGI documentary over what are essentially birds, they really should at least try to get stuff like this sorted out.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs

* InfantImmortality:
** Averted [[spoiler:in the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' episode]].
** A young ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Stegosaurus]]'' is also killed by a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Ceratosaurus]]''.
** A young ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Tyrannosaurus rex]]'' is also killed by a ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Nanotyrannus]]''.

* AnachronismStew: A mild case, ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeBirdlikeTheropods Dromaeosaurus]]'' and ''TyrannosaurusRex'' 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.

* TyrannosaurusRex: Appears in four episodes, including the series finale.

** There is no way ''Dromaeosaurs'' communicated using hand gestures or mimicked the sound of their prey.

** Overly long legs on the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' even though the hosts and the narrator state that it's legs were short. Also the series referring it defuncted name Majungapholus.
** It's claimed that ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Ceratosaurus]]'' was once the dominant predator of Jurassic North America, until ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Allosaurus]]'' evolved and drove it to extinction. This is very unlikely, since they both appear in and disappear from the fossil record at about the same time, and the two coexisted for millions of years. Also ''Ceratosaurus'' appeared later than ''Allosaurus''.

** Giving a horn to a dinosaur that got famous ''because'' it lacked this feature. Although some paleontologists suggested the boss nose of ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' was the base of a keratinous horn.

** Overly long legs on the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' even though the hosts and the narrator state that it's legs were short. Also the defuncted name Majungapholus.
** It's claimed that ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Ceratosaurus]]'' was once the dominant predator of Jurassic North America, until ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Allosaurus]]'' evolved and drove it to extinction. This is very unlikely, since they both appear in and disappear from the fossil record at about the same time, and the two coexisted for millions of years. Also Ceratosaurus appeared later than Allosaurus.

** There is zero evidence that Tyrannosaurus had a septic bite.
** There is no way Dromaeosaurs communicated using hand gestures or mimicked the sound of their prey.

** It's claimed that ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Ceratosaurus]]'' was once the dominant predator of Jurassic North America, until ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Allosaurus]]'' evolved and drove it to extinction. This is very unlikely, since they both appear in and disappear from the fossil record at about the same time, and the two coexisted for millions of years.

** Overly long legs on the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]''.

* {{Gorn}}: What did you expect?

* InsaneTrollLogic: Parodied [[http://albertonykus.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d349fdz here]].

* RuleOfCool: What the show operates on.

* StockFootage

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: Averted [[spoiler:in the ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Majungasaurus]]'' episode.]]

** ''Camarasaurus'' was a very front-heavy sauropod, so it almost certainly couldn't rear back on its hind legs as depicted in "Bloodiest Battle".

** It's claimed that ''[[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs Allosaurus]]'' drove ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLifeLargeTheropods Ceratosaurus]]'' to extinction. This is very unlikely, since they coexisted for millions of years and disappear from the fossil record at about the same time.