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* MisplacedWildlife: "Super Croc" takes place in Texas but ''Albertosaurus'' or ''Troodon'' (or rather ''Stenonychosaurus'') are only known from much further north in Alberta and Montana. ''Teratophoneus'' or ''Bistahieversor'' and ''Talos'' would be better fits respectively, but none of them were described yet in 2006. Averted with ''Parasaurlophus'', who isn't known from Texas specifically, but has been found in the neighboring state of New Mexico.
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* NoNameGiven: The titanosaurs are the only park animal not referred to by a specific name, presumably because at the time of the show's production, the Yixian Formation sauropods had not been formally described.
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* NoNameGiven: The titanosaurs are the only park animal not referred to by a specific name, presumably because at the time of the show's production, the Yixian Formation sauropods had not been formally described. The terror bird is also never identified as anything more than a phorusrhacid. [[note]] Its counterpart from ''Series/WalkingWithBeasts'' is identified as ''Phorusrhacos'' but that's because that show went with a fringe theory suggesting that the younger ''Titanis'' was a synonym of ''Phorusrhacos'' [[/note]]
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* CoolVsAwesome: In the series finale we have a standoff between a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and a woolly mammoth, although it's cut short before any actually fighting happens (which is also fortunate for any animal-lovers who can enjoy the spectacle without seeing either creature get hurt).
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* CoolVsAwesome: In the series finale we have a standoff between a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and a woolly mammoth, although it's cut short before any actually actual fighting happens (which is also fortunate for any animal-lovers who can enjoy the spectacle without seeing either creature get hurt).
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*** Oddly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] during Nigel's return trip to save a ''Smilodon'' (which involves a TimeSkip to 10,000 years ago). Much of the conflict hinges on the notion that much of the ancient South American megafauna (such as glyptodonts, giant ground sloths, and the ''Toxodon'' from the previous segment) are extinct by this point and so the surviving ''Smilodon'' population specialized to prey on them are slowly starving to death. In reality, most of these taxa were still doing just fine right up until the end of the Pleistocene, with ample evidence that several of them were even hunted by ''Homo sapiens''.
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*** Oddly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] during Nigel's return trip to save a ''Smilodon'' (which involves a TimeSkip to 10,000 years ago). Much of the conflict The conflict largely hinges on the notion that much of the ancient South American megafauna (such as glyptodonts, giant ground sloths, and the ''Toxodon'' from the previous segment) are have gone extinct by this point and so the surviving ''Smilodon'' population (which were specialized to prey on them such large, bulky herbivores) are slowly starving to death. In reality, most of these taxa were still doing just fine right up until the end of the Pleistocene, with ample evidence that several of them were even hunted by ''Homo sapiens''.
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*** Oddly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] during Nigel's return trip to save a ''Smilodon'' (which involves a TimeSkip to 10,000 years ago). After encountering a (normal-sized) armadillo, Nigel mentions the giant glyptodonts but bizarrely alludes to them being extinct by this point. In reality, glyptodonts were doing just fine right up until the early Holocene (we even have evidence that several genera were hunted by ''Homo sapiens'').
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*** Oddly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] during Nigel's return trip to save a ''Smilodon'' (which involves a TimeSkip to 10,000 years ago). After encountering a (normal-sized) armadillo, Nigel mentions Much of the conflict hinges on the notion that much of the ancient South American megafauna (such as glyptodonts, giant glyptodonts but bizarrely alludes to them being ground sloths, and the ''Toxodon'' from the previous segment) are extinct by this point. point and so the surviving ''Smilodon'' population specialized to prey on them are slowly starving to death. In reality, glyptodonts most of these taxa were still doing just fine right up until the early Holocene (we even have end of the Pleistocene, with ample evidence that several genera of them were even hunted by ''Homo sapiens'').sapiens''.
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*** Oddly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] during Nigel's return trip to save a ''Smilodon'' (which involves a TimeSkip to 10,000 years ago). After encountering an armadillo, Nigel mentions glyptodonts but bizarrely alludes to them being extinct. In reality, glyptodonts were doing just fine right up until the early Holocene (we even have evidence that several genera were hunted by ''Homo sapiens'').
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*** Oddly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] during Nigel's return trip to save a ''Smilodon'' (which involves a TimeSkip to 10,000 years ago). After encountering an a (normal-sized) armadillo, Nigel mentions the giant glyptodonts but bizarrely alludes to them being extinct.extinct by this point. In reality, glyptodonts were doing just fine right up until the early Holocene (we even have evidence that several genera were hunted by ''Homo sapiens'').
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*** Oddly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] during Nigel's return trip to save a ''Smilodon'' (which involves a TimeSkip to 10,000 years ago). After encountering an armadillo, Nigel mentions glyptodonts but bizarrely alludes to them being extinct. In reality, glyptodonts were doing just fine right up until the early Holocene (we even have evidence that several genera were hunted by ''Homo sapiens'').
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** Nigel refers to ''Thylacoleo'' as a cat, when it was actually a marsupial (and thus no relation to cats).
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* TimeTravelersDinosaur: The premise of the show involves [[MainCharacter Nigel Marven]] going back in time to [[BringItBackAlive bring back]] various creatures from prehistoric eras, whom he and his team then place in the titular park. Provides the Trope image.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: One way of looking at the relationship between head keeper Bob and the titanosaurs. It probably is not an exaggeration to say that they cause half of his stress, even if they are generally not dangerous.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: One way of looking at the relationship between head keeper Bob and the titanosaurs. It probably is not an exaggeration to say that they cause half of his stress, even if they are generally not malicious or intentionally dangerous.
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** The ''Deinosuchus'' are referred to as crocodiles, but they're a much closer relative of caimans and alligators.
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** The ''Triceratops'' is depicted as living in huge herds like wildebeests or bison. While this is plausible for many other ceratopsid species like ''Centrosaurus'' or ''Styracosaurus'', which are known from dense bonebeds suggestive of large herds, ''Triceratops'' was probably a much more solitary animal. Despite being one of the most common North American dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous, ''Triceratops'' fossils are almost all found singly or in very small groups.
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** The ''Triceratops'' is depicted as living in huge herds like wildebeests or bison. While this is plausible for many other ceratopsid species like ''Centrosaurus'' or ''Styracosaurus'', which are known from dense bonebeds suggestive of large herds, ''Triceratops'' was probably a much more solitary animal. Despite being one of the most common North American dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous, ''Triceratops'' fossils are almost all found singly or in very small groups. Also, baby and juvenile ''Triceratops'' had drastically different proportions from full-grown animals, and did not resemble miniature adults.
** [[Series/WalkingWithDinosaurs Once again]], this is another Impossible Pictures series that portrays Hell Creek as an ashy, volcanic wasteland, rather than the lush, fluvial swampland that it really was. At least no one calls attention to it this time...
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* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: In the first episode Nigel goes back 65 million years to collect two Tyrannosaurs, hours before the asteroid hits. It's true that he collects animals that are about to die anyway to avoid altering history too much, but would it have hurt to have gone at least a month before the asteroid hit?
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* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: In the first episode Nigel goes back 65 million years to collect two Tyrannosaurs, hours before the asteroid hits. It's true that he collects animals that are about to die anyway to avoid altering history too much, but would it have hurt to have gone at least a month before the asteroid hit?hit? Later episodes avert this: he travels back to the Cretaceous two more times, but both times many millions of years before the asteroid.
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** From the true birds' side, ''Phorusrhacos'', as a giant predatory avian that was once the apex predator of South America, before sabre-tooth cats arrived from the north.
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** From the true birds' side, ''Phorusrhacos'', as a giant predatory avian that was once the apex predator of South America, before sabre-tooth cats arrived from the north. However, once it's at the park, it's fairly docile, aside from periodically escaping its pen by digging under the fence.
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** This is [[Series/WalkingWithMonsters yet another]] Impossible Pictures production which shows ''Arthropleura'' being able to rear up as a threat display like a cobra. It looks cool and emphasizes how big it is, but there's no evidence it did this.
** ''Mei'' and ''Troodon'' being portrayed as vicious pack-hunting animals. It makes them threatening, but there's zero evidence of troodontid pack-hunting (indeed, later research supports the hypothesis that, unlike dromaeosaurs, they hunted much smaller animals), or even that ''Mei'' was big enough to be a threat to an adult human.
** ''Mei'' and ''Troodon'' being portrayed as vicious pack-hunting animals. It makes them threatening, but there's zero evidence of troodontid pack-hunting (indeed, later research supports the hypothesis that, unlike dromaeosaurs, they hunted much smaller animals), or even that ''Mei'' was big enough to be a threat to an adult human.
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* TerrifyingPetStoreRat: The "wolves" that threaten Marthra the mammoth when Nigel is caring for her through the night are clearly just huskies. The camerawork does its best to hide this by being extremely unfocused and blurry, but it's still obvious.
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** The ice age episode features a cave bear, which should've been extinct for well over 10,000 years by the time Nigel arrives, something which he lampshades. Cave hyenas are another threat briefly encountered, but they should've died out about one-thousand years prior.
** A [[ScienceMarchesOn retroactive]] example; it's now known that ''Triceratops horridus'' technically did not make it to the very end of the Cretaceous, because it had evolved into ''Triceratops prorsus'' by then.
** A [[ScienceMarchesOn retroactive]] example; it's now known that ''Triceratops horridus'' technically did not make it to the very end of the Cretaceous, because it had evolved into ''Triceratops prorsus'' by then.
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** The show's ''Deinosuchus'' is at least a third larger than the largest known real life specimen, and appears even bigger than that in the scene where it eats a ''Nyctosaurus''. On the flipside, the ''Tyrannosaurus'' are significantly more slender than they were in real life.
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** The show's ''Deinosuchus'' is at least a third larger than the largest known real life specimen, and appears even bigger than that in the scene where it eats a ''Nyctosaurus''. On the flipside, the ''Tyrannosaurus'' are significantly more slender than they were in real life.life (this is because the adults use the same models as the juveniles, only with different heads).
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** Terror birds were extinct by the time ''Smilodon'' entered South America, ''Phorusrhacos'' in particular died out 13 million years ago. Like ''Walking with Beasts'', this is based on a minority scientific opinion that its close relative ''Titanis'' lived until 10 thousand years ago and is the same creature. From the same episode, ''Toxodon'' are shown as hippo-like water-dwellers instead of terrestrial rhino-like animals. This was once considered true, but that theory had been discarded by the time of the series.
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** Terror birds were extinct by the time ''Smilodon'' entered South America, ''Phorusrhacos'' in particular died out 13 million years ago.ago (the only terror bird known to have coexisted with ''Smilodon'' was ''Titanis'', but this was in North America, not South America, and the ''Smilodon'' species was the smallest and earliest). Like ''Walking with Beasts'', this is based on a minority scientific opinion that its close relative ''Titanis'' lived until 10 thousand years ago and is the same creature. From the same episode, ''Toxodon'' are shown as hippo-like water-dwellers instead of terrestrial rhino-like animals. This was once considered true, but that theory had been discarded by the time of the series.
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** Terror birds were extinct by the time ''Smilodon'' entered South America, ''Phorusrhacos'' in particular died out 13 million years ago. Like ''Walking with Beasts'', this is based a minority scientific opinion that its close relative ''Titanis'' lived until 10 thousand years ago and is the same creature. From the same episode, ''Toxodon'' are shown as hippo-like water-dwellers instead of terrestrial rhino-like animals. This was once considered true, but that theory had been discarded by the time of the series.
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** Terror birds were extinct by the time ''Smilodon'' entered South America, ''Phorusrhacos'' in particular died out 13 million years ago. Like ''Walking with Beasts'', this is based on a minority scientific opinion that its close relative ''Titanis'' lived until 10 thousand years ago and is the same creature. From the same episode, ''Toxodon'' are shown as hippo-like water-dwellers instead of terrestrial rhino-like animals. This was once considered true, but that theory had been discarded by the time of the series.
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Missed the sister trope when I found the trope. My bad.
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* AccidentalHero: The ''Deinosuchus'' unintentionally saves Nigel's life as he's being chased by Matilda. The ''Deinosuchus'' attacks the tyrannosaur, surprising her and slowing her down for a few precious seconds, allowing Nigel to escape.
* AdamAndEvePlot: A more realistic example than most. Saba and Nigel are able to rescue two of the last living ''Smilodon'' in existence, an adult male and female (the female had a cub, but it died of starvation before they were able to capture it). A later subplot involves the park's vet Suzanne attempting to get the two to mate, which is of course risky because the two animals could easily kill each other.
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed The typical example for a dinosaur documentary]], the blast front of the asteroid impact. In this case, it's pretty obvious no one's outrunning something moving a hundred times faster than sound waves, the challenge is for Nigel to lure two young ''Tyrannosaurus'' into a time portal before the rapidly approaching ash cloud reaches them in a few moments.
* AdamAndEvePlot: A more realistic example than most. Saba and Nigel are able to rescue two of the last living ''Smilodon'' in existence, an adult male and female (the female had a cub, but it died of starvation before they were able to capture it). A later subplot involves the park's vet Suzanne attempting to get the two to mate, which is of course risky because the two animals could easily kill each other.
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: [[TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed The typical example for a dinosaur documentary]], the blast front of the asteroid impact. In this case, it's pretty obvious no one's outrunning something moving a hundred times faster than sound waves, the challenge is for Nigel to lure two young ''Tyrannosaurus'' into a time portal before the rapidly approaching ash cloud reaches them in a few moments.
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** A common mistake: including the Chinese dino-bird ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLife Microraptor]]'' among the Yixian fauna when it was really from the slightly later Jiufotang Formation. That said, several other taxa of microraptorans did live at Yixian.
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** A common mistake: including the Chinese dino-bird ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLife Microraptor]]'' among the Yixian fauna when it was really from the slightly later Jiufotang Formation. That said, several other taxa of microraptorans microraptorines did live at Yixian.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: The series ends with Nigel heading back through the time portal to who knows when to capture some new prehistoric creature.
** The ''Deinosuchus'' are referred to as crocodiles, but they're a much closer relative of caimans and alligators.
** Eurypterids are stated by Nigel to be the ancestors of scorpions, but sea scorpions were not actually close relatives of true scorpions (the eurypterids' relationship among arthropod groups is debated, but they seem to be sister taxon to arachnids), although scorpions did probably evolve from marine ancestors.
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* BellisariosMaxim: There's some sort of apparatus that creates the time portals needed to transport people and creatures back and forth through time. However, its inner workings, origins, and rules of use are never explained, probably because it's irrelevant.
* ChekhovsVolcano: The episode "Dino Birds" has Nigel and his crew travel to the Early Cretaceous of China to capture ''Microraptor''. It's noted very early this is an extremely volcanic region, and immediately upon arrival a large volcanic mountain looms in the background. Sure enough, it ends up erupting.
* CreepyCentipedes: Subverted with the ''Arthropleura''. It's initially seen as menacing, as a millipede more than two metres long capable of rearing up to nearly look a man in the eye. However, it's later indicated to be a peaceful herbivore and Bob is of the opinion that it's simply so big that it loses its "creepiness" factor, because it no longer seems like a "bug" anymore.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Discussed involving sabre-tooth cats and cheetahs. Cheetahs are built to be extremely lightweight in order to run exceptionally fast, but it means it can't defend its kills from other predators like lions or hyenas. ''Smilodon'' has the opposite problem, it's robustly built for hunting big game, but once the big game dies out, it can't catch the smaller, faster prey left over and died out.
* DeadlyGas: One of the major threats of Early Cretaceous China are the releases of toxic gas from volcanic activity. Nigel comes across what initially appear to be a sleeping pack of ''Mei long'', only to discover they're actually ''dead'' from carbon dioxide suffocation, and he and his crew immediately flee the area, narrowly avoiding the same fate.
* DeadlyGas: One of the major threats of Early Cretaceous China are the releases of toxic gas from volcanic activity. Nigel comes across what initially appear to be a sleeping pack of ''Mei long'', only to discover they're actually ''dead'' from carbon dioxide suffocation, and he and his crew immediately flee the area, narrowly avoiding the same fate.
* DoomedHurtGuy: The mother ''Tyrannosaurus'' is gored by a ''Triceratops'' during a hunt. Her injury makes her easy for Nigel to track, since her stride is clearly that of a limping animal, and she is killed at the end of the episode by another ''Tyrannosaurus''.
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* EatsBabies: Tyrannosaurus (or at least adult males) are shown in this series to be willing to snack on baby tyrannosaurus that aren't directly related to them. This gets PlayedForDrama in that the mother of Terrence and Matilda ends up getting killed by an adult male that she fights precisely for the sake of preventing said male from eating her young.
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* EatsBabies: Tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' (or at least adult males) are shown in this series to be willing to snack on baby tyrannosaurus ''Tyrannosaurus'' that aren't directly related to them. This gets PlayedForDrama in that the mother of Terrence and Matilda ends up getting killed by an adult male that she fights precisely for the sake of preventing said male from eating her young.young.
* EscapedAnimalRampage: In the last episode, one of the titanosaurs gets spooked and stampedes through the park, busting through several pens. The terror bird, the ''Elasmotherium'', and the ''Ornithomimus'' getting loose are only minor nuisances, but Matilda the ''Tyrannosaurus'' getting loose is a much bigger problem. Fortunately, the incident is resolved without any fatalities, but there are numerous close calls.
* EscapedAnimalRampage: In the last episode, one of the titanosaurs gets spooked and stampedes through the park, busting through several pens. The terror bird, the ''Elasmotherium'', and the ''Ornithomimus'' getting loose are only minor nuisances, but Matilda the ''Tyrannosaurus'' getting loose is a much bigger problem. Fortunately, the incident is resolved without any fatalities, but there are numerous close calls.
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** From the true birds' side, ''Phorusrhacos''.''Phorusrhacos'', as a giant predatory avian that was once the apex predator of South America, before sabre-tooth cats arrived from the north.
* FunnyPhoneMisunderstanding: In the fourth episode, Nigel asks Bob over the walkie-talkie to build a pen to house a giant bird, but the message ends up garbled and Bob returns with a small hanging bird cage. Nigel has to explain the bird he's going to capture is much, ''much'' bigger than that.
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* TheMagicComesBack: The whole point of the series is to showcase Nigel and his team at the titular park going back in time and bringing creatures that [[TheMagicGoesAway have sadly gone extinct]] into the safety of the present where they may have a second chance at life.
* MammothsMeanIceAge: The second episode -- "A Mammoth Undertaking" -- sees Nigel Marven travel back to the Ice Age to rescue its megafauna. His original intent is specifically to rescue a mammoth, and it is on these creatures, their lifestyle, their diet, their impact on their environment and the causes for their extinction that most of the segment is spent, with other animals largely restricted to very brief one-off appearances. The one exception to this is ''Elasmotherium'', a one-horned woolly rhino the size of an elephant, that Nigel runs into by accident and also brings to the future.
* MammothsMeanIceAge: The second episode -- "A Mammoth Undertaking" -- sees Nigel Marven travel back to the Ice Age to rescue its megafauna. His original intent is specifically to rescue a mammoth, and it is on these creatures, their lifestyle, their diet, their impact on their environment and the causes for their extinction that most of the segment is spent, with other animals largely restricted to very brief one-off appearances. The one exception to this is ''Elasmotherium'', a one-horned woolly rhino the size of an elephant, that Nigel runs into by accident and also brings to the future.
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* {{Imprinting}}: Bob decides to try and incubate two ''Ornithomimus'' eggs that had been knocked out of the nest. He's ultimately successful, but because he was the first living thing they saw when they hatched, they consider him their mother and follow him around like big ducklings.
* InstantSedation: Averted. Matilda breaks into Terrance's side of their enclosure and starts fighting her brother for the territory, and starts savagely biting him. Bob darts her with a tranquilizer, but as the narration notes, it takes time for the narcotic to take effect, giving Matilda the opportunity to nearly kill her brother before Nigel can distract her, allowing the tranquilizer to finally start working.
* TheJuggernaut: The titanosaurs. They're so big that they can easily plow down any fence in their path, which they do repeatedly when searching for food, making the job of containing them rather difficult. A single stampeding titanosaur ends up causing a mass breakout in the last episode as it tramples every fence in its path.
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life. The series shows the preliminary stages, first bringing back a handful of different animals to test the waters before establishing breeding populations.
* MammothsMeanIceAge: The second episode -- "A Mammoth Undertaking" -- sees Nigel Marven travel back to the Ice Age to rescue its megafauna. His original intent is specifically to rescue a mammoth, and it is on these creatures, their lifestyle, their diet, their impact on their environment and the causes for their extinction that most of the segment is spent, with other animals largely restricted to very brief one-off appearances. The one exception to this is ''Elasmotherium'', a one-horned woolly rhino the size of an elephant, that Nigel runs into by accident and also brings to the future. A later episode shows that the shaggy, tundra-adapted woolly mammoth is coping poorly to the much warmer climate of present day Prehistoric Park, and needs to be clipped to avoid overheating.
* InstantSedation: Averted. Matilda breaks into Terrance's side of their enclosure and starts fighting her brother for the territory, and starts savagely biting him. Bob darts her with a tranquilizer, but as the narration notes, it takes time for the narcotic to take effect, giving Matilda the opportunity to nearly kill her brother before Nigel can distract her, allowing the tranquilizer to finally start working.
* TheJuggernaut: The titanosaurs. They're so big that they can easily plow down any fence in their path, which they do repeatedly when searching for food, making the job of containing them rather difficult. A single stampeding titanosaur ends up causing a mass breakout in the last episode as it tramples every fence in its path.
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* MammothsMeanIceAge: The second episode -- "A Mammoth Undertaking" -- sees Nigel Marven travel back to the Ice Age to rescue its megafauna. His original intent is specifically to rescue a mammoth, and it is on these creatures, their lifestyle, their diet, their impact on their environment and the causes for their extinction that most of the segment is spent, with other animals largely restricted to very brief one-off appearances. The one exception to this is ''Elasmotherium'', a one-horned woolly rhino the size of an elephant, that Nigel runs into by accident and also brings to the future. A later episode shows that the shaggy, tundra-adapted woolly mammoth is coping poorly to the much warmer climate of present day Prehistoric Park, and needs to be clipped to avoid overheating.
* NoBiochemicalBarriers:
** Discussed and subverted. Nigel is stung by ''Pulmonoscorpio'', and is worried about what the venom of such a huge scorpion could do to him. Fortunately, the venom doesn't really affect him, because it never evolved the ability to damage mammalian tissue (because mammals did not appear for roughly another hundred million years after ''Pulmonoscorpio'' died out).
** In the episode it's discussed and double subverted regarding medication for Terrance the ''Tyrannosaurus''. Suzanne is cautious about giving him antibiotics to treat an infected wound because she has no idea how it might negatively affect him, but she is forced to do so when she sees his wound has become septic. Fortunately, he survives the experience. Then he wakes up from the sedatives given to him much more quickly than expected and starts trashing the vet clinic.
** Discussed and subverted. Nigel is stung by ''Pulmonoscorpio'', and is worried about what the venom of such a huge scorpion could do to him. Fortunately, the venom doesn't really affect him, because it never evolved the ability to damage mammalian tissue (because mammals did not appear for roughly another hundred million years after ''Pulmonoscorpio'' died out).
** In the episode it's discussed and double subverted regarding medication for Terrance the ''Tyrannosaurus''. Suzanne is cautious about giving him antibiotics to treat an infected wound because she has no idea how it might negatively affect him, but she is forced to do so when she sees his wound has become septic. Fortunately, he survives the experience. Then he wakes up from the sedatives given to him much more quickly than expected and starts trashing the vet clinic.
* NoNameGiven: The titanosaurs are the only park animal not referred to by a specific name, presumably because at the time of the show's production, the Yixian Formation sauropods had not been formally described.
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* PlotHole: When Nigel and Saba arrive in prehistoric times too late to save the ''Smilodon'' cubs, they just mourn. Hello, time machine, anyone? This applies to other episodes too, like the first, when Nigel has to act really quick to avoid getting killed by the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous. He could easily have gone back in time to a few days/weeks/months earlier. Maybe Nigel and Saba were worried that, if they used the time machine to "try again," [[TemporalParadox they'd run into themselves from the original timeline]]. Also possible that the time portal isn't that accurate and they've no guarantee that they could pinpoint that time/space again.
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* PlotHole: When RaceAgainstTheClock: The very first episode has Nigel and Saba arrive in prehistoric times too late to save the ''Smilodon'' cubs, crew travel back to only a few days before the K-Pg extinction event to capture a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. Although there's no physical clock, they just mourn. Hello, know time machine, anyone? This applies to other episodes too, like the first, is dwindling when shooting stars begin to light up the night skies, the harbingers of [[ColonyDrop you know what]]. Nigel has just ''barely'' makes it in time, managing to act really quick to avoid getting killed by the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous. He could easily have gone back in time to a few days/weeks/months earlier. Maybe Nigel and Saba were worried that, if they used the time machine to "try again," [[TemporalParadox they'd run into themselves from the original timeline]]. Also possible that lure two ''T. rex'' adolescents through the time portal isn't just seconds before the meteor's blast wipes out the entire region.
* RaptorAttack: Although the only dromaeosaur thataccurate appears in the series is the obviously harmless ''Microraptor'', troodontids, in the form of ''Mei'' and they've no guarantee that they could pinpoint that time/space again. ''Troodon'', appear in two episodes as major hinderances and aggressive pack-hunters all the same, and featherless on top of that.
* RaptorAttack: Although the only dromaeosaur that
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: One of the locales visited is the Early Cretaceous of China, likely because many major discoveries of feathered dinosaurs had emerged from the region (at the time) very recently. Taxa featured like ''Microraptor'', ''Mei'', and ''Incisivosaurus'' had only been described a few years prior to the show's production (''Mei'' in particular was only described in late 2004, while the show ran in mid 2006).
* RogerRabbitEffect: Both humans and animals are filmed interacting with puppets, animatronics, and CG models of long-extinct prehistoric animals. In particular, Martha the woolly mammoth's integration with a herd of elephants was filmed with an animatronic mammoth head in front of a real elephant herd, and the interactions were real.
* RogerRabbitEffect: Both humans and animals are filmed interacting with puppets, animatronics, and CG models of long-extinct prehistoric animals. In particular, Martha the woolly mammoth's integration with a herd of elephants was filmed with an animatronic mammoth head in front of a real elephant herd, and the interactions were real.
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** The purpose of the keepers is just to "resurrect" the coolest animals. One of the most remembered scenes is, obviously, the two most iconic prehistoric giants (''T. rex'' and the woolly mammoth) ''fighting each other''. This time ItMakesSenseInContext.
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** The purpose of the keepers is just to "resurrect" the coolest animals.animals, something made quite clear immediately when the very first animal picked is ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. One of the most remembered scenes is, obviously, the two most iconic prehistoric giants (''T. rex'' and the woolly mammoth) ''fighting each other''. This time ItMakesSenseInContext.
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* RuleOfScary: Both ''Mei long'' and ''Troodon'' are depicted exclusively as aggressive carnivores. Being troodontids, both should be omnivores and would not see humans as prey, ''especially'' in the former's case, as it was absolutely ''tiny''.
* SavageWolves: In the same episode as the cave bear incident, when Nigel tries to keep the weakened mammoth Martha alive, a pack of wolves turn up out of freaking nowhere in the night, with green eyes of doom, shouting and barking, hoping to kill her. (They would never attempt to tackle such a large animal in reality). Nigel chases them away.
* SavageWolves: In the same episode as the cave bear incident, when Nigel tries to keep the weakened mammoth Martha alive, a pack of wolves turn up out of freaking nowhere in the night, with green eyes of doom, shouting and barking, hoping to kill her. (They would never attempt to tackle such a large animal in reality). Nigel chases them away.
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* ShoutOut: Aside from being the name for the young ''Triceratops'', Theo is also the name of Nigel's RealLife son.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The whole concept of ''Prehistoric Park'' is a spiritual successor to [[Film/JurassicPark a particular movie with dinosaurs in a park]]...
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* SpiritualSuccessor: SpannerInTheWorks: Occasionally, Nigel's attempts to capture an animal are hampered by other wildlife getting in the way.
** His expedition is capture ''Microraptor'' is quickly sabotaged by ''Mei'', which raid the backpacks for the food inside them, and then a trap is trampled by a pair of fighting ''Incisivosaurus''.
** His initial attempt to net a ''Meganeura'' is ruined when he's attacked by the predatory amphibian ''Crassigyrinus'' lurking in the swamp water, giving him a nasty bite wound on his leg. Although even when he's not interrupted, he has very little luck with the net either way.
** Thewhole concept meat meant to lure the ''Deinosuchus'' is repeatedly stolen by ''Troodon'', forcing Nigel to use himself as bait, and even worse, one of ''Prehistoric Park'' them manages to sneak back to the present day and ends up unintentionally causing a mass breakout.
* TemperCeratops: Played realistically. The first animal brought back is aspiritual successor to [[Film/JurassicPark sub-adult male ''Triceratops''. He's soon getting aggressive in his pen, and Bob figures out it's because he's becoming sexually mature. He modifies a particular movie tractor into an armoured fighting vehicle and helps the dinosaur work off some steam with dinosaurs in some jousting matches.
* ThatsNoMoon: While transporting the Carboniferous mega-arthropods back to camp, Nigel trips over what appears to be apark]]...fallen log. It's actually an ''Arthropleura'' resting beneath the leaf litter. Nigel then makes it his mission to rescue the gigantic millipede from the incoming forest fire.
** His expedition is capture ''Microraptor'' is quickly sabotaged by ''Mei'', which raid the backpacks for the food inside them, and then a trap is trampled by a pair of fighting ''Incisivosaurus''.
** His initial attempt to net a ''Meganeura'' is ruined when he's attacked by the predatory amphibian ''Crassigyrinus'' lurking in the swamp water, giving him a nasty bite wound on his leg. Although even when he's not interrupted, he has very little luck with the net either way.
** The
* TemperCeratops: Played realistically. The first animal brought back is a
* ThatsNoMoon: While transporting the Carboniferous mega-arthropods back to camp, Nigel trips over what appears to be a
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** The sabre teeth of ''Smilodon'' are stated to be incisors - they are actually canines.
** Nigel refers to ''Thylacoleo'' as a cat, when it was a marsupial. He even mentions its pouch, yet still seems to think it's a cat!
** Nigel refers to ''Thylacoleo'' as a cat, when it was a marsupial. He even mentions its pouch, yet still seems to think it's a cat!
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** Supplementary material suggests they named the female ''Smilodon'' Samantha.
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** Supplementary material suggests they named the female ''Smilodon'' Samantha.Sabrina.
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* SavageWolves: In the same episode as the cave bear incident, when Nigel tries to keep the weakened mammoth Martha alive, a pack of wolves turn up out of freaking nowhere in the night, with green eyes of doom, shouting and barking, hoping to kill her. Nigel chases them away.
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* SavageWolves: In the same episode as the cave bear incident, when Nigel tries to keep the weakened mammoth Martha alive, a pack of wolves turn up out of freaking nowhere in the night, with green eyes of doom, shouting and barking, hoping to kill her. (They would never attempt to tackle such a large animal in reality). Nigel chases them away.
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* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' have a significant role in the series and are the species focused on in the first episode, but their smaller cousin, ''Albertosaurus'' also makes an appearance in the sixth episode living alongside the Deinosuchus.
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%%* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The show has been described as the ''Series/CrocodileHunter'' with dinosaurs (and a whole lot of other creatures).%%And?
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: When the K-Pg asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere, its arrival casts a vast creeping shadow on the landscape. However, a meteor would not cast a shadow because friction would almost instantly turn its surface molten, causing it to glow incredibly brightly. For a meteor of ''this'' size, one would not even be able to see the classic streaking comet tail because of how utterly huge and luminescent it would be; the entire sky would just be instantaneously blinding white.
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** The ''Triceratops'' is depicted as living in huge herds like wildebeests or bison. While this is plausible for many other ceratopsid species like ''Centrosaurus'' or ''Styracosaurus'', which are known from dense bonebeds suggestive of large herds, ''Triceratops'' was probably a much more solitary animal. Despite being one of the most common North American dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous, ''Triceratops'' fossils are almost all found singly or in very small groups.
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* GiantFlyer: Pterosaurs, though these aren't technically of the giant variant. Despite this, the show didn't miss the opportunity to play out the classic scene of a sea monster lunging out of the water and dragging one down. This paleoart-trope is played straight ''and'' subverted at the same time in the Supercroc episode: the giant sea reptile is not the classic [[StockDinosaurs ichthyosaur/elasmosaur/mosasaur/pliosaur]] but the giant alligator ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLife Deinosuchus]]'' (note that this may be TruthInTelevision, since modern saltwater crocodiles ''do'' live in the sea as well).
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* GiantFlyer: Pterosaurs, though these aren't technically of the giant variant. Despite this, the show didn't miss the opportunity to play out the classic scene of a sea monster lunging out of the water and dragging one down. This paleoart-trope is played straight ''and'' subverted at the same time in the Supercroc episode: the giant sea reptile is not the classic [[StockDinosaurs ichthyosaur/elasmosaur/mosasaur/pliosaur]] ichthyosaur/elasmosaur/mosasaur/pliosaur but the giant alligator ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLife Deinosuchus]]'' (note that this may be TruthInTelevision, since modern saltwater crocodiles ''do'' live in the sea as well).
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* StockDinosaurs:
** ''Tyrannosaurus'', the "main" dinosaurs of the show, named Terence and Matilda.
** ''Triceratops'', named Theo.
** ''Parasaurolophus'' appears in the sixth episode, in the classic "main prey" role (but this time the duckbill is food for the giant alligator ''Deinosuchus''). Many more hadrosaurs lived in the same habitat in RealLife (''Corythosaurus'' and ''Maiasaura'', to name merely two examples), but they were probably judged "not as cool".
** ''Ornithomimus'': They have a major role in the story, and are portrayed in a non-conventional way: as duck-like filter feeders (this was a popular theory at the time among scientists, but now is largely discredited). The genus chosen is ''Ornithomimus'' (again they did the research since it was the only ostrich-mimic dino other than ''Struthiomimus'' which really lived alongside ''T. rex'').
** There are also some well-known Stock Pleistocene Megafauna in the show (A Woolly Mammoth, A pair of Smilodon, and a Woolly Rhino)
** ''Tyrannosaurus'', the "main" dinosaurs of the show, named Terence and Matilda.
** ''Triceratops'', named Theo.
** ''Parasaurolophus'' appears in the sixth episode, in the classic "main prey" role (but this time the duckbill is food for the giant alligator ''Deinosuchus''). Many more hadrosaurs lived in the same habitat in RealLife (''Corythosaurus'' and ''Maiasaura'', to name merely two examples), but they were probably judged "not as cool".
** ''Ornithomimus'': They have a major role in the story, and are portrayed in a non-conventional way: as duck-like filter feeders (this was a popular theory at the time among scientists, but now is largely discredited). The genus chosen is ''Ornithomimus'' (again they did the research since it was the only ostrich-mimic dino other than ''Struthiomimus'' which really lived alongside ''T. rex'').
** There are also some well-known Stock Pleistocene Megafauna in the show (A Woolly Mammoth, A pair of Smilodon, and a Woolly Rhino)
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* ToServeMan: The ''T. rex'' immediately choose to chase Nigel just after seeing him, despite all the ''[[StockDinosaurs Ornithomimus]]'' available in that moment... (to be fair, Nigel would've been easier to catch than an ''Ornithomimus'', although a ''Tyrannosaurus'' probably wouldn't know that and, in any case, he wouldn't have provided as substantial a meal.)
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* ToServeMan: The ''T. rex'' immediately choose to chase Nigel just after seeing him, despite all the ''[[StockDinosaurs Ornithomimus]]'' ''Ornithomimus'' available in that moment... (to be fair, Nigel would've been easier to catch than an ''Ornithomimus'', although a ''Tyrannosaurus'' probably wouldn't know that and, in any case, he wouldn't have provided as substantial a meal.)
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* SeldomSeenSpecies:
** ''Nyctosaurus'', ''Elasmotherium'' (instead of the "classic" woolly rhino, ''Coelodonta''), ''Eosipterus'' (the pterosaur from episode 3), ''Incisivosaurus'', ''Mei'', ''Toxodon'', ''Crassigyrinus'', ''Pulmonoscorpius''.
** While sauropods are fairly well seen in media, they tend to be Jurassic ones. The Cretaceous native ones, like the titanosaurs, are rarely seen.
** ''Nyctosaurus'', ''Elasmotherium'' (instead of the "classic" woolly rhino, ''Coelodonta''), ''Eosipterus'' (the pterosaur from episode 3), ''Incisivosaurus'', ''Mei'', ''Toxodon'', ''Crassigyrinus'', ''Pulmonoscorpius''.
** While sauropods are fairly well seen in media, they tend to be Jurassic ones. The Cretaceous native ones, like the titanosaurs, are rarely seen.
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** A common mistake: including the Chinese dino-bird ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLife Microraptor]]'' among the Yixian fauna when it was really from the slightly later Jiufotang Formation. That said, several other taxa of microraptorians did live at Yixian.
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** A common mistake: including the Chinese dino-bird ''[[UsefulNotes/PrehistoricLife Microraptor]]'' among the Yixian fauna when it was really from the slightly later Jiufotang Formation. That said, several other taxa of microraptorians microraptorans did live at Yixian.
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%%* ScaryScorpions: ''Pulmonoscorpius''.
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** The troodonts and ''Ornithomimus'' are both scaly, and the show implies that dinosaurs were cold-blooded.
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** The troodonts and don't have enough feathers, ''Ornithomimus'' are both scaly, lacks feathers altogether, and the show implies that dinosaurs were cold-blooded.
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* BellisariosMaxim: There's some sort of apparatus that creates the time portals needed to transport people and creatures back and forth through time. However, its inner workings, origins, and rules of use are never explained, probably because it's irrelevant.
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* ExtinctAnimalPark: The show's premise is built around the use of time travel to bring extinct animals -- various types of dinosaurs, wooly mammoths and other Ice Age megafauna, giant Carboniferous arthropods, etc. -- to the present in a zoo in Africa. The episodes' stories alternate between the retrieval of new residents and the zookeepers' attempts at keeping the already-obtained ones fed, healthy, stimulated, and under control -- which, given that knowledge of the behaviors and ecologies of extinct animals is by necessity speculative at best, requires a lot of trial, error, and creative thinking. Notable incidents include multiple failed attempts at building sauropod-proof enclosures, dressing up a tractor to resemble a ''Triceratops'' in order to give an adolescent male trike something to blow off steam against by fighting, and dealing with a solitary mammoth's depression by convincing a herd of elephants to take her in.
