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* GracefulLoser: Paleontologist Kevin Padian, who a decade prior still argued that pterosaurs were bipeds like birds while his colleagues envisioned them as quadrupeds (as seen in ''Series/Paleoworld'') admits that his interpretation was wrong and personally showcases fossilized trackways that show how pterosaurs walked and landed.

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* GracefulLoser: Paleontologist Kevin Padian, who a decade prior still argued that pterosaurs were bipeds like birds while his colleagues envisioned them as quadrupeds (as seen in ''Series/Paleoworld'') ''Series/{{Paleoworld}}'') admits that his interpretation was wrong and personally showcases fossilized trackways that show how pterosaurs walked and landed.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A ''Sarcosuchus'' skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence. One later shows up in a CG recreation chasing off some pterosaurs raiding its nest.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: A ''Sarcosuchus'' skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence. One later shows up in a CG recreation chasing off some pterosaurs raiding its nest.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A ''Sarcosuchus'' skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence. One later shows up in GracefulLoser: Paleontologist Kevin Padian, who a CG recreation chasing off some decade prior still argued that pterosaurs raiding its nest.were bipeds like birds while his colleagues envisioned them as quadrupeds (as seen in ''Series/Paleoworld'') admits that his interpretation was wrong and personally showcases fossilized trackways that show how pterosaurs walked and landed.
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* MisplacedWildlife: Again, due to the doc reusing models constantly, we see ''Parasaurolophus'' appearing in the same scene as the African anhanguerid, [[AnachronismStew 110 million years ago]].

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* MisplacedWildlife: Again, due to the doc reusing models constantly, we see ''Parasaurolophus'' appearing in the same scene as the African anhanguerid, [[AnachronismStew 110 million years ago]].ago]] (again, an iguanodont like ''Ouranosaurus'' would make more sense).
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''Sky Monsters'' is a 200t TVDocumentary airing on Creator/{{National Geographic Channel}}, focusing on pterosaurs.

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''Sky Monsters'' is a 200t 2005 TVDocumentary airing on Creator/{{National Geographic Channel}}, focusing on pterosaurs.

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* AnachronismStew: Due to the documentary constantly recycling models, we see animals from the Early Cretaceous mingling with those from the very end of the Cretaceous. Case in point, ''Anhanguera'' is twice shown soaring over a pair of T. rex, and the latter, along with the ''Saurornitholestes'' and ''Parasaurolophus'', shows up in the opening scene which is stated to take place 100 million years ago. You could say the raptor is meant to be an earlier species like ''Deinonychus'' but giant tyrannosaurids and hadrosaurs would not evolve until the Late Cretaceous (a carcharodontosaurid and iguanodont would make more sense).



* GiantFlyer: The giant azhdarchids ''Quetzalcoatlus'' and ''Cryodrakon'', which are played by the same model and never cited as separate animals (partially because they were thought to be the same genus at the time).

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* GiantFlyer: The giant azhdarchids ''Quetzalcoatlus'' and ''Cryodrakon'', which are played by the same model and never cited as separate animals (partially because they were thought to be the same genus at the time). The documentary suggests that there were pterosaurs that would have dwarfed even them (though evidence for that turned out to be in error).


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* MisplacedWildlife: Again, due to the doc reusing models constantly, we see ''Parasaurolophus'' appearing in the same scene as the African anhanguerid, [[AnachronismStew 110 million years ago]].
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* NoNameGiven: Going hand in hand with the LaymansTerms issue, none of the titular "sky monsters" are properly identified (sans ''Nyctosaurus''), they are just called pterosaurs, and the same is true for the dinosaurs. Though the paleontologically savvy can identify most of them based on their distinct appearance and/or the time/location they appear in.

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* NoNameGiven: Going hand in hand with the LaymansTerms issue, none most of the titular "sky monsters" are properly identified (sans ''Nyctosaurus''), identified, they are just called pterosaurs, and the same is true for the dinosaurs. Though the paleontologically savvy can identify most of them based on their distinct appearance and/or the time/location they appear in.

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* NoNameGiven: Going hand in hand with the LaymansTerms issue, none of the titular "sky monsters" are ever properly identified, they are just called pterosaurs, and the same is true for the dinosaurs. Though the paleontologically savvy can identify most of them based on their distinct appearance and/or the time/location they appear in.

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* NoNameGiven: Going hand in hand with the LaymansTerms issue, none of the titular "sky monsters" are ever properly identified, identified (sans ''Nyctosaurus''), they are just called pterosaurs, and the same is true for the dinosaurs. Though the paleontologically savvy can identify most of them based on their distinct appearance and/or the time/location they appear in.


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* PerilousPrehistoricSeas: ''Nyctosaurus'' is shown getting caught by a ''Tylosaurus''.
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* RaptorAttack: The ''Saurornitholestes'' in this looks like it leaped straight out of a cheap ''Jurassic Park'' tie-in video game, being completely scaly, having slit pupils, broken wrists, no lips, and two of them are shown taking down a fully grown ''Cryodrakon'' with minimal effort, despite the latter being the size of a giraffe! Note that the fossil on which this scene was based belonged to a ''juvenile animal'', and even then, workers speculated that it was a case of scavenging.

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* RaptorAttack: The ''Saurornitholestes'' in this looks like it leaped straight out of a cheap ''Jurassic Park'' tie-in video game, being completely scaly, having slit pupils, broken wrists, no lips, lips (to the point that its entire tooth row and gums are exposed!), and two of them are shown taking down a fully grown ''Cryodrakon'' with minimal effort, despite the latter being the size of a giraffe! Note that the fossil on which this scene was based belonged to a ''juvenile animal'', and even then, workers speculated that it was a case of scavenging.
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* RaptorAttack:

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* RaptorAttack: The ''Saurornitholestes'' in this looks like it leaped straight out of a cheap ''Jurassic Park'' tie-in video game, being completely scaly, having slit pupils, broken wrists, no lips, and two of them are shown taking down a fully grown ''Cryodrakon'' with minimal effort, despite the latter being the size of a giraffe! Note that the fossil on which this scene was based belonged to a ''juvenile animal'', and even then, workers speculated that it was a case of scavenging.

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: A [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Sarcosuchus]] skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence. One later shows up in a CG recreation chasing off some pterosaurs raiding its nest.

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* GiantFlyer: The giant azhdarchids ''Quetzalcoatlus'' and ''Cryodrakon'', which are played by the same model and never cited as separate animals (partially because they were thought to be the same genus at the time).
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Sarcosuchus]] ''Sarcosuchus'' skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence. One later shows up in a CG recreation chasing off some pterosaurs raiding its nest.



* RaptorAttack: A naked, cat-eyed saurornitholestes straight out of ''Jurassic Park'' appears.

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** Justified with the anhanguerids found alongside ''Sarcosuchus'', as they still haven't been properly described.
* RaptorAttack: A naked, cat-eyed saurornitholestes straight out of ''Jurassic Park'' appears.
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* NoNameGiven: Going hand in hand with the LaymansTerms issue, none of the titular "sky monsters" are ever properly identified, they are just called pterosaurs, and the same is true for the dinosaurs. Though the paleontologically savvy can identify most of them based on their distinct appearance and/or the time/location they appear in.
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''Sky Monsters'' is a 200t TvDocumentary airing on Creator/{{National Geographic Channel}}, focusing on pterosaurs.

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''Sky Monsters'' is a 200t TvDocumentary TVDocumentary airing on Creator/{{National Geographic Channel}}, focusing on pterosaurs.
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''Sky Monsters'' is a 2004 documentary airing on Creator/{{National Geographic Channel}}, focusing on pterosaurs.

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''Sky Monsters'' is a 2004 documentary 200t TvDocumentary airing on Creator/{{National Geographic Channel}}, focusing on pterosaurs.

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* PteroSoarer: Here and there, though its still very good overall.



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* Foreshadowing: A [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Sarcosuchus]] skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence. One later shows up in a CG recreation chasing off some pterosaurs raiding its nest.

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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: A [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Sarcosuchus]] skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence. One later shows up in a CG recreation chasing off some pterosaurs raiding its nest.
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''Sky Monsters'' is a 2004 documentary airing on National Geographic Channel, focusing on pterosaurs.

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''Sky Monsters'' is a 2004 documentary airing on National Creator/{{National Geographic Channel, Channel}}, focusing on pterosaurs.
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* Foreshadowing: A sarcosuchus skeleton is briefly seen in one sequence in Paris' National Museum of Natural History. One later shows up in a CG recreation.
* EiffelTowerEffect: Due to the above-mentioned meuseum

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* Foreshadowing: A sarcosuchus skeleton is briefly seen EiffelTowerEffect: It appears in one sequence in as a ''Pterodactylus'' flies out the window of Paris' National Museum of Natural History. History.
* GiantFlyer:
* Foreshadowing: A [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile Sarcosuchus]] skeleton is briefly seen in the above sequence.
One later shows up in a CG recreation.
* EiffelTowerEffect: Due to the above-mentioned meuseum
recreation chasing off some pterosaurs raiding its nest.
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* Foreshadowing: A sarcosuchus skeleton is briefly seen in one sequence in Paris' National Museum of Natural History. One later shows up in a CG recreation.
* EiffelTowerEffect: Due to the above-mentioned meuseum



* RaptorAttack: A naked, cat-eyed saurornitholestes straight out of ''Jurassic Park'' appears.

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* RaptorAttack: A naked, cat-eyed saurornitholestes straight out of ''Jurassic Park'' appears.appears.
* ShownTheirWork
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''Sky Monsters'' is a 2004 documentary airing on National Geographic Channel, focusing on pterosaurs.
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*PteroSoarer: Here and there, though its still very good overall.
*RaptorAttack: A naked, cat-eyed saurornitholestes straight out of ''Jurassic Park'' appears.

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