History Series / WhenDinosaursRuled

* StockFootage: The stop-motion ''T. rex'' footage that is used throughout the series is from ''Series/TheUltimateGuideTRex''.

** ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is said to have averaged 50 feet long (15 metres), when the biggest was no more then 40 ft (12.3 metres). The narrator also claims that it's name means "Terrible Lizard", which is actually what Dinosaur means, when it really means Tyrant Lizard King.

** ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is said to have averaged 50 feet long (15 metres), when the biggest was no more then 40 ft (12.3 metres).

''When Dinosaurs Ruled'' is a 1999-2000 six-part Creator/DiscoveryChannel/Creator/{{TLC}} SpeculativeDocumentary focusing on (you guessed it) the time dinosaurs ruled our planet, with each episode focusing on the saurian fauna of one particular continent (though one combines Australia and Antarctica), and with narration provided by [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Dr. Ian Malcolm himself]], Creator/JeffGoldblum. [[note]] Colin Stinton narrated the Asia episode.[[/note]]

''When Dinosaurs Ruled'' is a 1999-2000 six-part Creator/DiscoveryChannel/Creator/{{TLC}} SpeculativeDocumentary focusing on (you guessed it) the time dinosaurs ruled our planet, with each episode focusing on the saurian fauna of one particular continent (though one combines Australia and Antarctica), and with narration provided by [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Dr. Ian Malcolm himself]], Creator/JeffGoldblum.

''When Dinosaurs Ruled'' is a 1999 five-part Creator/DiscoveryChannel/Creator/{{TLC}} SpeculativeDocumentary focusing on (you guessed it) the time dinosaurs ruled our planet, with each episode focusing on the saurian fauna of one particular continent (though one combines Australia and Antarctica), and with narration provided by [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Dr. Ian Malcolm himself]], Creator/JeffGoldblum.

** ''Megaraptor'' is erroneously depicted as a massive dromaeosaur (featherless of course), as this was before we discovered that its foot-long sickle claw was actually attached to its arm, not its foot.

''When Dinosaurs Ruled'' is a 1999 five-part Creator/DiscoveryChannel SpeculativeDocumentary focusing on (you guessed it) the time dinosaurs ruled our planet, with each episode focusing on the saurian fauna of one particular continent (though one combines Australia and Antarctica), and with narration provided by [[Film/JurassicPark1993 Dr. Ian Malcolm himself]], Creator/JeffGoldblum.

** Besides looking more like a cross between a gecko and an aye aye running on two legs, ''Velociraptor'' is described as an incredibly fast predator that could run down any prey. In reality, dromaeosaurs weren’t particularly great runners (they were agile and well-balanced though) and relied mainly on ambush attacks and sprinting. It’s also said to be the size of a wolf, when it was actually the size of a coyote (around 30-40 lb).

** ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is said to have averaged 50 feet long.

* NoNameGiven: ''Gargantuavis'' is brought up during the segment about Late Cretaceous France and we even see fossils of it, but it’s only ever identified as a “large bird”.

* LaymansTerms: Both the narrator and TalkingHeads generally avoid trying to use many "scientific terms". Theropods are simply called predatory dinosaurs and ''Baryonyx'' is described as “vaguely resembling a T. rex”, but perhaps most notably, the episode about Asian dinosaurs tries to explain how tyrannosaurs and therizinosaurs are coelurosaurs and thus related to the smaller dromaeosaurs and oviraptorosaurs (pennaraptorans), but the latter are simply called “raptors” and the term “coelurosaur” isn’t used, which (coupled with some confusing wording from the narrator) [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology makes it sound as if tyrannosaurs and therizinosaurs were descendants of dromaeosaurs]].

* LaymansTerms: Both the narrator and TalkingHeads generally avoid trying to use scientific terms. Theropods are simply called predatory dinosaurs and ''Baryonyx'' is described as “vaguely resembling a T. rex”, but perhaps most notably, the episode about Asian dinosaurs tries to explain how tyrannosaurs are coelurosaurs and thus related to the maniraptorans (here represented by dromaeosaurs and oviraptorosaurs) but the latter are simply called “raptors” and the term “coelurosaur” isn’t used, which (coupled with some confusing wording from the narrator) [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology makes it sound as if tyrannosaurs were descendants of dromaeosaurs]].

* LaymansTerms: The episode about Asian dinosaurs tries to explain that tyrannosaurs are coelurosaurs and thus related to the maniraptorans (represented by dromaeosaurs and oviraptorosaurs) but the latter are simply called “raptors” (even by the TalkingHeads) and the term “coelurosaur” isn’t used, which (coupled with some confusing wording from the narrator) [[ArtisticLicensePaleontology makes it sound as if tyrannosaurs were descendants of dromaeosaurs]].