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** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric megafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria'' while the basic plot of that short (a familt trying to outmaneuver an attacking tyrannosaur) was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".

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** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric megafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria'' while the basic plot of that short (a familt family trying to outmaneuver an attacking tyrannosaur) was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".
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** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric megafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria'' while the basic plot of that short (a human father and his daughter trying to outmaneuver an attacking ''Tyrannosaurus'') was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".

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** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric megafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria'' while the basic plot of that short (a human father and his daughter familt trying to outmaneuver an attacking ''Tyrannosaurus'') tyrannosaur) was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".
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* ShownTheirWork: Despite not being a proper documentary, the series has an admirable amount of small details and references to specific paleontological discoveries of the last decade or so.
** The two main ''Styracosaurus'' males in "Old Buck" are each based on a specific real-world specimen with unique horn configurations, and the overall variation in designs among the whole species is reflective of the recent discovery of the extent of individual variation in ''Styracosaurus albertensis''.
*** The old male's inward-pointing frill horns are based on the formerly proposed holotype of ''Styracosaurus ovatus'', which was sunk into the type species of ''Styracosaurus'', ''S. albertensis'', in 2020 after being considered a distinct species and even genus[[note]]being referred to ''Rubeosaurus'' in 2010[[/note]] for almost 90 years.
*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] (nicknamed [[GenderBlenderName "Hannah"]]), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other. It also has a pathology on the lower left base of its frill that was incorporated into the design.
** All of the hadrosaurus have a large hoof/nail on their main toe on their forefeet, per the (still unpublished) late 2019 discovery of this feature in an ''Edmontosaurus'' "mummy".
** Unlike other onscreen depictions of the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', which are usually modeled after the earlier and southern-dwelling species ''P. lakustai'', here the proper species, ''P. perotorum'', is properly shown.
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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: In a pinned comment on the teaser for "Our Frozen Past", Armsby says that this episode is "easily my favorite of the series".

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* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: In a pinned comment on the teaser for "Our Frozen Past", Armsby says that this episode is "easily my favorite of the series". "Sea and Sky" is his second favorite as well.
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* DeletedScene: While every short has scenes that didn't make the cut, Armsby pointed out that a lot of what would become "A More Ancient Spring" was left on the cutting room floor, including a few alternate endings, a scene of the ''Gorgosaurus'' killing the female ''Lambeosaurus'', an encounter between the male ''Lambeosaurus'' and one of the ''Euoplocephalus'', and a few shots with a more water-color style background.
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** "I don't think this film is bad, at all. I think it looks decent, it's animated well, I think it's a well-paced film with a beginning, a satisfying escalation, and an end, and a point - but this film was conceived and choreographed by smashing two dinosaur toys together and to me, it certainly shows."

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** "I -->"I don't think this film is bad, at all. I think it looks decent, it's animated well, I think it's a well-paced film with a beginning, a satisfying escalation, and an end, and a point - but this film was conceived and choreographed by smashing two dinosaur toys together and to me, it certainly shows."
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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] (nicknamed [[GenderBlenderName "Hannah"]]), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other. It also has a pathology on lower left base of its frill that was incorporated into the design.

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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] (nicknamed [[GenderBlenderName "Hannah"]]), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other. It also has a pathology on the lower left base of its frill that was incorporated into the design.
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** Which is given a cheeky LampshadeHanging in the making-of video about "Our Frozen Past" with a little "pop!" noise when the scene plays for the story review.

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* {{Blooper}}: The baby troodontid briefly clips onto the scene at the end of "Our Frozen Past" before the mother runs on.



** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric magafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria'' while the basic plot of that short (a human father and his daughter trying to outmaneuver an attacking ''Tyrannosaurus'') was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".

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** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric magafauna megafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria'' while the basic plot of that short (a human father and his daughter trying to outmaneuver an attacking ''Tyrannosaurus'') was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".
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** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic saga about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria''.

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** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic saga story called "All Days" about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs and other prehistoric magafauna returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria''.''Dinosauria'' while the basic plot of that short (a human father and his daughter trying to outmaneuver an attacking ''Tyrannosaurus'') was reused as the plot for "Our Frozen Past".
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* DeathOfAChild: In an interview on the ''Love In the Time of Chasmosaurus'' podcast, [[WordOfGod Armsby mentioned]] there is a major death of a young dinosaur character. [[spoiler: "Our Frozen Past" has a ''Troodon'' chick get killed and eaten by a ''Nanuqsaurus'']].

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* DeathOfAChild: In an interview on the ''Love In the Time of Chasmosaurus'' podcast, [[WordOfGod Armsby mentioned]] there is a major death of a young dinosaur character.

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* DeathOfAChild: In an interview on the ''Love In the Time of Chasmosaurus'' podcast, [[WordOfGod Armsby mentioned]] there is a major death of a young dinosaur character. [[spoiler: "Our Frozen Past" has a ''Troodon'' chick get killed and eaten by a ''Nanuqsaurus'']].



* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes that were ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the evolution of paleoart through the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes that were ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the evolution of paleoart through the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.''Spinosaurus''.
** The series started life as a post-apocalyptic saga about humans trying to survive a world where a cataclysm briefly merged all time eras together, resulting in dinosaurs returning and roaming about. While the apocalypse was scrapped, the dinosaur models were reused for ''Dinosauria''.
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** Unlike other onscreen depictions of the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', which are usually the earlier and southern-dwelling species ''P. lakustai'', here the proper species, ''P. perotorum'', is properly shown.

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** Unlike other onscreen depictions of the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', which are usually modeled after the earlier and southern-dwelling species ''P. lakustai'', here the proper species, ''P. perotorum'', is properly shown.
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* ContentWarnings: The description of the teaser for "Old Buck" features one of these, with Armsby warning viewers about the brutal nature of the film's fight scene and advising that children and parents not interpret its medium and saurian subject matter as meaning that it's kiddie fare.

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* ContentWarnings: The description of the teaser for "Old Buck" features one of these, with Armsby warning viewers about the brutal nature of the film's fight scene and advising that children and parents not interpret its animated medium and saurian subject matter as meaning that it's kiddie fare.
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* DeathOfAChild: In an interview on the ''Love In the Time of Chasmosaurus'' podcast, Armsby mentioned there is a major death of a young dinosaur character.

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* CreatorBacklash: In his "Making of" video for "Old Buck", Armsby noted that he's "not particularly proud of the finished film" and considers it the weakest of the five installments, criticizing the creatures for being presented as too anthropomorphized and the fight itself as too gratuitously violent.
** "I don't think this film is bad, at all. I think it looks decent, it's animated well, I think it's a well-paced film with a beginning, a satisfying escalation, and an end, and a point - but this film was conceived and choreographed by smashing two dinosaur toys together and to me, it certainly shows."
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: In a pinned comment on the teaser for "Our Frozen Past", Armsby says that this episode is "easily my favorite of the series".
* DeathOfAChild: In an interview on the ''Love In the Time of Chasmosaurus'' podcast, [[WordOfGod Armsby mentioned mentioned]] there is a major death of a young dinosaur character.



*** The old male's inward-pointing frill horns are based on the formerly proposed holotype of ''Styracosaurus ovatus'', which was sunk into type species of ''Styracosaurus'', ''S. albertensis'', in 2020 after being considered a distinct species and even genus for almost 90 years.
*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]](nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.

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*** The old male's inward-pointing frill horns are based on the formerly proposed holotype of ''Styracosaurus ovatus'', which was sunk into the type species of ''Styracosaurus'', ''S. albertensis'', in 2020 after being considered a distinct species and even genus genus[[note]]being referred to ''Rubeosaurus'' in 2010[[/note]] for almost 90 years.
*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]](nicknamed "Hannah"), Paleontology[[/note]] (nicknamed [[GenderBlenderName "Hannah"]]), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.other. It also has a pathology on lower left base of its frill that was incorporated into the design.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The series is very much an outgrowth of Armsby's previous dinosaur-centric film ''Sharp Teeth'', with one of the stories featuring the same creatures and even editing beats from that film, providing a great way to establish Armsby's ArtEvolution between ''Sharp Teeth'' and ''Dinosauria''.
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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]](nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.

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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP55900=][[note]]University [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]](nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.
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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP[[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] 55900=](nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.

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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP[[note]]University [=UALVP55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] 55900=](nicknamed Paleontology[[/note]](nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.
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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] (nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.

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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University [=UALVP[[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] (nicknamed 55900=](nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.
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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP55900=] (nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.

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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen [=UALVP55900=] [=UALVP 55900=][[note]]University of Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology[[/note]] (nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.
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* ContentWarnings: The description of the teaser for "Old Buck" features one of these, with Armsby warning viewers about the brutal nature of the film's fight scene and advising that children and parents not interpret its medium and saurian subject matter as meaning that it's kiddie fare.
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*** The old male's frill horns are based on the formerly proposed holotype of ''Styracosaurus ovatus'', which was sunk into type species of ''Styracosaurus'', ''S. albertensis'', in 2020 after being considered a distinct species and even genus for almost 90 years.

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*** The old male's inward-pointing frill horns are based on the formerly proposed holotype of ''Styracosaurus ovatus'', which was sunk into type species of ''Styracosaurus'', ''S. albertensis'', in 2020 after being considered a distinct species and even genus for almost 90 years.
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** All of the hadrosaurus have a large hoof/nail on their main toe on their forefeet, per the late (and still unpublished) 2019 discovery of this feature in an ''Edmontosaurus'' "mummy".

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** All of the hadrosaurus have a large hoof/nail on their main toe on their forefeet, per the late (and still (still unpublished) late 2019 discovery of this feature in an ''Edmontosaurus'' "mummy". "mummy".
** Unlike other onscreen depictions of the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', which are usually the earlier and southern-dwelling species ''P. lakustai'', here the proper species, ''P. perotorum'', is properly shown.
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** All of the hadrosaurus have a large hoof/nail on their main toe on their forefeet, per the late (and still unpublished) 2019 discovery of this feature in an ''Edmontosaurus'' "mummy".
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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen UALVP55900 (nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.

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*** The young challenger is based on the specimen UALVP55900 [=UALVP55900=] (nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes that were ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the evolutiono f paleoart through the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.

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* ShownTheirWork: Despite not being a proper documentary, the series has an admirable amount of small details and references to specific paleontological discoveries of the last decade or so.
** The two main ''Styracosaurus'' males in "Old Buck" are each based on a specific real-world specimen with unique horn configurations, and the overall variation in designs among the whole species is reflective of the recent discovery of the extent of individual variation in ''Styracosaurus albertensis''.
*** The old male's frill horns are based on the formerly proposed holotype of ''Styracosaurus ovatus'', which was sunk into type species of ''Styracosaurus'', ''S. albertensis'', in 2020 after being considered a distinct species and even genus for almost 90 years.
*** The young challenger is based on the specimen UALVP55900 (nicknamed "Hannah"), which shows an asymmetrical arrangement with three frill horns on one side and four on the other.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes that were ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the evolutiono f evolution of paleoart through the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes that were ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes that were ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the evolutiono f paleoart through the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes but ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes but that were ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.
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* DeathOfAChild: In an interview on the ''Love In the Time of Chasmosaurus'' podcast, Armsby mentioned there is a major death of a young dinosaur character.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In the aforementioned interview, Armsby said that he'd drawn up storyboards for multiple additional episodes but ultimately shelved, including one about ''Diplodocus'' and one about the changing appearance and understanding of ''Spinosaurus''.

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