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** ''Peteinosaurus'' was just one of several Triassic pterosaurs known at the time, and it wasn't even the most complete, yet its inclusion in "New Blood" gave it a major boost in notoriety. [[ScienceMarchesOn Had the show been made later]], it would have been passed up in favor of a more unique Late Triassic taxon like ''Caviramus'' ([[RuleOfCool which has a distinct head crest]]) or ''Caelestiventus'' (which is actually native to North America).
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** ''Peteinosaurus'' was just one of several Triassic pterosaurs known at the time, and it wasn't even the most complete, yet its inclusion in "New Blood" gave it a major boost in notoriety. [[ScienceMarchesOn Had the show been made later]], it would have been passed up in favor of a more unique Late Triassic taxon like ''Caviramus'' ([[RuleOfCool which has a distinct head crest]]) or ''Caelestiventus'' (which is actually native to North America).
** The makers first intended to do a series on prehistoric mammals and continue with one about dinosaurs, moving further back in time with every episode. However, the producers thought dinosaurs were cooler, which is why this series came first and the others were technical spin-offs instead of new seasons.
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** The makers first intended to do a series on prehistoric mammals and continue with one about dinosaurs, moving further back in time with every episode. However, the producers thought dinosaurs were cooler, which is why this series came first and the others were technical spin-offs instead of new seasons.
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** ''Cryptoclidus'' was just one in a [[{{Pun}} sea]] of generic, small-bodied Jurassic plesiosaurs, but since "Cruel Sea" was based on the Oxford Clay, it was given the limelight due to being the most common plesiosaur in the formation.
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** ''Peteinosaurus'' was just one of several Triassic pterosaurs known at the time, and it wasn't even the most complete, yet its inclusion in "New Blood" gave it a major boost in notoriety.
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** ''Peteinosaurus'' was just one of several Triassic pterosaurs known at the time, and it wasn't even the most complete, yet its inclusion in "New Blood" gave it a major boost in notoriety. [[ScienceMarchesOn Had the show been made later]], it would have been passed up in favor of a more unique Late Triassic taxon like ''Caviramus'' ([[RuleOfCool which has a distinct head crest]]) or ''Caelestiventus'' (which is actually native to North America).
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* OrphanedReference: The 'Cretaceous Cut' (the dialog-free version) of The Movie leaves in a few gags that make no sense without dialog:
** In the theatrical cut, Alex explains some ''Gorgosaurus'' stats to the viewer with close up shots and diagrams (and he keeps getting distracted by its tiny arms). The visuals for this scene are left in the Cretaceous Cut.
** The film gets inexplicably re-wound when Patchi falls in the river (originally, Alex questions Patchi's claim of diving in to save Juniper)
** There is a close up of one of the knocked-out gorgosaurus teeth (which becomes the fossil in the present day scenes)
** The closing credits pop music starts to FadeIn and is interrupted by the gorgosaurus fourth wall break, but the actual credits with that song have been cut.
** In the theatrical cut, Alex explains some ''Gorgosaurus'' stats to the viewer with close up shots and diagrams (and he keeps getting distracted by its tiny arms). The visuals for this scene are left in the Cretaceous Cut.
** The film gets inexplicably re-wound when Patchi falls in the river (originally, Alex questions Patchi's claim of diving in to save Juniper)
** There is a close up of one of the knocked-out gorgosaurus teeth (which becomes the fossil in the present day scenes)
** The closing credits pop music starts to FadeIn and is interrupted by the gorgosaurus fourth wall break, but the actual credits with that song have been cut.
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* OrphanedReference: OrphanedReference:
** The European ''Utahraptor'' wound up being one due to never being given a sufficient explanation for being [[MisplacedWildlife geographically misplaced]] by the narrator. This was meant to reference a controversial theory that Early Cretaceous Europe and North America shared the same dinosaur genera, based on the apparent presence of ''Iguanodon'', ''Polacanthus'' and ''Hypsilophodon'' on both sides of the Atlantic (a case of ScienceMarchesOn), however, in the actual episode "Giant of the Skies", the only indicator that this is the case is ''Iguanodon'' and ''Polacanthus'' being present in both North America and Europe, and yet we only see ''Utahraptor'' in Europe, and the flying ''Ornithocheirus'' having to cross the Atlantic further muddies things.
** The 'Cretaceous Cut' (the dialog-free version) of The Movie leaves in a few gags that make no sense without dialog:
** *** In the theatrical cut, Alex explains some ''Gorgosaurus'' stats to the viewer with close up shots and diagrams (and he keeps getting distracted by its tiny arms). The visuals for this scene are left in the Cretaceous Cut.
** *** The film gets inexplicably re-wound when Patchi falls in the river (originally, Alex questions Patchi's claim of diving in to save Juniper)
** *** There is a close up of one of the knocked-out gorgosaurus teeth (which becomes the fossil in the present day scenes)
** *** The closing credits pop music starts to FadeIn and is interrupted by the gorgosaurus fourth wall break, but the actual credits with that song have been cut.
** The European ''Utahraptor'' wound up being one due to never being given a sufficient explanation for being [[MisplacedWildlife geographically misplaced]] by the narrator. This was meant to reference a controversial theory that Early Cretaceous Europe and North America shared the same dinosaur genera, based on the apparent presence of ''Iguanodon'', ''Polacanthus'' and ''Hypsilophodon'' on both sides of the Atlantic (a case of ScienceMarchesOn), however, in the actual episode "Giant of the Skies", the only indicator that this is the case is ''Iguanodon'' and ''Polacanthus'' being present in both North America and Europe, and yet we only see ''Utahraptor'' in Europe, and the flying ''Ornithocheirus'' having to cross the Atlantic further muddies things.
** The 'Cretaceous Cut' (the dialog-free version) of The Movie leaves in a few gags that make no sense without dialog:
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** The pilot episode of the series was never released on home video and assumed to have been lost forever. Only clips used in DVD documentaries for the series were available. Fortunately, a crew member who kept a real of said episode on DVD eventually found his copy and allowed it to be uploaded online.
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** The pilot episode of the series was never released on home video and assumed to have been lost forever. Only For a long time, only clips from the pilot used in DVD documentaries for the series were available. Fortunately, a crew member who kept a real of said episode on DVD eventually found his copy and allowed it to be uploaded online.
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** An exaggerated example with the pilot episode of the series, which was never released on home video and assumed to have been lost forever. Fortunately, a crew member who kept a real of said episode on DVD eventually found his copy and allowed it to be uploaded online.
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** An exaggerated example with the The pilot episode of the series, which series was never released on home video and assumed to have been lost forever.forever. Only clips used in DVD documentaries for the series were available. Fortunately, a crew member who kept a real of said episode on DVD eventually found his copy and allowed it to be uploaded online.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The cut down two-hour long presentation of the original miniseries narrated by Avery Brooks that initially aired in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel has never been released on home video.
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** The cut down two-hour long presentation of the original miniseries narrated by Avery Brooks that initially aired in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel has never been released on homevideo.video.
** An exaggerated example with the pilot episode of the series, which was never released on home video and assumed to have been lost forever. Fortunately, a crew member who kept a real of said episode on DVD eventually found his copy and allowed it to be uploaded online.
** The cut down two-hour long presentation of the original miniseries narrated by Avery Brooks that initially aired in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel has never been released on home
** An exaggerated example with the pilot episode of the series, which was never released on home video and assumed to have been lost forever. Fortunately, a crew member who kept a real of said episode on DVD eventually found his copy and allowed it to be uploaded online.
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* ColbertBump: Outside of the already [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs well-known]] ''Diplodocus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Allosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Rhamphorhynchus'', ''Iguanodon'', ''Utahraptor'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', and ''Ankylosaurus'', all the other featured animals gained much public attention thanks to their inclusion in this series.
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* ColbertBump: Outside of the already [[UsefulNotes/StockDinosaursTrueDinosaurs well-known]] ''Diplodocus'', ''Brachiosaurus'', ''Allosaurus'', ''Stegosaurus'', ''Rhamphorhynchus'', ''Iguanodon'', ''Utahraptor'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', and ''Ankylosaurus'', all the other featured animals gained much public attention thanks to their inclusion in this series. series, [[TheGenericGuy especially those that don't really stand out much compared to many of their relatives]].
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** ''Polacanthus'' was just a typical Early Cretaceous nodosaur and known from fairly incomplete material. Following a boom of new early nodosaur taxa being described from the late '90s onward and from more complete material (most famously its cousin ''Gastonia''), it likely would have faded into obscurity if not for its inclusion in "Giant of the Skies". By extension, the episode is the main reason anyone has heard about ''Hoplitosaurus'' and ''Dakotadon'', as they were the basis for the American ''Polacanthus'' and ''Iguanodon'' shown in the episode respectively.
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** ''Polacanthus'' was just a typical Early Cretaceous nodosaur and known from fairly incomplete material. Following a boom of new early nodosaur taxa being described from the late '90s onward and from more complete material (most famously its cousin ''Gastonia''), it likely would have faded into obscurity if not for its inclusion in "Giant of the Skies". By extension, the episode is the main only reason anyone has heard about ''Hoplitosaurus'' and ''Dakotadon'', as they were the basis for the American ''Polacanthus'' and ''Iguanodon'' shown in the episode respectively.
