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* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: "The Last Tyrant" is set in the aftermath of the asteroid impact.
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''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby. The full series consists of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]] The final episode was released publically on June 11 2022.
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''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby.Creator/DavidJamesArmsby. The full series consists of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]] The final episode was released publically on June 11 2022.
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* PaintedCGI: The animation is heavily [[CelShading cel-shaded]] 3D CGI, with a limited color palette, giving the series a distinct, stylised, painting-like visual style instead of photorealism.
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* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' appears in the trailer to punctuate both the start of the dramatic second half and the title card, complete with a FearsomeFoot [[BadVibrations entrance]] both times and a MightyRoar at the climax of the video. Its skull is also shown at the very end of the trailer.
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* StockDinosaurs: At least based on the trailer, the series is chock full of the classic dinosaur genera from Late Cretaceous North America, from various famous crested hadrosaurus (''Lambeosaurus'', ''Corythosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus''), deinonychosaurs, and popular ceratopsians (''Chasmosaurus'' and ''Styracosaurus'') to the all-time Hell Creek favorite species like ''Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis'', ''Edmontosaurus annectens'', ''Triceratops horridus'', and ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. ''Tylosaurus'' also appears in the trailer, albeit it's not a dinosaur.
** Subverted in a few cases where non-stock genera/species are shown while still filling a stock role, such as ''Geosternbergia'' as the representative pterosaur instead of its close cousin ''Pteranodon'', ''Euoplocephalus'' instead of ''Ankylosaurus'', the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum'' properly representing itself instead of the more southern (and slightly earlier) ''P. lakustai'', and ''Alamosaurus'' being the obligatory sauropod.
** Subverted in a few cases where non-stock genera/species are shown while still filling a stock role, such as ''Geosternbergia'' as the representative pterosaur instead of its close cousin ''Pteranodon'', ''Euoplocephalus'' instead of ''Ankylosaurus'', the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum'' properly representing itself instead of the more southern (and slightly earlier) ''P. lakustai'', and ''Alamosaurus'' being the obligatory sauropod.
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* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Nanuqsaurus'' (a smaller tyrannosaur described in 2014) features as the main "villain" of "Our Frozen Past".
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* ColonyDrop: "The Last Tyrant" features, of course, the asteroid impact that caused the K-Pg mass extinction.
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* GoryDiscretionShot: Plenty of blood gets spilled onscreen, but [[spoiler:the troodontid chick being eaten by a ''Nanuqsaurus'' in "Our Frozen Past"]] is only shown indirectly.
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''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby. The full series consists of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]] The final episode will be released publically on June 11 2022.
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''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby. The full series consists of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]] The final episode will be was released publically on June 11 2022.
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** In "The Last Tyrant" juvenile ''Pachycephalosaurus'' are given flatter heads without the pronounced dome, the juvenile ''Triceratops'' has horns that curve upwards, and the baby ''Tyrannosaurus'' have a coat of feathers while the adults don't really have much.
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* RealPlaceBackground: The final shot of the series, showing a ''T. rex'' skeleton in a museum, is not just a generic museum set; it's recognisably the natural history wing of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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* CartoonCreature: "The Last Tyrant" has the sole wholly imaginary animal, a fictional mosaic of enantiornithean birds David dubbed "[[CanisLatinicus Madeupornis birdi]]" ("Made-up bird [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment bird]]").
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** ''The Last Tyrant'' has [[spoiler: the stillborn baby T. rex still curled up in its broken egg after the asteroid hits.]]
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* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: "The Last Tyrant" is set in the aftermath of the asteroid impact.
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''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby. The full series will consist of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]]
'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOrDg3FIMw "A More Ancient Spring" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdJbURDazI "Sea and Sky" Teaser]].
'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOrDg3FIMw "A More Ancient Spring" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdJbURDazI "Sea and Sky" Teaser]].
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''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby. The full series will consist consists of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]]
[[/note]] The final episode will be released publically on June 11 2022.
'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOrDg3FIMw "A More Ancient Spring" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdJbURDazI "Sea and Sky"Teaser]].
Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AONdEziT2bY The Last Tyrant]].
'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOrDg3FIMw "A More Ancient Spring" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNdJbURDazI "Sea and Sky"
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** ''Geosternbergia'' are depicted with an upturned beak, covered in pycnofibers, diving and swimming after fish, wings that fold as a result of the hands rotating backwards, and using their wings to vault off the ground.
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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.
** 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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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Very refreshingly averted, with up-to date depictions of dinosaurs with some speculative behaviors and color patterns and a decidedly non-monstrous portrayal of them. One little feature does stand out: theropods are shown roaring with open mouths, even though current knowledge suggests closed-mouth booming vocalizations.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: Very refreshingly averted, with up-to date depictions of dinosaurs with some speculative behaviors and color patterns and a decidedly non-monstrous portrayal of them. One little feature does stand out: theropods Still, there are shown roaring with open mouths, even though current knowledge suggests closed-mouth booming vocalizations.some artist licences that make it through for the sake of the story; they are best detailed in [[Recap/{{Dinosauria}} the recap page entries]].
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'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOrDg3FIMw "A More Ancient Spring" Teaser]]
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'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOrDg3FIMw "A More Ancient Spring" Teaser]]
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'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOrDg3FIMw "A More Ancient Spring" Teaser]]
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* BiggerIsBetter: The trailer at least focuses on the large species with minimal attention given to the smaller ones, despite the fact that most dinosaurs weren't necessarily giants and many were in fact comfortably smaller than a human. "Our Frozen Past" focuses on a ''Troodon'' family, which are slightly smaller than most other dinosaurs featured in the trailer
* ChekhovsSkill: The mother ''Troodon'' in "Our Frozen Past" has the ability to mimic sounds, which she demonstrates by mimicking the noises made by a pair of icicles falling from a tree at the beginning of the short. At the climax, she mimics the cry of a baby ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', causing the adults to come and chase off the attacking ''Nanuqsauruses''.
* ChekhovsSkill: The mother ''Troodon'' in "Our Frozen Past" has the ability to mimic sounds, which she demonstrates by mimicking the noises made by a pair of icicles falling from a tree at the beginning of the short. At the climax, she mimics the cry of a baby ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', causing the adults to come and chase off the attacking ''Nanuqsauruses''.
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* BiggerIsBetter: The trailer at least focuses on the large species with minimal attention given to the smaller ones, despite the fact that most dinosaurs weren't necessarily giants and many were in fact comfortably smaller than a human. "Our Frozen Past" focuses on a ''Troodon'' troodontid family, which are slightly smaller than most other dinosaurs featured in the trailer
trailer, though it is still the largest representative of its clade, tall enough to look a human in the eye.
* ChekhovsSkill: The mother''Troodon'' troodontid in "Our Frozen Past" has the ability to mimic sounds, which she demonstrates by mimicking the noises made by a pair of icicles falling from a tree at the beginning of the short. At the climax, she mimics the cry of a baby ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', causing the adults to come and chase off the attacking ''Nanuqsauruses''.
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* NoisyNature: The trailer and teaser provide ample examples of dinosaurs roaring, chirping, and bellowing at full blast. The actual shorts keep the dinosaurs vocal, but they can have their moments of silence (such as the ''Daspletosaurus'' trio watching over the ''Styracosaurus'' fight and the mother ''Troodon'' trying to hide herself from a ''Nanuqsaurus'').
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* NoisyNature: The trailer and teaser provide ample examples of dinosaurs roaring, chirping, and bellowing at full blast. The actual shorts keep the dinosaurs vocal, but they can have their moments of silence (such as the ''Daspletosaurus'' trio watching over the ''Styracosaurus'' fight and the mother ''Troodon'' troodontid trying to hide herself from a ''Nanuqsaurus'').
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* ChekhovsSkill: The mother ''Troodon'' in "Our Frozen Past" has the ability to mimic sounds, which she demonstrates by mimicking the noises made by a pair of icicles falling from a tree at the beginning of the short. At the climax, she mimics the cry of a baby ''Pachycephalosaurus'', causing the adults to come and chase off the attacking ''Nanuqsauruses''.
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* ChekhovsSkill: The mother ''Troodon'' in "Our Frozen Past" has the ability to mimic sounds, which she demonstrates by mimicking the noises made by a pair of icicles falling from a tree at the beginning of the short. At the climax, she mimics the cry of a baby ''Pachycephalosaurus'', ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', causing the adults to come and chase off the attacking ''Nanuqsauruses''.
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* ChekhovsSkill: The mother ''Troodon'' in "Our Frozen Past" has the ability to mimic sounds, which she demonstrates by mimicking the noises made by a pair of icicles falling from a tree at the beginning of the short. At the climax, she mimics the cry of a baby ''Pachycephalosaurus'', causing the adults to come and chase off the attacking ''Nanuqsauruses''.
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''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby. The full series will consist of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]]
'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]]
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AnimalsLackAttributes: The various reptiles all lack cloacas, which while not as noticeable as the external bits that mammals have, can usually be seen as at least a slit on the underside if not a slight bugle in the animals' profiles.
* BiggerIsBetter: The trailer at least focuses on the large species with minimal attention given to the smaller ones, despite the fact that most dinosaurs weren't necessarily giants and many were in fact comfortably smaller than a human. "Our Frozen Past" focuses on a ''Troodon'' family, which are slightly smaller than most other dinosaurs featured in the trailer
* CoveredWithScars: Both the old male ''Styracosaurus'' and his young challenger have their share of these to drive home how tough and experienced fighters they are, though the former has more owing to his longer life in combat, with a broken horn to boot.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: "Our Frozen Past" has a ''Troodon'' chick get killed and eaten by a ''Nanuqsaurus'']].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Most of the episodes featured in the series' trailer have a very stylized and limited color palette, such as the black and white color scheme of "Old Buck" or the rusty orange look of the Hell Creek installment.
* GoofyFeatheredDinosaur: Averted. All the dinosaurs that are feathered are portrayed accurately and can be just as distinct or majestic as their scaled compatriots.
* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' appears in the trailer to punctuate both the start of the dramatic second half and the title card, complete with a FearsomeFoot [[BadVibrations entrance]] both times and a MightyRoar at the climax of the video. Its skull is also shown at the very end of the trailer.
* MightyRoar: The trailer is full of these, but the most notable is the ''T. rex'''s at the end with the title card.
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: A natural product of the a series featuring non-talking dinosaurs and lacking a narrator.
* NarrativeDrivenNatureDocumentary: Though lacking narration and being only short stories unlike a proper documentary, the series uses narratives built around the daily lives of prehistoric animals based on evidence and current hypotheses about their appearances and behaviors, so an educational component is still present despite that not necessarily being the main aim.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The ''Styracosaurus'' fight in "Old Buck" is a brutal and bloody affair.
* NoisyNature: The trailer and teaser provide ample examples of dinosaurs roaring, chirping, and bellowing at full blast. The actual shorts keep the dinosaurs vocal, but they can have their moments of silence (such as the ''Daspletosaurus'' trio watching over the ''Styracosaurus'' fight and the mother ''Troodon'' trying to hide herself from a ''Nanuqsaurus'').
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: "Old Buck" shows this on full display; aside from the sexually dimorphic colors and nasal horn shapes seen in the ''Styracosaurus'', each of the three individual adult males have their own unique horn configuration and patterning.
* PrehistoricMonster: Averted. The series aims to present its subjects in a naturalistic manner, depicting them as real living animals just trying to survive.
* SignatureRoar: Albeit not a proper roar, but the series uses the distinctive call of ''Parasaurolophus'' as digitally recreated in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBU6zfI1b0U 1997 study]].
* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Nanuqsaurus'' (a smaller tyrannosaur described in 2014) features as the main "villain" of "Our Frozen Past".
* StockDinosaurs: At least based on the trailer, the series is chock full of the classic dinosaur genera from Late Cretaceous North America, from various famous crested hadrosaurus (''Lambeosaurus'', ''Corythosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus''), deinonychosaurs, and popular ceratopsians (''Chasmosaurus'' and ''Styracosaurus'') to the all-time Hell Creek favorite species like ''Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis'', ''Edmontosaurus annectens'', ''Triceratops horridus'', and ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. ''Tylosaurus'' also appears in the trailer, albeit it's not a dinosaur.
** Subverted in a few cases where non-stock genera/species are shown while still filling a stock role, such as ''Geosternbergia'' as the representative pterosaur instead of its close cousin ''Pteranodon'', ''Euoplocephalus'' instead of ''Ankylosaurus'', the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum'' properly representing itself instead of the more southern (and slightly earlier) ''P. lakustai'', and ''Alamosaurus'' being the obligatory sauropod.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Trailer title card]]
''Dinosauria'' is an {{Anthology}} series created by animator David James Armsby. The full series will consist of five short films ranging from 3-8 minutes in length that tell the stories of various dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures from across Late Cretaceous North America. Each film is also followed by an in-depth behind-the-scenes video detailing the artistic work and research that went into the final product. The official trailer was released on Armsby's [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/c/DeadSound/featured Dead Sound]] in early August of 2021, and the first episode premiered in early September, with the following film set to release the following month.[[note]]Each episode is released in full for Armsby's Patreon supporters concurrent with a publicly released teaser announcing its [=YouTube=] premiere two weeks later.[[/note]]
'''Trailers:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bczetlOc3Q Series Trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nHOp32SYAI "Old Buck" Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1ABoRzbKI "Our Frozen Past" Teaser]]
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!! This series provides examples of:
* AnimalsLackAttributes: The various reptiles all lack cloacas, which while not as noticeable as the external bits that mammals have, can usually be seen as at least a slit on the underside if not a slight bugle in the animals' profiles.
* BiggerIsBetter: The trailer at least focuses on the large species with minimal attention given to the smaller ones, despite the fact that most dinosaurs weren't necessarily giants and many were in fact comfortably smaller than a human. "Our Frozen Past" focuses on a ''Troodon'' family, which are slightly smaller than most other dinosaurs featured in the trailer
* CoveredWithScars: Both the old male ''Styracosaurus'' and his young challenger have their share of these to drive home how tough and experienced fighters they are, though the former has more owing to his longer life in combat, with a broken horn to boot.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler: "Our Frozen Past" has a ''Troodon'' chick get killed and eaten by a ''Nanuqsaurus'']].
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Most of the episodes featured in the series' trailer have a very stylized and limited color palette, such as the black and white color scheme of "Old Buck" or the rusty orange look of the Hell Creek installment.
* GoofyFeatheredDinosaur: Averted. All the dinosaurs that are feathered are portrayed accurately and can be just as distinct or majestic as their scaled compatriots.
* KingOfTheDinosaurs: ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' appears in the trailer to punctuate both the start of the dramatic second half and the title card, complete with a FearsomeFoot [[BadVibrations entrance]] both times and a MightyRoar at the climax of the video. Its skull is also shown at the very end of the trailer.
* MightyRoar: The trailer is full of these, but the most notable is the ''T. rex'''s at the end with the title card.
* MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: A natural product of the a series featuring non-talking dinosaurs and lacking a narrator.
* NarrativeDrivenNatureDocumentary: Though lacking narration and being only short stories unlike a proper documentary, the series uses narratives built around the daily lives of prehistoric animals based on evidence and current hypotheses about their appearances and behaviors, so an educational component is still present despite that not necessarily being the main aim.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The ''Styracosaurus'' fight in "Old Buck" is a brutal and bloody affair.
* NoisyNature: The trailer and teaser provide ample examples of dinosaurs roaring, chirping, and bellowing at full blast. The actual shorts keep the dinosaurs vocal, but they can have their moments of silence (such as the ''Daspletosaurus'' trio watching over the ''Styracosaurus'' fight and the mother ''Troodon'' trying to hide herself from a ''Nanuqsaurus'').
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: "Old Buck" shows this on full display; aside from the sexually dimorphic colors and nasal horn shapes seen in the ''Styracosaurus'', each of the three individual adult males have their own unique horn configuration and patterning.
* PrehistoricMonster: Averted. The series aims to present its subjects in a naturalistic manner, depicting them as real living animals just trying to survive.
* SignatureRoar: Albeit not a proper roar, but the series uses the distinctive call of ''Parasaurolophus'' as digitally recreated in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBU6zfI1b0U 1997 study]].
* SeldomSeenSpecies: ''Nanuqsaurus'' (a smaller tyrannosaur described in 2014) features as the main "villain" of "Our Frozen Past".
* StockDinosaurs: At least based on the trailer, the series is chock full of the classic dinosaur genera from Late Cretaceous North America, from various famous crested hadrosaurus (''Lambeosaurus'', ''Corythosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus''), deinonychosaurs, and popular ceratopsians (''Chasmosaurus'' and ''Styracosaurus'') to the all-time Hell Creek favorite species like ''Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis'', ''Edmontosaurus annectens'', ''Triceratops horridus'', and ''Tyrannosaurus rex''. ''Tylosaurus'' also appears in the trailer, albeit it's not a dinosaur.
** Subverted in a few cases where non-stock genera/species are shown while still filling a stock role, such as ''Geosternbergia'' as the representative pterosaur instead of its close cousin ''Pteranodon'', ''Euoplocephalus'' instead of ''Ankylosaurus'', the Alaskan ''Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum'' properly representing itself instead of the more southern (and slightly earlier) ''P. lakustai'', and ''Alamosaurus'' being the obligatory sauropod.
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