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* MeekMesozoicMammal: The documentary short centres around a primitive mammal surviving at the end of the Late Cretaceous. Even the smallest dinosaur shown, the ''Ornithomimus'' is a threat to it, and the narrator states how the dominance of the dinosaurs prevents mammals from growing larger or diversifying beyond tiny insect-eaters cowering in their shadows.
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* MeekMesozoicMammal: The documentary short centres around a primitive mammal (possibly a ''Purgatorius'' or ''Mesodma'') surviving at the end of the Late Cretaceous. Even the smallest dinosaur shown, the ''Ornithomimus'' is a threat to it, and the narrator states how the dominance of the dinosaurs prevents mammals from growing larger or diversifying beyond tiny insect-eaters cowering in their shadows.
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* MeekMesozoicMammal: The documentary short centres around a primitive mammal surviving at the end of the Late Cretaceous. Even the smallest dinosaur shown, the ''Ornithomimus'' is a threat to it, and the narrator states how the dominance of the dinosaurs prevents mammals from growing larger or diversifying beyond tiny insect-eaters cowering in their shadows.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full one to two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full one to two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife. On the other hand, all species in the short are from Maastrichtian North America.
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* StockDinosaurs: While the mammal doesn't seem to represent any species in particular, instead being some kind of generic rodent, the dinosaurs all belong to familiar genera.
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* MamaBear: The mother ''Triceratops'' not only successfully fights of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' attack, but she also kills an ''Ornithomimus'' trying to eat her eggs (the mammal avoids the same fate by scurrying off before she can be spotted).
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* MamaBear: MamaBear:
** The mother ''Triceratops'' not only successfully fights of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' attack, but she also kills an ''Ornithomimus'' trying to eat her eggs (the mammal avoids the same fate by scurrying off before she can bespotted).spotted).
** The mammal has to survive not only for herself, but her offspring as well.
** The mother ''Triceratops'' not only successfully fights of a ''Tyrannosaurus'' attack, but she also kills an ''Ornithomimus'' trying to eat her eggs (the mammal avoids the same fate by scurrying off before she can be
** The mammal has to survive not only for herself, but her offspring as well.
* EverybodyDiesEnding: This being the end of the Cretaceous period, only the mammal is left standing by the end of the film.
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* KillEmAll: This being the end of the Cretaceous period, only the mammal is left standing by the end of the film.
* LastOfHisKind: At the very end, we see the death of the last ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the dinosaurs succumb to extinction.
* LastOfHisKind: At the very end, we see the death of the last ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the dinosaurs succumb to extinction.
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* TemperCeratops: The mother ''Triceratops'' kills the ''Struthiomimus'' for attacking her nest and battles the ''Tyrannosaurus''.
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* TemperCeratops: The mother ''Triceratops'' kills the ''Struthiomimus'' ''Ornithomimus'' for attacking her nest and battles the ''Tyrannosaurus''.
* LastOfHisKind: At the very end, we see the death of the last ''Tyrannosaurus'' as the dinosaurs succumb to extinction.
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* TemperCeratops: The mother ''Triceratops'' kills the ''Struthiomimus'' for attacking her nest and battles the ''Tyrannosaurus''.
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* SpiritualPredecessor: To ''WesternAnimation/PrehistoricBeast'', another stop-motion short about life in the late Cretaceous.
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* AdultFear: The mammal is has to survive not only for herself, but her offspring as well.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full one to two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife.
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* EvilEggEater: An ''Ornithomimus'' is caught eating eggs by a mother ''Triceratops'', who proceeds to violently impale it with her horn.
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The NFB has made the short available on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dv3_TSbwx14 their official Youtube channel]].
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''64,000,000 Years Ago'' is a StopMotion animated short directed by Bill Maylone for the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
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''64,000,000 Years Ago'' is a 1981 StopMotion animated short directed by Bill Maylone for the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
''64,000,000 Years Ago'' is a 1981 StopMotion animated short directed by Bill Maylone for the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada.
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* AnachronismStew: If we're to take the short's title at face value, then it places the date of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event a full two million years ''after'' it occurred in RealLife.
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