History YMMV / WalkingWithDinosaurs

** Regarding the huge size of WWD's ''Ornithocheirus'', it's often claimed that it was based on MN 6594-1, a partial skull and skeleton now assigned to ''Tropeognathus''. While that specimen has been known since the '80s, according to both ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence'', the 12-meter wingspan was actually based on much more fragmentary fossils, mainly isolated wing bones found in the Santana Group of Brazil, as well as similar fragmentary fossils from the Vectis Formation on the Isle of Wight, which David Martill (the series main consultant) attributed to [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287549358_Giant_pterosaurs_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_the_Isle_of_Wight_UK gigantic pterosaurs with wingspans in excess of 9 meters back in 1996]] ([[https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/14288452/Additional_evidence_for_very_large_wing_span.pdf though he later lowered those estimates to less than 6 meters]]), which also provided apparent evidence of giant ornithocheirids in both Brazil and England, further supporting the intercontinental migration shown in "Giant of the Skies".

*** Regarding the huge size of WWD's ''Ornithocheirus'', it's often claimed that it was based on MN 6594-1, a partial skull and skeleton now assigned to ''Tropeognathus''. While that specimen has been known since the '80s, according to both ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence'', the 12-meter wingspan was actually based on much more fragmentary fossils, mainly isolated wing bones found in the Santana Group of Brazil, as well as similar fragmentary fossils from the Vectis Formation on the Isle of Wight, which David Martill (the series main consultant) attributed to [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287549358_Giant_pterosaurs_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_the_Isle_of_Wight_UK gigantic pterosaurs with wingspans in excess of 9 meters back in 1996]] ([[https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/14288452/Additional_evidence_for_very_large_wing_span.pdf though he later lowered those estimates to less than 6 meters]]), which also provided apparent evidence of giant ornithocheirids in both Brazil and England, further supporting the intercontinental migration shown in "Giant of the Skies",

** The series features quite a few controversial ([[ScienceMarchesOn and since debunked]]) ideas that were based on rather obscure and fragmentary evidence and certain theories that have largely been forgotten since 1999. The tie-in books ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' (1999) and ''Walking with Dinosaurs the Evidence'' (2000) [[AllThereInTheManual explain some of it]]:

*** Regarding the huge size of WWD's ''Ornithocheirus'', it's often claimed that it was based on MN 6594-1, a partial skull and skeleton now assigned to ''Tropeognathus''. While that specimen has been known since the '80s, according to both ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence'', the 12-meter wingspan was actually based on much more fragmentary fossils, mainly isolated wing bones found in the Santana Group of Brazil, as well as similar fragmentary fossils from the Vectis Formation on the Isle of Wight, which David Martill (the series main consultant) attributed to [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287549358_Giant_pterosaurs_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_the_Isle_of_Wight_UK gigantic pterosaurs with wingspans in excess of 9 meters back in 1996]] ([[https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/14288452/Additional_evidence_for_very_large_wing_span.pdf though he later downsized those estimates to less than 6 meters]]), which also provided apparent evidence of giant ornithocheirids in both Brazil and England, further supporting the intercontinental migration shown in "Giant of the Skies",

** The series features quite a few controversial ([[ScienceMarchesOn and since debunked]]) ideas that were based on rather obscure and fragmentary evidence and certain theories that have largely been forgotten since 1999, and the 2000 tie-in book ''Walking with Dinosaurs the Evidence'' [[AllThereInTheManual explains some of it]]:

*** Regarding the huge size of WWD's ''Ornithocheirus'', it's often claimed that it was based on MN 6594-1, a partial skull and skeleton now assigned to ''Tropeognathus''. While that specimen has been known since the '80s, according to both ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' (1999) and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence'' (2000), the 12-meter wingspan was actually based on much more fragmentary fossils, mainly isolated wing bones found in the Santana Group of Brazil, as well as similar fragmentary fossils from the Vectis Formation on the Isle of Wight, which David Martill (the series main consultant) attributed to [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287549358_Giant_pterosaurs_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_the_Isle_of_Wight_UK gigantic pterosaurs with wingspans in excess of 9 meters back in 1996]] ([[https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/14288452/Additional_evidence_for_very_large_wing_span.pdf though he later downsized those estimates to less than 6 meters]]), which also provided apparent evidence of giant ornithocheirids in both Brazil and England, further supporting the intercontinental migration shown in "Giant of the Skies",

*** 'Regarding the huge size of WWD's ''Ornithocheirus'', it's often claimed that it was based on MN 6594-1, a partial skull and skeleton now assigned to ''Tropeognathus''. While that specimen has been known since the '80s, according to both ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' (1999) and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence'' (2000), the 12-meter wingspan was actually based on much more fragmentary fossils, mainly isolated wing bones found in the Santana Group of Brazil, as well as similar fragmentary fossils from the Vectis Formation on the Isle of Wight, which David Martill (the series main consultant) attributed to [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287549358_Giant_pterosaurs_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_the_Isle_of_Wight_UK gigantic pterosaurs with wingspans in excess of 9 meters back in 1996]] ([[https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/14288452/Additional_evidence_for_very_large_wing_span.pdf though he later downsized those estimates to less than 6 meters]]), which also provided apparent evidence of giant ornithocheirids in both Brazil and England, further supporting the intercontinental migration shown in "Giant of the Skies",

*** 'Regarding the huge size of WWD's ''Ornithocheirus'', it's often claimed that it was based on MN 6594-1, a partial skull and skeleton now assigned to ''Tropeognathus''. While that specimen has been known since the '80s, according to both ''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History'' (1999) and ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The Evidence" (2000), the 12-meter wingspan was actually based on much more fragmentary fossils, mainly isolated wing bones found in the Santana Group of Brazil, as well as similar fragmentary fossils from the Vectis Formation on the Isle of Wight, which David Martill (the series main consultant) attributed to [[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287549358_Giant_pterosaurs_from_the_Lower_Cretaceous_of_the_Isle_of_Wight_UK gigantic pterosaurs with wingspans in excess of 9 meters back in 1996]] ([[https://pure.port.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/14288452/Additional_evidence_for_very_large_wing_span.pdf though he later downsized those estimates to less than 6 meters]]), which also provided apparent evidence of giant ornithocheirids in both Brazil and England, further supporting the intercontinental migration shown in "Giant of the Skies",

*** ''Ornithocheirus'' (or rather ''Tropeognathus'') having a 12-meter wingspan was legitimately taken seriously by some workers back in the '90s, based on the preliminary description of a very large, partial specimen found in the Romualdo Formation of Brazil, which is what WWD also cited, and it has been cited in other paleontological media from the time (like 1999's ''Series/WhenDinosaursRuled''), but once the specimen got a proper description in 2013, its wingspan was downsized to a more likely 8.2-8.7 meters.

** The female ''Postosuchus'' does not start this way, as she's seen in her prime when we first see her, but as soon she gets injured in her leg things start to go downhill from there with her injury being a handicap that will make hunting difficult for her, then when she arrives to her territory she finds a male individual has invaded it and she's driven away from her house due to being to weak to defend it as result of her injury, and it eventually her injury gets worse as it reaches the point where she loses the ability to use her back legs and her's been gravely injured at that point that she became blind from her left eye, the mighty predator lays there dying being surrounded by a flock of ''Coelophysis'' eager to make a quick meal out of her before she finally succumbs to her injury and the lack of food.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Scowler is meant to be seen as a jerk and an antagonist, but ultimately somewhat sympathetic given he has a HeelFaceTurn. Since Scowler spends most of the film being an emotionally and at times physically abusive bully to Patchi for no real reason, culminating in him [[spoiler:leaving his brother to die out of petty spite]], many viewers found his redemption unearned and felt he had crossed the MoralEventHorizon with [[spoiler:his attempted familicide.]]

* CommonKnowledge: It's sometimes claimed that in the tie-in book (''Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History''), the ''Plateosaurus'' fights the ''Postosuchus''. In actuality, it just ''scares it off'' and the encounter is summarized in one sentence.