A 2011 TV Documentary and tie-in book from the Discovery Channel, presented by renowned paleontologist and tyrannosaur-enthusiast Phil Currie. The main theme is finding evidence to support Currie's theory of pack-hunting tyrannosaurs. Interestingly, it focuses on Tarbosaurus rather than Tyrannosaurus rex.
Compare to Valley of the T-Rex, an older Discovery docu that proposes the exact opposite idea, that tyrannosaurs were scavengers.
Used tropes:
- Anachronism Stew: T. rex of 68-66 mya is shown hunting Parasaurolophus from 75 mya.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: A couple of points:
- The central idea of pack hunting tyrannosauroids is a heavily discussed topic, and does indeed make many experts cry, because it's more sensationalist than scientific. There's little evidence that tyrannosaurs were pack hunters, and even less for Tarbosaurus itself. And no, finding different individuals at the same place, that all died at the same time, is not concrete evidence.
- Anatomically iffy dinosaurs. The adult Tarbosaurus looks like a cross between the Walking with Dinosaurs and Animal Armageddon Tyrannosaurus (both of which were already pretty badly designed), while the "Parasaurolophus" could pass for a CGI hand-puppet.
- Feathered Fiend: Various feathered dinosaurs that appear in Stock Footage shots.
- Real Is Brown: Or, rather, real is gray, as apart from the Stock Footage dinos, the animals have mainly dull colors, mostly gray, black and muted green.
- Stock Footage: From When Dinosaurs Roamed America, Clash of the Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Planet, and various modern-day nature documentaries. However a lot of new animation also gets repeated.
- Zerg Rush: From tyrannosaurs, no less!
