Trivia / The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs

• Science Marches On: The show points out how our image of some dinosaurs have changed over time, but this also befalls the show itself:
  • The hands of theropod dinosaurs weren't articulated in the way presented, and were locked into one basic position, with palms facing inward instead of down. The same goes for the ceratopsian hands, and the number of claws on their and the ankylosaur's front limbs are also wrong: it should be three claws on the inside with two stubby little toes on the outside, (an arrangement also seen on modern crocodilians.)
  • While Velociraptor is correctly portrayed with feathers, we know it had a lot more than that. It had wings and probably a tail-fan, for instance.
  • The Triceratops is depicted with scaly but otherwise uniform hide. Fossilised skin impressions show it had a more rugged appearence, with (possibly keeled) scutes interspersed between smaller, pebbly scales, and rectangular scales along the belly like a crocodile.
  • In one cut, the claw of Megaraptor is shown, highlighting how there were dromaeosaurs much bigger than Velociraptor. While the show was in production, the notion that Megaraptor was a giant dromaeosaur was debunked after further finds showed that its sickle claw was actually attached to the arm.