...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Prehistoric Planet

519 statements
100 feature instances
41 referencing feature instances

Prehistoric Planet	type	TVTItem
Prehistoric Planet	label	Prehistoric Planet
Prehistoric Planet	page	PrehistoricPlanet
Prehistoric Planet	comment	Prehistoric Planet is a dinosaur Speculative Documentary that debuted on Apple TV+ on May 23, 2022, produced by both the BBC Natural History Unit and Jon Favreau, and directed by animators Andrew R. Jones and Adam Valdez of Moving Picture Company (who also provided the series' VFX and animation). It documents prehistoric life around the world during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous which spans from 72.1 to 66 Million years ago, just before their extinction, each episode focusing on a different biome - namely, "Coasts", "Deserts", "Freshwater", "Ice Worlds", and "Forests". It's basically Planet Earth but with Dinosaurs. David Attenborough narrates, while Hans Zimmer provides the score.Teaser, Trailer #1, Trailer #2, and preview.On March 2nd, 2023, a second season was confirmed to begin airing on May 22nd. The official teaser for Season 2 was released on April 18th, 2023. This new season features a number of new species, as well as several returning faces, alongside new environments and ecosystems - namely, "Islands", "Badlands", "Swamps", and "Oceans", as well as an entire episode dedicated to North America. The official trailer for season 2 was released on May 2nd, 2023.
Prehistoric Planet	fetched	2024-04-25T07:32:12Z
Prehistoric Planet	parsed	2024-04-25T07:32:12Z
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to AllYesterdays: Not a Feature - ITEM
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to CallBack: Not a Feature - ITEM
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to CarnivoresAreMean: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to Frogger: Not a Feature - ITEM
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to JurassicPark: Not a Feature - ITEM
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to MixAndMatchCritter: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to ShaggyDogStory: Not a Feature - ITEM
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to TheJungleBook2016: Not a Feature - ITEM
Prehistoric Planet	processingComment	Dropped link to WalkingWithDinosaurs: Not a Feature - ITEM
Prehistoric Planet	processingUnknown	CarnivoresAreMean
Prehistoric Planet	processingUnknown	MixAndMatchCritter
Prehistoric Planet	isPartOf	DBTropes
Prehistoric Planet / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Prehistoric Planet / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: The fight between the two Mosasaurus in the first episode; although the two rivals are viciously snapping at each other all over, with bites explicitly strong enough to crack into each other's skulls, not a drop of blood seems to be spilled. Even more prominent with the Dreadnoughtus: the battle is surprisingly clean for something based on elephant seal fights (which can get downright gory.) The narrator describes how they rake each other with their teeth and stab each other with their claws, very little of that blood is actually shown.
Prehistoric Planet / int_135b9977	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_135b9977	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_135b9977
Prehistoric Planet / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Prehistoric Planet / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: The shot of the T. rexes mating in "Freshwater" has a fern tastefully in the foreground.
Prehistoric Planet / int_1420a9b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_1420a9b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_1420a9b8
Prehistoric Planet / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Prehistoric Planet / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Season 2 puts a slightly greater focus on the Nature Is Not Nice elements introduced in season 1, with more segments dealing with extreme environments and violent or otherwise aggressive interactions between animals.
Prehistoric Planet / int_14beeefd	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_14beeefd	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_14beeefd
Prehistoric Planet / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Prehistoric Planet / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: The third episode features Quetzalcoatlus (known from North America) in southern Africa (notably a region from which virtually no Late Cretaceous fossils are known), although it's implied they only flew so far from their usual range because it's their breeding grounds. Giant azhdarchids in general are thought to have been capable of transcontinental flight so it is also reasonably plausible.
Prehistoric Planet / int_17a45ff5	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_17a45ff5	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_17a45ff5
Prehistoric Planet / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
Prehistoric Planet / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Male Dreadnoughtus are depicted with balloon-like gular sacs on their necks, however gular display structures in extant species inflate upon exhalation, so they should inflate from the lungs up not the head down.
Prehistoric Planet / int_18aff462	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_18aff462	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_18aff462
Prehistoric Planet / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Prehistoric Planet / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In every episode, usually in the closing lines, the narrator refers to Earth as a "prehistoric planet".
Prehistoric Planet / int_18d15922	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_18d15922	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_18d15922
Prehistoric Planet / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
Prehistoric Planet / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: Downplayed. Some Barbaridactylus males look like the females so they can sneak past the large, aggressive males to mate but sometimes this disguise is so effective that the alpha may try to mate with them as well, though they can usually deter him by acting like a disinterested female.
Prehistoric Planet / int_1994ba0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_1994ba0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_1994ba0b
Prehistoric Planet / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Prehistoric Planet / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The sneak peek clip of the Tyrannosaurus family on the beach uses different narration and animation than in the actual episode. Most notably it cuts out the footage of the adult turtles, including the end where the father Tyrannosaurus is actually eating a giant dead turtle, and moves the setting from the shore of the Tethys Ocean (which only barely overlapped with T. rex's range) to the Western Interior Seaway (which spanned most of its known habitat).
Prehistoric Planet / int_19ebe383	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_19ebe383	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_19ebe383
Prehistoric Planet / int_1e95dd12	type	Adam and Eve Plot
Prehistoric Planet / int_1e95dd12	comment	The first segment in "Islands" has two Zalmoxes stranded on a raft of vegetation being swept out to sea after a tropical storm. While the narration ends on a hopeful note for an Adam and Eve Plot when they land on a distant island, it's left ambiguous whether they will be lucky enough to find land before they run out of food or water.
Prehistoric Planet / int_1e95dd12	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_1e95dd12	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_1e95dd12
Prehistoric Planet / int_246268be	type	Flipping Helpless
Prehistoric Planet / int_246268be	comment	Flipping Helpless: Downplayed with a baby turtle in the "Coasts" episode — when flipped over, it quickly rights itself, but the delay allows a baby Tyrannosaurus to catch it.
Prehistoric Planet / int_246268be	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_246268be	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_246268be
Prehistoric Planet / int_246989a4	type	Circling Vultures
Prehistoric Planet / int_246989a4	comment	The azhdarchid pterosaurs in the Mongolian desert are the counterparts to vultures, circling in the sky searching for carrion, which they approach only when the large predators (in this case Tarbosaurus) leave the area.
Prehistoric Planet / int_246989a4	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_246989a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_246989a4
Prehistoric Planet / int_2557e3a9	type	Palette Swap
Prehistoric Planet / int_2557e3a9	comment	Palette Swap: The various crestless hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus, Barsboldia, Secernosaurus and Telmatosaurus, look very similar to each other apart from their colouration. Averted with the various dromaeosaurs, tyrannosaurs and ahzdarchids, who have distinctly different body shapes despite their similarities.
Prehistoric Planet / int_2557e3a9	featureApplicability	-1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_2557e3a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_2557e3a9
Prehistoric Planet / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Prehistoric Planet / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: A few segments appear to be inspired by past David Attenborough documentaries: The lizard hunting flies by the sleeping Tarbosaurus is very similar to a sequence in Africa (a previous BBC project also narrated by Sir David Attenborough) in which a lizard hunts flies around sleeping lions, down to moments where the narration is almost identical. The sneaky male Barbaridactylus tricking his larger male counterpart into thinking he's an uninterested female so he can sneak past him and court one of the females clearly borrows from a similar scene involving cuttlefish from Blue Planet II. The male Ornithomimus stealing nesting material from his neighbors resembles a scene from Frozen Planet where an AdÃ©lie penguin does the same thing.
Prehistoric Planet / int_26ac510e	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_26ac510e	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_26ac510e
Prehistoric Planet / int_280d7f43	type	Anachronistic Animal
Prehistoric Planet / int_280d7f43	comment	Anachronistic Animal: Mostly avoided, since almost all of the animals in the show are from the Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous. The biggest exception is Velociraptor, as the genus is known only from the Campanian stage, about 5 million years earlier than when the show takes place. The creators of the show have said that it isn't actually meant to be a species of the Velociraptor genus, but an indeterminate velociraptorine which are found at various Maastrichtian east Asian locations.
Prehistoric Planet / int_280d7f43	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_280d7f43	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_280d7f43
Prehistoric Planet / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Prehistoric Planet / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: The first segment in "Islands" has two Zalmoxes stranded on a raft of vegetation being swept out to sea after a tropical storm. While the narration ends on a hopeful note for an Adam and Eve Plot when they land on a distant island, it's left ambiguous whether they will be lucky enough to find land before they run out of food or water. Another segment in the same episode shows a female Majungasaurus attempting to hunt a colony of Simosuchus. It's noted that her hunting prowess has been greatly diminished due to being blinded in one eye, and she is close to starvation. The segment ends with the Simosuchus evading her, leaving her eventual fate ambiguous.
Prehistoric Planet / int_2854b56d	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_2854b56d	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_2854b56d
Prehistoric Planet / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Prehistoric Planet / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Zig-Zagged with pterosaurs. While the Tethydraco are depicted to be raising their hatchlings on the beach, the Alcione abandon their eggs shortly laying them in cliffside nests, leaving the Alcione hatchlings to fend for themselves the moment they are born. This is to emphasize that not all pterosaurs have the same method of reproduction, thus justifying Tethydraco's speculative parental care. The Quetzalcoatlus take a third approach, guarding their nests fiercely but abandoning their young once they hatch.
Prehistoric Planet / int_297ab1b9	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_297ab1b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_297ab1b9
Prehistoric Planet / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Prehistoric Planet / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: A green Triceratops toy can be seen in the hadrosaur migration sequence in "Ice Worlds".
Prehistoric Planet / int_29a39f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_29a39f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_29a39f6
Prehistoric Planet / int_2a2ee484	type	Genre Relaunch
Prehistoric Planet / int_2a2ee484	comment	Genre Relaunch: For big-budget dinosaur documentaries, which had largely fallen out of fashion since the failure of the Walking with Dinosaurs movie.
Prehistoric Planet / int_2a2ee484	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_2a2ee484	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_2a2ee484
Prehistoric Planet / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Prehistoric Planet / int_2ae29c0d	comment	Downplayed with the Asian tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus in the second episode. The other dinosaurs treat it as The Dreaded, but the most threatening thing it does onscreen is taking a snap at a Velociraptor that accidentally wakes it up. Otherwise it's just mostly seen lounging and taking a drink at a watering hole.
Prehistoric Planet / int_2ae29c0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_2ae29c0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_2ae29c0d
Prehistoric Planet / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Prehistoric Planet / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Especially when it comes to deconstructing the Prehistoric Monster portrayal of Mesozoic predators. The Mosasaurus that eats one of the young T. rexes is later shown at a reef. Not hunting or fighting (at least initially), but simply relaxing near the surface while allowing fish, crustaceans and other reef animals to groom him, cleaning his teeth and removing dead skin. Barbaridactylus, introduced hunting the baby Alcione, are later depicted as having complex social structures and elegant displays to impress mates. The Hatzegopteryx makes its entrance devouring a baby Zalmoxes. However, it's not portrayed in a monstrous light, but is shown as an elegant and awe-inspiring creature, ending with it majestically soaring off into the sunset while peaceful, orchestral music plays.
Prehistoric Planet / int_2dc0d2bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_2dc0d2bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_2dc0d2bf
Prehistoric Planet / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Prehistoric Planet / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: The ammonites are depicted as dying after they mate, similar to most modern-day cephalopods.
Prehistoric Planet / int_33ba37ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_33ba37ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_33ba37ca
Prehistoric Planet / int_35fa738	type	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart
Prehistoric Planet / int_35fa738	comment	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart: Plenty of examples, some of them rather unexpected. Dreadnoughtus bulls display in leks like grouse (with inflatable gular sacs based on sage grouse) and have a fighting style modelled after giraffes and elephant seals. Carnotaurus make colorful mating displays like bowerbirdsnote However multiple studies published so far point towards abelisaurs having vestigial arms so using their arms as their main display is probably not likely. Velociraptor hunt from cliffs like snow leopards, and are generally modeled after birds of prey. Troodontids use arson to flush out prey like firehawks. Tethydraco gather in the beaches like gannets and seals, while Phosphatodraco prowl the colonies like pelicans. Barbaridactylus act like frigatebirds, hunting the chicks of smaller flyers and forming elaborate mating leks. Cimolodon has the same coat as some herbivorous rodents despite being a carnivorous mammal. Tuarangisaurus is highly social, moving around in pods and deterring predators in groups like cetaceans. Deinocheirus is shown as a large shaggy herbivore wading in swamps to eat water plants, much like a moose. Mononykus both appearance and behavior-wise combines features of roadrunners, owls and anteaters. Nanuqsaurus are the counterparts of grey wolves, hunting in packs through snowy wastelands, chasing prey for days. Their primary prey is Pachyrhinosaurus, which is the equivalent of a bison or muskox, being a large, head-butting herbivore moving in herds. Olorotitan are shown migrating in large herds, including a dangerous river crossing. This is very reminiscent of wildebeest in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. Triceratops eat clay to neutralize plant poison similarly to parrots. The way they access the clay, by entering the dark cave and chewing on rocks, is based on how certain herds of African elephants access salt. The social behaviour of the Triceratops also invoke the Honorable Elephant trope. Therizinosaurus is a fuzzy brown omnivore with large claws that steals honey from a hive of bees, similarly to a bear. The azhdarchid pterosaurs in the Mongolian desert are the counterparts to vultures, circling in the sky searching for carrion, which they approach only when the large predators (in this case Tarbosaurus) leave the area. Qianzhousaurus is a forest-dwelling ambush predator with striped coating similar to a tiger. It is even native to Asia. Mosasaurus is shown resting at a coral reef so that fish can pick its body clean of dead skin and parasites, much like modern sea turtles and hammerhead sharks. The shot of it breaching out of the water with a young Tuarangisaurus in its jaws from "Oceans" is a lot like great white sharks doing the same thing, but with seals. Ornithomimus are depicted as nesting communally and stealing nesting material from each other, much like various penguin species. Simosuchus are shown to be burrowing animals that live in small groups, just like prairie dogs. Similar to the Olorotitan, Isisaurus bury their eggs in volcanic soil to incubate them, just like Galapagos iguanas. While they're more closely related to ducks, Styginetta live more like flamingos, feeding on prey in toxic lakes. Morturneria are shown to be feeding on the sea floor for small animals hiding in the sediment, very similar to how grey whales do the same thing today. The elasmosaurs also peak their heads out of holes in the ice, just like belugas. The Secernosaurus in "Deserts" are shown migrating great distances across their environment and navigating by the stars - something camels do in real life.
Prehistoric Planet / int_35fa738	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_35fa738	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_35fa738
Prehistoric Planet / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Prehistoric Planet / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: invoked Choosing the Campanian Velociraptor over the actual named Maastrichtian dromaeosaur that coexisted with Tarbosaurus, Adasaurus, (with the Word of God justification that it's an indeterminate velociraptorine) is most likely down to the former having far more name recognition.
Prehistoric Planet / int_36e63b81	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_36e63b81	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_36e63b81
Prehistoric Planet / int_3723a37a	type	Social Ornithopod
Prehistoric Planet / int_3723a37a	comment	Social Ornithopod: invoked In numerous episodes, hadrosaurs make appearances, and in all appearances they are depicted as herd-dwelling animals which care for and travel with their young. Word of God has confirmed the series intentionally show hadrosaurs with young very often on purpose; dinosaurs, unlike mammalian megafauna, have large clutch sizes and therefore many young.
Prehistoric Planet / int_3723a37a	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_3723a37a	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_3723a37a
Prehistoric Planet / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
Prehistoric Planet / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Deadly Gas: "Badlands" shows a herd of female Isisaurus venturing through the highly volcanic Deccan Traps to lay their eggs in a dormant caldera. The biggest danger isn't the lava, but the toxic gases which seep from the volcanic vents. The adults are normally kept safe from the gas by their great heights, but when the winds whip the gases higher, even they're at risk. However, this journey is worth the risk, because the gases keep predators away from the nests. By the time the eggs hatch, seasonal weather conditions temporarily blow away the poisonous gases, allowing the babies a window to escape.
Prehistoric Planet / int_3ac2a3e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_3ac2a3e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_3ac2a3e3
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: The second episode focuses on the challenges faced by dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals living in arid deserts, particularly the last segment. The hadrosaur Secernosaurus lives in a desert so arid, the sand is made not of silica, but of powdered gypsum (which is water-soluble, so can only exist where it almost never rains). They're able to subsist on nutrient-poor vegetation, but are forced to migrate to the coast every decade or so when periodic droughts make survival impossible. The second episode of the second season also revolves around arid climates, and one scene has a few dinosaurs getting into a face-off over access to a small oasis in a canyon.
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b0bd0ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b0bd0ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_3b0bd0ab
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b75eb39	type	Headbutting Pachy
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b75eb39	comment	Headbutting Pachy: Played straight in "Swamps", where male Pachycephalosaurus are shown butting heads like rams. The "Uncovered" segment at the end explains the history of the debate over whether they actually did this, and ends by concluding that they very likely did.
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b75eb39	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_3b75eb39	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_3b75eb39
Prehistoric Planet / int_3db00da4	type	Gentle Giant Sauropod
Prehistoric Planet / int_3db00da4	comment	Gentle Giant Sauropod: Averted with the Dreadnoughtus. In a rarely-depicted display of violence, the male Dreadnoughtus battle ferociously over territory and mates, biting each other's throats, stabbing with their thumb claws, slamming their necks with brute force and ultimately inflicting so much damage that some of the combatants are outright killed. Played straight with the other sauropods in the show, such as the "Mongolian titan" (drinking at a watering hole, ignoring the smaller herbivores), Austroposeidon (pushing down rainforest trees to graze on their leaves), and the various unnamed sauropods (such as the pair that gently cross necks at the edge of an European forest).
Prehistoric Planet / int_3db00da4	featureApplicability	-1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_3db00da4	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_3db00da4
Prehistoric Planet / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Prehistoric Planet / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The T. rex, Alcione and ammonite segments in â€œCoastsâ€� end this way; one of the baby T. rexes, several baby Alcione and all of the breeding ammonites die. However, several of the former two groups still live to see another day and the ammonites have passed on their genes, ensuring that a new generation will be born.
Prehistoric Planet / int_40cc0c7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_40cc0c7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_40cc0c7e
Prehistoric Planet / int_41c08e5	type	Establishing Series Moment
Prehistoric Planet / int_41c08e5	comment	Establishing Series Moment: The first prehistoric animals shown are a T. rex and his offspring swimming in the ocean, showing right from the start that the series wouldn't follow typical "dino-doc" conventions.
Prehistoric Planet / int_41c08e5	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_41c08e5	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_41c08e5
Prehistoric Planet / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Prehistoric Planet / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: In the third episode, a pack of Velociraptor attempt to hunt pterosaurs nesting along the cliffs. They manage to catch one, but this alerts the whole colony, easily many hundreds strong, which mob the raptors en masse to drive them away.
Prehistoric Planet / int_41dd77d	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_41dd77d	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_41dd77d
Prehistoric Planet / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
Prehistoric Planet / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: This occurs very frequently in the series, which is intentionally done to show how this happens incredibly frequently in the wild, especially for animals like dinosaurs or pterosaurs which intentionally flood the environment with lots of tiny babies knowing most will not survive to adulthood (unlike most large mammals today, which have a small number of large young per litter). Several examples in the first episode alone; a baby Tyrannosaurus is eaten by a Mosasaurus, the baby Tyrannosaurus themselves feed on sea turtle hatchlings, and some newly hatched Alcione are eaten by opportunistic Barbaridactylus and Phosphatodraco. In the third episode, a female Quetzalcoatlus is depicting eating the eggs of a rival to remove competition for her own young, and a young Masiakasaurus is swallowed by a giant Beelzebufo frog after straying too far from its mother. It's also never specified in the episode itself, but the pterosaurs the Velociraptor hunt appear to be juvenile azhdarchids. The fourth episode depicts a pack of dromaeosaurs eating a dead juvenile hadrosaur, although in this case the hadrosaur merely drowned in a river crossing, so they didn't need to actually kill it themselves. The fifth episode shows a group of baby Zalmoxes being predated by the giant pterosaur Hatzegopteryx. The sixth episode also shows Hatzegopteryx hunting and feeding on young Tethyshadros (although from the way even the adults flee, even the full-grown hadrosaurs were in danger). The seventh episode shows a number of Rajasaurus hunting the huge caravan of Isisaurus hatchlings migrating from their birthplace in the Deccan Traps to the forest undergrowth.
Prehistoric Planet / int_470bff94	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_470bff94	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_470bff94
Prehistoric Planet / int_493a162d	type	Bioluminescence Is Cool
Prehistoric Planet / int_493a162d	comment	Bioluminescence Is Cool: The first episode features a sequence of ammonites using bioluminescence as a courtship display. In the fourth episode, the juvenile Antarctopelta finds a cave to hibernate in which is lit up by countless fungus gnat larvae living on the ceiling. One segment in the fifth episode shows a sequence of bioluminescent forest fungi.
Prehistoric Planet / int_493a162d	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_493a162d	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_493a162d
Prehistoric Planet / int_4b39a18	type	Hope Springs Eternal
Prehistoric Planet / int_4b39a18	comment	Hope Springs Eternal: In the fifth episode, there's a fire that reduces much of a forest to cinder and ash. However, this isn't as destructive as it seems because some plants need the fire to spread their seeds, and some animals use the aftermath of the fire to their advantage, such as an ankylosaur consuming some of the charcoal to help neutralize the toxins in the plants it consumes, beetles which can feed on the now massive quantities of rotting wood, and an Atrociraptor using the smoke to delouse itself. The last shot drives this home as it shows a fern already beginning to push through the ashen soil, indicating it won't be long before the forest recovers.
Prehistoric Planet / int_4b39a18	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_4b39a18	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_4b39a18
Prehistoric Planet / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
Prehistoric Planet / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: Both mosasaurs that appear are too stiff as they swim. The shows's mosasaurs are depicted as thunniform (all the propulsion comes from moving the tail fin) when they should be carangiform (propulsion comes from moving the posterior third of the body) swimmers.note Green 2017, masters thesis on mosasaur vertebral mobility determined they would have been carangiform swimmers rather than thunniform depicted in the show. Kaikaifilu is depicted as a reskinned Mosasaurus when during the show's development the former was a tylosaurine and the latter a mosasaurine, as such it should have a longer skull and a tail that is proportionally much longer compared to the body. The Mosasaurus hoffmannii model also possesses quite a few inaccuracies as detailed here. As seen by this snapshot the Therizinosaurus is depicted with the tip of the hallux claw touching the ground when it should have all four of its toes bearing weight. Cimolodon is larger than its real life counterpart and lacks tarsal spurs. As seen in the show Carnotaurus is depicted using arm waving as its primary display to attract a mate. While abelisaur arms did have huge shoulders and a balljoint at the base,multiple studies have concluded that their arms would have been vestigial as the nerve fibers responsible for arm motor function were reduced, similar to extant birds with vestigial forelimbs.note It has been noted however that Cassowaries and Emus possess similarly reduced nerves and retain some degree of arm mobility, though their mobility is limited. It was tweeted by the consultants that the question of whether or not abelisaur arms were mobile is still uncertain. It is instead more likely that their horns were their main display, as horns in extant animals are used for both sexual display and intraspecific combat. While this doesn't rule out the arms having a secondary display function, this is unlikely to be the main driving force behind the evolution of their courtship rituals. The behind the scenes video for "Forests" mentions the ball joint at the base of the arm as a justification for such a display. It also brings up peafowl, deer, and other animals today that have features that do nothing but attract mates. This ignores important details that 1) Sexual selection typically drives features to become more exaggerated and pronounced, with peafowl tails and deer antlers being highly costly to produce, as well as very cumbersome and conspicuous hindering the individual's survival.note Abelisaur arms conversely are highly reduced being the smallest relative to body size of any theropod. 2) Natural selection does not put selection pressure to lose features if they don't help or hinder an animal's survival. Abelisaur arms were very likely vestigial but stuck around because there was no selection pressure to lose them as they didnâ€™t hinder the animal's survival. Forests in the series are portrayed with closed canopies, but evidence suggests that Mesozoic forests had generally open canopies due to herbivorous dinosaurs either feeding or felling trees (this is even seen in "Forests" with Austroposeidon). It is also speculated to be the reason why angiosperms went on a spree in the Paleocene; already dominant by 50% of most assemblages, they now could form closed canopies and prevent conifers and ferns from being efficient competitors anymore. This seems to be fixed in season 2, which features far more open-canopy forest settings.
Prehistoric Planet / int_4c4bebf4	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_4c4bebf4	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_4c4bebf4
Prehistoric Planet / int_4e790301	type	Whale Egg
Prehistoric Planet / int_4e790301	comment	Whale Egg: The Adalatherium, a small badger-like Mesozoic mammal, is depicted as laying eggs. This is actually not as surprising as it would seem: most mammals in the Mesozoic laid eggs and it simply so happened that only the two types of monotremes survived until today while the live-bearing marsupials and placentals, a minority in the Mesozoic, ultimately became the dominant mammals.
Prehistoric Planet / int_4e790301	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_4e790301	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_4e790301
Prehistoric Planet / int_4ee98e74	type	Amphibian at Large
Prehistoric Planet / int_4ee98e74	comment	Amphibian at Large: The Beelzebufo, a huge, prehistoric bullfrog, makes an appearance.
Prehistoric Planet / int_4ee98e74	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_4ee98e74	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_4ee98e74
Prehistoric Planet / int_4f6bd2da	type	Nature Is Not Nice
Prehistoric Planet / int_4f6bd2da	comment	Nature Is Not Nice: As with many nature documentaries, Prehistoric Planet pulls no punches in how cruel nature can be. Notable examples being the apathy some animals show to the deaths of their own offspring, especially the Tyrannosaurus father in "Coasts" and the Olorotitan herd in "Ice Worlds".
Prehistoric Planet / int_4f6bd2da	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_4f6bd2da	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_4f6bd2da
Prehistoric Planet / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Prehistoric Planet / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: When the Mononykus is shown brandishing her claw, a stereotypical sword drawing sound effect plays (presumably non-diegetic).
Prehistoric Planet / int_5029c444	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_5029c444	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_5029c444
Prehistoric Planet / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Prehistoric Planet / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: "Forests" (the last episode of the first series) ends in the same way that the first episode of the series began; with a shot of a beach. "Deserts" begins and ends with a herd of herbivores in South America. Both the very first and the very last (for now) segments of the series focus on a family of tyrannosaurs, (Tyrannosaurus rex for the former, Nanuqsaurus for the latter).
Prehistoric Planet / int_53224e46	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_53224e46	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_53224e46
Prehistoric Planet / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Prehistoric Planet / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: One Simosuchus is unable to retreat into a burrow in time before it's cornered by a Majungasaurus. However, by hissing, charging, and kicking dirt into the dinosaur's face, the small crocodilian fends the much larger predator off for long enough to find a vacant burrow to hide in.
Prehistoric Planet / int_53a7089a	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_53a7089a	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_53a7089a
Prehistoric Planet / int_5db82ffa	type	Beak Attack
Prehistoric Planet / int_5db82ffa	comment	Beak Attack: The Quetzalcoatlus is armed with a huge beak over six feet in length, and capable of inflicting terrible injuries with its pecks. It's enough that a pair of the giant pterosaurs are able to drive off even an adult Tyrannosaurus.
Prehistoric Planet / int_5db82ffa	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_5db82ffa	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_5db82ffa
Prehistoric Planet / int_613ecc2d	type	Riding into the Sunset
Prehistoric Planet / int_613ecc2d	comment	Riding into the Sunset: The last episode of the first season ends with a Hatzegopteryx flying off into the sunset.
Prehistoric Planet / int_613ecc2d	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_613ecc2d	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_613ecc2d
Prehistoric Planet / int_6455e8e	type	Life Will Kill You
Prehistoric Planet / int_6455e8e	comment	Life Will Kill You: In contrast to most of the other deaths from predation, the beginning of "North America" shows an elderly Alamosaurus simply passing away of old age after a long and successful life.
Prehistoric Planet / int_6455e8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_6455e8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_6455e8e
Prehistoric Planet / int_64e8196d	type	Don't Wake the Sleeper
Prehistoric Planet / int_64e8196d	comment	Don't Wake the Sleeper: In the second episode, several Tarbosaurus are napping after feeding on a sauropod carcass, but the smell of meat coating their bodies attracts flies, which in turn attracts insect-eating lizards that clamber over the sleeping tyrannosaurs to catch the flies. The lizards in turn attract a group of Velociraptor, and one of the raptors accidentally bumps into one of the Tarbosaurus attempting to catch a lizard, waking all of them up. It just barely avoids being snapped up.
Prehistoric Planet / int_64e8196d	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_64e8196d	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_64e8196d
Prehistoric Planet / int_6660aaf	type	Herbivores Are Friendly
Prehistoric Planet / int_6660aaf	comment	Herbivores Are Friendly: Averted. In a complete opposite of how sauropods are usually depicted, the Dreadnoughtus are shown here engaging in territorial disputes to the death. "Swamps" and "North America" also features some ferocious combat between, respectively, Pachycephalosaurus and Triceratops, though the stakes are not quite as high.
Prehistoric Planet / int_6660aaf	featureApplicability	-1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_6660aaf	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_6660aaf
Prehistoric Planet / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
Prehistoric Planet / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: The giant azhdarchids Hatzegopteryx and Quetzalcoatlus make appearances. The less massive, but still quite big Barbaridactylus and Phosphatodraco also show up. Two of the background enantiornitheans also appear to be rather large.
Prehistoric Planet / int_67677940	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_67677940	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_67677940
Prehistoric Planet / int_6af8ebb5	type	Death by Falling Over
Prehistoric Planet / int_6af8ebb5	comment	Outright inverted with the Dreadnoughtus where their giant size is explicitly stated to be a weakness: at 40-50 tons, their fights are extremely costly, and merely falling over can result in fatal injuries for something so big.
Prehistoric Planet / int_6af8ebb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_6af8ebb5	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_6af8ebb5
Prehistoric Planet / int_6d036d9c	type	CoveredInScars
Prehistoric Planet / int_6d036d9c	comment	Covered in Scars: The old male Tyrannosaurus in "Fresh Water: is covered with nicks and faded slashes from a long life hunting large, armoured prey. Even the tip of his tail has been torn off from some prior bout. However, it's noted the scars make him more attractive to females, because it's a clear sign he's fought long and hard in life and won. In "North America", the older Triceratops bulls are covered in scars from frequent fights over the females. One young male gets rejected by a potential mate specifically because he doesn't have any scars. Still trying to impress, he gets into a fight with an older and more established male. He loses, but now he has a Rugged Scar, which the narrator tells us might help him out in next year's mating season.
Prehistoric Planet / int_6d036d9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_6d036d9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_6d036d9c
Prehistoric Planet / int_6f398193	type	Behemoth Battle
Prehistoric Planet / int_6f398193	comment	Behemoth Battle: The first episode features a sequence between two adult Mosasaurus, the planet's largest and most powerful carnivore during the end of the Late Cretaceous. The narration states such battles can be deadly, and fossils of mosasaurs have been discovered with teeth of other mosasaurs embedded in them. The second episode features two huge male Dreadnoughtus, each nearly fifty metric tonnes, battling for control of the females in the mating grounds. The battle is brutal, with both animals slamming into each other on their hind limbs, stabbing with their thumb claws, and raking each other with their teeth. Because they're so huge, it takes tremendous energy to fight like this, and the loser dies from exertion. The third episode features a fight between two Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest flying animals to ever live, specifically instigated between a mother defending her eggs and a rival female attempting to destroy the nest to remove competition for her own offspring. The tenth episode features a battle between two male Triceratops (an old one and a younger one) fighting for mating opportunities. The younger male is six tonnes, while older male is said to weigh ten tonnes. The tenth episode also features a fight between a Tyrannosaurus (one of the largest ever land predators) and a pair of Quetzalcoatlus (one of the largest ever fliers), though unlike the other examples, this combat consists mostly of posing and threat displays, and never gets physical apart from a few brief pecks.
Prehistoric Planet / int_6f398193	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_6f398193	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_6f398193
Prehistoric Planet / int_75eb0dbe	type	Goofy Feathered Dinosaur
Prehistoric Planet / int_75eb0dbe	comment	Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: While it's averted for most feathered dinosaurs in this series, particularly the fearsome variety, there are a few that play it somewhat straight (though notably in a more naturalistic fashion than most examples): While averted for the sparsely-feathered adults, the fluffy-coated baby Tyrannosaurus are portrayed in a more comical light, play-fighting with each other, curiously exploring their environment, and romping about on the beach like kittens. Mononykus, a feathery, toothy bird-like dinosaur with a barn owl pattern, is shown to be rather inexperienced with hunting insects, whether it be getting termites on her face or having trouble choosing her prey due to her unfamiliarity with the desert bloom. Deinocheirus, a giant duck-billed ornithomimosaur with giant claws, is depicted as a voracious plant-eater whose major conflict in his segment is dealing with blood sucking flies. When dealing with these flies, the Deinocheirus uses a dead tree as an itch-scratcher, which is played with ironic dramatic music. After dealing with the flies, Deinocheirus ends his segment by pooping in the water, which the narration delightfully notes to be the result of his plant-based diet, and how it'll help fertilize new growth in the future. The Ornithomimus segment in "Ice Worlds" features a late-arriving male desperately looking for nest materials at his meager spot on the island. He turns to a life of crime by stealing branches and leaves from his rival, leading to a comical situation where he constantly freezes in place whenever his rival turns his head back at the nest. Averted with the Ornithomimus in "North America", who appear in a much more dramatic scene, being hunted by a tenacious (and equally feathery) Nanuqsaurus. In "Forests", a trio of young Therizinosaurus spots a honey-filled beehive on a tree, and naturally try to get it by climbing onto the dead branches to get a taste. Their first several attempts have them clumsily fall off and they finally do reach the hive, the angry bees attack these hapless dinosaurs, giving them a stinging of their lives. It's subverted with arrival of the adult Therizinosaurus looking for honey as well. While the bees sting the adult with as much ferocity as they did to the youngsters, the giant's coat of feathers is too thick to penetrate, allowing the adult Therizinosaurus to destroy the hive with ease. All of this is awe-inspiring to the youngsters watching from the bushes.
Prehistoric Planet / int_75eb0dbe	featureApplicability	-0.3
Prehistoric Planet / int_75eb0dbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_75eb0dbe
Prehistoric Planet / int_7919a45b	type	Duel to the Death
Prehistoric Planet / int_7919a45b	comment	Duel to the Death: The Dreadnoughtus are so huge and heavy that fighting for mating rights is a death sentence for the loser. Most Dreadnoughtus males dare not challenge ruling bulls because of this. In the same episode, two large male Barbaridactylus engage in aerial combat (though it is more a chase than a duel). The winner breaks the wing of the loser, who plunges to the ground to his death. Subverted with the Mosasaurus duel: though the narrator claims they are trying to drown each other, keen-eyed viewers can spot the loser swimming off in the dark depths before the winner emerges victoriously.
Prehistoric Planet / int_7919a45b	featureApplicability	-0.3
Prehistoric Planet / int_7919a45b	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_7919a45b
Prehistoric Planet / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Prehistoric Planet / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The first segment of "Freshwater" ends with the female Velociraptor running off with her prey, leaving the two males Zerg Rushed by hundreds of pterosaurs.
Prehistoric Planet / int_79a0e313	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_79a0e313	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_79a0e313
Prehistoric Planet / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
Prehistoric Planet / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: In the second episode, a small agamid lizard, chased by a Velociraptor, runs to hide under a sleeping Tarbosaurus. The raptor bumps into the large predator, which wakes up and snaps at the raptor, chasing it away. The lizard, too small for the Tarbosaur to bother with, is triumphant.
Prehistoric Planet / int_7c48b272	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_7c48b272	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_7c48b272
Prehistoric Planet / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Prehistoric Planet / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Mosasaurus hoffmanni is introduced approaching a stray pycnodont fish as if going to eat it, only for it to stop short and lie still with its mouth open before it does. Then it turns out it wanted the fish to clean it. In the Barbaridactylus segment of the second episode, one male is able to sneak into the harem of a much larger male because he's part of a "sneaky" morph that physically resemble the much smaller, crestless females. The alpha male spots him and singles him out, but after a tense moment (made more so because we previously saw him killing another rival), it's stated the sneaky male merely caught the alpha male's eye as a possible receptive female, not as a rival. In "Freshwater", after the old Tyrannosaurus feeds on the dead Triceratops, he goes to a riverbank to clean the wound he suffered hunting the giant herbivore. It is then that another T. rex appears, hinting that this is a rival male who wants to fight him. However, the intruder is revealed to be a younger, smaller female, but may also been a rival. After a few seconds where it looks like a battle may indeed break out, the male then raises its neck and lets the female know that he means no harm and wants to mate with her, an action the female reciprocates. Afterwards, they end up mating. A foraging Adalatherium is shown coming across a clutch of eggs hidden in a burrow, with the narration making it seem like it's going to eat them. Then, it's clarified that they're the mammal's clutch of eggs and she's returning to her own burrow.
Prehistoric Planet / int_8797239c	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_8797239c	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_8797239c
Prehistoric Planet / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
Prehistoric Planet / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: An adult Tyrannosaurus is the largest land predator of the Latest Cretaceous, but it's far outweighed by an adult Mosasaurus. The narration does note that, even in water, a full-grown Tyrannosaurus is a dangerous potential prey animal, and the Mosasaurus focuses on the much smaller baby T. rex instead. A Masiakasaurus searching for small animals hiding in burrows and threatening a nest of Adalatherium juveniles is itself ambushed and killed by a huge Madtsoia.
Prehistoric Planet / int_88ebc539	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_88ebc539	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_88ebc539
Prehistoric Planet / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Prehistoric Planet / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: An earlier segment of the "Islands" episode is seen from a herd of Tethyshadros fleeing from a flock of giant predatory Hatzegopteryx. The last segment in the episode shows one of the same Hatzegopteryx with the Tethyshadros baby it killed, but now focuses on it trying to attract a mate. Justified seeing as it's an animal with no concept of morality to begin with, with the segment merely being used to illustrate another facet of its life beyond its predatory behaviour.
Prehistoric Planet / int_89434320	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_89434320	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_89434320
Prehistoric Planet / int_895af18e	type	Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies
Prehistoric Planet / int_895af18e	comment	Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: The T. rex, pterosaurs and hadrosaurs adhere to this trope. Notably averted with the pleisiosaurs, which were almost half the size of the mother at birth.
Prehistoric Planet / int_895af18e	featureApplicability	-1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_895af18e	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_895af18e
Prehistoric Planet / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
Prehistoric Planet / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: Downplayed. The series is set in the last million years of the Cretaceous period, so the viewer is definitely aware that the end isn't far off - at least, in geological time. However, the narrator never really dwells on it and there is no big "extinction event" episode.
Prehistoric Planet / int_8bf8adfa	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_8bf8adfa	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_8bf8adfa
Prehistoric Planet / int_8e2513cc	type	Matchstick Weapon
Prehistoric Planet / int_8e2513cc	comment	Matchstick Weapon: In the fourth episode, a species of troodontid has learned that prey animals are flushed out by forest fires, and that it can help spread the fire by carrying burning sticks to other areas of the forest. In the fifth episode, an Atrociraptor uses a smoldering stick to help rid itself of parasites, by holding the stick under its wings to smoke them out.
Prehistoric Planet / int_8e2513cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_8e2513cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_8e2513cc
Prehistoric Planet / int_94f4832c	type	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism
Prehistoric Planet / int_94f4832c	comment	Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Male Barbaridactylus are shown with an enormous forked head crest, while females have a small, rounded one. However, another type of male is instead similar to the female in appearance and mimic females, in order to avoid the aggression of the large crested males and mate in secret.
Prehistoric Planet / int_94f4832c	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_94f4832c	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_94f4832c
Prehistoric Planet / int_97c57f9f	type	Mosquito Miscreants
Prehistoric Planet / int_97c57f9f	comment	Mosquito Miscreants: The Deinocheirus is depicted being tormented by swarms of biting flies that drive him crazy. He's able to alleviate his itchiness by rubbing himself up and down on a dead tree. A much less humorous take appears in the fourth episode, with the herd of Olorotitan being menaced by large arctic mosquitoes, which are an irritant for the adults but prove fatal for many hatchlings.
Prehistoric Planet / int_97c57f9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_97c57f9f	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_97c57f9f
Prehistoric Planet / int_985795ab	type	Medium Blending
Prehistoric Planet / int_985795ab	comment	Medium Blending: CGI dinosaurs are composited onto real environments and alongside real animals in some sequences, such as the baby sea turtles in the Tyrannosaurus beach segment, as well as using practical effects.
Prehistoric Planet / int_985795ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_985795ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_985795ab
Prehistoric Planet / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Prehistoric Planet / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: As a possible nod to its repeated usage in the Walking withâ€¦ series, when the azhdarchids root through a titanosaur carcass with their beaks, they end up prodding the "camera" inside the carcass a few times. Several animals are also shown to curiously investigate the "camera", such as the female Mononykus in "Deserts" and one of the Hesperornis in "Oceans".
Prehistoric Planet / int_9dd2329c	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_9dd2329c	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_9dd2329c
Prehistoric Planet / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Prehistoric Planet / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Done twice in one segment. A Mosasaurus is introduced as a scary, menacing predator, but it turns out to just be settling into a cleaning station to relax. As it's in the middle of relaxing however, a rival Mosasaurus suddenly rams him in a violent territorial dispute.
Prehistoric Planet / int_a4c37cbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_a4c37cbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_a4c37cbe
Prehistoric Planet / int_a6aa5c35	type	Fragile Flyer
Prehistoric Planet / int_a6aa5c35	comment	Fragile Flyer: Played With: "Deserts": A colony of Barbidactylus is the focus of a segment where the much larger males are competing in fierce territorial displays for the attention of the females around them. One of the fights escalates violently, as a male takes to the air to flee with another male closely pursuing. When the pursuing male gets close enough, he nips at the wings of his opponent. While it doesn't appear that the bite does much damage, it does throw the loser off-balance and forces him to collide against the steep cliff face of the mesa the colony is using as breeding grounds, which likely killed the loser instantly (although even if he did survive that, his subsequent forty plus foot fall to the ground certainly finished the job). "Freshwater": A segment early on follows a small pack of Velociraptor hunting a colony of unnamed juvenile azdarchids along the steep cliffs the pterosaurs call home. The female raptor manages to nab one, although it's only after said pterosaur fell to ground beneath them after surviving and escaping the female's first attempt to pin it down. Notably though, after the colony is alerted to the trio of dromeosaurs, they actually try to come to the aid of the pterosaur the female raptor took, and, although they fail, the colony becomes a serious threat to the remaining pair of male raptors, who were abandoned by the female shortly after she grabbed her prize. It's left up to the viewer to decide whether or not the males are driven off or killed.
Prehistoric Planet / int_a6aa5c35	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_a6aa5c35	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_a6aa5c35
Prehistoric Planet / int_a9c1bc0c	type	Bee Afraid
Prehistoric Planet / int_a9c1bc0c	comment	Played straight with the angry bees.
Prehistoric Planet / int_a9c1bc0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_a9c1bc0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_a9c1bc0c
Prehistoric Planet / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Prehistoric Planet / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: In the Deinocheirus scene, the mundane activity of scratching against a tree is made awesome thanks to the epic orchestral music accompanying it.
Prehistoric Planet / int_abad35b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_abad35b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_abad35b4
Prehistoric Planet / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Prehistoric Planet / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: The bees are able to ward off the baby Therizinosaurus from their hive with their stings, but their stings have no effect on a five-ton adult Therizinosaurus, which whacks down their hive with one swipe.
Prehistoric Planet / int_abd29ad8	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_abd29ad8	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_abd29ad8
Prehistoric Planet / int_ac7df45e	type	Giant Equals Invincible
Prehistoric Planet / int_ac7df45e	comment	Giant Equals Invincible: Played with rather realistically. Most of the larger animals have little to fear besides members of their own species, but in disputes between individuals that are nearly equal in size over territory or mating rights, the fights can get outright lethal. Though smaller species will still defend themselves, such as the case with the Tuarangisaurus pod when they're being hunted by the larger mosasaurid Kaikaifilu, the best they can hope for is to drive off larger predators and convince them to seek an easier meal elsewhere. Outright inverted with the Dreadnoughtus where their giant size is explicitly stated to be a weakness: at 40-50 tons, their fights are extremely costly, and merely falling over can result in fatal injuries for something so big. An adult Alamosaurus, stated to reach one-hundred feet long and eighty tons, explicitly making them far too large for any predator to take on; no small feat considering they live alongside Tyrannosaurus rex. Their skin alone is three inches deep, so thick that smaller predators are unable to even pierce it. Nonetheless, the "North America" episode does feature the death of an Alamosaurus - of old age. Even in death, though, a pack of troodontids are unable to make any kind of headway on his corpse, because of the aforementioned three-inch skin.
Prehistoric Planet / int_ac7df45e	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_ac7df45e	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_ac7df45e
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad8df7ab	type	Don't Celebrate Just Yet
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad8df7ab	comment	Don't Celebrate Just Yet: A younger male Pachycephalosaurus challenges the older alpha male for dominance, and is able to knock his opponent to the ground. He starts bellowing in victory, only for the older male to recovery and pummel his rival into submission while he's celebrating.
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad8df7ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad8df7ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_ad8df7ab
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad982e04	comment	Played mostly straight with the two smaller tyrannosaur species Nanuqsaurus, and Qianzhousaurus, who are both presented as formidable hunters. Nanuqsaurus is a pack hunter that relentlessly chases a Pachyrhinosaurus herd until killing an old bull; Qianzhousaurus is a stealthy ambush predator sneaking up on a flock of Corythoraptor. However, both predators are portrayed as fairly realistic animals rather than Prehistoric Monsters. Nanuqsaurus is also shown to be a devoted parent in the second series.
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad982e04	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_ad982e04	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_ad982e04
Prehistoric Planet / int_b2ceabcd	type	Nice Day, Deadly Night
Prehistoric Planet / int_b2ceabcd	comment	Nice Day, Deadly Night: In "Swamps" a pair of Tyrannosaurus are shown stalking herds of Edmontosaurus and Triceratops during the day, but only attacking at night when the cover of darkness helps hide them from their prey.
Prehistoric Planet / int_b2ceabcd	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_b2ceabcd	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_b2ceabcd
Prehistoric Planet / int_b49e24b0	type	Honorable Elephant
Prehistoric Planet / int_b49e24b0	comment	Triceratops eat clay to neutralize plant poison similarly to parrots. The way they access the clay, by entering the dark cave and chewing on rocks, is based on how certain herds of African elephants access salt. The social behaviour of the Triceratops also invoke the Honorable Elephant trope.
Prehistoric Planet / int_b49e24b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_b49e24b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_b49e24b0
Prehistoric Planet / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Prehistoric Planet / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: From the first full trailer, we get two examples: First, Attenborough states that the creatures of our world could be called "magnificent, monstrous or misunderstood". At the end, he declares that the stories of the prehistoric past are "unknown, unexplained, unbelievable, until now."
Prehistoric Planet / int_b5049d76	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_b5049d76	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_b5049d76
Prehistoric Planet / int_bc80df1f	type	Stock Animal Behavior
Prehistoric Planet / int_bc80df1f	comment	Stock Animal Behavior: Defied. The show goes out of its way to show dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in unconventional behaviours that are still supported by evidence or at least speculatively plausible, such as introducing Tyrannosaurus swimming in the ocean, showing plesiosaurs collecting gastroliths and Mosasaurus being picked cleaned by tiny reef animals, rather than hunting fish, or showing a Tarbosaurus menacingly approaching a herd of hadrosaurs... which it totally ignores because it just wanted to drink water. Some of the more stereotypical animal behaviour we see is Austroposeidon (a large sauropod) pushing down trees to feed from the leaves, a pack of Dromaeosaurus stalking a herd of Edmontosaurus (though instead of swarming an adult they just disrupt the herd and eat a juvenile that dies from falling into a river), and Nanuqsaurus (a tyrannosaur) hunting Pachyrhinosaurus. Played straight with the angry bees.
Prehistoric Planet / int_bc80df1f	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_bc80df1f	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_bc80df1f
Prehistoric Planet / int_bec25788	type	Rugged Scar
Prehistoric Planet / int_bec25788	comment	Rugged Scar: An old male Tyrannosaurus in "Freshwater" is covered in nicks and faded cuts from decades of battles with huge armoured prey animals like Triceratops. However, the scars actually potentially make him more attractive to females, as it's an honest indication that he's had a long and successful life despite facing numerous challenges. During the mating season for Triceratops, a healthy young adult male Triceratops shows off his meticulous horns and frill. However, it's noted that the fact they are meticulous might put off females, because they are a sign of inexperience. A giant elder male, with a hole in his frill, a broken brow horn, and worn-down nose horn, is much more attractive to females despite his advanced age. A brutal duel between the young and old male leaves the young male with a broken horn too, although it's indicated this injury might make him more attractive in later mating seasons.
Prehistoric Planet / int_bec25788	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_bec25788	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_bec25788
Prehistoric Planet / int_bf4fb49b	type	Aerial Canyon Chase
Prehistoric Planet / int_bf4fb49b	comment	Aerial Canyon Chase: In "Deserts", two Barbaridactylus males are fighting over territory on a tall cliff and chase each other in tight loops around the summit to settle the dispute. The duel ends with the challenger being driven into the cliffside by the ruling male and falling to his death.
Prehistoric Planet / int_bf4fb49b	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_bf4fb49b	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_bf4fb49b
Prehistoric Planet / int_c02a3bf2	type	Imperiled in Pregnancy
Prehistoric Planet / int_c02a3bf2	comment	Imperiled in Pregnancy: The last segment of the first episode has the mother Tuarangisaurus going into labour with another pup, and her irregularly sluggish motions make her a target for a Kaikaifilu mosasaur. Fortunately, the other plesiosaurs, including the mother's older pup, mob the mosasaur and drive it away.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c02a3bf2	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c02a3bf2	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c02a3bf2
Prehistoric Planet / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Prehistoric Planet / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: A brief one in "Coasts" that happens without any foreshadowing. Just as the old Mosasaurus is peacefully basking and breathing in the reef where he came to be cleaned by the pycnodonts and cleaner shrimps, a younger male suddenly attacks him to take over his territory, starting a fierce battle. Unprepared audiences will likely be taken out by surprise at this scene.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c04b1231	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c04b1231	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c04b1231
Prehistoric Planet / int_c43f8b58	type	Chasing a Butterfly
Prehistoric Planet / int_c43f8b58	comment	Chasing a Butterfly: In "Freshwater", a baby Masiakasaurus strays away from its mother, chasing after a crab. Suddenly, a giant Beelzebufo leaps out from a puddle and swallows the baby whole.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c43f8b58	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c43f8b58	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c43f8b58
Prehistoric Planet / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Prehistoric Planet / int_c5b47b36	comment	Averted with T. rex itself in Season 1. A father T. rex and its babies appear in the first episode and, while they're mostly shown engaging in non-predatory behaviors such as playing and scavenging. In the third episode, a male T. rex is seen eating a dead Triceratops it killed, but we never get to see the hunt itself. Played straight in Season 2 episode "Swamps", which showcases a terrifying T. rex hunt of the Edmontosaurus at night, demonstrating why Attenborough calls them the planet's most powerful predators.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c5b47b36	featureApplicability	-1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c5b47b36	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c5b47b36
Prehistoric Planet / int_c6123bbe	type	Failures on Ice
Prehistoric Planet / int_c6123bbe	comment	Failures on Ice: A Morrosaurus pursued by a pack of Imperobator is able to evade its hunters by running on the icy surface of a frozen lake, causing the lead Imperobator runner to slip and give its quarry a chance to break free from the pack's reach.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c6123bbe	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c6123bbe	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c6123bbe
Prehistoric Planet / int_c689efe5	type	Sea of Sand
Prehistoric Planet / int_c689efe5	comment	Sea of Sand: In the last segment in the second episode, the Secernosaurus need to navigate in a constantly shifting, featureless desert stretching for many, many miles. With no landmarks to follow, they travel by night and rely on the position of the stars to prevent from getting lost in a sequence modeled on real-life camel migration.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c689efe5	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c689efe5	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c689efe5
Prehistoric Planet / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Prehistoric Planet / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The sunrise opening as seen in the teaser and the preview clearly evokes the opening of the intro to Walking with Dinosaurs, as well as executive producer Jon Favreau's previous project with photorealistic CGI animals, The Lion King. The second episode introducing Velociraptor seems to have a reference to Jurassic Park, specifically the part where one raptor acts as a decoy for another raptor from the side. The fifth episode also has a segment where Triceratops have to deal with eating poisonous plants. Doesn't that sound familiar? The scene in the second episode where various species are congregating in an Asian desert oasis evokes the water truce from Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book. The arrival of the Tarbosaurus even resembles that of Shere Khan with all the other animals giving him a wide berth. A male Tyrannosaurus mating with a female of his species after killing a Triceratops. Does that scene look familiar? A sequence in "North America" has two Late Maastrichtian male ceratopsids engaging in a courtship duel which ends when one has its horn snapped off, with a shot of the bloodied horn lying on the ground seems very similar to the scene in the last of episode of Walking with Dinosaurs, except replacing Torosaurus with Triceratops. In this case however, the horn breaking off makes the loser more attractive to females in his future rather than dooming his chances of ever finding a mate. A male Ornithomimus stealing materials from a rival's nest to build his own is no doubt a reference to a male AdÃ©lie penguin stealing rocks to build his nest in BBC's previous documentary work featuring David Attenborough, Frozen Planet. Similarly, the "sneaky male Barbaridactylus" sequence is extremely similar to the sneaky cuttlefish sequence from Attenborough's Blue Planet II. A Carnotaurus flashes its brightly-colored arms to court a potential mate, much like how All Yesterdays postulated they could have done. The male Tuarangisaurus also display by vertically raising their necks out of the water exactly as portrayed by elasmosaurs in the book. The Beelzebufo in "Swamps" having to navigate its way past a herd of Rapetosarus to get to a suitable waterhole for attracting mates calls Frogger to mind. Also, both episodes featuring Beelzebufo - "Fresh Water" and "Swamps" - debuted on Wednesdays, in what has been confirmed as a deliberate reference to the "It is Wednesday, my dudes" meme, which also featured a frog.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c75df49a
Prehistoric Planet / int_c8bb9f15	type	Temper-Ceratops
Prehistoric Planet / int_c8bb9f15	comment	In "North America", the older Triceratops bulls are covered in scars from frequent fights over the females. One young male gets rejected by a potential mate specifically because he doesn't have any scars. Still trying to impress, he gets into a fight with an older and more established male. He loses, but now he has a Rugged Scar, which the narrator tells us might help him out in next year's mating season.
Prehistoric Planet / int_c8bb9f15	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_c8bb9f15	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_c8bb9f15
Prehistoric Planet / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Prehistoric Planet / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Several species are not identified by specific names, only more generally, either because their real life identification is in question (like the Alaskan troodontid and the Javelina troodontid), they're based on fossils which are too fragmentary to have a name (like the Mongol Titan or the Antarctic hadrosaur), or they're a hypothetical species (the agamid lizard in the "Deserts" episode). invoked Strangely, in the forest fire sequence with Atrociraptor, the ankylosaur is not identified by name, even though the fact it's contemporary with Edmontosaurus and Atrociraptor and its distinctive pronged tail club clearly identify it as Anodontosaurus (which is confirmed by Word of God).
Prehistoric Planet / int_ca87e3ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_ca87e3ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_ca87e3ec
Prehistoric Planet / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Prehistoric Planet / int_cc4b45f6	comment	invoked Strangely, in the forest fire sequence with Atrociraptor, the ankylosaur is not identified by name, even though the fact it's contemporary with Edmontosaurus and Atrociraptor and its distinctive pronged tail club clearly identify it as Anodontosaurus (which is confirmed by Word of God).
Prehistoric Planet / int_cc4b45f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_cc4b45f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_cc4b45f6
Prehistoric Planet / int_d2528a4a	type	Terrifying Tyrannosaur
Prehistoric Planet / int_d2528a4a	comment	Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Averted with T. rex itself in Season 1. A father T. rex and its babies appear in the first episode and, while they're mostly shown engaging in non-predatory behaviors such as playing and scavenging. In the third episode, a male T. rex is seen eating a dead Triceratops it killed, but we never get to see the hunt itself. Played straight in Season 2 episode "Swamps", which showcases a terrifying T. rex hunt of the Edmontosaurus at night, demonstrating why Attenborough calls them the planet's most powerful predators. Downplayed with the Asian tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus in the second episode. The other dinosaurs treat it as The Dreaded, but the most threatening thing it does onscreen is taking a snap at a Velociraptor that accidentally wakes it up. Otherwise it's just mostly seen lounging and taking a drink at a watering hole. Played mostly straight with the two smaller tyrannosaur species Nanuqsaurus, and Qianzhousaurus, who are both presented as formidable hunters. Nanuqsaurus is a pack hunter that relentlessly chases a Pachyrhinosaurus herd until killing an old bull; Qianzhousaurus is a stealthy ambush predator sneaking up on a flock of Corythoraptor. However, both predators are portrayed as fairly realistic animals rather than Prehistoric Monsters. Nanuqsaurus is also shown to be a devoted parent in the second series.
Prehistoric Planet / int_d2528a4a	featureApplicability	-1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_d2528a4a	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_d2528a4a
Prehistoric Planet / int_d4055b8b	type	Square-Cube Law
Prehistoric Planet / int_d4055b8b	comment	Square-Cube Law: This is used against the Dreadnoughtus males when they fight each other for mating rights. It takes a huge amount of energy to even fight all and if a Dreadnoughtus falls to the ground in combat, he is crushed by his own weight and will never get up again. Had the species been smaller and lighter, the loser would have a chance to live for another day and possibly engage in a rematch with his usurper.
Prehistoric Planet / int_d4055b8b	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_d4055b8b	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_d4055b8b
Prehistoric Planet / int_d7d588c8	type	Lethal Lava Land
Prehistoric Planet / int_d7d588c8	comment	Lethal Lava Land: "Badlands" features two segments set in the Deccan Traps, a vast volcanic region in India that has been spewing lava so long and in such large quantities, it now covers the surrounding earth a mile thick. However, herds of Isisaurus venture into the hellish wasteland annually to deposit their eggs in a huge caldera, as the incredibly hostile conditions are a highly effective defence against nest raiders.
Prehistoric Planet / int_d7d588c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_d7d588c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_d7d588c8
Prehistoric Planet / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Prehistoric Planet / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: When the mother Adalatherium is out foraging, it's shown that many predators stalk the night. One, shown clearly, is a Majungasaurus, another is shown only in extreme closeup slinking through the brush. This second predator later ends up accidentally saving the lives of the Adalatherium's young; it's a huge Madtsoia, which kills a Masiakasaurus that was close to finding the nest.
Prehistoric Planet / int_dcbe8a6e	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_dcbe8a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_dcbe8a6e
Prehistoric Planet / int_e329a741	type	Stock Animal Diet
Prehistoric Planet / int_e329a741	comment	Stock Animal Diet: Defied by the Tyrannosaurus in "Coasts", which is only seen eating a dead sea turtle, while his children chase after baby turtles. Played straight in "Fresh Water", where a male Tyrannosaurus is shown eating a Triceratops he had just killed, and in "Swamps", where a pair of Tyrannosaurus hunt and kill an Edmontosaurus. Nyctosaurid pterosaurs are also not shown eating fish as they're normally inferred to: Barbaridactylus is shown hawking like a falcon and Alcione is seen eating insects (admittedly both were in highly unusual circumstances, taking advantage of a juvenile bloom and being that said juveniles are away from the sea respectively). Considering pterosaurs as a whole still get plagued with the piscivore stereotype, this is refreshing. Troodontids in "Ice World" hunt Mesozoic mammals as usual. This time, however, they're proportionally massive mammals, Cimolodon, which is definitely a first.
Prehistoric Planet / int_e329a741	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_e329a741	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_e329a741
Prehistoric Planet / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
Prehistoric Planet / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: The Velociraptor is first shown this way in the second episode. Because what better way is there to introduce a dromaeosaur than by immediately showing its most iconic anatomical characteristic?
Prehistoric Planet / int_e73f6217	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_e73f6217	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_e73f6217
Prehistoric Planet / int_ebfaf704	type	Scary Stinging Swarm
Prehistoric Planet / int_ebfaf704	comment	Scary Stinging Swarm: A group of young Therizinosaurus attempt to raid a bees' nest for honey only to be warded off by the defending bees when they get too close. Fortunately for them (and unfortunately for the bees), a full-grown Therizinosaurus arrives who isn't deterred by the stinging at all, swatting down the bee nest with one swipe, and leaves enough honey left over for the babies to snack on.
Prehistoric Planet / int_ebfaf704	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_ebfaf704	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_ebfaf704
Prehistoric Planet / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Prehistoric Planet / int_ec02c97e	comment	Defied by the Tyrannosaurus in "Coasts", which is only seen eating a dead sea turtle, while his children chase after baby turtles. Played straight in "Fresh Water", where a male Tyrannosaurus is shown eating a Triceratops he had just killed, and in "Swamps", where a pair of Tyrannosaurus hunt and kill an Edmontosaurus.
Prehistoric Planet / int_ec02c97e	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_ec02c97e	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_ec02c97e
Prehistoric Planet / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
Prehistoric Planet / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: Happens to many animals in the show, since its reptilian subjects can't chew. Special mention goes to Phospatodraco, which swallows a baby Alcione in front of its flock.
Prehistoric Planet / int_eea96e78	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_eea96e78	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_eea96e78
Prehistoric Planet / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
Prehistoric Planet / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Therizinosaurus appear as background animals in the second episode among the many animals crowding around a desert oasis, but wouldn't get a segment dedicated to them until the fifth episode. Nemegtosaurus and Tarchia also appear as unidentified background animals in the oasis, but both eventually get segments with more focus on them in the "Badlands" episode in the second season. A dead Triceratops appears as the prey of a Tyrannosaurus in the third episode, but they are depicted alive in their own segment in the fifth episode, and again in the fifth episode of the second season. invoked The end of the third episode briefly shows an unnamed titanosaur, but Word of God confirms this sequence is in South America, and made on its appearance, it's likely Austroposeidon, which has its own segment in the fifth episode.
Prehistoric Planet / int_f0089082	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_f0089082	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_f0089082
Prehistoric Planet / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Prehistoric Planet / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Has its own page.
Prehistoric Planet / int_ffad4e9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_ffad4e9f	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_ffad4e9f
Prehistoric Planet / int_name	type	ItemName
Prehistoric Planet / int_name	comment
Prehistoric Planet / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
Prehistoric Planet / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Prehistoric Planet / int_name
Prehistoric Planet / int_name	itemName	Prehistoric Planet

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Always a Bigger Fish / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Amphibian at Large / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Aquatic Hadrosaurs / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Aquatic Sauropods / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Awe-Inspiring Dinosaur Shot / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Behemoth Battle / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Brains Versus Brawn / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Circling Vultures / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Contrasting Sequel Setting / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Cute Owl / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Don't Wake the Sleeper / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Dumb Dinos / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Eats Babies / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Evil Egg Eater / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Fiendish Fish / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Fragile Flyer / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Genre Throwback / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Gentle Giant Sauropod / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Giant Equals Invincible / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Goofy Feathered Dinosaur / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Headbutting Pachy / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Herbivores Are Friendly / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Life Will Kill You / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Meek Mesozoic Mammal / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Multipurpose Tongue / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Narrative-Driven Nature Documentary / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Perilous Prehistoric Seas / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Predators Are Mean / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Series of the 2020s / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Social Ornithopod / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Speculative Documentary / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Stealthy Colossus / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Stock Dinosaur Archetypes / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Stock Ness Monster / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Tagline / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Temper-Ceratops / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Terrifying Tyrannosaur / int_6d23d1f3
Prehistoric Planet	hasFeature	Whale Egg / int_6d23d1f3

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.