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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })March of the Dinosaurs (2011) is a feature-length Speculative Documentary film made by ITV. It tells the story of two different dinosaur youngsters: Scar, a small Edmontosaurus trying to keep up with his herd on their long journey south; and Patch, a sub-adult Troodon who struggles to survive and find a mate in the freezing wilderness of the North Pole.Its complete imagery has been created with the help of CGI, as opposed to many similar programs that use real-life environments and only CGI the animals. The film features no cut-away scenes or any talking heads, but instead (much like the famed Walking with Dinosaurs) focuses on telling a story through its visuals and narration provided by Stephen Fry. It can be seen as the first of a new generation of CGI dinosaur documentaries.Due to the way it "humanizes" some of the dinosaurs, the program is also very similar to Discovery Channel's Dinosaur Planet and Dinosaur Revolution.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Anachronism Stew: Mostly subverted but played straight with the Gorgosaurus, who lived during the Campanian instead of the Maastrichtian, but that's because the Alaskan tyrannosaur on which this depiction is based on turned out to be a separate taxon. | |
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Aquatic Hadrosaurs | |
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Aquatic Hadrosaurs: Averted. Edmontosaurus are depicted as mostly terrestrial creatures. The herd only ends up in water by accident after the ice beneath them breaks under their weight, and while they are capable of swimming, the lake isn't a safe place for them because of the Prognathodon. | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology | |
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Artistic License – Paleontology:Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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In an example of Rule of Scary, during the attack on the herd, we see one of the 3-ton Albertosaurus leaping into the air as it blindsides an Edmontosaurus, ala the T. rex from The Land Before Time. Pretty self-explanatory. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: Despite not being a villain in the traditional sense, just a predator trying to survive, the Gorgosaurus’s final fate is very pitiful. After his right leg (which had only just healed from a badly infected Troodon bite) is reinjured by the shoulder spikes of the female ankylosaur - this time fatally broken - the bleeding, fatally injured tyrannosaur limps away to die in his lair. | |
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The Prognathodon is depicted more like an Expy of the giant alligatoroid Deinosuchus, being able to live in both fresh and saltwater and actively hunting dinosaurs, down to the scene where they congregate to attack the migrating duckbills and Pachyrhinosaurus being a direct homage to Nile crocodiles hunting migrating zebra and wildebeest during river crossings today. Not only is there no evidence that Prognathodon behaved like that, but it and other giant, derived mosasaurs are known exclusively from marine deposits and were much more analogous to killer whales and sharks (open ocean predators). You get the sense that the producers really wanted to use Deinosuchus but couldn't, due to the story being set in the frigid north, where ectothermic crocodiles couldn't exist. The only known freshwater mosasaur is Pannoniasaurus, but it was only 6 meters long, native to Europe, and a much more basal form of mosasaur. | |
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