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When Dinosaurs Roamed America

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When Dinosaurs Roamed America	comment	When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001, sometimes shortened to When Dinosaurs Roamed outside North America) was the Discovery Channel's first major attempt to cash-in on the dinosaur-documentary trend started by BBC's famous Walking with Dinosaurs. Similar to that program, it also aimed for a Speculative Documentary format, and used CGI to recreate its dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and various other prehistoric animals, placing them into real-life scenery. The stories were told in chronological order, from the beginning to the end of the dinosaurs' reign. The series is narrated by John Goodman, with music by former Tangerine Dream member and Babylon 5 composer Christopher Franke.Unlike its predecessor/competitor, however, WDRA included short cut-away scenes to paleontologists and at times froze the animation to reveal the skeletal structure behind the animals' skin, using solid facts to explain the science that went into creating the program.Other things that make it different from WWD is the fact that it concentrates purely on American dinosaurs, and condenses its stories into small segments, instead of devoting full episodes to them.While disliked by some due to how quickly Discovery churned it out after hearing of the dinosaurs' marketability from Britain, the product was generally well-received by the viewers, especially compared to some later works, such as Clash of the Dinosaurs and Monsters Resurrected.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_10937270	comment	Noisy Nature: For a dinosaur-show, this is almost prerequisite. A particularly glaring example is the Dilophosaurus. Justified in the part where the Syntarsus (now Megapnosaurus) steal his food, since he is trying to scare them away, but for the most part he can't seem to shut up even when he's stalking prey (Ironically, Science Marches On and it is fairly certain most dinosaurs were not incredibly noisy animals).
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Notice that small, unnamed theropod from the very beginning of the last segment? The now- gone website reveals it's an Ornithomimus.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: The deinonychosaurs fail to notice a forest fire, even when being surrounded by flames.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Coelophysis is put in the late Triassic of 220 million years when the Dinosaur didn't appear until about 216 million years ago. Dilophosaurus didn't exist 200 million years ago.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Dilophosaurus towers over its competitors and its prey in the Early Jurassic. The only thing they fear is another Dilophosaurus.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: The extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: The Ceratosaurus, as the Allosaurus kills it. Allosaurus itself, all the time.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: Ceratosaurus kills and devours a baby Dryosaurus.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: While the theropod hands are correctly shown facing each other in most scenes, they are shown as pronated (kangaroo-like) in some shots. Icarosaurus was not the first reptile to evolve the ability to glide as earlier gliding animals like Coelurosauravus and Sharovipteryx were known many years before the documentary's creation. An example that is borderline this and Science Marches On are the dromaeosaurs in the Mid Cretaceous segment. Mid-way through production, the fossils which the dromaeosaurs were based on were reclassified as a much more primitive coelurosaur (later determined to be a tyrannosaur and named Suskityrannus). Unfortunately, it was too late to fix, as the dromaeosaurs were the main characters. But the more accurate depiction was given a nod with the unnamed coelurosaurs which briefly appear in the episode. Quetzalcoatlus is depicted as being slow and clumsy on the ground and having difficulty taking off, when in fact it was quite fast and comfortable on the ground and could take off relatively easily: Azhdarchids spent a considerable amount of time on the ground, like giraffe-sized storks and due to being able to gallop and jump using the muscles in all four limbs rather than just their hind limbs they could get airborne fairly easily in spite of their bulk. Granted, this documentary was made before it was determined that azhdarchids were agile on ground.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: John Goodman does this.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_53aab01d	comment	Prehistoric Monster: Avoided, although the animals do behave as aggressive as its intended audience expects them to.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_55c480b5	type	Mighty Roar
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_55c480b5	comment	Mighty Roar: Tyrannosaurus does this, obviously, but Dilophosaurus also has an awesome roar (which sounds oddly metallic). Ceratosaurus is no slouch either, as it has arguably the most fearsome sounding roar. Inverted in the case of Allosaurus, which sounds incredibly weak being the largest carnivore in the Late Jurassic segment of the show.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_599aa670	comment	What the Hell Are You?: How the Nothronychus is introduced, with the rogue raptor that encounters it being utterly dumbstruck by its bizarre appearance. Then he tries to attack the seemingly clumsy and defenseless vegetarian, only to get its ass whooped. For context, this was the very first time a therizinosaur was brought to life in a nature documentary, beating Chased by Dinosaurs by a year.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_59a9605d	comment	Never Smile at a Crocodile: Averted by the herbivorous Desmatosuchus, but the phytosaur Rutiodon does the job alright.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_5b607875	comment	Inconsistent Dub: All three Hungarian narrations (yes, there's that many) had trouble deciding where to use soft "C"s and hard "K"s, which lead to mispronunciations like "Koelophysis", "Keratosaurus" and "koelurosaurus".
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: Nothronychus has unusually large claws.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: Quetzalcoatlus is the size of a small plane.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_695efde3	comment	Raptor Attack: Somewhat justified, as the CGI team couldn't get their feathers to be quite as birdlike as they should be. Though one may wonder why they couldn't just keep the feathers as textures, as done on realistic CGI birds.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_75eb0dbe	comment	Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: Subverted with the raptors and Nothronychus. Their early CGI feathered coatings may make them look goofy, but they are very dangerous animals. Especially the Nothronychus since they can swipe away a raptor with their mighty claws despite being described as "a half-plucked turkey [that] walks like a potbellied bear."
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_7a17d1ca	comment	Eagle Land: The documentary takes place in prehistoric America, back when eagles were big, scaly and had teeth.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_83442480	comment	This is one of the first dino-documentaries to feature feathered raptors and therizinosaurs (in the form of Nothronychus). While the CGI technology wasn't ready to depict birdlike feathers, the sight of a fuzzy but dangerous raptor is enough to hammer home of just how close dinosaurs are to birds.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: The Megapnosaurus (Kayentavenator?) suddenly cease their attack on the Anchisaurus. It turns out that the Dilophosaurus has shown up. Allosaurus to Ceratosaurus. Also counts as an example of The Hunter Becomes the Hunted.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The raptors in the fourth segment die in a forest fire because they were too busy eating to run away.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Allosaurus does this to Ceratosaurus as it chases down the Dryosaurus.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: A Class4 event at the end of the Cretaceous, but interestingly, the documentary also starts with an even larger meteor-strike, that was supposed to represent the great extinction event that ended the Permian and made way for the evolution of dinosaurs in the Triassic. A lesser meteor-related extinction also separates the Triassic and Jurassic. Apocalypse Wow: The K-T extinction is depicted as a supermassive atomic bomb going off with a blazing wall of ash and fire rushing across the land, causing the mighty T. rex family to flee in terror. In the aftermath, a grey world is left behind littered with dinosaur corpses.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_91e8cd03	comment	Apocalypse Wow: The K-T extinction is depicted as a supermassive atomic bomb going off with a blazing wall of ash and fire rushing across the land, causing the mighty T. rex family to flee in terror. In the aftermath, a grey world is left behind littered with dinosaur corpses.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: The Ceratosaurus doesn't notice the hulking huge, oncoming Allosaurus either, until it's right on top of it. To the ceratosaur's credit, though, it was off-screen, even if out in the open, plainly visible from all sides.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_99d5e61f	type	Speculative Documentary
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_99d5e61f	comment	Speculative Documentary: Since dinosaurs are long gone, it's inevitable that the documentary would have to construct its interpretation of the Mesozoic era based on the evidence they have with fossils.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: What happens to the poor Apatosaurus that trips and falls. As if slowly starving to death wasn't bad enough, a hungry pack of Allosaurus descends on it and ravenously devours it alive. During the lightning/forest fire sequence in the mid-Cretaceous segment, the raptors get roasted alive along with the Zuniceratops corpse they were feeding on. During the same segment, a Nothronychus gets struck by a bolt of lightning and explodes! This was cut from the television broadcast for obvious reasons.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: When the Stegosaurus pair get ready to mate, the camera tilts skywards. This was the only solution, though: we don't really know just how they did it.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_b23e7ba9	comment	Real Is Brown: Practically half the animals are some shade of brown or earthen tome.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_b42e16fb	comment	Feathered Fiend: The documentary famously depicted many dinosaurs with feathers for the first time, including "raptors" and the bizarre-looking Nothronychus. As for the fiend part of the trope, the raptors are carnivores and the herbivorous Nothronychus has no issue taking deadly swipes at them with its claws when they try to add it to their menu.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The dromaeosaurid attacking the Nothronychus head on, although both survive the attack. They then die when they're burned alive in the forest fire because they were too busy eating the corpse of the dead Zuniceratops to run away from the fire.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_c309f9d1	comment	An example that is borderline this and Science Marches On are the dromaeosaurs in the Mid Cretaceous segment. Mid-way through production, the fossils which the dromaeosaurs were based on were reclassified as a much more primitive coelurosaur (later determined to be a tyrannosaur and named Suskityrannus). Unfortunately, it was too late to fix, as the dromaeosaurs were the main characters. But the more accurate depiction was given a nod with the unnamed coelurosaurs which briefly appear in the episode.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_cbe3a70d	type	Beware My Stinger Tail
When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_cbe3a70d	comment	Beware My Stinger Tail: Stegosaurus and Desmatosuchus both use armoured tails to defend themselves against predators. Ceratosaurus finds this out the hard way.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_d0c9634e	comment	Animals Not to Scale: Most likely the result of the animators not paying attention. When the first T. rex shows up, it doesn't seem out of scale with the rest of the animals. But the narration claims it's actually a juvenile. Later, when his mother appears, she is hulking huge, even compared to the "Anatotitan" which is supposed to be the same size as a rex! Similarly Megapnosaurus is said to be 10 feet long; how come the not-even 7 foot Anchisaurus is more than twice their size (this could be a case of Science Marches On as the larger Ammosaurus is sometimes considered Anchisaurus)?
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_d2528a4a	comment	Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Tyrannosaurus rex is the "star" of the final segment, and John Goodman plays up its fearsome nature, calling it the "scourge of the American West." The documentary portrays the T. rex in two variants of terror: The fast, nimble juveniles that can chase down any prey they find, and the giant, powerful adults that can instantly kill their prey with one bite. Together, they form a formidable pack feared by all.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: Accidental example. Due to the producers having to deal with a misclassification discovered halfway through production, the Zuni theropod (eventually named Suskityrannus) wound up being split into two different dinosaurs; the Zuni raptors (as the find was originally interpreted as a dromaeosaur), who are focal characters, and a generic coelurosaur, who is given a minor role in the segment.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed America / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The scenes of paleontologists inserted in between the dinosaur clips. This is one of the first dino-documentaries to feature feathered raptors and therizinosaurs (in the form of Nothronychus). While the CGI technology wasn't ready to depict birdlike feathers, the sight of a fuzzy but dangerous raptor is enough to hammer home of just how close dinosaurs are to birds. The depiction of Dilophosaurus as an apex predator of its day rather than a scavenger with a weak bite or the fictitious frilled-spitting dinosaur from Jurassic Park. While there are minor scientific inaccuracies with the portrayal itself, this is one of the few major dinosaur media that refutes the idea of Dilophosaurus being physically weak carnivore (even back in 1986, paleontologists argued that Dilophosaurus may have still hunted other dinosaurs despite its apparent fragile jaws, while reviews of Dilophasaurus skulls in 2021 found that their supposedly fragile nature was the result of misinterpretation and it was definitely robust enough to kill large prey). The Quetzalcoatlus is depicted with pycnofibers.note Though it should probably have more.
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