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'''''Animal Armageddon''''' is a 2009 [[Speculative Documentary]] series that aired on ''[[Animal Planet]]''. Each episode (there are eight in total) focuses on a different extinction event in Earth's history (although there are two episodes about the end of the Cretaceous, because, you know, [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]]). The basic plot is that several creatures are shown before the extinction occurs, and that only a few of those shown will survive the extinction event. It also features cutaway scenes of paleontologists talking about the extinctions and apocalyptic quotes from [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] and other sources.
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** [[Apocalypse Wow]]
* [[Badass]]: There's always at least one in each episode, with [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Other Extinct Creatures|straight-shelled nautiloids]] in the Ordovician, ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Other Extinct Creatures|Dunkleosteus]]'' in the Devonian, [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|gorgonopsians]] in the Permian, [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|tyrannosaurs]] and [[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|mosasaurs]] in the Cretaceous, [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Mammals|cave lions]] in the Ice Age and [[Humans Are Bastards|humans]] in the modern world. {{spoiler|And they're typically the ones that go extinct first.}}
* [[Big Creepy -Crawlies]]: [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Other Extinct Creatures|Sea scorpions]] in the first episode and the giant (1-foot-long) cockroaches in the last episode.
* [[Camera Abuse]]: When the [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|gorgonopsian]] kills a ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|Lystrosaurus]]'', the camera is splattered with blood.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Goes hand in hand with the extinction events.
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* [[Downer Ending]]: A given, seeing that [[Apocalypse How]] is the main point of the series.
* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: The survivors of the extinction.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Dinosaurs]]: Three of the episodes feature these great reptiles, with cameo appearances in the eighth episode.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Mammals|Gigantopithecus]]'' [[Anachronism Stew|226,000 years after they went extinct]].
* [[Everything's Even Worse Withwith Sharks]]: They survived the Cretaceous extinction event.
* [[Everything's Squishier Withwith Cephalopods]]: [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Other Extinct Creatures|Nautiloids and ammonites]].
* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: Quite a number, but the ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|Lystrosaurus]]'' and young [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|hadrosaur]] stand out. In the first case, a [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|gorgonopsian]] bites down on its neck, [[Camera Abuse|spurting blood on the camera]]. However, the gorgonopsian's jaw structure means that he can only shear off one piece of meat, leaving an enormous pool of blood. What's left of the lystrosaur is scavenged by the protomammal ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|Thrinaxodon]]''. As for the hadrosaur, it is attacked by two ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Troodon]]'' who fail to actually kill it. They are chased away by a ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'', who slits the hadrosaur's throat and eats its foot.
* [[Feathered Fiend]]: A scantily feathered ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Velociraptor]]'' (with the model also used for ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life - Birdlike Theropods|Dromaeosaurus]]'' and naked ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Troodon]]'' (with the model also used for ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life - Birdlike Theropods|Byronosaurus]]'').
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]
* [[Giant Flyer]]: The ever-popular ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Quetzalcoatlus]]''.
* [[Gorn]]: Mostly averted. This is a noticeably less gory documentary than ''[[Jurassic Fight Club (TV)|Jurassic Fight Club]]'' and ''[[Monsters Resurrected (TV)|Monsters Resurrected]]''. However, it's played straight in "The Great Dying", when a [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|gorgonopsian]] rather brutally kills and eats a ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|Lystrosaurus]]''.
* [[It Got Worse]]: Repeatedly at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous.
* [[Grand Finale]]: {{spoiler|Mankind nearly goes extinct}} in the last episode.
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* [[Sea Monster]]: [[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Other Extinct Creatures|Straight nautiloids, eurypterids, ''Dunkleosteus]]'' and [[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|mosasaurs]].
* [[Seldom-Seen Species]]: A healthy variety. ''Astraspis'', straight-shelled nautiloids, eurypterids, ''Tiktaalik'', ''Materpiscis'', ''Bothriolepis'', ''Purgatorius'', gorgonopsians, ''Thrinaxodon'', ''Proterosuchus'', ''Eudimorphodon'', ''Rutiodon'', ''Desmatosuchus'', ''Staurikosaurus'', ''Megazostrodon'', and ''Stegodon''.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: All of the talking heads. Hey, they even got Mathew Wedel (and unlike in ''[[Clash of the Dinosaurs (TV)|another show]]'', he wasn't [[Quote Mine|quote mined]]!).
* [[Small Taxonomy Pools]]: Gorgeously averted. ''Astraspis''? ''Materpiscis''? ''Proterosuchus''? ''Desmatosuchus''? ''Purgatorius''? ''Stegodon''? What shows have ''these''?
* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]: Their tears might prevent them from getting a clear view at those awful [[Computer Generated Images|CGI critters]]. To list some problems besides their hideousness:
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