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* [[Documentary of Lies]]: To quote Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., a talking head on the show:
{{quote| "For those going to watch the show, a warning: The documentarians often take anything that any of the talking heads speculated about, and transformed these into declarative statements of fact. In some cases this is particularly egregious, because I strongly disagree with some of these statements and believe the facts are against some of these (say, about tyrannosaurid [
* [[Eats Babies]]: ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Quetzalcoatlus]]'' and ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Deinonychus]]''.
* [[Everything's Better With Dinosaurs]]: Goes without saying.
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* [[Outrun the Fireball]]: The dinosaurs attempt this. Emphasis on "attempt".
* [[Prehistoric Monster]]: Pretty much averted in the original miniseries, but played straight in ''The Last Day'', when food sources became scarce.
* [[Ptero
* [[Quote Mine]]: Poor, poor Mathew Wedel.
* [[Raptor Attack]]: The ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Deinonychus]]'' at least have feathers, but are shown killing a ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Sauropods|Sauroposeidon]]'' with ridiculous ease.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Hadrosaurs]] using a sonic weapon against [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|theropods]]? A pair of [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|small raptors]] attacking a sub-adult [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|sauropod]]? Do note, when the talking head<ref>The one who was quote-mined, at that!</ref> said "juvenile sauropod" and "pack of raptors", he meant tiny babies and a huge pack, but the animators instead used the largest animal that would still qualify as a "non-adult" specimen getting mauled by a pair of raptors.
* [[Seldom
** Don't forget ''Alamosaurus''! Yes, they reused the ''Sauroposeidon'' model, but who cares?
* [[Shown Their Work]]: Most of the talking head segments. (They ''did'' get actual paleontologists, after all.) The key word being [[Quote Mine|most]].
** Feathered [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|deinonychosaurs]]. One would be surprised as to how rare they are in media.
* [[Small Taxonomy Pools]]: You only get six dinosaurs and a [[Ptero
* [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying]]: More like palaeontologists are up in arms everywhere.
** To clarify that quote-mining part: the expert was trying to clear up the misconception that large dinosaurs had two brains (one in their head, one in their hip-region). The editors made it sound like he was confirming the notion.
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** Their [[Meaningful Name|duck-billed]] [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]] have fleshy lips.
** While the [[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|raptors]] were nice and feathered, they still weren't quite feathered ''enough''.
** Recycling of animation models meant that the lean troodontid ''[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life - Birdlike Theropods|Saurornithoides]]'' looked the same as the relatively robust dromaeosaurid ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Deinonychus]]''.
* [[Speculative Documentary]]: Maybe a bit too speculative.
* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''Triceratops'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Parasaurolophus'', ''Deinonychus'' and ''Quetzalcoatlus''. Sadly, along with the sauropod ''Sauroposeidon'', [[Small Taxonomy Pools|those are the only creatures in the doc]].
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