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• Iron Woobie: The Allosaurus in the second episode. His crippling accident is a Tear Jerker, but he manages to heal, survive to adulthood, and kick ass.
• Nightmare Fuel: The headless dinosaur running around may seem amusing at first, in a highly morbid way, but then when it stops, slumps to the ground lifeless and trembling, spilling blood everywhere... yeah.
  • In Episode 4, the female Troodon returns to her nest and mate and nudges him, only for her mate to fall over. He's been frozen solid.
  • We see from the point of view of the young Protoceratops as one of the Velociraptor looms over its parents' bodies and starts feeding. Then it looks up straight at the camera. On its own, it's not that scary, but when you put yourself in the juvenile's shoes, it certainly is.
• Special Effect Failure: The first episode is ripe with these, but a few particularly bad effects stand out, such as the "disintegrating" Inostrancevia and the fake lava splash, the Saurosuchus tail that very clearly phases into solid ground as the animal gets up, and the Zalambdalestes family who, instead of running convincingly, simply slide and turn in the air above the ground with their feet moving as if they were running in a straight line, and also disappear/reappear between shots.
  • The primary feathers on the deinonychosaurs in episode 3 frequently merge with the scenery and other animals.
  • The Devil Frogs are pretty badly animated.
  • The flock of birds during the last shot of Episode 4 looks like it belongs in an episode of Sesame Street.
  • Running animation in general is messed up. Most of the time, the animals just slide across the landscape, with their legs doing their own, independent jiggling. In fact most of the motions in episode 1 & 3 have a jarring artificial and stiff quality to them. Only thing missing is visible cursors moving the animals around.
• Squick: We see a mosquito sucking blood from the eyeball of a reptile carcass.
  • The Tyrannosaurus use their feces to build a nest.
  • A Beelzebufo is stepped on by a titanosaur. (Also, the Beelzebufo has just eaten a young Majungasaurus, so we can somewhat make out squashed remains of the frog's last meal mingled with the squashed frog itself.)
• Tear Jerker: The second half of the last episode. We see almost all of the main dinosaurian cast die off one by one. In particular, the part where the female Troodon returns to her mate and finds that he and most of their eggs have died from the cold, and the bit afterwards where she picks up the sole surviving egg and brings it with her into the mouth of a recently dead Tyrannosaurus where she attempts to brood it, completely alone and forlorn. The fact that we don't see her death and that there's something of a Hope Spot in the egg but at the same time know the inevitable outcome of the extinction only makes it worse.
  • The "farewell" scene in the second episode where all the animals leave the watering hole, leaving the Allosaurus all alone. Some of them even appear to "say goodbye" to the Allosaurus.
  • The young Allosaurus being crippled and abandoned.
  • The male Cryolophosaurus getting beaten up by a rival, and eventually getting its crest bitten off. It doesn't even bother to try standing up afterward.
  • The mother Tyrannosaur weeping for its murdered infants.
  • The old male Protoceratops, upon escorting the orphaned juvenile to a herd, goes off to die on his own.
• Ugly Cute: The mosasaur babies. The Troodon, the Anhanguera babies, the Probelesodon, the Ornitholestes, and a variety of other critters stand somewhere between here and Ridiculously Cute Critter.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: What the creators have been bragging about for quite some time, since the first snippets of information about the show had been released. They managed to succeed, partly. By this, we mean the look of the show clearly indicates that it had more than one animation team working on it. The first and much of the third episode was animated by one team, and while they're passable for a run-of-the-mill TV Documentary, the graphics sadly come off as quite pitiful considering all the hype. Thankfully, the other two episodes play this trope straight with some of the best looking TV-budget dino effects of recent times.
• The Woobie: The lizard from the first episode. Killed by a bunch of mosquitoes.