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'''''Dinosaur Revolution''''' is the [[Discovery Channel]]'s major [[
Calling it a "documentary" may however be deceptive. [[Genre Busting|It combines elements of various genres]]: traditional wildlife documentaries, [[Body Language|silent movie-style "acting"]] and comic cartoon [[Slapstick]], and presents them in the form of [[Vignette Episode|vignettes]] or longer, cohesive stories, focusing on the characterization and the relationships between the animals. As always, whether this makes the show more entertaining or just plain dumb is up to the viewer to decide. However this isn't [[Dinosaur Planet|the first time]] that Discovery uses this borderline-[[Edutainment Show]] format for its dino-shows.
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* [[Book Ends]]: The first episode starts with an extinction, and the last episode {{spoiler|ends with an extinction.}}
* [[Bullet Time]]: The ''Cryolophosaurus'' fight had a lot of this.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: The poor ''Torvosaurus'' turns into this, since every animal around the water hole is out to get him, even the much smaller ''Allosaurus''. He does have a brief [[
** The ''Ornitholestes'' (both one particular individual as well as the species as a whole).
* [[Camp Straight]] / [[Camp Gay|Gay]]: Matt Lamanna seems to be trying to invoke this as much as possible with his voice '''alone'''.
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* [[Edible Bludgeon]]: The still moving tail of a ''Dinheirosaurus'' slaps the ''Allosaurus'' eating it in the face. A mild subversion, since the food is acting ''by itself''.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|The broken-jawed ''Allosaurus'' and enraged adult ''Dinheirosaurus'' combine forces to defeat the ''Torvosaurus''.}} [[Friendly Enemy|They don't fight each other ever again.]]
* [[
* [[
* [[
* [[Exit, Pursued By a Bear]]: {{spoiler|The ultimate ending of the Jurassic Antarctic story ends this way, with the "antagonistic" male ''Glacialisaurus'' chased by the "antagonistic" male ''Cryolophosaurus'', which is in turn trying to flee from a swarm of mosquitoes.}}
* [[Eye Scream]]: Happens a few times in the ''Utahraptor'' segment.
* [[Facial Markings]]: The male ''Tyrannosaurus'' appear to have a striking white skull-pattern on their head, in contrast to their otherwise fully black body.
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* [[Noisy Nature]]: Delightfully averted. The predators tend to stalk and ambush their prey quietly. When the ''Torvosaurus'' and inexperienced young ''Majungasaurus'' fail to do this, {{spoiler|they get killed.}}
** Played pretty straight sometimes though. The baby Mosasaurs chirp like baby birds while getting attacked by the sharks. Even when they go to the bottom to hide they don't shut up.
* [[The Obi
* [[Off With His Head]]: This befalls an ''Ornitholestes''.
* [[Oh Crap]]: The ''Ornitholestes'' when it realizes that it has landed on the ''Allosaurus''. Later, both the ''Ornitholestes'' and ''Rhamphorhynchus'' when the ''Torvosaurus'' shows up at the watering hole.
* [[One
* [[Papa Wolf]]: The male ''Eoraptor'' and ''Tyrannosaurus''. The male ''Cryolophosaurus'' tries, but his opponent is just too strong.
* [[Elephant Graveyard|Protoceratops Graveyard]]
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* [[Science Marches On]]: The discovery that mosasaurs likely had tail flukes was published just as the mosasaur models were finished up.
** ''[http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/04/04/yutyrannus-a-giant-tyrannosaur-with-feathers/ Yutyrannus]'' shows that large tyrannosauroids were feathered as well as smaller ones.
* [[Sea Monster]]: ''Tylosaurus'' and ''[[
* [[Seldom Seen Species]]: A refreshing lot. There are ''Cryolophosaurus'', ''Sinraptor'', ''Eoraptor'', ''Torvosaurus'', ''Majungasaurus'', ''Rahonavis'', ''Miragaia'', ''Glacialisaurus'', ''Mamenchisaurus'', ''Rapetosaurus'', ''Lusotitan'', ''Shunosaurus'', ''Gigantoraptor'', ''Draconyx'', ''Cedarosaurus'', ''Guanlong'', freakin' ''Dinheirosaurus''... But the most interesting examples are the non-dinosaurian ''Saurosuchus'', ''Anhanguera'', ''Castorocauda'' (a water-going mammal relative), ''Volaticotherium'' (the Jurassic "flying squirrel"), ''Probelesodon'' (a non-mammalian cynodont), ''Zalambdalestes'' (a small placental mammal), ''Ischigualastia'' (a dicynodont), ''Inostrancevia'' (a gorgonopsid), ''Cretoxyrhina'' (a shark), and the (by modern standards) ungodly large frog ''Beelzebufo''. Many of these were discovered [[Real Life Writes the Plot|while the show was still in production]].
** Even among [[Stock Dinosaurs|Stock Dinosaur]] genera, the show tends to use [[Seldom Seen Species]] (such as ''Allosaurus europaeus'', ''Velociraptor osmolskae'', and ''Protoceratops hellenikorhinus'' instead of the stock ''Allosaurus fragilis'', ''Velociraptor mongoliensis'', and ''Protoceratops andrewsi'').
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: The pair of ''Guanlong''. They ''never stop bickering''.
* [[Voice Changeling]]: The ''Rahonavis'' amuses itself with its ability to copy the noises around it almost perfectly.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: One moment {{spoiler|three ''Ischigualastia'' attack the ''Saurosuchus'', the next the ''Saurosuchus'' appears to be fighting just one ''Ischigualastia''}}. One ''Ischigualastia'' does show up later in the background, but it still looks like they vanished halfway through the fight.
* [[Whip It Good]]: ''Dineheirosaurus'' tail, of which a poor ''Allosaurus'' cub [[A Taste of the Lash|get a taste of]]. He does so again as an adult, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|but this time literally.]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]: To the ''Torvosaurus'' in the "Battle at Kruger" homage scene.
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