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** {{spoiler|The herd of ''Cedarosaurus'' in the ''Utahraptor'' story.}}
** The old bull ''Protoceratops'' in the ''Protoceratops'' story, and later an entire herd of ''Protoceratops'' do the same.
* [[Big Guy, Little Guy]]: The ''Allosaurus'' and ''Rhamphorhynchus''. The ''Rhamphorhynchus'' also switches over to a ''Torvosaurus'' in a brief stint.
** The ''Rapetosaurus'' and ''Rahonavis'', though in this case the ''Rahonavis'' sticks with whichever ''Rapetosaurus'' that passes by instead of any particular individual.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|The ''Protoceratops'' story ends with the young ''Protoceratops'' finding a new family, but the old ''Protoceratops'' who protected it chooses to abandon them and die alone.}}
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* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: The K-Pg extinction in the last episode.
* [[Frogs and Toads]]: ''Beelzebufo'', a frog that ate small dinosaurs.
* [[Giant Flyer]]: ''[[Seldom
* [[Giant Swimmer]]: ''Tylosaurus'', but the sharks and various aquatic pseudosuchians are also fairly large.
* [[Gorn]]: Difficult to avoid when making a flashy dinosaur show.
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** Subverted by the antagonistic ''Cryolophosaurus'', which gets a [[The Bad Guy Wins]] treatment at first{{spoiler|, but then shows up in the ''Glacialisaurus'' story where it encounters a swarm of mosquitoes...}}
* [[Kick Them While They Are Down]]: Averted in several cases, such as at the end of the ''T. rex'' duel, when the victor lets the loser go.
* [[Knuckle
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: Much of Earth's surface turns into this when the Permaian extinction occurs.
* [[Mama Bear]]: The mosasaur, ''Tyrannosaurus'', and ''Eoraptor''. {{spoiler|Subverted by the ''Cryolophosaurus'', which just stands there and allows her eggs to be destroyed.}} The ''Dinheirosaurus'', ''Cedarosaurus'', and ''Miragaia'' are probably either this or [[Papa Wolf]], as their genders are never specified.
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* [[Mushroom Samba]]: What befalls the ''Shunosaurus'' who tries some tasty-looking mushrooms.
* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]: Several crocodile relatives show up, including ''Saurosuchus'', a generic aquatic Cretaceous crocodyliform, some generic aquatic Jurassic crocodyliforms, and a generic notosuchian. Just about all of them are antagonistic.
* [[No
* [[No Peripheral Vision]]: The ''Saurosuchus''.
* [[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.}}
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* [[Papa Wolf]]: The male ''Eoraptor'' and ''Tyrannosaurus''. The male ''Cryolophosaurus'' tries, but his opponent is just too strong.
* [[Elephant Graveyard|Protoceratops Graveyard]]
* [[Ptero
** Also note that ''Rhamphorhynchus'' is thought to have had behaved like modern nocturnal sea birds (avoiding thus competition from diurnal pterosaurs that also hunted fish in the same regions), thus seeing one far from the open sea and on daylight would not be very common.
** We do get to see the ''Quetzalcoatlus'' (or at least a similar azhdarchid; none of the azhdarchids shown are reffered to as any particular genus) up close in the third episode (in a blink and you miss scene in the ''Protoceratops'' segment); they are largely quite accurate, if maybe displaced in time and space (if they're not just generic azhdarchids).
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* [[Recurring Extra]]: Cockroaches show up ''everywhere''.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: The ''Rahonavis'', at least in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OFunlQdDfk&feature=related original storyboard art]. The baby ''Zalambadalestes'', baby ''Eoraptor'', baby ''Protoceratops'', and juvenile pachycephalosaur also qualify.
* [[Road Runner vs. Coyote]]: The ''Ornitholestes'' trying to catch the ''Rhamphorhynchus''. Done as a [[Shout
* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: {{spoiler|The last episode, naturally.}}
* [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]: In a few shots (particularly those after the end credits), some of the CGI animals show up at the lab that the talking heads are shown in.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Some features of certain animals, like the crest of ''Cryolophosaurus'' or the tail club of ''Shunosaurus'', had to be enhanced at the expense of scientific accuracy, just so that the audience would find them more interesting.
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** ''[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 ''[[Everything's Even Worse With Sharks|Cretoxyrhina]]''.
* [[Seldom
** Even among [[Stock Dinosaurs|Stock Dinosaur]] genera, the show tends to use [[Seldom
* [[Sexy Discretion Shot]]: Not quite. We see a pair of ''Tyrannosaurus'' getting it on, and only after a few seconds does the camera cut to another scene.
* [[Shout
** A segment fittingly titled "Pterosaur [[Looney Tunes]]" puts a tragic spin on the character of Beaky Buzzard's momma from the cartoon shorts, in the form of a strange ''Anhanguera'' mother who's [[Too Dumb to Live|too dumb to let her hatchlings live]].
*** Similarly, the character designs and relationships between the ''Rhamphorhynchus'', ''Ornitholestes'', and ''Allosaurus'' are [http://vonshollywood.blogspot.com/2011/08/cartoony-naaahhhhhhh.html based on] Tweety, Sylvester, and the bulldog.
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* [[Stock Dinosaurs]]: Not as many as one might expect. They include ''T. rex'', ''Triceratops'', ''Allosaurus'', ''Ankylosaurus'', ''Velociraptor'' and ''Protoceratops''. Non-dinosaurian stock creatures include ''Quetzalcoatlus'', ''Rhamphorhynchus'' and mosasaurs.
** However, it's worthy to note that even among many stock genera, the show tends to use the less often-portrayed species of those genera (such as ''Allosaurus europaeus'', ''Velociraptor osmolskae'', and ''Protoceratops hellenikorhinus'' instead of the stock ''Allosaurus fragilis'', ''Velociraptor mongoliensis'', and ''Protoceratops andrewsi'').
* [[Super
* [[Tail Slap]]: The ''Dinheirosaurus''.
* [[Talking Heads]]: In spite of original plans not to have these in the show itself.
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