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'''''When Dinosaurs Roamed America''''' (2001, sometimes shortened to ''When Dinosaurs Roamed'', especially outside North America) was the [[Discovery Channel]]'s first major attempt to [[Follow the Leader|cash-in]] on the [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaur]]-[[documentary]] trend started by [[BBC]]'s famous ''[[Walking with Dinosaurs]]''. Similar to that program, this also aimed for a [[Speculative Documentary]] format, and used [[C Gi]] to recreate its dinosaurs, [[
Unlike its predecessor/competitor, however, ''WDRA'' included short cut-away scenes to paleontologists and at times froze the animation to reveal the skeletal structure behind the animals' skin, using solid facts to [[Shown Their Work|explain the science]] that went into creating the program.
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* [[Apocalypse How]]: A [[Apocalypse How/Class 4|Class 4]] event at the end of the Cretaceous, but interestingly, the documentary also ''starts'' with an even larger meteor-strike, that was supposed to represent the great extinction event that ended the Permian and made way for the evolution of dinosaurs in the Triassic. A lesser meteor-related extinction also separates the Triassic and Jurassic.
** [[Apocalypse Wow]]
* [[Badass]]: The ''[[
* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]: ''Stegosaurus'' and ''Desmatosuchus''.
* [[Eagle Land]]: Back when eagles still had teeth.
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