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** 5) The music in ''Sea Monsters'' is overall great, but the music playing during the mosasaur attack really makes it a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], and is equally great to the above ''Ballad of Big Al'' example.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: the giant sea reptile ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Liopleurodon]]''. This show did to him what [[Jurassic Park]] did to ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Velociraptor]]'': make it stock (as well as exaggerate its size).
** The huge dinosaur ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Giganotosaurus]]'' with its memorable predation upon the gigantic [
* [[Freud Was Right]]: Because of its shape, the Late Permian lake has been nicknamed Penis Lake.
* [[It Was His Sled]]: Spoiler alert--{{spoiler|The K-Pg extinction happens!}}
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* [[Special Effect Failure]]: Even these shows weren't immune to this: the most common goofs are CG clipping errors (like when the mammoth's trunk "merges" with its tusk), wires from the animatronic models or parts of the people controlling them being visible, and shadow/reflection effects being messed up. Some are obvious, others you only catch if you watch the clips frame-by-frame.
** ''Walking with Monsters'' suffers from some particularly bad-looking CGI composition. A lot of times, animals either clip into the scenery, their shadows rarely correspond to the irregularities or the color of the ground, and in some shots, they are cropped a little bit too far from the screen's edge ([http://i53.tinypic.com/ofpuz4.png like this poor fish]), so you can even see parts of the background "through" them.<ref>Though this last one may depend on whether or not you watch it on DVD. At least one version of the ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' DVD also has some strange goings on at the edges of the screen.</ref>
* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: The NetFlix episode summaries screw up a lot. By which claiming that "Giant of the Skies" centered on ''[[Stock Dinosaurs True Dinosaurs|Archaeopteryx]]'', promising "mammoth ichthyosaurs" (if by "mammoth" one means "dolphin-sized") and "[[Useful Notes/Prehistoric Life Non Dinosaurian Reptiles|marine crocodiles]]" for "Cruel Sea", and claiming that "Death of a Dynasty" was an examination of an unanswered query about the extinction of the dinosaurs, rather than it being a [[Downer Ending|plain depiction of]] [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|a giant meteorite killing them all]] [[The Magic Goes Away|after a considerable decline from volcanic activity.]]
** Nigel surviving in the Carboniferous without filters is another example, since Carboniferous had much more oxygen in the atmosphere than every other prehistoric time, and ''too much oxygen'' is as lethal to human physiology as a low level of it.
** ''Chased By Dinosaurs'' has the famous flying reptile ''[[Stock Dinosaurs Non Dinosaurs|Pteranodon]]'' living in the the earliest part of the Late Cretaceous (it really lived roughly in the middle) and in South America instead of North America. It was [[Literal Metaphor|literally]] in the wrong place at the wrong time.
** ''The Complete Guide'' cites Carnosauria as "an ill-defined collection of theropods, whose evolutionary relationships are much contested by scientists." This hasn't been the case since [[The Nineties]] at latest. Carnosauria is [
* [[Visual Effects of Awesome]]: Its visual effects are among the most impressive in any TV series ever, period.
** Special mention must go to ''Sea Monsters''. It features pre-historic creatures ''underwater'' and interacting with Nigel.
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