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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 [[
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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* [[Prehistoric Monster]]: Avoided, although the animals do behave as aggressive as its intended audience expects them to.
* [[Ptero-Soarer]]: The ''Quetzalcoatlus'' may seem outdated by today's standards, but that's the result of [[Science Marches On|science marching on]].
* [[Raptor Attack]]: Somewhat [[Justified]], as the [[
* [[Roger Rabbit Effect]]: The CGI creatures are dropped into [[Real Life]] scenery.
* [[Science Marches On]]: The lower arms of the raptors are suspiciously scaly. We now know that they had properly feathered wings.
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