Dance Of a Predator / Pre-Historic Planet 

"But he does have, a pair of tiny, apparently useless arms" He's doing his best okay?!

I love how Prehistoric Planet’s Carnotaurus is the living embodiment of a precious Cinnamon Roll. His whole mating dance with those tiny arms is just funny and adorable at the same time!

He may not have impressive horns or a fancy tail, but there's one thing he does have... Jazz Hands!

I don't know why, but him wiggling his tiny little and apparently useless arms is the most adorable thing I've ever seen.

Hans Zimmer's score makes this scene 1000x better, as if it wasn't good before. Absolutely love this.

I can’t believe that I’m losing it over a dinosaur that is flailing their arms around in circles in order to get laid

My desire to give this man a high five is insatiable.

Producer:Hans, we need a melody for a giant dinosaur waving its tiny arms to attract a mate Hans Zimmer: I've waited my whole life for this

Birds: I wonder how our ancestors mate, it must've been cool and badass. Their ancestors:

The idea of dinosaurs with ridiculous, tiny arms, actually use them for mate instead of attacking/defending is such a simple, realistic and clever idea that I feel dumb to never thought about it

I don't know why, but my face can't stop smiling.

Stay strong, King. You'll find your queen someday.

Our Carno is not a Simp, He is just the victim of Love :(

Those little arms flapping around is just so precious ❤

It's amazing how well this is made. It doesn't look like realistic CGI, it looks like real animals being recorded, and THANK YOU PREHISTORIC PLANET FOR NOT REFERRING TO THEM AS KILLERS! Man, I wish I had Apple TV+....

*the fact this is legitimately backed up by science makes this so much better and funnier to me lol* EDIT: was not expecting the comment section to end up the way it did lol Point is, If you don't believe in the theory that's fine... If you believe the theory like me, that's also fine... Just please don't be rude about it lol

He got rejected, but it's her loss. Edit: Cheers for the likes XD

I think this is all based on two papers I read quite a while back. Quite a few Abelisaurids (the clade Carnotaurus belongs to) had these weird tiny arms. The main argument against the idea that they were purely vestigial is that they are significantly more robust than they should be, and that the overall arm morphology is not homologous amongst all Abelisaurids. That might indicate that they have some level of selection acting on them - if they were purely vestigial, they would have all reduced in the same manner. On top of that, they have significant muscle attachments, which would have enabled a great degree of flexion - essentially, the arms were strong enough to be moved with some level of dexterity. In modern animals with vestigial elements - like Kiwis - there tends to be very little muscle attachment, and the bones are more fragile. In Ostriches however, who have reduced yet strong limbs, the muscle attachments between the scapula and humerus are significant. Male Ostriches use these muscles to puff up their wings for display - both to attract a mate and scare off predators. The main point is that the limb elements of Carnotaurus do not fit the model of vestigiality we see. But whether or not they used their little arms for mating dances is debatable. They have horns for one, and there's good evidence that they used them in intra-specific combat. Why would they evolve two, fairly unique morphologies to achieve the same purpose? I think more research is needed, but Abelisaurid jazz hands are plausible. I've linked the papers for anyone who wants to have a read (might not have access, as I access them through my university). doi.org/10.1111/joa.12660 doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01091.x

disney carno: literal hellspawn jurassic world carno: t. rex punching bag pp carno: becky lemme smash

I wish we had a time machine so we could see how these things actually behaved.

Easily the best designed Carnotaurus ever

Carno: women are so mean Big Al: you don’t know the half of it

AWW!! That’s so cute. I love at the end it looks like he’s offering her a hug😂♥️💙

One thing I've loved about this series is how they gave the carnivore species libs, not only feels more realistic and very different to the normal sharped teeth designs from movies, but makes them look like actual animals, instead of just hungry ass monsters looking for meat 24/7

his lil stick arms are everything to me

T Pose for the finisher....NAILED IT! I love you, Carnotaurus

I know this show is supposed to be scientifically-accurate but their expression is so human-like and even comical, I love it because you can totally tell what female Carnotaurus think, she is not amused for sure😂

I'm impressed that this documentary managed to make Carnotaurus so adorable.

0:16 why is this so funny lmao

I like the detail of the blue coloring on the undersides of his arms. It's speculative I'm sure, but it's consistent with how animals impress mates today and would explain why Carnotaurus didn't pull an emu and reduce its forelimbs to vestigial nubs. Also, I've said this before, but it's nice to finally see a wholesome scene of a predatory dinosaur where it's not killing something/someone. These were real animals that had more than just killer instincts.

My partner isn't really into dinosaurs like me but this had him laughing and the carno is now his favourite dinosaur 😂

0:19 Narrator: "He doesn't have huge antlers nor spectacular tail" Carno' tail raised during mating dance: "I am joke to you?!"

Carnos are so damn cute with their arms. but this, this is adorable

Not an oversized red dinosaur as a Disney movie villain and not a T-Rex punching bag, it's just Carnotaurus being Carnotaurus.

Honestly my favorite scene in this whole series I was so entertained by this 😂😂

After many years of dinosaurs on movies and documentaries, they managed to make this feel very fresh!

Carnotaurus: The master of T-Posing

Every time I see this clip it’s hilarious. I love the thought of dinos walking around waving they’re little arms and dancing for their girlfriends.

No joke, when I first watched this, I was rolling on my ass laughing, it’s just so cute for such a feared predator

The way David Attenborough always delivers all the lines so seriously is so funny, “he does, however, have a pair of tiny, apparently useless, arms! 🤯✨” 😂😭

Watching this makes me have a smile on my face, watching my boy try his best to convince a girl, moving those little arms while dancing, it's just a bit wholesome, y'know.

Hans Zimmer, David Attenborough, and a flailing armed dinosaur, I think I’m in heaven.

I really love how the whole internet seems so supportive of this Carnotaurus.

Birds have excellent color vision and many are quite colorful today, so it makes perfect sense to imagine colorful display structures in dinosaurs. I think the horns might have been colorful in males too, maybe a bright red would look nice?

Carno the end of the mating dance:I Love you thiiissssess much!!!! Female Carno:Meh…

Whoa, relax buddy, almost shot into the sky

Its like toothless trying to impress the other female dragon

My boy used his whole self, even the useless bits, and you have the audacity to just walk away?! Fine, he can do better! Someone who appreciates his adorable little arms.

We got such meme material here😂😂😂😂 he needs a hug so bad!

Probably the most hilarious scene I ever seen in any nature-documentary show. 🤣

It's giving Toothless' failed attempt to impress the Light Fury vibes LOL

For a terrifying creature that is way too cute 😂😂😂

"I love you THIS much!" "That's not very much."

I don’t know why but I like the implication that by the female rejecting him, he may in some way have performed his dance wrong, after all, this is only our best guess to what it might have looked like.

Good to know that the way I flirt didn't work 60 million years ago either.

carnotaurus was my favorite dinosaur even before this but this just gives me another reason to love it

This is both hilarious and adorable

I keep putting this on repeat. This boy is trying his best and it's so gosh darn adorable.

this is cute and funny

How did they made a terrifying predator look so fucking cute

This scene proves that we should let dinos be cute and dorky in media

I feel like the animator just really wanted to give a dinosaur jazz hands

This dinosaur seriously needs a trophy for his amazing dancing

He's dancing his heart out, I love it! ❤

My man needs a beer after that rejection.

I know people meme on this scene a lot, but you gotta give it to the animators and designers on making such a realistic looking carnos

I just can't help but smile while watching this

He's actually telling her his story of how he once flew and she's just trying to understand how that's possible with those tiny arms.

this video lightened up my day thank you I’m going to watch the entire series now

Jurassic world when a male sees a female version of the dinosaurs: attack But prehistoric planet: THEY DANCE

I have never wanted to hug an extinct carnivore more than his face after she walks off.

Damn I wish it was this easy to get a partner. Just walk up to someone and go "HEY BABY I DYED MY PITS BLUE, WATCH ME DANCE!!!!" 😂

That whole routine reminded me of Toothless flirting with the Light Fury in HTTYD 3

The CGI is amazing, Ham Zimmer's Music is in it , and the dinos are cute. What more could you ask for?

And she said... "meh". I feel ya buddy 😭

"Well if it didn't contribute to the individual's own survival then obviously it was to help get them laid." ~Speculative Biology probably

this carno: she let me hit bc im goofy

I had to rewind this scene like five times 😂😂😂 Has me dying every time!

I don't know how or why a 2 tonnes meat eating bull from hell would look this cute and wholesome. I feel so bad when the female rejected him, I'm sure he would find a better and more suitable female next time!

For anyone curious it’s arms even though seemingly Vestigial had a unique function to move like a “ball and socket joint” so it’s assumed it used it as flashers of some sort, either a way to confuse/scare a larger theropod or to use it as a mating ritual which honestly is pretty lined up with how it’s closest living relatives do it today. Birds😭

This is actually cute. Especially those lil arms lol.

"a pair of two tiny, apparently useless, arms" **Doesn't get the date** "Correction, a pair of two tiny useless arms"

The music in the background while he does his little dance makes the scene so much better

Dinosaurs in most movies/series’s: fierce, terrifying af, roars loudly, killing machine Prehistoric planet dinosaurs:

He just wants a hug

She doesn't deserve you, king. 💯

real. actual. living and breathing. HUMANS. with fully developed brains, and degrees, put their heads together and made this possible. thank you.

The animators had a field day with this one

that's so awesome because it's like we are seeing the precursor to birds and their beautiful wing colors used for mating. I love it.

Carnotaurus in the past: demon t-rex with horns Carnotaurus in the present: weird ass lizard with tiny flappy arms. Not that I’m complaining or anything.

you're telling me the only reason this apex predator has arms is for..... jazz hands. i love it

I died when the arms came out 😂

For some reason i thought of Peter Griffin and his tiny arms 😂

Reminds me of that scene in How To Train Your Dragon 3. XD This scene is so cutely depressing. Imagine getting rejected after that extraordinary dance...

Damn carno hitting the griddy 0:16

Someone give that Carno a hug!

The dino dance was so funny and cute from this dino carno)))

who ever animated this dino dance deserves a raise

Male Carno: 🎶This woman is my destiny! She said~🎵 Female Carno: 🎶Oooh, shut up!🎵 …Shut up. Male Carno: ☹️

Can't belive how good were the cameras back then concidering the time