T-Rex An Evolutionary Journey (2016) Accuracy Review | Dino Documentaries RANKED #26 

That running Guanlong animation at 2:00 is the peak of cinema!

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that this man watches the biggest crap in existence to entertain us? Respect

Can you please do an accuracy review of Disney’s Dinosaur? Obviously not a documentary, but these reviews are so entertaining and I’m sure there’s a lot to cover on that movie!

I'm sad you never pointed out how all the dinosaurs have flexible octopus tentacles for tails.

I find it kind of weird that, as far as I know, the only documentary to really even address that Tyrannosaurus itself was essentially an invasive species in North America is When Dinosaurs Roamed America with a brief, easily missed line. Everything else (again, to the best of my knowledge) just glosses over that fact, which for some reason my nerd brain finds really interesting.

I'm surprised that THIS got as high as D- on your list. You were too generous for this "masterpiece". Imo it's a straight F - especially for that line about birds.. and "triceratops" fossils scattered around Asia, aw Lord... Also, that Alabama joke was savage 💀

I hope you do these in the future: - Animal Armageddon - Prehistoric Predators - Walking with Cavemen - Supercroc (2001 documentary)

Upvoted initially just out of habit, but "Shantungosaurus Who" legitimately earned my thumbs up haha. Nice Vid!

I think Jack Horner made this to make T-Rex even more than a scavenger after realizing that Tyrannosaurus wasn’t a scavenger and wanted it to have feathers

As a Dino-Nerd and amateur paleontologist who grew up watching shows like Dinosaur Planet, When Dinosaurs Roamed America and the Walking With shows since childhood, I can tell that your videos are a pretty good analysis of how factual or non-factual media depictions of prehistoric creatures have changed over the years and how they fare on the sliding scale of accuracy vs inaccuracy.

Dude I love your videos. It’s resurrected my love for prehistoric animals, and man it just brings me so much joy to just experience this type of content. Love your vids bro

Just one small nitpick, Proceratosaurs did not have the arctometatarsalian condition. The oldest evidence of it comes from Moros and Alectrosaurus (Suskityrannus is a honorable mention, who missed the mark by 4 million years or so, but that's generally around the same time), while early/basal Pantyrannosaurs like Dilong or Eotyrannus still retained the normal condition, so it arose somewhere along the line between them. Other than this, great video as always, especially the part about making distinction between genera and species. (Though when the narrator calls all ceratopsians "Triceratops" a "Those are Triceratops" meme from RickRaptor would have been welcome.)

After watching the video and all of your Dino doc reviews since I first subscribed to your channel back in August, I can narrow down the different eras of Dinosaur depictions throughout the last 150-200 years: Mid to late 1800s: when paleontology first discovered Dinosaur fossils, they were first depicted as big, slow moving, dumb lizards Early 1900s-1970s: dinosaurs are depicted as upright standing, tail dragging kangaroo reptiles that lived in swamps. 1980s/1990s-2000s: dinosaurs are depicted as fast moving, warm blooded, horizontally posed and active bird-like creatures. This era also spawned the “awesomebro” mentally of dinosaurs being seen as killer monsters that roared and fought. Early-mid 2010s: the depiction of dinosaurs changed again with the discovery of feathers and bird like dinosaurs from decades ago, now with controversial discoveries that challenged the norm by trying to put feathers on everything. This era spawned the “feathered nazi” group of people who think all dinosaurs should have feathers despite evidence to the contrary. Late 2010s to now: the current era we live in that depicts dinosaurs based on our current scientific research that depict dinosaurs with the latest science. Dinosaurs are seen as true animals with wide variety from scaly to feathery, and the public is slowly but surely accepting the current image of dinosaurs.

Yo man, been watching your videos for a while. Gotta say I love em. Watching dinosaur stuff brings me back to when I was a kid and it's interesting to see how paleontology has evolved over the years and which documentaries hold up and how. Keep up the great work man.

It would have been more accurate to say "some creatures alive today are descended from the Tyrannoraptora branch of dinosaurs, the birds"

I'm curious, I know this series is going to go over dinosaur media from the past until present, but will this also cover smaller works like Dead Sound's Dinosauria series?

I remember watching this a couple months ago and I was like, this is a real documentary, a DOCUMENTARY.

I feel like there’s a stigma of feathered dinosaurs looking goofy with colorful feathers, the feathers not arranged properly or even just looking too chicken, when the opposite was true as feathered Dinosaurs would’ve had variety (some looking majestic, scary, colorful, and cute). Meanwhile, there’s a stigma of herbivorous dinosaurs like Sauropods and ceratopsians having elephantine skin texture and legs, dull monotone color and just being depicted as slow moving, gentle giants while the hadrosaurs are depicted as meat-eating, punching bags. Again, all of that would’ve been the opposite and it seems like terrible documentaries like these perpetrate those myths and misconceptions.

Next up is Amazing Dinoworld! I can’t wait to see you shred their depiction of my favorite dinosaur (Deinocheirus) to shreds.

The amount of bad docs he has to sit through is crazy thanks you for giving us the entertainment we need

The fact that they had fully fledged models of Zuniceratops and Diabloceratops,yet decided to reuse TRICERATOPS for the segments with Moros and Lythronax baffles me

No one: Real Tyrannosaurus: I am not built for speed, and I'm pretty much an ambush predator. TRex from AEJ: IM AS FAST AS FUCK BOI

That gigachad Siats just bodied those 2 Moros like they were just small insects annoying it. Can't wait for him to roast Amazing Dino World's Pachyrhinosaurus.

Another 2 things are Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops weighting 6 tons And the dumbest gualong and moros i ever seen Gualong jumping into moving thagomizers and moros trying to scare siats instead of running as fast as they can

11:46 I just realized that the Lythronax in this show looks exactly like the one in Jurassic World Alive

I had to stop the video to see if Appalachiosaurus was on the family tree and glad to see that it was, mainly as I am always happy that the Alabama Tyrannosaur gets any attention at all.

Love the Dino Doc reviews!

I love all your dinosaur content and it is some of the best I have seen on this platform and am glad I finally found a channel like yours. Also I was wondering if you ever thought of doing Accuracy Reviews are dinosaur games such as the Isle or Ark.

10:30 ive seen that guy in a few things including a "rating movie dinosaur scenes" video and he always seems so wholesome. Hes just how a paleontology looks in my head.

ok so how are the hands correct in the early ones then the later ones have jp hands this makes no sense

One thing that you forget to precise in this video, is that the tyrannosaurs genera and species we have in this docmentary, and which not help this latter sadly, is that they are always shown during the CGI sequences attacking other animals or roaring onscreen, like how to show their were badass in real life. That explain the T-rex duo killing a Siat, being fast runner, and the Matrix slow motion jump when the two T-rex at the end face each others. The fact that small species such Proceratosaurus, Guanlong and Moros attack bigger dinosaurs such the asiatic stegosaurid or the Siat is also very stupid and unrealistic. Showing them like mindless creature that want so strongly to fight that they attack at view everything they see without taking into account the size or the environment around them. We are really completely into a famous common trope that deserve to be reserved for no documentaries productions and not use in a documentary to be sure to have the public's attention. Also, for a documentary about Tyrannosauroid evolutionary line, we speak mostly about the first members and the T-rex. Not many about the others Tyrannosaurs. Sure, it's cool to have mention and apparition of species such the Qianzhousaurus or Nanuqsaurus, and some others, who aren't not so much used in medias regulary. But most of the species of tyrannosaurs we have here have not many screen time (most of them with only few seconds). So again, a additional sad point...

That Alabama joke hit me hard in the chest 💀

This blue headed T-Rex is the same from the epic/spectacular 2 part series Amazing DinoWorld !!! A very awesome series full of outstanding species and designs !!!

Did, did the creators of this documentary seriously think that giant, multi-ton theropods were capable of jumping several feet into the air like fricking kangaroos!? XD

I argued w a channel once about T-Rex I said, “there’s no evidence they had feathers “ And channel wouldn’t accept it. Therefore I’m subscribing to this channel 🎉

This is amazing. Can you do an accuracy review of prehistoric planet?

Great Video :)

Awesome video

I like how you were super apprehensive about ranking this goofy ah documentary.

It’s unfortunate that we never got Lego Batman 2

Ayo the alabama joke was absolutley savage

Oh boy...get 'em Red!

Bruh at 18:00 why they toes be looking like elf shoes when they run?

Who else likes tyrannosaur ancestors more than trex itself

Do they actually show two Lythronax killing a Siats? Even if that is not supposed to be a Siats but just a lazy reskin, it still makes no sense. Allosaurs (as far as all available evidence shows) died out during the Turonian, about 90 mya, around 10 million years before Lythronax showed up.

Ever notice he follows great dinosaur documentarys with crappy ones

The visuals give me MASSIVE Monster Hunter Cutscene vibes

Can I suggest these documentaries for the future: - Extinct (2001 Series) - Wild New World/Prehistoric America - Monsters We Met

May I please have an answer on why David Attenborough's natural history museum alive (2014) hasn't been reviewed.

How about a review of Leaps in Evolution, Dinosaur Superworld, and Out of the Cradle?

Monsters resurrected: Yea new friend! Evolutionary journey: Yuck! Get away from me!

Just a thing. The unamed tirannosaurid after Guan Long is Xionggualong.

“Hadrosaurs are large herbivores “ thank god.They are always depicted as weak.They grew that way so they can A.run if they must B.fight off what ever was in their environment for example a edmontosaurs grew to its size since it’s slow and can be able to defend itself against T. rex they adapted in a way for a reasons not just some pushovers but something that can be the last thing a predator sees as it dies

First dino doc I ever saw. It holds up worse than I ever could have imagined. Glad you got around to it. 15.01 very small nitpick and I’m not positive as to whether there are multiple spellings of it but I believe “veranus” should be spelled “varanus” instead.

Now do a accuracy review of the Scary Monsters arc of Steel Ball Run, please.

Red!like it~that'ss professional ,catch you later!😊

Timurlengia wasn't shown living in the Americas but in the bissekty, Uzbekistan plus you gotta understand that Uzbekistan was once under the turguy strait with islands poking out like the Mediterranean or South East Asia.

I loved this documentary when it came out

the thing about the trike that is hunted by the lythoranx, it could have been a diabloceratops. it have been cool!

Allosaurus fans REEing in the background

Would you ever consider reviewing Monsters We Met or Wild New World (Prehistoric America)?

Hey red, I think I might have a good recommendation(sorry about bugging you about it, I spelled it wrong last time) dinosaurs if the frozen continent-ancient earth

Can you please do last day of the dinosaurs

I was wondering when you were going to review this movie

Too much Awesome bro that was Insane need to stop too much

I miss prehistoric planet

Can you do prehistoric planet? I dont know if it would just, go into s tier or not but id like to see one

16:11 Nice reference there

6:14 you forgot to mention the ankylosaurs fulfilling the medium armored herbivore niche in both continents. Strangely though is that the ceratopsians were more diverse and prevalent in North America, having a huge diversity of both centrosaurs, chasmosaurs and even basal ceratopsians, while from Asia the only big ceratopsian we know of Sinoceratops, with most of the others being basal ceratopsians like protoceratops, koreaceratops and Udanoceratops; I do Wonder why was it the case, however the same can be said about therizinosaurs, with only Nothronychus having notoriety on the New World

I burst out laughing at the parts where the paleontologists got muted, what the actual heck

Could you do an accuracy review on the Dino Dan series and the Dino Dana Movie?

Most of the dinosaurs have that same Ark Rex pose

6:24 We just need a North American alioramine to be discovered (And to name it Eunanotyrannus.)

also wasnt a paper released this year that placed siats as a non megaraptorid megaraptoran which in turn placed all megaraptorans as tyrannosauroids?

It's really like a weird mix of JFC, Dinosaur Revolution and just a weird mix of dinosaur documentary at the time Overall it's decent and yes this video was really good

Could you do an acuracy review of "when whales Walked" its a prety neat documentary

Could we go back to review Discovery's 2010 docu "Last Day of the Dinosaurs"? The models were reused from "Clash of the Dinosaurs", but maybe their behavior is a little more accurate.

“T-Rex: An Evolutionary Journey” (NHK, 2016, 50 minutes) is a One-Shot documentary about the evolution of the Tyrannosaurs family. Interstingly, despite having been made by the same channel than “Amazing Dino World”, this documentary was made before this latter (being made in 2019, and as an effect, the CGI of the creature, even still correct, is not the exact same, even if most of the design (like the one of the T-rex) remain the same than in the 2019 production. But like mentioned here, it's impossible and unealistic that a complete full-grown adult T-rex can have feathers all on his body. So the T-rex of Amazing Dino World are also already at the base completely innacurate. And mostly due to this re-used action by the creators to use again the same design from this 2016 documentary instead to create new ones. So yep, the 2010's era in the paleocommunity and media had strongly been marked with the overuse of feathers in any kind of dinosaur belonging to a family in which at least one member was proven to have at least some feathering on him. With generic fluing bird feathers, not fuzz or proto-feathers, but complete feathers. For me, a good part of this trope come from the fact that we have been hammered so hard the people/public into their heads that raptors (Dromeosauridae and Troodontidae) have feathers all over their bodies that work too well, and put any kind of feathers in every kind of dinos with at least one member was actually have feathers. Tyrannosaurid and Therizhiosaurid are good example of that sad bonus effect. Others such Oviraptosaurid, Ornithomimid and their relatives don't suffers to much thankfully. Because most of them are small to medium and slender animals, and so, must have teguments to keep them warm. Only small to lesser medium creatues in every dinosaurs clade or babies/juveniles of big and huge species have feathers, for warm use, and even here, the feathers were mostly see only fuzz or proto-feathers, not true generic feathers. It's only in the Coelusaurian dinosaurs that true feathers were abundant in almost all the body. But in many, like for the Oviraptosaurid and Ornithomimid again, true feathers were only present on the arms and tail for sexual mate uses, not for warm use. This latter aspect was made by fuzz on all the dinos body. Because yes, many dinos in the Coelusaurian have both fuzz on all the body and true feathers in some specific parts.

They definitely oversized Siats. It was around the size of the Allosaurus Fragilis- wouldn’t have been much bigger than Lythronax.

Seeing feathers on non coelurosaur theropods like siats annoys me

Is Amazing Dinoworld next? You probably won't have to talk about the Tyrannosaurus too much because it's reused from this documentary. I would give Amazing Dinoworld either a D+ or a C-

I can imagine the creators of this documentary SQUIRMING as you list off screwup after screwup after screwup!

Think it’d be cool if you reviewed Dino Dan, it’s not a documentary but it is part of my childhood

Can you do an accuracy review on Dino Ranch? I want to see it!

Rip this show the evolution was great but some stuff meh was ok

I love how we went from slow lumbering lizards to over feathered speed demons

And will u play ark 2 when it comes out and see how accurate the dinosaur are

2:00 - Holy Jesus, look at it running! Please, have mercy at poor thing's legs! 13:29 - Erm... WTF is this? Because of those 2 moments I had to watch your video twice. Sorry couldn't listen, was too distracted by that literal hell of animation.

Let go new vid

the Alabama quote was the funniest thing I've heard today

I see on the video there's a list of documentaries best to worst.. Where can I view that including when it's updated

Didn't this show actually feature a *featherless troodontid* hanging out with overfeathered tyrannosaurs? I once saw a youtube clip like that, where the tyrannosaur designs looked very close to these.

What would u say is the overall most accurate dinosaur documentary ever?

Interesting.

I noticed that the idle animation (not model) of T-Rex in ARK: Survival Evolved is the same as in this documentary

Anyone else noticed that Jurassic Park borrowed the same font for its title as the later Dinosaur World novels?

RRW should review Disney's 2000 film 'Dinosaur', I think it would be a lot of fun for him to rip into it, not only was it my childhood, but it was also extremely inaccurate.

I feel like varanus should be split into atleast 3 genera

Will you review Dino death match

If I had a nickel for every relatively important t-Rex specimen displayed in Illinois, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice, right?