When Dinosaurs Roamed America - Review

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Sometimes considered the American equivalent to the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs, When Dinosaurs Roamed America is a Palaeontology film presented in the style of a documentary, portraying computer-generated extinct animals discovered in the United States. It has been 20 years since it aired in 2001, does it hold up today?
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Opening
1:43 - Triassic
9:34 - Early Jurassic
17:59 - Late Jurassic
30:21 - Mid Cretaceous
39:50 - Late Cretaceous
48:06 - Conclusion
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[@daliborjovanovic510]

The reason Suskityrannus (before it was named) was split into two characters is similar to the Megarachne situation in Walking with Monsters; it was discovered halfway through production that the Zuni coelurosaur wasn't a dromaeosaur but it was too late to change the animation, so the filmmakers added some quick scene with the small generic coelurosaur as a compromise, hence why doesn't really do anything in the segment beyond existing.

[@WingedFish66]

The nothronychus dying from the fire always upset me. It clearly got away from the inferno, and then it looks like it just blunders into a singular flame and dies instantly. They didn't have to do my boy like that

[@daliborjovanovic510]

12:08 The size of the Anchisaurus is likely based on the sympatric Ammosaurus, which is often treated as a synonym of the former.

[@Charlie-Charlot]

I’ve always disliked this portrayal of allosaurus, grossly oversized and treated more like some type of terrible monster. It wasn’t double the size of Ceratosaurus but rather one or maybe two meters larger in general (not talking about Saurophaganax and other possible allosaurus Maximus). It would have been better to simply not include it and present the Morrison formation with more obscure dinosaurs.

[@dragozillasaur813]

Fun Fact: WDRA was released the same month/year as Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor, Max payne and Tekken 4

[@flightlesslord2688]

I like how in the early 2000s it was like, 'meteorites', but now we think its always volcanoes (except for that one notable time). lol

[@josh-themighty9967]

The poor Ceratosaurus, I agree it's seemingly abused by Allosaurus in every single documentary it's in. This documentary was also my first introduction to Zuniceratops, and the so called raptors eating till they burned to death was....very ridiculous. It's always nice to see a new dinosaur related video on your channel! Please keep reviewing dinosaur models that have been in programs. :)

[@snm_nendra]

It's like the death of scar of when the hyenas didn't care of the fire and only care for the kill

[@Mac14329]

Every single documentary?

[@speedracer2008]

To be fair, Ceratosaurus is shown as a competent hunter and genuine threat, before Allosaurus shows up. JFC didn’t even do that.

[@piecheese1214]

This documentary has my favorite portrayal of Dilophosaurus in any media. I love the way the roar sounds!

[@kylecollier7569]

For the Early Jurassic segment, I think it was filmed in both Tasmania and New Zealand.

[@christophermartinez75]

I always liked and appreciated the Flintstones reference John Goodman made, even calling one of the Apatosaurus, "Dino of the Flintstones".

[@INTOTH3LIGHT]

I love that others love the sound they gave the dilophosaurus.

[@sevenidols607]

I think the monkey puzzle forest of chile was a better setting for the morisson formation than the redwood forests. I prefer the scenes in Time of the Titans that were filmed in Chile. They somehow found a part of that landscape with lots of horsetails. Perfect fit.

[@unreleasedscore2198]

Great review! Haven't watched all of it yet obviously but it's been great so far!

[@GTSE2005]

I appreciate this documentary for giving one of, if not the best portrayals (and designs) of Dilophosaurus in paleomedia.

[@Adasaur250]

Oh hey, nice to see someone else reviewing this!

[@HodgePodge7]

Right back atcha'! :)

[@SPRINK_GABY]

Favorit and best discovery Channel documentary

[@erichtomanek4739]

4:05 Tasmania. Is that Cradle Mountain in the background and Dove Lake in the foreground? Eastern Quolls are Australian carnivorous marsupials, in case you didn't know! Great video!

[@thecobraeffectyt]

This was really cool! Nice to have more longer, in-depth videos alongside the model reviews, and I’m super excited to see you review more documentaries 😁.

[@somedrummerboy]

I've been in search of this since 2005 because i couldn't remember the name, now it pops up in my feed.

[@archosaurian2399]

If you look closely at the Quetzalcoatlus skeleton segment, you can see all 4 digits, digit one just blends in with digit 2

[@The_Dino_Edits]

You should review Dinotasia sometime!

[@gandsproductions5105]

I hope that they make another great documentary series like this one day. All the new ones either really to heavily on the paleontologist cutaways or barely have them at all.

[@gandsproductions5105]

@IapetusMC exactly. They want some sort of eye candy (which is completely understandable). And there aren't any up-to-date documentaries they could watch. The newest ones that got any sort of popularity were planet dinosaur and dinosaur revolution. Dinosaur revolution was to unrealistic and planet dinosaur was kinda boring (in my opinion). Neither of them even had the practical effects like the old BBC docs with planet dinosaur even being fully CGI. The last good one I think was the discovery channels dinosaur planet but that one had many of its own issues.

[@dinofanaticgojifan5760]

@@gandsproductions5105 Wish granted!

[@tyrannotherium7873]

My favorite discovery channel dinosaur documentaries still an overall my second favorite documentary

[@Spnozilla]

To this day I think this is the only dino-documentary like this that features Dilophosaurus. Would be nice to see it again in a future project.

[@HodgePodge7]

I think you're right actually. I can't think of any others either.

[@speedracer2008]

29:08 To be fair, you could excuse this as the Allosaurus simply being opportunistic and taking down whatever prey was smaller than it.

[@speedracer2008]

I’d like to see more documentaries in which Quetzalcoatlus feeds on dinosaur babies. To my knowledge, only the maligned Clash of the Dinosaurs shows this behavior.

[@P.ilhaformosatherium]

What are your thoughts on Forgotten Bloodlines: Agate

[@snm_nendra]

33:36 it look like something from Animal Planet horror like LOST TAPES

[@snm_nendra]

👹👹👹 🕒3am

[@maozilla9149]

good show

[@josh-themighty9967]

Maybe you could review walking with beasts? And then review some prehistoric mammal models based off the creatures in the series if you haven't done that already?

[@HodgePodge7]

November ;) (hopefully XD)

[@josh-themighty9967]

@@HodgePodge7 Awesome! I'm unfortunately thinking your nearing the end of dinosaur documentaries to review now. Unless. You ventured into planet dinosaur done by the BBC in 2013. But even then that's only one documentary. If only we had some new dinosaur documentaries coming out! :/

[@HodgePodge7]

Dw I have plenty in mind ;)

[@josh-themighty9967]

@@HodgePodge7 Oh okay excellent I'm glad to hear that. :) 🦖🦕 I wanted to add, I'm surprised when you discussed Ceratosaurus you didn't mention how it could be partially semi-aquatic. Unless that's fallen out of favour now with the scientific community?

[@dagoodboy6424]

The stegosaurur roar from this show is soo annoying lol

[@newjojosupercutsandmore2489]

15:33 NO YOU ARE NOT OH MY GOD I NOTICE THAT EVERY TIME ITS SO JARRING

[@jacktheomnithere2127]

i hope we hear the Dilophosaurus' roar again. and i don't care if dinosaurs could only bellow (at best).

[@TrajGreekFire]

too bad there are no middle jurassic rocks with dinos

[@snm_nendra]

27:33 it look like a zombie

[@snm_nendra]

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