Walking with Dinosaurs

Hello guys,today is the day I rate the accuracy of the WWD,WWB and WWM Designs,Now without further a do,Let's get started now

Lets get started with WWD

Tyrannosaurus

This Tyrannosaurus design is heavily inaccurate,first off it has pronated wrists,second off all it's tail should be thinner,third off it should have lips and proper anatomy,and to top it all off it should have a thicker neck,for it's time this Tyrannosaurus design was good but it most certainly isn't as of today

Allosaurus

This allosaurus design is iconic and all,but it's top jaw and bottom jaw should be longer and the crests shouldn't be on top of it's eyes,not to mention the neck is too shrinkrapped and it should have lips.

Postosuchus

This postosuchus design should have lips and it should be able to stand up,and I think those 2 are the only inaccuracies it has

Coelophysis

This coelophysis design is not too bad or anything but it should have lips and non pronated wrists.

Edmontosaurus

My main critism for this edmontosaurus design is that it's neck is too thin,plus it's arms should be a bit thinner,but tbf this design was decent for the time WWD came out

Ankylosaurus

My Main Critism for the Ankylosaurus design is that the back is too tall and the Ankylosaurus,it should have bigger head spikes.

Brachiosaurus

This brachiosaurus design is not too bad,but it should have a more thicker neck,and its tail should be thinner,and it's legs should be a bit more shorter

Diplodocus

This diplodocus's back should be shorter,it's body is too big,however it's neck is not too bad,this design is decent imo

Dromaeosaurus

This dromaeosaurus is heavily inaccurate,first off it shouldn't have pronated wrists and second off it should have feathers

Iguanodon

This iguanodon should have longer arms,bigger thumb spikes,and my main Critism for this Design is that it's neck should be more up straight.

Polacanthus

This Polacanthus design isn't too bad so idk what to say other than the fact it's legs are a bit too skrinkrapped

Stegosaurus

This Stegosaurus design for the time wasn't bad,I think this is one of the least inaccurate design, other than the fact it should have claws on its feet instead of mammal like feet.

Torosaurus

Idk what to say,but this design is decent imo.

Koolasuchus

This koolasuchus design is quite decent,since it has a paddle on its tail and it's head looks exactly like a giant salamander,so this animal design is okayish

Utahraptor

This utahraptor is massively inaccurate since it doesn't have feathers and it should have a thicker body,plus it has pronated wrists and it should have lips

Hybodus

Idk what to say about this animal design

Eustreptospondylus

The eustreptospondylus design is not as inaccurate as the Allosaurus,but it should have lips,proper anatomy,non pronated wrists,and it should have a longer mouth.

Giganotosaurus

This giganotosaurus is iconic and all,but it's arms should be smaller,this giganotosaurus design is decentish but should still have a thicker neck,and it should have non pronated wrists

Apatosaurus

This apatosaurus design should have a thinner body,and a longer neck too,and that's about it

Liopleurodon

This design is decentish,idk what else to say about this design

Muttaburrasaurus

This muttaburrasaurus design has some inaccuracies,for example it should have smaller arms and its feet should have claws

Ok,now let's move onto WWB

Chalicotherium

This design isn't too bad,but it should have a longer neck,that's my only critism

Entelodont

My main critism for this entelont is that it should have lips since every mammal has lips

Hyaenodon

My main critism for this Hyaenodon design is that it should have a chunkier body and that's about it

Gastornis

This Phorusrhacos design is a bit too skrinkrapped and that's about it.

Cave lion

My only critism for this Cave lion is that it should have a longer tail

Dinofelis

This Dinofelis design is decent but should have a longer tail.

Doedicurus

This Doedicurus design is decent,idrk what else to say

Deinotheirum

This Deinotherium design should have a more thicker body and it's legs should be a bit thinner

Gastornis

Idk what to say about this design

Smilodon

This smilodon design is decent but should have more fur on its tail

Mammoth

This Mammoth design is decent,but it's ears should be bigger

Woolly rhinoceros

This Rhinoceros design is not too bad

Paraceratherium

This Paraceratherium design is decent,but the only problem is that it should have a chunkier neck

Embolotherium

This Embolotherium design is decent,but it should have a longer tail and a smaller horn,it's body is also too chunky

This Moeritherium design is decent,idrk what else to say

Megaloceros

This Megaloceros is not too bad,but it's legs should be a bit thinner,nonetheless it's not that bad

Megatherium

This Megatherium design is decent,but it should have more thicker and robust arms.

Macrauchenia

My only critism for the WWB Macrauchenia is that is should have a more chunkier body.

Cynodictis

I don't know what to say about this animal design

Alright,now it's time to move onto WWM

Dimetrodon

This Dimetrodon design is quite accurate,but it's sail should have longer spikes

Lystrosaurus

The Lystrosaurus should have thicker legs and it's neck should be a bit shorter

Inostrancevia

This gorgonops design is not too bad,and idk what else to say about this design

So are Walking with Designs accurate?

Yes and no

Some of the designs like the Stegosaurus,Mammoth,Dimetrodon and Postosuchus aren't too bad but some of the dinosaurs like the trex are too shrinkrapped

That's it for today Guys

The Golden Age (1993-2005)

This was the age of Jurassic Park and the Walking with Series, and a few mid range docs

(Walking with Dinosaurs is a great example of this era)

The Jurassic Fight Club Era (2006-2010)

This was the era when every company started spewing out dino docs (usualy violent) there are a few exceptions (Prehistoric Park)

(This image sums up this era. One word: VILOENCE)

The "Decent" Age (2010-2012)

This was an era of some pretty solid shows, like Planet Dinosaur.

(A pretty good age)

The Age of Spinosaurs (2010-2020)

This was the time we people started raving about spinosaurus and every doc had it in it.

(Read the title)

The Second Golden Age (2020's)

This is a second golden age of paleo media seeing shows like Prehistoric Planet, and Walking with Dinosaurs (2025)

(Showing them just as animals, beautiful)

This is a collab between me and @AcryAllofan150 . Enjoy the programme:

Let us take you back to 90 million years ago.

It is the late cretaceous, the climate is warmer, beautiful flowers have evolved, and the western interior seaway is beginning to form. It will become home to some of the most titanic leviathans of the depths, in fact, the cruel seas are not the only home for giant killers.

The land is starting to have it’s own fair share, armour crunching Tyrannosaurs are soon to rise to be some of the most successful apex predators of their age. But the greatest of them all, Tyrannosaurus rex has not yet evolved, it will not emerge for another 22 million years.

Then there are the other class of mighty predators, the Carcharodontosaurids. Shark toothed predators, the largest even taking down colossal Sauropods, bleeding them out and watching them fall. However, the largest of that species Giganotosaurus, has not yet evolved either. It is not these predators stories we tell today.

For there was another Apex predator that predates both of them. A unique and deadly Carcharodontosaurid armed with the size to rival the Giganotosaurus and given a mysterious weapon unknown to all other Megatheropods. The apex predator Meraxes Gigas, king of South America in the Huincul Formation. We will be following one individual throughout his life to see how he lived, fought, fed, mated and lastly, how he died. This is the story of Zhaegar, and the harsh trials that life threw at him.

It is evening, and the setting sun has painted the sky a striking red. A 21-foot long Skorpiovenator is crouched in the underbrush, hidden by his brown tiger striped skin. He is a small species of Abelisaurid, lightning fast, and equipped with a powerful bite. But he is not hunting any fast-moving prey, he’s not even snapping up helpless hatchlings.

The food he’s fixing his keen yellow eyes on is a clutch of eggs with no hope of escape, buried in an enormous mound of dirt and debris, steaming hot in the evening sun. The Mother of the nest is still there, keeping watch but even despite her unwavering, almost sacrificial dedication. There always comes a time where she needs to fill her ravenous stomach.

It’s only a matter of waiting for the hidden egg thief. After 1 more hour of waiting, the mother is desperate for sustenance and finally gets up and leaves to find prey. It is here where the Skorpiovenotor strikes, he quickly reaches the nest and starts to hastily dig it out with his powerful legs, burying into the mound of dirt with sharp talons on his feet.

This is a risky heist but if he pulls it off, he will have a meal fit for a king, enough to fill his own belly for the night. He is so close to the unprotected brood, their shells seconds within sight. Finally, they are in reach and his quivering jaws greedily gulp down the eggs. Their golden yolk staining his maw.

Their taste is sweet and fulfilling and the abelisaurid is so concentrated on his meal that he doesn’t notice the silent figure right behind him. The mother of the nest, ready to lunge at the intruder. She rushes forward, her 5-ton bulk easily barrelling over the small predator in her wake.

The Skorpiovenator is caught by surprise and desperately claws at the mud to get up and flee from the mother’s wrath. But he never will, a long piercing toe claw stabs into the struggling egg thief. Perfectly evolved to trap smaller prey, it pins the struggling Abelisaurid down and it meets it’s end.

The mother’s cavernous jaws clamp down, her sharp serrated teeth slicing through the flesh like a butchers knife. Her hunger is finally about to be satiated; she goes for the soft parts first. Gouging into the vulnerable belly and roping out the intestines, feasting herself on the most prized parts of the prey: intestines, liver and neck.

By the end of her vicious attack, her face is coated in blood, and the soft mud is littered with bits of intestinal flesh. Hard, shallow breaths rack the mother’s body as she goes to check on her eggs. 4 gone and only 3 left, it is a crushing blow to her chances of rearing up the next generation. A new generation of Apex predators, for this is a nest of Meraxes Gigas, the 3 left only narrowly escaping death.

The mother is confused at her crushed eggs and paces back and forward in distress, before hurriedly covering up the remaining eggs. Meraxes are too big to sit on their eggs like modern day birds, and so, like other megatheropods, they bury the eggs in large mounds. These mounds of mud and dirt soak in heat from the hot sun to incubate the eggs, and release some of that heat in the night to avoid cooking them alive.

This intruder is a sign that the mother’s territorial scent markings are fading and need to be re-established fast, lest more egg thieves come. The mother makes sure there are no other predators around her nest site before carrying away the corpse of the abelisaurid and quickly running to the edges of her territory.

She hastily dumps the corpse outside, if it remains near the nest site the scent will attract bigger predators to her vulnerable brood. Scent is everything here, the Meraxes herself can pinpoint even the smallest of creatures hiding in the undergrowth. And her own scent is a fierce warning to any would be predators to keep well away. She sprays urine near trees to mark her territory; she does this several times before yet again running back to her nest site.

As soon as she arrives she rests next to her brood, keeping her fierce eyes on the treeline, making sure no other creatures gain the confidence to try and steal her eggs. When Meraxes become mothers they are fiercely territorial and won’t hesitate to lay down their lives to defend their babies. They’ll stay near their nesting sites for hours on end only briefly leaving to hunt, and drink water.

Other than that, they are always on the defensive. As a result of this, they lose weight during this process much like mother crocodiles of today. However, as tiring and thankless as her dedication is, she is finally given a reward for her strife. Squeaking noises echo from the nest mound, and the mother’s attention is sparked immediately.

Her children have finally hatched and are calling for their mother to help dig them out of their earthen prison. Her own attempts of clawing down the mound she’s spent 6 months protecting is now merciful, as she is now welcoming her children into the morning light. Her toe claws send the underground environment around the 3 hatchlings crumbling as the blinding light of day illuminates their fragile bodies.

Their hatching marks the start of our journey as Zhaegar’s yellow, blinking eyes stare into the black striped face of his mother. He is one of the lucky ones, 2 thirds of Meraxes hatchlings never reach adulthood.

The trials of his life are about to begin and if Zhaegar has any chance of becoming an apex predator, he must follow his mother’s footsteps closely. After all, in a world of predators, everything wants to devour you.

End of part 1

Outstanding... simply outstanding. THE BEST EPISODE SO FAR!!!

It was so... so damn perfect. The cgi was the best shown so far in the show. The story was great, and fully backed by evidence. I swear, every behaviour shown had fossil evidence to back it up. Even Utahraptor potentially packhunting!

The analysis of the gastonia fossils was great and there is strong evidence that teens stuck together. The designs were fantastic, especially the utahraptor design. It was perfect, better than the og utahraptor in wwd

I just can't stop gushing, definitely one of the best portrayals of Utahraptor in a documentary. This episode has also really made me like Gastonia.

The forest fire sequence was really cool, and surprisingly haunting near the end. This show definitely has some of that morbid tone of the og, as several episodes hit hard. I'm not gonna go too into it though so y'all don't get spoiled. Just trust me, you'll love this ep. My only criticism is that for there to have been more species interactions outside of just gastonia and Utahraptor. There was another species in the ep, but they had a very small role.

Other than that, fantastic episode: 9/10

1. Clover

ADORABLE BABY!!! So cute, little eyes, what a little rascal. Maybe some more colours on frill, but other than that it's an 8/10.

2. Trex 'Rogue'

I love this one too, really lovely red crests, can look distinguished but also intimidating. Love his scars too

And, hot take incoming. After seeing the full episode, I think I like his design more than Hank from PHP. Don't crucify me, it's just that I like his colours more, and his scars too. This is also, just a more accurate trex to me, PHP's was accurate in it's body shape but it generalised too much.

I think only large rexes that are 10 tons would be that chunky, not all of them. And since WWD 2's rex is the average of 8 tons, it's physique is only slightly slimmer. Still chunky like how it's supposed to be though. That, and it's face has some more accuracies such as the more round snout and prescence of scars. Since all adult rex fossils have scars.

Anyway, Rogue gets a 9/10!

3. Utahraptor:

One of the best designs in the new show, genuinely stunning and definitely better than the og utahraptors in the old show imo. Lovely red feathers for the male, and nice white stripes. Such great hawk like eyes too! Some more pics:

Easily a 10/10 from me!

4. Rose the albertosaurus

My favourite protagonist in the show! And a gorgeous design too, love her fuzzy brown hair, her ice cold blue eyes and her lovely purple face! What a terrifying beauty. 9/10

5. Old Grande

Majestic, love his design more than I first did when watching the trailer. Plus, he's my 2nd favourite protagonist after Rose. His colours are calm, and serene. Such a cool dude and as a bonus, his fossil is the most complete Lusotitan ever found! I love how all of the protags of the show are actually real specimens discovered and recorded being unearthed by the paleontologists in the show! Adds so much charm to the show. Old Grande's design is an 8/10 from me.

5. George the gastonia

6.Love his spikes, his calm blue eyes and brown stripy skin. The very definition of a living tank. 9/10

7. Charcarodontosaurus

Like the earth brown colours, black stripy lower jaw and red streak on it's side. Had such an aura of menace when it appeared. Although it has short screentime it's pretty cool and I think Shieldon will be pleased! 8/10

4. Sobek the spinosaurus

While not the most accurate lifestyle *aquatic pursuit predator* cough cough. Easily the most accurately designed spinosaurus in a documentary! Love his red face and spine. His episode is one of the sadder ones too:(

Also Dragnor, he is a young male, barely an adult in fact so there's that.

Overall I love the designs in the show! I hate the fact that so many people thought they were "trash"... *side eye*. I think those people are either judging the show too much, or are just blinded by nostalgia googles. Cus all the designs look pretty good. I think y'all will really like the show when it comes to you guys... 21 days later heh heh heh 🤡🤡🤡/j

THIS. WAS. GREAT!!!

I love baby clover so much! She's adorbs and she is a real individual, as her story was based around the discovery of a baby trike fossil found by the palaeontologists in the show. In fact, there are frequent breaks between the dino moments and the paleontologists. But I'm fine with it, the paleontologists input and finding fossils is actually really fun to watch!

The landscapes and shots are BEAUTIFUL. There's even a callback to the sick sunrise shot in the og! Bertie Cravals narration is actually really good! He's foreboding and sinister in a way that kennerth brangh was.

AND THE TREX. He's a highlight, he's awesome. He's a menace in the night time, and there's a really sick shot of his eye:

I love the red crests on his design, and his sounds are really accurate. He has deep rumbling, hisses and bellows all very accurate sounds which I appreciate. I'm personally naming this rex 'Rogue', cus he's just a menace. They really did the feel of a trex stalking you well.

The Cgi is actually decent throughout, clover and the rex having the best cgi. the only cgi I don't like is the edmontosaurus, as some of them look too smooth and playdoughey. The baby Edmont looks pretty good though!

And finally, there's an amazing callback to the original at the end. It's the whole "flushes blood into the crest to be intimidating" act. It's really cool to watch and there's actual evidence the palaeontologists provide that is definitely plausible. Plus a thrilling sequence which I ain't spoiling but it's great and was the highlight of the episode.

All round, a great episode, kinda wish there was a bit more screentime to the dinos but they still have enough and the paleontologists input is nice.

8/10.

I personally think people are WAY too hard on the new series, it looks pretty nice, the stories it's telling all sound really engaging and interesting. And I call BS on the designs being bad, that albertosaurus is beautiful:

The trex looks nice too, all the designs look pretty nice. I don't personally care that the cgi isn't prehistoric planet levels, it never had that budget anyway. The trex ambush scene was pretty good, definitely gave me old wwd vibes and Bertie Craval's narration is pretty good. My only problem with the trex ambush scene is that the trex's footsteps sound a little too loud despite it saying there are silent toe pads. But then again, the sound does sound slightly muffled although it's still slightly too loud.

Other than that though, the scene was good and I'm pretty hyped for this series. Since I live in the Uk, I'll be seeing it this sunday and I'll give non spoiler reviews on the episodes after I've watched them, that's all!

Spoiler: y'all are aware that the 3 of 4 Babies likely won't make it; right ? That biome was a death trap / collesium of war with all the theropods crocodylimorphs and sauropods...

Other Spino looks genuinely shocked. The Betrayal.

Babies #1

The Family. No father.

Babies #2

Battle ? Courtship ?

...I hope we see the generalist side too

As seen in the Trailer

I know the aspect looks good but I wish they taken recent / new studies into consideration. CGI looked decent enough thought.