![]() ![]() The discovery of Qianzhousauru s led to a group of tyrannosaur being named: the alioramins (after the other member in the group, Alioramus). The tyrannosaur hunting the Corythoraptor is Qianzhousaurus sinensis, also described by Lü and others in 2014. Corythoraptor is a fairly new addition to the family, having been described by the late Junchang Lü et al in 2017. Corythoraptor was an oviraptorosaur, a group of very bird-like coelurosaurs (I recently discussed this group and their poorly-informed name in an article about the Joker, of all things). The next scene takes viewers to East Asia in the fall, where a flock of Corythoraptor jacobsi feed on the fallen nuts of a ginkgo tree. If anything, this just highlights the beauty of scientific advancement and the speed at which new information becomes available. This was directly addressed by Naish in a Twitter conversation with the paper’s lead author Christophe Hendrickx, as Naish explained that Prehistoric Planet only become aware of the paper after the model for their Carnotaurus had been finalized. But a 2021 study reevaluated the skin of Carnotaurus and found that these larger scales would not have been arranged in rows, as depicted in Prehistoric Planet, but rather in a random assortment. ![]() The reason for this is that we have fossilized skin impressions of Carnotaurus. Even after all these recreations, viewers will see the same pattern of scales in Prehistoric Planet, with elevated rows running parallel to the spine. Since its description by José Bonaparte in 1985, Carnotaurus has been a mainstay in dinosaur media, appearing in Ricardo Delgado’s Age of Reptiles, Michael Crichton’s The Lost World, Disney’s Dinosaur, and eventually the film side in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Darren Naish, the show’s lead scientific consultant, gave an interview breaking down the potential for display in the arms of Carnotaurus, and what’s seen here is an adaptation of artist John Conway’s depiction in All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, that Conway and Naish put together with artist C.M. Returning to South America, Prehistoric Planet treated its viewers to a speculative mating display by Carnotaurus sastrei.
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