Hold up, WHAT?! Not only valid, but TWO species?!

Yes, I knew it! Been reading that myself, it's a genuinely good story!

Wait a minute, is it "Ancient Animal Tales", specifically "The Road Not Taken"? Or is it a completely different story?

Yes please to Australia! As an Aussie myself, I really wanna see more prolonged segments featuring updated reconstructions of my country's extinct megafauna, especially seeing sthenurine kangaroos to show audiences how they walked instead of hopped

Yep, just figured I'd back ya up with the visual evidence

That's definitely a black bear

- Larger ears
- Straighter skull
- No prominent shoulder hump
- Lumbar region raised higher up

This is one of the various color morphs that make it look like a brown bear upon first glance, but key anatomical traits like the aforementioned above are important to note

It's actually a breath of fresh air to see the theropod merely driven off rather than being added to the body count, it shows it is an animal knowing when to quit rather than a mindless monster with no self preservation skills, I commend that little detail

Definitely seeing no resemblance to Nano-T skulls here. Even though this specimen died at a slightly older age, the anatomical difference is already staggering, too drastic of a change IMO considering how long it took to reach full size

Even as a kid back in 2008-2009, I thought it was odd that this "T. rex" had three fingers, but when I saw the featurette confirming it as a Giga, my brain sent off alarms, because I already knew Gigas did not have Rex-like skulls

Even JWD at least actually had a skull closer to the real animal

-like, am I crazy for seeing the resemblance here?

Actually kinda funny yet neat, because we practically got such a scenario with Gorosaurus from "King Kong Escapes"

His lore specifies that he's a descendant of Allosaurus or a close relative, but his general skull shape and shorter arms appear to be a dead ringer for a stylized carcharodontosaur-

100% relatable right there! 😂

Mad underrated critters, werecats definitely deserve more recognition under the spotlight!

Ooh, NGL, this classic design actually looks like it could've easily been a design from the "Park" era if Allosaurus was in the films before is "Fallen Kingdom" debut. And the colors are a perfect fit + blend, tawny + red + black are my go to Allo colors personally

So much effort into ensuring each individual pack member is instantly recognizable from one another, I commend it!

And this turned out to be my favorite episode in the series. Even more remarkable is that I actually met Phil Currie, the man who pushed the pack-hunter theory, in person 14 years ago

Yep. Derived branch of Old-World monkeys, to be exact

Interesting that this seems to be a last resort to make prey panic, since this is usually reserved for rival predators or other animals intruding on their turf

That said, some prey tend to be hard-pressed, and if the hunter's in dire need of food, perhaps this tactic might be more readily utilized