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WWD: Nanosaurus agilis

The dinosaur formerly known as Othnielia rex, also known as the dinosaur formerly known as Drinker nisti, also known as the dinosaur formerly known as Othnielosaurus consors, also known as the dinosaur formerly known as Laosaurus consors. This animal featured in the episode only as background fodder, and is neither discussed or even named on-screen, probably because it's not very impressive when compared to contemporary animals like Diplodocus or <...

WWD: Diplodocus hallorum (Juvenile)

Because the immature form of Diplodocus features heavily in the episode, I'll also include this version in the parade to show how our perspective of sauropodlets has changed since the program's production.

The episode states that Diplodocus reached adult size within one decade, but this is possibly very overly optimistic, and it's well beyond the growth of any modern tetrapod scaled up; newer studies on sauropod growth rates suggest it may have taken several decades. A...

WWD: Diplodocus hallorum (Adult)

And here we start moving on to the next episode in the series, with the main protagonist species, Diplodocus. Because the episode features mostly animals from the same geological formation, there's not much that needs to be changed, species-wise, although their appearances have been revamped to fit with modern knowledge. 

So, let's start off. In WWD, the Diplodocus is depicted as being able to reach over 40 metres in length, despite good remains of the ge...

Serina: Greater Skuggernaut

As the spring light descends upon the north after months of darkness, countless flocks and herds that sheltered further south for the winter begin the migration back to the summer feeding grounds of the Polar Basin. In summer, with months of nearly unbroken sunlight and warmth, the aquatic vegetation and plankton explodes in quantity, attracting countless animals to harvest its rich bounty while it lasts. The largest of these migrants is an armoured behemoth well-suited to wading through the ...

WWD: New Blood (Redux)

Now, all of them together for scale (for the record, I'm not sure the new region picked was actually still red, but gotta keep the episode colour coding intact). As you might imagine, it'll probably be a bit tougher to fit all the animals together in the next episode considering how vast the size difference is between the largest and smallest animals...

WWD: Plateosaurus trossingensis

And now the last one, the prosauropod (or technically, non-sauropod sauropodomorph) Plateosaurus. This is the only species that was not changed to an approximate equivalent. At up to ten metres in length and four metric tonnes, this was one of the largest dinosaurs of the Late Triassic, and one of the forbearers of its evolutionary successors that would some day dwarf this, many times over.

The one major difference between this and WWD's Plateosaurus is its posture; at...

WWD: Austriadactylus cristatus

This is the Peteinosaurus equivalent, a larger primitive pterosaur that is functionally the same role of showing the early evolution of the group. Austriadactylus specifically was picked because it lived slightly closer in time and space to the other species compared to Peteinosaurus (plus it's a little bigger, so it shows up on the chart better). Plus, it has a nice big crest.

One error WWD has for all its pterosaur species is depicting their wings f...

WWD: Ptychoceratodus concinnus

The unnamed lungfish from the episode... it's a slightly bigger lungfish now. Yeah, not much to say about this one. It's a lungfish. It's an animal still alive today (although not the exact genus), so it's hard to get it incorrect.

WWD: Pseudotriconodon wildi

This is the cynodont equivalent... a smaller cynodont. Okay, so the story behind WWD's cynodont is a bit and complicated. It went unnamed in the episode, but the model of the cynodont was based on Thrinaxodon, which lived in the Earliest Triassic of South Africa and Antarctica. Its presence in in the Late Triassic Chinle Formation in Arizona was based on two undescribed teeth at the time thought to have come from a large cynodont. The teeth were eventually described in a 200...

WWD: Lisowicia bojani

Now this one is the Placerias counterpart, the Polish dicynodont Lisowicia, from the same fossil formation as Smok (and was almost certainly preyed upon it when young, known from corpolites of Smok containing crushed dicynodont bones). WWD presented Placerias as the last-living dicynodont, which was true at the time, but since then later surviving dicynodonts have been found, such as this, which lived about 10 million years later, and the ...

WWD: Smok wawelski

This is the Postosuchus equivalent in this revamped version, a large predatory archosaur from Poland. Its exact classification is under dispute, specifically whether it was a large carnivorous theropod or a sort of dinosaur-like "rauisuchian". Here, I've gone with the interpretation of Smok being a Postosuchus-like rauisuchian (which is not without precedence when comparing skeletal anatomy). Both were estimated at about 5-6 metres in length and therefore were about...

WWD: Liliensternus liliensterni

This is part of a series I had the inspiration to start redoing the Walking with Dinosaurs series, but revamping the animals and settings to try and be as accurate as possible as we know from 20+ more years of scientific knowledge, while still keeping the types of animals similar. The series was notorious for putting animals in locations and time periods where/when they were not known in virtually every episode, so some species will be changed to a close approximate if necessary.

Serina: The Carvers

(These live 280 MYH)

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When the Serinaustra of old melted away, it took with it nearly all the denizens that had managed to survive upon its frozen surface for millions of years. There were only two major exceptions, the tentacle-faced scroungers and the aerial glacier ravens, both of which were adaptable enough to make it through the rough transition period between the ice age and the hothouse through scavenging the nigh endless waves of dead and dying animals around them until...

R'lyeh: The Wivern (Concept Art)

Some early concept art for the wivern drawn back in September of 2017. This is one of the animals which had its design changed the most. While I didn't dislike it, it looked way too heavy, it didn't look like something that could actually get aloft and soar across the mountain tops. 

The final design removed the large horns and made the wings much bigger by being made by conjoining the two front pairs of limbs together. The colouration also got completely redone because I had forgo...

The Carvers (WIP 3)

Serina: Grandiose Gargangup

(This lives 290 MYH)

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Located a few hundred miles off the northwestern coast of Serinaustra is the vast Anstevan Archipelago, a partly submerged branch of the continent which still spans a combined area almost as large as Australia. Because nothing lived on this portion of Serinaustra during the ice age, all its life is new, those which have, though chance and luck, managed to reach this isolated landmass during the great thaw or in subsequent arrivals as the once barren wastel...

Serina: Watcher in the Water

Hazel had set off across the beach soon after the rest of the clan had returned to their huts for the night. Without anyone else to bother her now, she could fish the night away. Her bunkmate had already grown tired of warning her about the dangers of fishing alone at night, that the beasts of the twilight could snatch her away with no one to watch over her, but she'd done this for many nights now and knew that a simple torch was enough to keep the terrors from the darkness away. None eve...