History YMMV / TheNewDinosaursAnAlternativeEvolution

* {{Sequelitis}}: It's generally seen as an inferior output compared to ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'', partially because many of the fictional future dinosaurs and pterosaurs are very unsubtle [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of [[UndergroundMonkey extant animals without much creativity]] (though there are exceptions), and if you're versed in paleontology, the massive amount of ScienceMarchesOn can be hard to digest, especially the continued insistence that birds and dinosaurs are different creatures.

* * {{Sequelitis}}: It's generally seen as an inferior output compared to ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'', partially because many of the fictional future dinosaurs and pterosaurs are very unsubtle [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of [[UndergroundMonkey extant animals without much creativity]] (though there are exceptions), and if you're versed in paleontology, the massive amount of ScienceMarchesOn can be hard to digest, especially the continued insistence that birds and dinosaurs are different creatures.

* {{Sequelitis}}: It's generally seen as an inferior output compared to ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'', partially because many of the fictional future dinosaurs and pterosaurs are very unsubtle [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of [[UndergroundMonkey extant animals without much creativity]] (though there are exceptions), and if you're versed in paleontology, the massive amount of ScienceMarchesOn can be hard to digest, especially the continued insistence that birds and dinosaurs are different creatures.

* {{Sequelitis}}: It's generally seen as an inferior output compared to ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'', partially because many of the fictional future dinosaurs and pterosaurs are very unsubtle [[{{Expy Expies}}]] of [[UndergroundMonkey extant animals without much creativity]] (though there are exceptions), and if you're versed in paleontology, the massive amount of ScienceMarchesOn can be hard to digest, especially the continued insistence that birds and dinosaurs are different creatures.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Despite being about an alternative world where dinosaurs never became extinct, the book is more or less a time capsule of how dinosaurs were seen in the late 1980s. For example, dromaeosaurs/"raptors" have only two species shown, whereas they would almost certainly have had a much bigger role in the post-''Jurassic Park'' 1990s. Special mention, however, goes to the Gourmand, which is a tyrannosaur that is a specialized scavenger. This firmly dates the book's publication to the late 1980s or early 1990s, when the "Was ''T. rex'' a predator or a scavenger?" debate was a big deal in pop culture, and was inevitably brought up in discussions of the animal.

* UncannyValley:
** The springe is a troodontid that mimics a rotting corpse to hunt scavenging birds and pterosaurs. Quite disturbingly, the brown hair on its head and pale flesh tone make it look uncannily human-like.
** There is also the Gimp, which resembles a featherless hummingbird crossed with a tiny naked human. It's exactly as creepy-looking as that sounds.
** The wandles, moa-like pterosaurs from New Zealand, have unsettlingly human-like legs and feet.

* {{Narm}}: Wandles and kloons, flightless pterosaurs resembling kiwis and moas respectively, look like absolutely hideous Muppets (The kloon may be UglyCute for some, though).
** The very idea of dinosaurs resembling kangaroos and koalas ''that also happen to live in Australia'', as if the very topography of Australia itself somehow churns out pouched hopping creatures. Discussed and absolutely lampooned in [[https://dinosaur-discourse.tumblr.com/post/142831223462/if-there-are-marsupial-dinosaurs-in-australia-im this Tumblr post.]]
** The Gourmand's description as a slow, stupid, inefficient small-brained lizard unsuited for active predation and did nothing but eat and sleep seems almost like it's an intentional, insulting TakeThat against ''T.rex'' itself and its linneage.

** The wandles, moa-like pterosaurs from New Zealand, have unsettlingly human-like legs and feet.

* {{Narm}}: Wandles and kloons, flightless pterosaurs resembling kiwis and moas respectively, look like absolutely hideous Muppets.

** ''The Treepounce.'' It looks less like a dinosaur and more like some sort of vaguely-humanoid demon from Japanese folklore.

** The Gourmand's description as a slow, stupid, inefficient small-brained lizard unsuited for active predation and did nothing but eat and sleep seems almost like it's an intentional, insulting TakeThat against the T. rex.

* {{Narm}}: Wandles and kloons, flightless pterosaurs resembling kiwis and moas, look like absolutely hideous Muppets.

* NightmareFuel: ''The Treepounce.'' It looks less like a dinosaur and more like some sort of vaguely-humanoid demon from Japanese folklore.

* UncannyValley: The springe is a troodontid that mimics a rotting corpse to hunt scavenging birds and pterosaurs. Quite disturbingly, the brown hair on its head and pale flesh tone make it look uncannily human-like.
** There is also the Gimp, which resembles a featherless hummingbird crossed with a tiny naked human. It's exactly as creepy-looking as that sounds.

** The very idea of dinosaurs resembling kangaroos and koalas ''that also happen to live in Australia'', as if the very topography of Australia itself somehow churns out pouched hopping creatures. Discussed and absolutely lampooned in [[https://dinosaur-discourse.tumblr.com/post/142831223462/if-there-are-marsupial-dinosaurs-in-australia-im#notes this Tumblr post.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: One of his speculative creatures is the Nauger, a small arboreal theropod that probes for insects with an elongated finger, decades before the discovery of Scansoriopterygids.
** The dip is a fish-eating semi-aquatic feathered theropod, a concept now vindicated by the discovery of the goose-like ''Halszkaraptor''.
** The zwim, an aquatic mammal with a paddle-like tail, evokes the Cretaceous proto-mammal ''Castorocauda''.

** The very idea of dinosaurs resembling kangaroos and koalas ''that also happen to live in Australia'', as if the very topography of Australia itself somehow churns out pouched hopping creatures.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of his speculative creatures is a small arboreal theropod that probes for insects with an elongated finger, decades before the discovery of Scansoriopterygids.

* Narm: Wandles and kloons, flightless pterosaurs resembling kiwis and moas, look like absolutely hideous Muppets.