Koreanosaurus (sometimes known as Tarbosaurus: The Mightiest Ever) is a South Korean dinosaur documentary. It follows the life of a Tarbosaurus named Patch, from childhood to old age. Later retooled into Speckles: The Tarbosaurus.
This documentary contains examples of:
- Anachronism Stew: Microraptor and Pukyongosaurus are Early Cretaceous forms, many millions of years older than the other depicted animals. Literally the only reason the latter appears in this is instead of one of several known Late Cretaceous sauropods is because its fossils stem from South Korea.
- Awe-Inspiring Dinosaur Shot: The feature begins with a narration about Earth's prehistory and the numerous geological events that occurred before the camera shifts from the Earth and into a tracking shot via a pterosaur flying above a valley and a lake.
- Covers Always Lie: Koreanosaurus
never actually appears in the documentary. - Evil Old Folks: Patch and his siblings encounter an elderly Tarbosaurus at one point in their youth. Despite being old and sickly with a dulled sense of smell, the old Tarbosaurus tries to eat the juveniles before being driven away by Patch’s mother.
- Giant Flyer: Haenamichnus, which is not an actual pterosaur genus, but an ichnotaxon (i.e. a name given to an animal only known from its footprints).
- Handicapped Badass: An elderly male Tarbosaurus is featured at one point, who is sick and has a dulled sense of smell. Despite this, he tries to eat the young Patch and his siblings, and would have succeeded if not for Patch’s mother.
- Mama Bear: Patch’s mother protects him from an old male Tarbosaurus.
- Misplaced Wildlife: Justified, because China, Japan, and Korea were connected by land.
- Raptor Attack: The Microraptor is pretty accurate, but the Velociraptor is scaly, with a few feathers. The Velociraptors also look very much like the ones from Jurassic Park III.
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Science Marches On: See Raptor Attack. Also, scaly Tarbosaurus and Therizinosaurus. - Shout-Out: The Velociraptors look like the ones in Jurassic Park III.
