Trivia / Prehistoric Park

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: In a roundabout way. In "Mammoth Undertaking", Nigel encounters a cave bear 10,000 years ago (14,000 years after they vanish from the fossil record), which is meant to show how the fossil record is incomplete and that some animals could have survived longer than we thought. Ironically, another creature from the episode, the Elasmotherium, was later found to have survived until 50,000 years ago, when it was initially thought to have died out 150,000 years ago (as stated in the episode).
• The Danza: Suzanne the vet is played by Suzanne McNabb.
• Falsely Advertised Accuracy:
  • As this came out in 2006, there is no justification for the troodontids (Troodon and Mei long) looking as retro as they do, with only a very thin and smooth coating of proto-feathers, making them look practically scaly anyway. You can't blame it on budget, since Microraptor and Incisivosaurus are given proper feathers and look pretty accurate (for the time anyway), not to mention the terror bird.
  • As mentioned under No Budget, both the adult and juvenile T. rex use the same model, just with different heads, thus making adult rexes look far too gracile and long-legged when the should be the exact opposite, stocky bruisers.
• In-Joke: Like the park's Triceratops, Nigel Marven's son is named Theo.
• No Budget: At least in comparison to Walking with Dinosaurs and its sequels. The CGI isn’t quite on par with the former series, there is a lot of reused Stock Footage for the CGI animals, and they evidently did not have the time and/or money to make a model for the adult T. rex (who were very stocky animals in real life), so instead, they just took the lanky, long-legged juvenile model used for Terence and Matilda and swapped the head with that of an adult T. rex (explaining why the adult T. rex are so scrawny). At least the animatronics remain convincing, since they used the same company (Crawley Creatures) that previously provided the practical effects in the WW series.
• Science Marches On: Now has its own page
• What Could Have Been:
  • According to Nigel Marven at 2023's TetZooCon, there were considerations for a spinoff called Hell's Aquarium, which would have shifted the focus of the show to prehistoric marine life. This is even teased in the final episode, with the book Nigel opens on his desk in the last scene being on a page about Triassic marine reptiles. See here.◊

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