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has instances of the characters using and discussing survival methods, ranging from basics of survival to more advanced ideas.

During the Summer Solstice arc, Sakuya talks about certain felonies that had been committed, rattling down Article numbers and Paragraphs in the background. Those are correct and overlap with the Japanese law system on those felonies. Though why they seem to hold modern-day Japanese law up to their post-apocalyptic situation is anyone's guess.

The lush visual beauty of the ARIA Anime adaptation is attributed to the animators actually having gone to Venice to do research on the architecture, how Gondoliers pilot their boats and how water moves in reaction to a gondola's oar. Yes, they put that much love into producing the series. Every building featured is drawn as accurate as possible and the geography is also highly accurate. The location Orange Planet is fictional, though, and ARIA Company is actually in where a Traghetto station would be.

• Transplant surgery is not as "free" as everyone seems to assume from watching the series.

• Both Kabuto and Danzo have a blood type of AB; thus, they are "universal recipients", able to accept any transplant in their bodies without rejection.

• Kakashi and Obito both have a blood type of O. This is why Kakashi's body didn't reject Obito's Sharingan.

• Madara also has the O blood type. This blood type is known as the "universal donor"; implants with O blood type will not be rejected by others. That's why he was able to implant his Rinnegan to Nagato (blood type A) and why he was able to implant on himself and use Obito's left eye. It's also why Obito was able to implant Madara's Rinnegan.

• Kishimoto draws large breasts rather realistically. Most series would have the breasts drawn plump and upright even without a bra, but here they're drawn more like what they would be in real life without support: less round and more baggy.

ends each episode with a live-action demonstration of how to make whatever drink was featured in that episode.

The World Tour arc has a ridiculous amount of detail in regards to time zones and equivalent times in Japan. According to the DVD Box interviews, whole meetings were spent devoted to making the schedule work out right

The flashbacks of Den-emon's history reveal he very likely attended the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, the real event that brought up the definition of AI, which indeed happened in 1956. The characters John McCarthy and Marty Minsky whom inspired Den-emon to work on artificial intelligence with are indeed some of the real life participants of the project.

The team who did the anime version of Sugar did some pretty in-depth research on various German towns before they designed Saga's hometown. DVD extras show how many things in Saga's hometown line up nicely with various actual landmarks and buildings in Real Life.

All of the fish are surprisingly accurately depicted in both appearance, Color Palette and behavior (necessary anthropomorphism aside). Likewise the preparation methods of the restaurant are decidedly accurate to how they occur in real life, mainly due to Lee having worked at fish restaurants in the past.

During one episode, the police is called to investigate a murder. Once Hei Mao's crew arrive, they immediately isolate the crime scene, then carefully take pictures of the body and collect evidence before bagging the victim's remains and taking them to the police HQ to run a forensic analysis to determine the cause of death.

Other than the glaring errors with the stealth bomber, the creators clearly spent some time researching everything from US military uniforms through Chinese railroads to the local cuisine of Xinjiang province.

• Trapar density is measured in millimoles/liter, which is an actual measurement standard used in the real world.

• Also, during his first battle, Ao briefly blacks out from the severe G-forces he's experiencing. The Génération Bleu pilots wear uniforms with helmet straps to prevent whiplash from the same source.

• The scub coral are also much more accurate to actual coral in this series, exhibiting phenomena such as coral bleaching and possessing sweeper tentacles.

Most of the dogs' character designs are based on real dog breeds. Yes, even Genba and Hougen - they're Harlequin Great Danes◊. (However, some of them don't look like the breeds they're supposed to be. Cross is a saluki?◊)

The staff did some fine research on the historical events of the period, especially the Mukden Incident and the February 26 incident while ignoring the revisionist viewpoints favored by Japanese right-wing extremists. However, there are still some minor mistakes, such as Kazura claiming to have read The Little Prince (published in 1943) when he was a young boy.

Every vehicle or gun seen in this movie, even those shown for only split seconds that you have to freeze-frame to see, were either exact replications of real-world or based on real-world designs. This was actually on the orders of producer Yasuo Ohtsuka (and has been followed since he oversaw "Green Jacket"), though Miyazaki prefers grounding things in realism just as much.

Most of the cultural details show an uncommon attention to detail with respect to their real world counterparts. The Kouga clan as the Mongols don't merely ride horses and live on wide plains, but serve horse milk, wear a similar clothing style, and live in accurately depicted yurt style tents. The detail goes right down to the distinctive lattice skeleton inside.

• The amount of work it takes for Alibaba and Aladdin to get Morgiana to believe in her own freedom again actually shows the deeper psychological implications of a childhood of slavery.

• Another chapter goes into economic theory in surprising detail. The manga's also pretty astute about the political complications of overthrowing a ruler, even if he is a tyrant. The overall level of socio-economic thought put into the story is quite remarkable for a shonen manga.

The series often incorporates aspects of real-life animals into the biology of the monster girls, some of them pretty obscure.

• Miia's horrible cooking and Cerea's bland dishes are both justified by real-world biology. Omnivores (like humans) have over twenty times as many taste buds as carnivores (like snakes)—of course Miia's cooking tastes fine to her. On the other hand, because herbivores, like Cerea, generally have twice as many taste buds as omnivores, omnivores just can't appreciate her vegetarian cuisine.

• Spiders do get drunk on caffeine.

Wakasa Rumi appears to blind in her right eye (Burning Tent Case). Rum was described as possessing an artificial eye on one side of their face. But if Wakasa Rumi is Rum and has an artificial eye in her right eye (out of which she cannot see), then how is it that eye looks normal, she can cry out of that eye (Burning Tent Case), and she can move that eye in sync with her seeing one? Well, it is actually quite possible and would be a case where Gosho Aoyama has Shown Their Work.

Healthline.com tells us that a prosthetic eye can move in sync with the seeing eye and you can cry out of it, due to the fact that the muscles and tear ducts are not inside the eyeball itself. If you search for prosthetic eye online, they can look quite realistic. So this is actually quite consistent with Wakasa having a prosthetic eye. The only issue would be that the pupil in the prosthetic eye would not change size in response to light, but her wearing glasses would help conceal that, especially if she has a highly reflective right lens (which she seems to have).

Now, if she has a realistic prosthetic eye and she is Rum, then how is it that whoever she talked to in the past knew she had a glass eye? Well, before becoming an assistant teacher, she wore one that was more obvious. Then when she knew she needed to go undercover as a teacher, she had a more realistic one implanted so she could be a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.

Of the 3 suspects, Wakasa, Kuroda, and Wakita, Wakasa is the one most likely to wear a prosthetic, because Kuroda wears a darkened lens over his blind eye to conceal it, and Wakita wears a patch over his. This would be unnecessary if they had prosthetic eyes.

this bridge (Tuchkov bridge between the Vasilievsky island and Petrogradskaya side) has a kind of the cult status in the Russian skating community, being flanked on the Petrogradskaya side by the famous Petrovsky stadium to the left, and by the Yubileiny Ice Palace to the right — which actually serves as a model to the Yurio and Victor's home rink.

Yukimura has often noted the pains he took to be as accurate as possible, such as the journey he took to Iceland at the beginning of his work on the story, and how he used a variety of historical and apocryphal stories to base his characters on. The weapons, armor, and outfits are accurate. You won't find vikings in horned hats duking it out with knights in plate armor here.

While there is a fair amount of Mundane Training going around, a number of the fighting techniques and tactics depicted are accurate. Thorfinn's method of withstanding 100 punches from a man much larger than him, for example, is a legitimate technique seen in boxing and various martial arts that boxers call "rolling with the punch", which involves turning your head in the same direction that your opponent's punch is traveling. If done correctly (and it's risky because it requires excellent timing) this will dissipate most of the force of the blow and turn it into a glancing blow instead of connecting flush.

When Akeno orders the Harekaze to accelerate and maintain a speed slightly above its cruising speed of 17.8 knots, she acknowledges the engineering crew's remarks that risk of an explosion increases from the increased steam pressure the engines must output to sustain the speeds she's requesting.
During its engagement with the I-201, the Harekaze's depth charges do not sink the submarine and instead, forces it to surface. Depending on the depth charge and submarine, depth charges must explode in close proximity to the hull in order to rupture it, but the shockwaves generated can nonetheless disable critical components and require the submarine to surface.
In episode nine, the girls initially believe an incoming vessel to the the Musashi, but catch on when they spot its turrets as having two barrels rather than the three seen on Musashi because of the distinct tower-bridge on theHiei, which was designed as a prototype for the Yamato-class.

• Many named locations in the story (such as the Palais Royal and Île de la Cité) are Real Life French locations.

• From episode 27 onwards, the detailed dates and dates of each historical event are shown, following the flow of the French Revolution.

• Napoleon is accurately depicted as quelling Corsican independence and warring with Corsican revolutionists, before he became Emperor. Also, a little girl really did give him those flowers.

• Episode 1 shows Chisato taking the retention stance when it comes to shooting a pistol, which is where the shooter tucks in their shooting arm into their body. This is to prevent a close range attacker from grabbing your gun, easily smacking the arm out of the way, or using the arm for leverage in some manner. This is necessary because Chisato's non-lethal bullets are inaccurate, requiring her to shoot her targets at essentially melee range. Everyone else doesn't adopt this stance, and Chisato takes advantage of this in Episode 3.

• Episode 2 shows a Lexus LFA in a parking lot, which Chisato considers a "super car".note
In the same episode, one of the hitmen after Walnut pulls the pin on a grenade before Chisato knocks it out of his hands. The timer on it doesn't start until she does this. The pin is not what starts the timer on a grenade - it holds a handle in place that starts the fuse once said handle comes off.

• Episode 4 starts with Chisato and Takina at a firing range, using rubber bullets. As would be the case in real life, they are horribly inaccurate. Chisato overcomes this by using her dodging skills to get into point-blank range of her targets, eliminating the accuracy issue. Once Takina switches back to her regular pistol rounds, she's back to near-perfect accuracy with her handgun.

• Episode 6 shows that rubber bullets, while intended to be non-lethal, are still capable of inflicting grievous harm on a person if they hit the right spot. Majima takes a rubber round to the forehead from Chisato and is left bleeding afterwards.

• In the same episode, one of Majima's terrorists uses a Panzerfaust-3, which the JSDF is known to have access to.

• The DA's use of KRISS Vector submachine guns may come across as Rule of Cool considering that they're notoriously failure-prone, but there's one very practical reason for using them: they're compatible with Glock magazines, the same kind of magazines that the Lycoris school bags are custom-made to carry.

• In Episode 11, Chisato enters the Skytree armed with a Keltec KSG shotgun, a weapon fully capable of loading non-lethal cartridges.

The production team traveled to England to do research on the countryside and buildings in order to make them look as authentic as possible. Also, the English dub, appropriately enough, features actors based in the United Kingdom.

Kabane have iron-caged hearts few conventional weapons could pierce, and decapitating them (another sure way to kill them) is exceedingly difficult. That's why suicide packs that everyone carry in this Bleak World are essentially shaped charges, which in real life are used to pierce vehicle armor and such.

Ren's gaming room in Season 2 Episode 7 is home to a vast array of video game consoles gifted to her by her father as a rather expensive apology for the whole Parental Abandonment deal. Her collection is all based on real life game consoles with minor changes to get around trademarks and includes a PlayStation 2, Xbox Series X, a Sega Mega Drive (with 32X and CD attachments), a Sega Dreamcast, a PlayStation Portable, an Atari Lynx, a Game Boy, a Famicom, an Atari Jaguar, a Playdia, a Pippin, a PC Engine with CD-ROM attachment, a Super Famicom (with Satellaview attachment), a Philips CD-i, an Xbox, a 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, a Sega Saturn, a Sega Genesis, a PlayStation, a Game Boy Advance, a Game & Watch or a Game Boy Micro (Famicom Edition, no less), Tamagotchi, the original Digimon Digivices, a Nintendo Switch, an Xbox 360, a Nintendo 64, a Sega Master System, a PlayStation 4, an NES, and (of all things) the SNES CD-ROM.

The production staff did their research. Many of the species that appear in the show do live in Australia, and the Breadknife rock formation is prominently shown in the background.

• The ostriches have only claw on the inner toe, just like real ostriches.

• While wearing the albatross hat, Gian has to take a running start during take-off. When taking off from land, albatrosses must run to build up gusts for lifting their long wings.

There's some perfectly accurate discussions of tarot in-show, and the On the Next previews even go into detail about the symbolism of the Major Arcana cards. There's still some small errors though, like calling the Magician the first card in Tarot and standing for infinite possibilities. Well no, that would be the Fool.

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The creators use many Real Life economic terms and concepts. Just check out the show's fridge page to see how much work they did. However, any student of economics will see it as either a Cosmic Horror Story or pro-austerity Author Tract. Every policy the Financial District has in place would only serve to destroy the global economy through debt (erasing people and entire countries from existence in the process) and encourage Entres to quicken the process through reckless spending.

• One of the reasons Digimon Tamers stands out from the other Digimon anime series is the sheer quantity of references to real-world computing developments. Examples include ECHELON (one of the SIGINT systems that control information flow on the internet), the Tierra project (an artificial life simulation experiment), and the early Creeper virus (which infected ArpaNet). Its plot neatly grounds itself in reality with the sole exception of the two instances of Minovsky Physics it created (and their consequences). It also features cloud computing, icewalls (instead of the more well known firewall) and a quantum computer in addition to some philosophical concepts like an entelecheia (a catalyst for evolution) and the relativity of good and evil (the importance of the point of view, which leads to a lot of Well-Intentioned Extremist). But what really makes this example stand out is that the writer, Chiaki Konaka (who also wrote the aforementioned Serial Experiments Lain; seriously, this is a guy who knows what he's talking about), set up a Tamers minisite devoted to explaining in great detail the research and thought processes which went into most facets of Tamers.

• The broader Digimon canon as a whole actually does an excellent job of showing its work when it comes to basing its Mons on many real mythological entities, literary works, religious concepts or even specific lifeforms. Sure, Rule of Cool is in play first and foremost, but they do like to pick pretty obscure stuff to portray and usually do a great job of accuracy in deriving aspects for it; sometimes they even play with multiple Digimon based on different interpretations and views of the same subject (there are plenty of Digimon based on Satan, for instance, exploring different portrayals of him from over the years). Now keep in mind, we're talking thousands of Digimon species, so that's a hell of a lot of work. Of course, though it's rare that much of the details come to pass as relevant in the anime, manga or games themselves, the Japanese supplementary material simply loves to show off how much work they have to show.

The author and other creators of Hellsing managed to depict Protestantism, Catholicism, western cultures, vampire mythology, military structure, and accents (Scottish, Italian, British, etc.) far more accurately than 99% of other anime/manga series with eastern roots. It's one of the few animes that averts Anime Catholicism, instead planting the series solidly into the category of Fantastic Catholicism, which is quite common in Hollywood and much more palatable to western audiences. A great deal of conflict is shown between the Protestant Hellsing and the Catholic Iscariot Organizations, including the territorial disputes over Northern Ireland and the hierarchical structure, administration, and international prominence of both religious branches. Even the slang and insults are fairly accurate to the time period, religions, and nationality of the characters. References are often made to the hostility between two or more specific groups, and women are consistently portrayed in powerful or politically influential roles that don't make them subservient to the men around them. For the latter, the countries in which this power-holding occurs is not outside the norm, either.

• In season 1 episode 31, Shino refers to the round tents in Mongolia (which is identified on a map) by their correct name, gers.

• In episode 40 of Dokka~n, the back of a postcard from Italy is briefly seen. It is filled with hand-written text, perfectly readable and in correct Italian. Whoever they consulted for this scene must have given a hand on Ashita no Nadja (the next series by the same staff), since a couple of letters in perfect Italian are seen there too.

The series shows that the Molcars are basically giant guinea pigs in different ways:

• Molcars poop out pellets like real Guinea pigs, the shape of the pellets differing between genders.

• In Episode 1, The Ambulance Molcar wheeled around to show Potato her rear window. Many guinea pig owners would've thought she would pee in his face.

• Driving School episode 1 begins with Rose running right up Abbey's butt, with similarly accurate jumpy reactions from the latter.

• Driving School episode 3 has Shiromo's driver pulling out the Mol-Lettuce with the Molcars behaving like they were in a real-life guinea pig herd.

• In Driving School Episode 4, Potato chews on the cable connecting to the simulator, mistaking it for a carrot. This is in line with real-life guinea pigs, where if left in an area with cables, they chew on them.

• The way the liquids behave on small-scale. They all have surface tension, so water beads from their teapot in droplets, and melted cheese forms big round balls, among other things.

• The flora and fauna are animated in a rather realistic manner, right down to the dew that forms on top of them.

• Plants has Plenty of Green Shades Like Real-World Plants, instead of a Singular Ones.

• Niya's slow blink towards Arrietty is used by real cats as a gesture of affection.

• Sho's movements display a sense of enormous ponderous mass when shown from the borrowers' perspective. It's most apparent when Arrietty is riding on his shoulder.

• The crow attack, executed with the sort of intelligence that corvids actually possess. The crow spots Arrietty, caws, and looks away, so Arrietty turns away as well, to talk to Sho. Several minutes later, the "harmless" crow suddenly attacks from her blind side. Only the cawing of another crow gives the attack away at the last second.

The use of the term "Barrister." In the Britishnote This also includes countries and territories where the British had a lasting influence on their legal system like Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa and New Zealand. legal system, lawyers are split into two specialties: solicitors, who advise you in the office, and barristers, who represent your case at court.note Japan does have two legal professional jobs, which consist of lawyers and scrivener (which refers to judicial scriveners and administrative scriveners). (Albeit barristers don't do investigating of their own, or have magic at their fingertips...)
In "Sword and Scales", Cecil rightfully protects herself from the police by correctly citing the laws against unreasonable search and seizure. In the same episode, it showed the proper way of addressing a Canadian zip code.

"Maple Leaf in Canada" features a surprisingly accurate illustration of the Davis Square transit station in suburban Boston. It also shows the English and French languages proper in a "Welcome to Canada" sign.

In Episode 11, Mayu has put down some milk for Yuki to enjoy, seemingly following the trope. Later in the episode, it's revealed she's been buying Yuki a special cat milk, which is designed specifically to avert the hazards of giving it to a cat.note Most cats are lactose intolerant, and cannot gain the full benefit from normal milk.
Later, Yuki completely loses her composure upon her first taste of sweetened ice cream. Cats are among several animals who cannot taste the sugars in foods, meaning that, for her, it's the first time she tasted sweetness.

Strategy and Tactics: The tactics used by Griffith during the Siege of Doldrey are pretty much word-for-word concepts mentioned in Sun Tzu’s The Art of War (Sun Tzu).

• One specific example is when Griffith burns his own ships, when having part of his army stand their ground against the opposing military. Sun Tzu mentions burning ships in his book, as a way to bolster a soldier’s fighting ability. If they had no option to retreat, the only option left was to fight for their lives. Conversely, since the attacking forces felt they could retreat back into the castle if the fighting got too hard, then they would be less committed to slaying every enemy.
Another example immediately follows, where at the end of the battle, Griffith loudly announces “all fleeing enemies would be spared,” is also a Sun Tzu tactic; and meant more for his own men’s sake. This is meant to have the exact opposite effect of burning the ships. Once he announced the option, a portion of the opposing forces would simply flee, reducing the number of enemy soldiers still trying to fight. Those remaining soldiers can then be either scared into fleeing or killed by now superior numbers.

• Griffith's plan to eliminate the Queen of Midland and her allies is a fairly accurate depiction of a "tiger kidnapping", in which a person is coerced into committing a crime under the threat of their kidnapped family member being killed. Griffith has Minister Foss' daughter kidnapped, and uses the ransom to make Foss burn down the Queen's fort. After the deed is done, Foss' daughter is safely returned to him, which is usually what happens at the end.

Among other things, the signs in Krakow are in accurate Polish.

• The crew actually traveled to Ireland and Poland to get a good visual feel of the place, and toured the local air force bases and hangars for reference. In the DVD bonus features they are shown photographing some house radiators and electric sockets so that they look accurate for the region the movie is supposed to be set in.

• The flying scenes are aerodynamically plausible and never resort to Art Major Physics. Though, Teacher's Skyly J2 did a thrust vector move based on the Su-37.

• English actually is the international standard language for aviation.
The weird looking oxygen masks are based on an actual Royal Air Force model from the thirties.

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demonstrates a serious love for the sport of Horse Racing, recreating the Tokyo Racecourse in astounding detail. The characters are based on famous horses, adapting the physical appearances and personality traits of their inspirations. Famous moments from the horses' racing careers are recreated in incredible detail, particularly Silence Suzuka's infamous mid-race breakdown during the 1998 Fall Tenno Sho.

The remake of Wish Upon the Pleiades has surprisingly sophisticated astrophysics for an otherwise extremely soft sci-fi setting. The episode "Nanako 13" has Nanako travel to the Oort Cloud to retrieve a Plot Coupon; they use AU to describe how far she's going, and correctly calculate the time dilation she'll experience going at 99.999% of the speed of light. The stars are compressed into a circle in front of her, and when her friends try to spot her through a telescope they say she looks red. The lesser-known solar system objects Ceres and Sedna get mentioned, and Nanako discovers a new giant planet, alluding to the theory that an unidentified object knocks comets towards the inner solar system at regular intervals. She also declares herself Voyager 3 and Pioneer 12.

Although much of the bread featured in Yakitate!! Japan is extreme in nature, many breads are, in fact, based on real life recipes developed by the manga's baking consultant. Some of the recipes are featured on the live-action "do it yourself" snippets that appear between certain episodes of the anime, Obscure Example are;

Ja-pan #1: Soy-milk toast Ja-pan ※
Ja-pan #2: Suihan ja-pan (a Suihan is any automatic rice-cooker)recipe in chapter 13
Ja-pan #3: Microwave Sesame Bread
Ja-pan #8: Colored, candied, slow-baked Turtle Ja-pan (with starch syrup)
Ja-pan #9: Taiyaki bread
Ja-pan #10: Soaked Millet Ja-pan (Low-carb Diet Ja-pan) and Many More...

Kairi Shimotsuki knows her Japanese history and shows her work in Brave10 in a lot of little details that Jidaigeki fare often overlooks, but she also gleefully dresses her main characters in outrageous outfits mixing modern fringe fashions and unconventional traditional ones, has them eat lollipops, incorporate ballet and modern dance into traditional dance forms, invent rapid-firing pistols, and generally behave in ways that would not be appropriate to the time it is set (1599-1601).

There's a lot of little touches that diehard fans will appreciate. For example:

• Chieri's outfit in her Episode 7 flashback was previously worn by Yuko Oshima for a concert.

• Kanata's line of following Takamina to the ends of the universe ("Takamina ni tsuite ikimasu!") was also the title of a tribute concert to Takamina... that was supposed to take place in March 2011. The Sendai quake put an end to that.

• They use a lot of the choreography from AKB48's stage shows when they're on a proper stage.

• The battleship Katyusha is named after the AKB single Everyday, Katyusha; while the Flying Get is named after the single of the same name.

• On their first appearance on stage, the successors sing "Aitakatta". It was AKB's first major single.

• Due to many discoveries of feathered dinosaurs having been made by the time of the 2006 remake's release, the Ornithomimus are redesigned with feathers complete with wings. Pretty commendable, since ornithomimid wings weren't discovered until after the film was made.

• Also in the remake, a Pteranodon was shown plunge-diving for fish just like a gannet.

• The film prominently features feathered dinosaurs, with almost all the maniraptoriformsnote aside from Therizinosaurus, which may be plausible given its larger size being coated in plumage. The fact that birds are dinosaurs themselves becomes a major plot point. Particularly, the short-tailed Kyu gains the ability to fly by flapping his wings, which Jill recognizes as how dinosaurs learned to fly and gave rise to birds. Indeed, one of the theories on how birds achieved powered flight is that their winged theropod ancestors started flapping to right themselves when they fell, and developed shorter tails to make their bodies lighter.

• While not entirely geographically or temporally accurate, almost all of the Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs featured in the film are at least discovered in Asia, with the exception of Spinosaurus (and even then, it could be justified by Spinosaurus being able to swim).
Stegosaurs, sauropods and ceratopsians have the correct foot shapes, rather than elephant-like feet as in usual portrayals.
Spinosaurus is depicted as semi-aquatic, with short legs and a dip in the sail. It would have been the most accurate depiction of the animal in films, if it weren't for the fact its tail became obsolete sometime after the film's completion.

• Hadrosaurs are depicted as quadrupeds (although the juveniles are depicted as bipedal, which is based on an outdated hypothesis).
Oviraptor is shown brooding its eggs, based on the holotype specimen that was sitting on its own nest of eggs (and mistaken for an egg thief, hence how Oviraptor got its name).
Tuojiangosaurus is depicted with a third pair of spikes at the end of the tail much like its relative Chungkingosaurus, since the thagomizer of Tuojiangosaurus itself is unknown.note This is based on Gregory Paul's interpretation that Chungkingosaurus is a juvenile form of Tuojiangosaurus. However, this should be taken with a grain of salt, given Paul's history of unorthodox dinosaur classification (which led to the confusion between Velociraptor and Deinonychus that Jurassic Park perpetrated).

• Tarchia is depicted with a low, rounded body with osteoderms set into thick skin, lacking the bony shell seen in stereotypical depictions of ankylosaurs.

• Tapejara is correctly shown with a more subdued crest on its snout, rather than the Tupandactylus-like crest seen in obsolete reconstructions.

• While the gigantic pterosaur is a fictional genus, it is correctly depicted as having pycnofibres, walking quadrupedally, hunting on the ground like an azhdarchid, and taking off by vaulting with its wings. Also, the tracks it leaves behind are based on real-life fossils of pterosaur tracks.

• To this day, it is a popular, but outdated belief that the Mesozoic Era ended 65 million years ago. This film instead shows it ending 66 million years ago according to modern theory. Doraemon's description of the K-Pg Extinction Event is also horrifyingly accurate, with the meteor impact not only sending a blast radius obliterating everything in its path but afterwards kicking up thick clouds of dust that would block the whole Earth from sunlight, causing global cooling and a worldwide destruction of the food chain that would last for millennia.
The opening has a demonstration of evolution as not Evolutionary Levels leading to a specific goal, but rather a series of offshoots from the same animal. This is represented by a ray of light that goes through a transitional form and splits into branches to show the different lineages that came from that animal, with one branch repeating this process with the next transitional form (in this case, leading to the dinosaur lineage).

• What causes the gang to realize they're in the Jurassic Period is that they encounter stegosaurs alongside allosaurs (in this case, Tuojiangosaurus alongside Yangchuanosaurus), both groups that were prominent during the Jurassic, but died out before the end of the Cretaceous.

• Grass or grass-like plants are shown in the scenes set in Late Cretaceous Asia. Grass first evolved in Asia during the Late Cretaceous, but are yet to spread elsewhere. By contrast, the scenery in the Jurassic show a lack of grass or flowering plants, which are yet to evolve at the time, instead showing moss and ferns covering the ground.

• During their brief stint in the Jurassic Period, the gang witnesses a realistic confrontation between carnivore and herbivore, and the necessity of hunting in groups or pairs. In a one-on-one battle, the Tuojiangosaurus quickly overpowers the Yangchuanosaurus with its defenses, but if the Yangchuanosaurus is paired with another one, the Tuojiangosaurus itself gets quickly overwhelmed and taken down. Likewise, one of the Yangchuanosaurus purposely causes the herd to stampede while the other hides in ambush for a straggler, exactly how cooperative hunting works in nature.

• The ants seen carrying off leaves and a beetle in episode 4 are leafcutter ants, not native to Mesopotamia at all, but to Central America. This offers a hint to the coming of "Jaguarman" to those with sharp eyes.

• The game that the kids in Uruk are playing in episode 5 is a real ancient Mesopotamian board game, called the Royal Game of Ur.

• Conqueror of Shamballa is a fairly accurate portrayal of the political climate in 1920s Germany. Although there were some obvious deviations from the actual history, they were clearly intentional. The Munich scenes were based on photos taken from the city itself. Also, the firearms used in the same scenes are models that were more or less available in 1923.

• The World War I scenes towards the end of the series are likewise based on the fact that Zeppelins did bomb London at the time. In fact, Ed's "Earth-death" is based on a historical account of one of the airships crashing in the city.