#Dinosapien

[kadalsaurus]

BlueSong Miku

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

My childhood was strongly influenced by DinoSapien. Anyone remember DinoSapien??

I DO AND THAT SHOW WAS A FEVER DREAM

A FEVER DREAM I SAY

SO MUCH TO UNPACK HERE

[thecreaturecodex]

Tenukh

"DINOSAPIEN: THE DIGGERS" © deviantArt user Taliesaurus, accessed at his gallery here

[Sponsored by @glarnboudin. These are the antagonists from Dinosapien, a Discovery channel TV show after my time. They have three canon names, and I hate all of them. I've spoken before about my irritation with monsters that swipe names from mythology thoughtlessly. The unktehi is a horned aquatic serpent in Lakota lore, and this is 0 for 3. And since the term "digger" was used as an ethnic slur for a different group of native Americans, the name seems especially tone-deaf. If you're going to be making a TV show with Native terminology (misued), you should at least double check to make sure you're not using any slurs! A scientist character refers to them as "ornithosapiens", I guess because they're ornithischians, but that name should probably go to, you know, birds. I ended up creating my own name rearranging the letters of unktehi.]

Tenukh CR 4 CN Monstrous Humanoid This creature is a bipedal reptile the size of a bison. It is as broad as it is tall, with an armored carapace and a domed head. Its forelimbs end in clawed hands, and it carries a spear.

Tenukhs are cave-dwelling sapient dinosaurs, descended from ankylosaurians. They are insectivorous, and much of their lives revolve around tending to and harvesting colonial insects such as termites, ants, bees and wasps. They supplement these foods with other insects, roots and herbs, especially during the winter in regions where hives go dormant in cold weather. Tenukhs are clannish, xenophobic and territorial, and a creature that disturbs their hives (or worse, steals honey or larvae from them) may be chased to the ends of the earth.

Tenukhs are straight forward combatants. They typically fight in pairs, with one charging headfirst into melee with the other providing backup with a spear. They have short arms, and so have limited reach despite their size, so favor polearms when wielding melee weapons. Tenukhs are fascinated by explosives, and may beg borrow or steal to get them, even if they do not fully understand their use.

The tenukh language is spoken through the nose, as the creatures have complicated, muscular sinuses. They can learn to speak other languages with some effort, and especially intelligent or practiced tenukh may speak Aklo, Common, Dwarven, Goblin, or Undercommon.

Tenukh   CR 4 XP 1,200 CN Large monstrous humanoid Init +4; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +8, scent Defense AC 17, touch 9, flat-footed 17 (-1 size, +8 natural) hp 37 (5d10+10) Fort +5, Ref +4, Will +6 Resist acid 10 Defensive Abilities fortification (50%); Weakness light blindness Offense Speed 30 ft., burrow 10 ft. Melee masterwork longspear +8 (2d6+4/x3), slam +2 (1d8+1) or 2 claws +7 (1d6+3), slam +7 (1d8+3) Ranged chakram +4 (2d6+4) Space 10 ft.; Reach 5 ft. (10 ft. with longspear) Special Attacks powerful charge (slam, 2d8+4 plus stun), stun Statistics Str 16, Dex 10, Con 15, Int 8, Wis 15, Cha 9 Base Atk +5; CMB +9; CMD 29 (33 vs. bull rush, overrun, trip) Feats Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative, Intimidating Prowess, Martial Weapon Proficiency (chakram) (B) Skills Climb +9, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +2, Intimidate +8, Perception +8, Survival +8 Languages Tenukh Ecology Environment underground Organization solitary, pair or clan (3-12) Treasure standard (masterwork longspear, 3 chakram, other treasure) Special Attacks Stun (Ex) A creature struck by a tenukh’s slam attack on a powerful charge or a critical hit must succeed a DC 15 Fortitude save or be stunned for 1 round. The save DC is Strength based.

[that-glitter-chick]

Just discovered an old tv series called Dinosapien, it’s Canadian and about a small group of people who live in a dinosaur themed summer camp. There’s a white girl, her mother and their First Nation friends. There’s also a white guy who eventually becomes the villain by being greedy (big surprise).

The girl’s father had gone missing years ago and it turned out he had discovered that some dinosaurs survived the cataclysm, evolving to have human level intelligence and some more human like features like hands and the limited ability to speak our languages.

This gives me Land of the Lost (Nickelodeon 90s reboot version) vibes and I want to see it!

[crigby]

no bc the way something just unlocked in my brain and i remembered that the show ‘dinosapien’ exists??? if there’s one thing i’m gonna do it’s have semi to mostly forgotten dinosaur shows from the early 2000s on dvd some where in my house. how did my parents even discover it??? i’m australian why did they know about this random ass show

[frie-ice]

Because is was the new Dragons series, Dragons: The Nine Realms, that got me to make my Dinosapien Recast Meme on DeviantArt, as well remember Dinosapien, I decided to fill in the insert boxes with the modern characters from the DreamWorks Dragons spinoff show (along with adding in the Haddock children to play the Ort siblings without having to worry about leaving that box blank).

My sister and I used to love watching this old BBC Kids show.

Lauren Slayton= Tom Kullersen

Eno= Thunder

Kit Whitefeather= Jun Wong

Courtney= D'Angelo Baker (because I have Tom as Lauren)

Chris Langhorn= Alexandra 'Alex' Gonzalez

Nelson and Danny Ort= Nuffink and Zephyr Haddock

Dr. Clive Aikens= Dr. Wilma Sledkin

The Diggers= Two of the bully Gembreakers

[jimmycarterghostland]

I finished watching that old show Dinosapien on YouTube some days ago. I spent a significant chunk of time thinking that Eno was probably Lauren's dad. I figured maybe he got transformed into a dinosaur, like how the mom in Brave got turned into a bear.

I'm actually disappointed that the show didn't go the "Lauren's missing dad is the dinosaur" route. I would have preferred that over what we got.

[eldritch-bf]

His name is Eno and he’s so ugly

Anyone remember that Disney tv show set a paleontology/science summer camp and the main girl was a horse girl except instead of having a horse she found a living ass dinosaur because there was a cave with a time wormhole in it and she had to keep the dinosaur a secret bc her mom’s bf who also worked at the summer camp would have probably killed and dissected it?

[deepdreamnights]

Troodonian

They're just visiting the old stomping grounds, pay them no mind.

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[skincareroutine]

what rlly bothers me is that ppl love firefly but not dinosapien where is the outrage. cancelled before its prime

[0reoliaflop69]

What on earth did I create

I took a bunch of screenshots of this old show I was watching which was called dinosapiens and converted the screenshots I took into the "woman screaming at cat meme"

[doveofthedawn]

What is this cover 😭😭😭😭

i have to keep reminding myself that DinoSapien actually exists and wasn't just a fever dream i had when i was like 12. That and Animalia. Holy shit the 2000s were weird with the animated series.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Just some fun thoughts I was having while working today but I'd love to see people's takes on a spec evo setting based on if a specific non-avian dinosaur group survived the KT extinction. How would, for example, pachycephalosaurs have diversified and what niches might they have filled throughout the cenozoic, and what sort of incredibly unique forms might they have taken? In particular any non-theropod group. Show me the diversified post-KT mini sauropods. How do the descendents of ankylosaurs handle the ice age. etc

This is a legitimately interesting question that I think about a lot but the fact that the groups you brought up included ankylosaurs and pachycephalosaurs means that I have to bring up the most cursed tv show of all time

Dinosapien

which featured both continued to evolve Pachycephalosaurs:

and Ankylosaurs

and, while I watched it unironically as a teenager, as an adult - this haunts my nightmares

[hellsite-hungergames]

I feel like the only person on the planet who remembers Dinosapien and Shoebox Zoo. BBC, not CBS, but still, those were so fucking good

I've never heard of either of those, but I looked up Dinosapien and it looks like that one show that was called Dino Dan or something like that

[gays4vulo]

Rewatching the show Dinosapien & tbh I think it would be so fun to run that kind of silly premise as like maybe monster of the week ttrpg

[twotwofroote]

I named by first cat, Kit, after Kit Whitefeather from the show, Dinosapiens. I think I had a crush on him, if I remember right. Did anyone else even watch this show? 😅

Put in the tags please if you answered yes lets have fun with this

For example my childhood dog was named Cher after the singer and yes she had a brother named Sunny