I've looked everywhere on Google, but I can't find what it is! I don't think I remember enough about the plot to search for it better. Answer from one_chicken_ on reddit.com
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Dinosaur Documentaries Across Time: Early 2000s
Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.StarsNikolay DrozdovKenneth BranaghAvery Brooks ยท Placed here as an honorable mention. ... The first half of this special is a recreation of Al's life, from birth through his death in adolescence.StarsKenneth BranaghAvery Brooks ... This documentary has a triple purpose: it discusses the marvelous discovery of Big Al in 1999 in Wyoming, it shows ...
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Dinosaur (2000) - Full cast & crew - IMDb
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r/tipofmytongue on Reddit: [TOMT][early 2000s/late 1990s] Dinosaur kids show
November 28, 2022 -

There was an animated dinosaur kids show (at least I think it was a show) that I watched when I was little (early 2000s). I watched it on DVD, I'm not sure if it was American, because I remember the main characters having a different accent (like Australian or British, couldn't tell). The only character I remember was a bipedal triceratops, and he had to get a controller in order to get his space ship(?) to take off. I cannot remember the name of it, it feels like a fever dream. Does anybody have an idea of what it was?

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The Best of Dinosaur TV Shows
Pursued by intergalactic warlord ... in prehistory as well. Both sides build dinosaur armies and engage.StarsStephen DorffChristopher CollinsWally Burr...
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Dinotopia (TV Mini Series 2002) โญ 6.5 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
May 12, 2002 - Dinotopia: With Tasha de Vasconcelos, Greg Bennett, Moses Rockman, David Thewlis. After a plane crash, two opposing half-brothers find themselves on an amazing lost island where enlightened pacifist humans and intelligent talking dinosaurs have ...
Rating: 6.5/10 โ€‹ - โ€‹ 7.06K votes
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Not a direct match, but enough similarities that I think it's worth mentioning.

The Lost World Tv Series

"At the dawn of the 20th century" a band of adventurers, led by adventurer and scholar Professor Challenger, embark on an expedition to prove the existence of a lost world isolated from the rest of the modern world. The British expedition team, consisting of a mismatched group of enthusiasts, all with less than selfless reasons for making the journey, begin their trip under less than ideal conditions. The intrepid band consists of Professor George Edward Challenger, Professor Arthur Summerlee, Marguerite Krux, Major Lord John Richard Roxton, Edward T. Malone. During their journey disaster strikes and their hot air balloon crashes in the uncharted Amazon jungle, where they end up on the prehistoric plateau. There they find themselves trapped and isolated in this dangerous land. The group is assisted by a young jungle-savvy woman named Veronica Layton, whose parents disappeared eleven years before. Her family was part of a research group that became isolated and was then lost under mysterious circumstances. Together with a young woman from the future named Finn (Lara Cox), the group fights to survive against carnivorous dinosaurs, vicious Neanderthals, a race of lizardmen, and other perils as they search for a way to escape. The stories usually worked out that two separate adventures were going on at the same time. In the later series, it is clear that they actually landed on the plateau in 1919.

It had the older scientist and the blonde native (well aleady there) girl. I don't remember there being a husband and wife, but there were a middle aged man and woman in the group. They also resided in a large tree-house and there were elemnets of magic in some of the storylines.

It originally aired between 1999 and 2002, so a little off in timeframe, but that could be explained if watching repeats or watching somewhere other than USA.

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September 30, 2025 - David Thewlis as Cyrus Crabb; the son of the books' villain Lee Crabb, and the main antagonist. Deceitful and underhanded, Cyrus Crabb has a derisive view towards Dinotopian society, derogatively referring to the dinosaurs as "scalies".
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r/tipofmytongue on Reddit: [TOMT] [TV Show] [Early 2000s] Kid's Dino Show
September 24, 2022 -

There was a show in the early 2000s about dinosaurs and fossils. I think it was a kid's show. Ihave the impression that the name was something like "dino hunters". I don't remember what channel it was on. I'm pretty sureit had two hosts, a guy and a girl. They seemed to be young, maybe teens, maybe college age. I think they might have interviewed paleontologists as part of their show. Can anyone help me remember the name?


I have though more and I am restricting the date to between 2002 and 2006.

I have also discovered the IMDBs for one or more shows named "Dinosaur Detectives", which are promising in that they match the dates needed, but they provide no real information beyond a title and a date.

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Dinosaurs (TV Series 1991โ€“1994) - IMDb
April 26, 1991 - Dinosaurs: Created by Michael Jacobs, Bob Young. With Stuart Pankin, Allan Trautman, Jessica Walter, Leif Tilden. This show follows the life of a family of dinosaurs, living in a modern world.
Rating: 7.5/10 โ€‹ - โ€‹ 23.5K votes
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3 weeks ago - The 2-part episode "Nuts to War" was a satire of American involvement in the Gulf War, with two-legged dinosaurs going to war with four-legged dinosaurs over pistachios instead of oil. In the final season, "The Greatest Story Ever Sold" (a take-off of The Greatest Story Ever Told) references religion when the Sinclair family becomes eager to learn the meaning of their existence. The Elders dictate a new system of beliefs, and the entire cast (with the exception of Robbie) abandons science to blindly follow the newly popular "Potato-ism".
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2 weeks ago - Earl Sinclair is very funny character from dinosaur tv series ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ which is I love it #fyp #trending #viral #dinosaurtv90sshow ... #nostalgia #nostalgic #dinodan #kidshows2000s #kidshows #fyp #funn #2000s #dinosaurs #dinosaur Recuerdos de Dino Dan: Un vistazo a los programas infantiles. Revive la nostalgia con Dino Dan y otros shows de los 2000s.
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October 6, 2025 - #2000snostalgia #dinosaur #early2000s #y2k #2000s #millennial #childhoodmemories #childhoodmovies ... Who else was so obsessed with dinosaurs when they was kid? ๐Ÿ˜ญ#dinosquad #dinosaur #dinosaurs #fossils ##y2k##2000s##nastalgia##jurassicpark##jurassic##jurassicworld##2000tvshows##CBS##pbs##cartoons##fyp##relatable##trex##dna##DNA##jurassicworldrebirth##2000kids##2000 Nostalgia for Dinosaur Shows from the 2000s.
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Dinosaurs - Full Cast & Crew - TV Guide
Earl Sinclair, Andre, Chief Elder, Guy in the Lab Coat, Mr. Teddy Wolfe, Mudbelly ... Additional Dinosaur Performer, Monica Devertebrae, Caroline Foxworth, Mindy, Sitcom Wife, Ansel, Aubrey Molehill, Brigitte, Elder #3, Grandma Ethyl Phillips, ...
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Dinosaurs (TV Series 1991โ€“1994) - Full cast & crew - IMDb
Earl Sinclair ยท /Guy in the Lab Coat ยท /... 53 episodes โ€ข 1991โ€“1994 ยท Tony Sabin Prince ยท Tony Sabin Prince ยท Fran Sinclair ยท /Les ยท 53 episodes โ€ข 1991โ€“1994 ยท Julianne Buescher ยท Julianne Buescher ยท Additional Dinosaur Performer ...
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10 Great Animated Dinosaur Shows To Watch If You Love Jurassic Park
June 19, 2024 - One of the better, if underrated, TV show adaptations of a video game, Ark: The Animated Series boasts a stunningly star-studded cast, with the vocal talents of David Tennant, Gerard Butler, Jeffrey Wright and Michelle Yeoh.
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Category:2000s Dinosaur Fiction | Animation and Cartoons Wiki | Fandom
Animated works of fiction featuring dinosaurs that have been published, or produced between the years 2000 and 2009. 1990s 2010s
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2 weeks ago - The cast included several Dinosaurs alums: Joe Flaherty starred as caveman patriarch Ooog, while guest actors in the pilot included Suzie Plakson as Zsa Zsa and Michelan Sisti as "4th Caveman."
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Dinosaurs | Cast and Crew | Rotten Tomatoes
Blue-collar dinosaur Earl Sinclair tries to cope with short-tempered boss Bradley P. Richfield of the Wesayso Corporation so he can put food on the table for his large family: sweet-natured and long-suffering wife Fran, rebellious teenage son Robbie, shop-til-she-drops daughter Charlene and precocious Baby, not to mention his crusty mother-in-law, Ethyl. On his rare night out, Earl pals around with his buddy Roy Hess. The show touched on a number of topical issues, including environmentalists, endangered species, LGBT rights, censorship and corporate crime.