I haven't been able to find anything remotely similar with my poor google-fu but I'm 99% sure it wasn't a fever dream. Answer from Wookiemans on reddit.com
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TV Show Pilot
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The 7 Best Live-Action TV Shows with Dinosaurs
December 13, 2023 - In the sequel Dinotopia, the Scott brothers (now played by Shiloh Strong and Erik von Detten) and the rest of the Dinotopia community must face not just dino threats but humans as well, particularly from a group of outlaws called the Outsiders. Finally on this list of top dinosaur TV series we have Land of the Lost, a science fiction adventure series that aired way back in the mid-70s, though a 2009 film adaptation was also created. Though intended as a children’s show, Land of the Lost utilized scientific elements that led an older audience to enjoy it as well!
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The Best of Dinosaur TV Shows
Pursued by intergalactic warlord Krulos and his Rulons, human Valorians fly through a wormhole and end up on the prehistoric Earth. Krulos follows and becomes stuck in prehistory as well. Both sides build dinosaur armies and engage.StarsStephen DorffChristopher CollinsWally Burr ... In the present, a team of four anthropomorphic dinosaurs created by aliens, must stop three anthropomorphic velociraptors, who want to cause a cataclysm that would speed up global warming and make Earth's climate pleasant for dinos again.StarsScott McNeilCusse MankumaGarry Chalk
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The 40+ Best TV Shows With Dinosaurs, Ranked By Fans
October 13, 2025 - Over 500 TV viewers have voted on the 40+ Best TV Shows About Dinosaurs, Ranked. Current Top 3: Walking with Dinosaurs, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, The ...
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10 Best TV Shows About Dinosaurs
May 2, 2022 - Though much of the series' action ... be quite realistic, especially considering the series was on network television. As with Terra Nova, the central premise of Primeval is time travel, and it deserves to be seen as one of the ...
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r/tipofmytongue on Reddit: [TOMT][TV][90s?] A TV series where intelligent dinosaurs lived with humans. Dinosaurs would use treadmills when reading.
November 16, 2019 -

I had the most obscure flashback to a TV show I swear was real... In it I believe humans (maybe one?) lived in a parallel world where dinosaurs evolved into the intelligent species. The only detail I can really remember is the "librarian dinosaurs" would learn better while running on a treadmill...did I really just type that :/

Edit: I don't think it was a comedy and it was live action (the humans anyway). I can't believe it's the "treadmill helps us think" line is the only thing I've got to go on.

Any help would be massively appreciated <3

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7 Best Dinosaur TV Shows (And Where to Watch Them) - ComicBook.com
April 20, 2025 - The detailed puppetry brought the Sinclair family and their world to life with remarkable expressiveness, making audiences forget they were watching foam latex creations. For fans seeking a unique blend of sitcom humor, impressive practical effects, and thought-provoking commentary, Dinosaurs remains a standout example of prehistoric programming. ... Based on James Gurney’s beautifully illustrated books, Dinotopia brought a unique vision of human and dinosaur coexistence to the small screen, first as an ambitious miniseries and then as a short-lived television series.
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... When an army of powerful alien beings is unleashed on Earth threatening life as we know it, a brand-new team of Power Rangers, fueled by the prehistoric power of the dinosaurs, are recruited to deal with the threat.
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The best TV shows with dinosaurs to stream right now | What to Watch
October 7, 2021 - TV Spy — Batwoman, Landman, and all the US dramas you can watch on UK services: November 15-21 · What the critics say: The LA Times - "easily the most exciting show of the fall season" ... The irrepressible adventurer and natural history presenter is in his element with this CBBC series that tries its hardest to explain how fearsome dinosaurs were with the help of CGI and all manner of props.
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10 Dinosaur TV Shows That Time Forgot
December 30, 2023 - ... An obscure spinoff of PaleoWorld, Boneheads Detectives of the PaleoWorld focused on a younger audience, positively screaming of the "X-Treme 90s." Headlined by Nickelodeon star Danny Tamberelli, the show focused on Allie and Sam, two siblings ...
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Dinosaurs (TV Series 1991–1994) - 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 ​ - ​ 23.5K votes
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Dinosaur Cartoons On Streaming That Dino-Obsessed Kids Love
March 16, 2025 - Synopsis: Set in a fantastical “pre-westoric” world, Dino Ranch follows the Cassidy family as they work together to tame and train dinosaurs on their ranch. With action-packed episodes, the show focuses on teamwork, problem-solving, and ...
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I Know Dino
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32 Dinosaur Movies, Documentaries, and TV Shows to Enjoy With Friends
January 28, 2022 - A slapstick comedy starring Ringo Starr, with lots of stop-motion dinosaurs, including T. rex. ... A paleontologist and her husband try to protect a baby sauropod and its parents. ... Teenagers get sucked in to their favorite TV show, and they encounter dinosaurs such as T.
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Dinotopia (miniseries) - Wikipedia
September 30, 2025 - It is based on the Dinotopia book ... miniseries serves as a sequel to the Dinotopia books, Dinotopia (1992) and Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995)....
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Tastedive | Shows like Dinosaurs
Earl is a tree-pusher for the Wesayso Development Corp., which regularly implements schemes to screw their workers even more and destroy the world for marginal profit increment. Chilled, but live prey, are kept in the refrigerator and are helpful when you can't find the milk, and caveman humans make occasional appearances as wild animals and pets.
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The 5 Best Family-Friendly Dinosaur Movies an TV Shows - I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
June 24, 2024 - But don’t bother with all the sequels and TV spin-off. 2. Dinosaurs. Produced in part by Jim Henson Productions, this sitcom from the 1990s was about a family of five dinosaurs living in Pangea: Earl Sinclair, his wife Fran, and their kids Robbie, Charlene, and Baby. The show covered political and other topical issues, and it took multiple puppeteers to perform each dinosaur character. 3. Dinotopia. A four-hour miniseries, this show depicted a utopia where dinosaurs and humans lived together.
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Dinosaurs (Series) - TV Tropes
June 1, 2012 - Alternate Calendar: Parodied; the ... wonders out loud about what momentous event are they exactly counting down to. Anachronistic Animal: Dinosaurs coexist with (primitive) humans, mammoths, ......
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7 Best Dinosaur TV Shows (And Where to Watch Them) – The Flagship Eclipse
The detailed puppetry brought the Sinclair family and their world to life with remarkable expressiveness, making audiences forget they were watching foam latex creations. For fans seeking a unique blend of sitcom humor, impressive practical effects, and thought-provoking commentary, Dinosaurs remains a standout example of prehistoric programming. ... Based on James Gurney’s beautifully illustrated books, Dinotopia brought a unique vision of human and dinosaur coexistence to the small screen, first as an ambitious miniseries and then as a short-lived television series.
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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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Dinotopia (TV Mini Series 2002) ⭐ 6.5 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
May 12, 2002 - Dinotopia: With David Thewlis, Katie Carr, Jim Carter, Alice Krige. After a plane crash, two opposing half-brothers find themselves on an amazing lost island where enlightened pacifist humans and intelligent talking dinosaurs have created a ...
Rating: 6.5/10 ​ - ​ 7.06K votes