1. Dinosaurs had no reproductive organs or excrement glands.
Most paleontologists believe that dinosaurs - like reptiles and birds - possessed a cloaca, an opening for excrement, urine, and reproductive activities. They had no external genitalia, and the cloaca opening would not be very noticeable. For instance, take a look at the dinosaurs in Walking with Dinosaurs and you might notice the opening, but given the relatively crude level of detail in the dinosaur models used in LotL, it's no big deal that the cloaca was never seen on them.
2. The best place to set up camp is a cave at the end of a Tyrannosaurus Rex's game trail.
All things considered, it actually was the best option. Grumpy couldn't get his head past the opening, and it was beyond the range of the Sleestak who couldn't get to High Bluff during the course of a single night (the only time the Sleestak besieged them in the cave was in the Blackout episode when they used a pylon to prevent the sun from rising). What I never understood is why the Pakuni hadn't claimed the cave before the Marshalls arrived - instead they chose to live in the Pakuni Compound, with a flimsy bamboo wall as their only defense against dinosaurs (which we saw Grumpy crush in The Paku Who Came to Dinner).
3. When ramming a log down a pissed-off Tyrannosaur's throat, be sure to have your 11-year-old daughter take the lead position.
It was good practice for when Holly charged the God of the Pit (Elsewhen)
4. Though there are supposedly thousands of lizard men, it's funny how you never see more than three at a time.
True 'nuff.
5. Barbers have apparantly been around for 70 million years.
People have been known to cut their own hair, and it's not unreasonable to believe that the Marshalls had brought at least a scissors and comb with them. And whatever Rick had going on with his hair didn't exactly qualify as a professional haircut.
6. Tyrannosaurs loved to hang out and roar for about fifteen minutes before actually eating their prey.
The cool ones did.
7. A single allosaur can lay a fertilized egg.
One of Our Pylons Is Missing included a scene with what appeared to be Big Alice eating her prey, but when the allosaur opened its mouth, it emitted the deep "Grumpy roar" rather than the shrill "Alice scream". Likewise, at the end of the third season opening, we once again saw the green allosaur with the "Grumpy roar". While both cases were probably continuity errors, it did open the door to speculation that the deep-roaring allosaur was the male which fertilized Alice's egg.
8. Families on a camping trip typically pack a chainsaw and several years worth of clothes.
The Marshalls frequently wore the same clothing with little variation, so the amount of changes of clothing seemed reasonable. What's a bit harder to account for is that they factored Holly's growth spurt when they packed. I'm also not convinced that there was evidence they would have needed a chainsaw - the constructions we see in the Marshalls' camp could have been done with their hatchets, much of it was simply made from bamboo.
9. When hiding behind a rock from a dinosaur or lizard men, be sure to talk out loud to yourself.
Well, as you point out the dinosaurs roar for fifteen minutes before going in for the kill, and the Sleestak only move at three m.p.h., so why not?
10. A frenzied pace of three miles an hour is enough for lizard men to overtake and capture pretty much anyone.
To be fair, most times the Sleestak captured anybody was when they were in their tunnels where their lack of speed made no difference. The Marshalls could run from the three Sleestak in one tunnel, but rest assured that there would be another three waiting to ambush them in the next.
11. The reason lizard men are always in such a bad mood is because they're permantly stuck with half a poop sticking out of their butts.
Sorry, once you bring up Sleestak poop you're clearly in Will Ferrel territory, so I can't respond to this point because I refuse to acknowledge that train wreck as LotL.
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