Board Thread:Lion Guard Discussion/@comment-33029135-20190821144526/@comment-5948780-20190822153125

I’ve been skimming through this discussion and I came up with a few types of approaches on the subject matter that I believe should be the approach taken if such a concept were canon.

The Lost World approach - In the Tarzan spin-off series, the Legend of Tarzan as well as the books that were published way before the Disney movie, there is a hidden primeval world beneath the continent called Pallucidar where dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures thrived due to being preserved down there for many years along with the ecosystem. And in the same Legend of Tarzan series, the Elephant Graveyard itself appeared as a location in one episode. So if the Elephant Graveyard appeared in Tarzan, maybe Pallucidar might also have a place in the Lion King universe. And if such a thing was done, not only would the guard come across the dinosaurs, but the series itself would have some things in common with the very recently rebooted Ducktales, since it is also trying to merge itself with the Chip’n dale Rescue Rangers and Talespin universe.

The cryptid approach - In real-life, there have been sightings of dinosaur-like cryptids in the African continent, like mokele-mbembe, Kasai Rex, Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu etc. I figured that since the main cast and the following characters are animals, they would have more luck getting up close with the beasts compared to human cryptozoologists since they are tonnes more adapted to living in the wild and coming across them. But since the dinosaurs in this approach live above the earth as opposed to the ones that live below in the Pallucidar approach, it would be best if they based the cryptid dinosaurs off of species that actually evolved in Africa examples here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_dinosaurs