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Outside scenes were filmed in South Africa.

ITV's marketing push for Prehistoric Park was extensive and expensive. Add more from this:

Second series and legacy
Because the ratings for the first airing of the series on ITV1 in the summer of 2006 were disappointing considering the money spent on production and marketing, ITV stated in October 2006 that it had no intention of commissioning a second series. The poor ratings might be attributable to the scheduling of the series at 6:50 PM on sundays, with Prehistoric Park being beaten by a series about dancing airing at the same time on BBC1. Despite ITV's lack of interest in a second series, the show's distributor, Fremantle, was actively planning a second series in late 2006. At the MIPCOM television festival in Cannes that year, Fremantle scouted for potential new co-production partners. A spokesperson for Fremantle stated that they expected a second series of Prehistoric Park to take ten months to make and that outside scenes would again be filmed in South Africa.

ITV replaced Prehistoric Park with Primeval (2007–2011), a science-fiction drama series wherein prehistoric and future creatures enter the present through unexplained holes in time and space, with a team of misfits attempting to deal with them. The less scientific and more action-drama approach of Primeval was billed as an attempt to lure away portions of the audience of Doctor Who and win back Saturday night family TV viewing, a key demographic. Impossible Pictures, the same team that worked on Prehistoric Park and Walking with Dinosaurs, also worked on Primeval and were responsible for the special effects in the series. Nigel Marven made a cameo appearance as himself in the fourth episode of Primeval 's third season, wherein he encountered a Giganotosaurus that had walked through a space-time anomaly at an airport.

Marven stated in 2020 that if a second series of Prehistoric Park had been made, animals he would have liked to be included would be the large semiaquatic theropod dinosaur Spinosaurus and more pterosaurs.