Director: J. J. Johnson
A sketchbook that brings prehistoric creatures back to life sits at the center of Dino Dex, a Canadian kids' series that turns a nine-year-old's drawings into an ongoing field guide to the dinosaur world.
What is Dino Dex about?
Dex spends his days sketching, exploring, and training himself as a self-styled paleontologist, using a magical Dino Field Guide that lets him and his family — Dan, Trek, and older sister Dana — see dinosaurs moving through the present-day world around them. Because Dex sees everything through an artist's eye, the creatures he studies rarely look quite like the textbook versions: a Tyrannosaurus rex, a Velociraptor, or a Megalodon might get reimagined mid-episode as new evidence or a fresh sketch changes how the family understands them. Episodes mix hands-on exploration with lighthearted sibling dynamics, using each dinosaur encounter as a jumping-off point for questions about how prehistoric animals actually looked, moved, and hunted.
Cast & crew
Juan Pablo Romero and Ana Victoria Dinapo lead the voice cast, anchoring the sibling energy that drives Dex's field trips and keeps the show's science lessons feeling like play rather than a lecture.
Context & significance
Created by J. J. Johnson and released out of Canada in 2024, Dino Dex belongs to a small wave of recent kids' programming that pairs dinosaur fandom with an emphasis on observation and revision — the idea that scientific pictures of prehistoric life keep changing as new evidence turns up. At eleven minutes per episode, the show has room to build a small mystery or design puzzle around each featured species before resolving it, giving it a slightly longer runtime than typical shorts aimed at the same age group.
Where & how to watch
Dino Dex is available on K-Time with a free account login, part of a kids and family lineup presented through a Farsi-friendly interface built for Iranian households wherever they're watching from. Signing in is the only step required, and episodes are short enough to fit easily into a single sitting.