Paleontologist Rates 14 Dinosaur Attacks In The "Jurassic Park" Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider

[@twigz128]

I'd love to see an extended version of this, where he reviews every single attack. Even if it was an hour, two hours, I'd love to see / hear the real views of this paleontologist!!

[@concretetoy54]

then enjoy Terrible Lizards podcast. Dave is a host there

[@twigz128]

@concretetoy54 cool thanks! I will do

[@rikdesmit]

​@@concretetoy54 Awesome podcast indeed!

[@808Mark]

Me too

[@Wild.Wonder.Drawings]

Same bruh

[@joaovaranda4759]

In the Baryonyx scene, it always bothered me how this animal has lava dropped on its head and he just shakes it off like nothing, not even a scar, and continues the hunt.

[@nooneofimportance2110]

You can blame JPIII for that. Ahem "theme park monsters" is what Grant called the dinos of Sorna, and that's the majority of what we got for the rest of the series.

[@baryonyxguy-i3e]

baryonyx mentioned

[@GeeVanderplas]

Owen does the same, I guess this volcano spews non-burning lava only 😅

[@nooneofimportance2110]

@@GeeVanderplas Coldest lava you will ever see.

[@SquamataReptile]

@@baryonyxguy-i3e love the enthusiasm for your favourite dinosaur baryonyxgay-i3e

[@liberalcannibal2346]

This is the level of enthusiasm and excitement I expect from my palaeontologists. Great video.

[@randallvargas4457]

"Well, there it is."

[@istapleton11]

It just feels like there’s a realistic reboot in the works now

[@TheAlexanka]

Right !? I need someone to bring forth my inner nine year old

[@foxxtitan7028]

@@istapleton11 Likely the oppostie tbh. There's leaks about next Jurassic movies being more "Peter Jackson's King kong" vibe of designs.

[@nicholsonl49]

Word✊🏾 honestly I think there's like 3 different videos like this, different paleobiologist of course but F*ck it idc I love watching them😂

[@victorpapaavp]

I think one critical thing most people miss about the Jeep scene is that vehicle was in nuetral for a solid 8-10 seconds of the whole chase (Malcom climbs into the front seat and knocks it out of gear) which means it was just coasting and wasn't actively accelerating. This is also the point in the scene when Rexy caught up with it.

[@vaporean_boylove.0w083]

That makes so much more sense. Now I have an excuse to go rewatch the movie

[@nightlygarbagerun7395]

"Get off the stick. Bloody move!"

[@RubyCarrots3232]

The Jeep was only moving at 16mph in the early parts of the scenes as they animators said they couldn't animate Rexy moving at 30mph without it looking unrealistic.

[@gamesguy]

It was still way too fast. T-Rex couldn't really run.

[@jehoiakimelidoronila5450]

Maybe Malcom isn't very good at driving; heck, he may be a fan of space orcs from war hammer and just chanting in his head "please go fast" many times And the majority of the touring vehicles there are electric, that's likely the reason for not bothering with the great change

[@TVJUNK85]

What drives me crazy about the Pyroraptor swimming is they finally give a dromaeosaur a full coat of feathers, taking all this effort in the behind the scenes to go through different feather options and looks.....only to make it swim in ice cold water. A place where non-hydrodynamic feathers are about the worst things you could have on your body. Like at least give them the type of feathers that are sleek and hydrophobic, like a penguin or a duck. Not shaggy rooster feathers.

[@rastareptilerescue]

Dem filled di DNA gaps innadi genome wid a roosters DNA 😂

[@mokko759]

I love how he takes the time period the films were made and what we knew at the time into account. For the time, the original Jurassic Park was pretty good. Even though we know more now and can point out all the inaccuracies, it's still a FUN film.

[@_Siloam_]

Jesus Christ is the true cure to depression 😊❤ Romans 10:9-10 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” 😊👍

[@geoffhennessy275]

“We brought in Dr. David Hone. Spared no expense!”😂

[@_Siloam_]

Jesus Christ is the true cure to depression 😊❤ Romans 10:9-10 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” 😊👍

[@Wurzelknecht]

As someone who grew up as dinosaur-obsessed kid (which was also the reason why I was incredibly hyped when this movie came out), it's interesting to see how much has changed since I grew up, in terms of what palaeontologists found out. When I stopped being interested in dinosaurs (around the mid-90s), I was kinda at the point where no new book about them revealed anything that I didn't already know, and I already thought that that's it. No more new discoveries. Hearing 20 years later that suddenly it's common knowledge that most dinos were feathered or that certain ideas of what they looked like completely changed are mindblowing to me. I need to get a new book to get back up to speed.

[@TheRealPapaChico]

Really? I was never that into dinosaurs and knew the bird evolution. Late 90s. From simply reading up on it on at the time modern internet articles.

[@severalwolves]

@@TheRealPapaChico This was something that changed pretty rapidly over the course of the 90s - over the course of the decade we saw a handful of theories go from contentious suggestions to consensus understanding. I was in a similar boat as the OP, where I was 8 when the movie came out and was already dinosaur-obsessed. As a child in the early 90s, all of my info was coming from books aimed at younger readers, so it wasn’t exactly cutting edge science and leading discovery. There would be a lag of a few years between paleontologists gradually accepting something, until that made its way into a fact list in a picture book. I had some books that might have been less than a decade old or so that were split on things like bird evolution, cold vs warm bloodedness, and possible causes for the K-T extinction, etc. Internet access was incredibly intermittent during that period too - I think my household had dial-up AOL in 1998, and I had limited windows of access at my school’s computer lab, but it wasn’t until I went away to university in 2002 that I had broadband internet (I remember having my mind blown that my computer could be online 24 hours a day, and it didn’t tie up the phone line haha).

[@SyxisPrime]

4:55 so right before this clip you can see the paleontologist raise his hands upwards before it cuts. What he more than likely was going to mention was the resting position of the arms of all theropod dinosaurs. Dinosaurs couldn’t rotate their wrists downwards because their muscle structure wouldn’t allow them to do so. The neutral position for dinosaurs hands is actually facing each other, think, “Dinosaurs could shake hands but couldn’t wave goodbye.” From Dr. James Napoli. Funnily enough some dinosaurs could point their palms facing up towards the sky but not reverse. My backing on this is I’m a certified paleobiolgist from the AMNH and the University of Alberta Canada

[@Annie_Annie__]

I knew that velociraptor (and deinonychus) had hands with palms facing each other, but I never knew that all dinosaur theropods did? That’s interesting.

[@85blutch]

@@Annie_Annie__ I think it depends on the species, some face inwards, some downwards, but yeah they can't rotate their wrist.

[@Ravensfan69]

They all face inwards

[@DenverStarkey]

think you mean their bone structure doesn't allow them to. bones are the frame and are the limiting factor in any movement of any creature with bones.

[@Ravensfan69]

@@DenverStarkey they would break their wrist

[@JackChurchill101]

There's a convenient plot cover in Micheal Crichton's novels, and the resulting movies. The DNA labs not only combined the dinosaurs with other reptiles and amphibians, but also tailor made them to be more commercially viable. So, they were never meant to be "accurate" dinosaurs, but meant to look like what a tourist would want dinosaurs to be. A nuance that plays out in interesting ways, especially in the second book. I miss Micheal Crichton.

[@tullimonstrum52]

"you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth" - Dr. Wu

[@501strookie]

Dave Hone actually talks about this a bit in his podcast. In the original book, they were meant to be accurate dinosaurs. Hammond himself even argues against "dumbing them down" to be less accurate, insisting on keeping them what they think is accurate.

[@erozion8211]

“Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park, is create genetically-engineered, theme-park monsters, nothing more, and nothing less." - Dr. Grant

[@ragingtomato04]

like he said "nonsense built with nonsense"

[@rosdos100]

I said the same thing but less articulately, thanks though. It really gets to me when people who critique these movies and don't realize they're not supposed to be the real thing.

[@Tanx33]

5:50 They based the Velociraptors in JP on Deinonychus because Crichton was inspired by the description of the Deinonychus in a book written around the same time he started writing JP(had to look it up because I forgot the exact details. the book was Predatory Dinosaurs of the World by Gregory S. Paul). He even consulted John Ostrom when writing the novel to get the best details of what Deinonychus looked like and how it behaved. He chose not to use the name because Velociraptor was more "dramatic." So basically we are looking at misnamed Deinonychus when watching JP. Also think that because of the procedures they used "in world" having the wrong species would make sense and makes it even more interesting. they didn't even know what the DNA was until they grew it and then had to make educated guesses based on the appearance and location it was discovered.

[@melvinfranco2142]

The name Deinonychus means "terrible claw", which sounds even more badass as the name Velociraptor, "speedy thief".

[@Tanx33]

@melvinfranco2142 I agree completely. The meaning of the word is way more intimidating and cool. It's just the word itself, velociraptor, sounds more threatening. Plus, it also has a better shortened name. And you know how people love to shorten up the names into fun nicknames to sound more cool or to simplify complicated names. Like they call the tyrannosaurus rex, t rex or just rex, procompsognathus is compy or compies, velociraptor is just raptor, spinosaurus is just the spino, pachycephalosaurus is pachy and could go on with plenty more examples. There is just not really a cool nickname for deinonychus that I can think of off the top my head. Lol. Also think of some of the dialogue and see how awkward some of the lines would sound, especially with the actors trying to say the plural form of deinonychus. "Are the deinonychuses's fences out?!" Or "Are the deinonychi's fences out?!"

[@rey_s90]

The thing is even for a deinonychus they’re still quite big, almost like an inbetween that and a Utahraptor.

[@AujiTheSquirrel]

Glad someone typed this so I didn’t have to 😂. Getting real tired of hearing people say the velociraptors are completely wrong and not knowing what they were actually based on.

[@SpeedOfThought1111]

Also, there IS a raptor that is that big called the Utahraptor, so let's all just pretend that's what are in the JP movies. I'm surprised the dinosaur 'experts' never mention this.

[@aniruddh3258]

Release the extended version! Also, I'm partly disappointed that he didn't review Spinosaurus from JP3

[@Fallenfaefolk]

probably couldn't release that part because3 it would just be this otherwise mild-mannered and pleasant man, cursing uncontrollably

[@canyouhearmyheart13]

Me too! 😢

[@vashsunglasses]

To be honest our understanding of Spinosaurus has RADICALLY changed from when JP3 was released. It wouldn't be fair to critique it.

[@Bigmojojo]

He has already reviewed that fight. It's either on an early video or on the Breakdown video

[@MeltingNightmare]

@@Fallenfaefolk The JP3 Spinosaurs was pretty accurate to the understanding of the animal at the time.

[@jabbra1837]

Well great, now I've got an image of the T-rex hitting its leg on a tree and falling over like Peter Griffin holding his knee in pain

[@jamescupedro]

oh my god I hate you lol now I can't get it out of my head either :P

[@devinmccurry4235]

😅😅😅

[@NickPBE]

KZbin needs more Dr Dave Hone

[@TheMagicalAnimatron]

Something, something Terrible Lizards with Iszi Lawrence and Dr. Dave Hone...

[@FlavioVonPianodoor]

yeh

[@hibernopithecus7500]

@@TheMagicalAnimatronrar

[@Giedrius_Savickas]

"Paleontologist Rates 10 Dinosaur Scenes In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider", that's a name of other youtube video.

[@my63stingray]

Dave Hone is my favorite. Get him to do more please

[@_Siloam_]

Jesus Christ is the true cure to depression 😊❤ Romans 10:9-10 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” 😊👍

[@awesomehpt8938]

I really like Dave Hone I’ve watched a number of his lectures online. Such as the ones on t-Rex and spinosauridae.

[@noroiko7996]

I was just about to comment the same thing! I watched a lecture on t-rex and one on spinosaurids - probably the same ones you watched. He solidly convinced me that spinosaurus proooobably hunted like a stork even though the debate is not settled.

[@somtim1]

He's got a podcast called "terrible lizards" and it is well worth a watch. It's available on KZbin.

[@tinyfishhobby3138]

His lecture on T Rex is absolutely fascinating. Learned so much from watching that.

[@guilhermebritobrandao1729]

A fellow Jurassic Park 3 enjoyer I see

[@_Siloam_]

Jesus Christ is the true cure to depression 😊❤ Romans 10:9-10 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” 😊👍

[@UochintomWash]

Jurassic world treats the dinosaurs not like animals made of flesh and bone but like some sort of superheroes and supervillains

[@bradleythornock8627]

To be fair(ish) in the novel the T-Rex could only see you when you move because of the frog DNA mixed in. The movies oversimplified this to an innate characteristic but in the universe of the movie, those mutant T-Rex wouldn’t see you if you stood still

[@JackChurchill101]

I always wondered about that, because in the second novel the "bad guys" tried freezing to evade a t-rex, and it simply ate them. The protagonists then talk about how this was never a feature of t-rexs - because a natural prey function is freeze or run. If the predator lost every prey that froze it wouldn't get far. Not sure if Micheal Crichton retconed his own work.

[@Novarcharesk]

Except that doesn’t make sense either. Frogs aren’t blind to anything stationary 😂

[@bradleythornock8627]

@@JackChurchill101 yeah Crichton retconned a bunch of stuff in the Lost World to make it fit the Jurassic Park movie, including having Malcom survive when he died in the first novel (albeit it was ambiguous)

[@ragingtomato04]

like he said "nonsense built with nonsense"

[@robinliesens7983]

@@JackChurchill101 He did kinda retcon it for The Lost World, although the book did explain that the rex didn't eat Grant because it had already eaten a goat. In other words, it could definitely see Grant but just wasn't in the mood to eat him. The movies just take the blindness as a real feature of the actual dinosaurs, given that the JP movie doesn't focus on the frog DNA only for the reproduction in the wild and simply rolls with the concept of the dinosaurs in the park being actual dinosaurs, not fictional hybrids. The book does that a lot too btw, the whole frog DNA excuse to explain every inaccuracy is something that the JW movie made up. The original JP novel is quite clear about many of the features of the dinosaurs being actual features (raptors being bigger than usual, Dilophosaurus venom, no feathers etc.) and not frog DNA effects.

[@anakatharinahemerlozano7364]

I love how the more time passes, the more we know about dinosaurs, and the less realistic they are in movies hfjhhvhvj

[@jdmresearch]

4:37 I've seen in many clips in which Dr. Hone disregards any scene involving Velociraptors because of the unrealistic size of these dinosaurs depicted in the movies compared to their actual size. I'm a (an older) paleontologist myself and I agree... in fact, it was the first thing I noticed when watching JP back in 93-94. That said, it is well known that Velociraptors in these moves are based on the larger dromaeosaurs called Deinonychus. Here's an exact quote from one of the JP websites: "(paleontologist John) Ostrom (who discovered Deinonychus in 1964) said that Crichton's Velociraptor was based on Deinonychus in almost every detail and Crichton had even called him to inform him that he had renamed the Deinonychus in his novel to Velociraptor because he felt it sounded more dramatic". This is by now well-known among paleontogists who are also fans of the JP franchise. So criticizing this seems a bit like a low-hanging fruit at this point.

[@eyemastervideo]

In Dominion, I love how the deer hears lots of noise from the predator, and doesn't care. Like, he's hunting and making so much noise, and then is just able to whisper in it's ears before it takes a bite out of it... The whole movie is so annoying to watch!

[@_Siloam_]

Jesus Christ is the true cure to depression 😊❤ Romans 10:9-10 “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” 😊👍

[@TheRealKing98453]

The Theri wasn't hunting the deer. It's a herbivore and only kills the deer cause it doesn't wanna share the vegetation

[@AsaSpadeSS]

That's because the Therizinosaurus isn't a predator to the deer, they're herbivores... You make it seem like you haven't seen deer around other animals in a normal habitat. The movie was prob more annoyed at you watching it 😂😂😂

[@fabriciogodoy5034]

They should make a video with an architect and/or civil engineer analyzing buildings collapsing in earthquakes and disasters movies!!

[@MylotheZooLovingScientist]

David Hone is a treasure. Always love seeing him in these types of videos. His enthusiasm is infectious and his explanations are always so accessible and on-point. For anyone interested in hearing him go full nerd, I'd recommend checking out the podcast he does with history buff Iszi Lawrence, called Terrible Lizards.

[@SongBirdStudios09]

That's what Dave looks like!! I've just been listening to his podcast with Izzy so it's wild actually seeing him lol

[@Chillbro740]

25:12 ironic considering it’s the only movie that should have around a 100% accuracy rate because that movies the only one where the pure dinos dna is had

[@Ali-fo4uv]

U know thats impossibke right? To have dino dna lmao

[@Chillbro740]

@ yes

[@Chillbro740]

@ but it’s called movie logic

[@DragonZillaRex-ct2tn]

HE ’S BACK!!!😎

[@tamaltarudey8912]

Dr Hone is one of the GOATS in Palaeontology

[@kessel12]

Wish he would have spent some time breaking down how a T-Rex could be contained in the cargo bay of a ship for an entire voyage, and still manage to eat the entire crew and leave body parts strewn about in the cabin.

[@stewyyishim]

lmaoooo yeah i think that was just a script mistake

[@ChristopherMallonMusic]

@@stewyyishim There was supposedly a scene which was never filmed of raptors murdering the crew then abandoning ship. Seems like an important detail to leave out.

[@scottb3034]

@@ChristopherMallonMusic that is a misconception looking at concept art which was actually a raptor inside a flooding worker village building.

[@scottb3034]

@@stewyyishim it wasn't a script mistake, it was a result of the last second change in movie climax and just trying to get it to work somehow.

[@ImVeryOriginal]

Yeah it's the most nonsensical part of the movie. But JP also has Samuel L. Jackson's hand falling on Laura Dern's shoulder, which is almost as goofy, so.

[@Lauresaurus96]

I really like this guy. 10/10 on the rating of the attacks. Also, somewhere on KZbin someone recreated the baryonyx scene with a more accurate model and I highly recommend looking it up.

[@Clownfoolery_NPC]

I HATE the carnotaurus in the Fallen Kingdom film! The way it goes to mindlessly hunt a sinoceratops whilst evading the CLEARLY dangerous situation, with animal definitely already dead and good to be eaten, and after losing; GOING FOR THE GYROSPHERE PEOPLE? Even if it was curious, the animals in JW have no sense of self preservation, simply dumbed down to movie monsters.

[@Cega1985]

Imma need you to put some respect on Toro's name.

[@Bagelgeuse]

​@@Cega1985Isn't that the Carnotaurus that got barbecued by 6 kids in the Netflix cartoon? And then got thrown off a cliff. And then got mind controlled.

[@Jurassicgalaxy1245]

@@Bagelgeuseyes yes it is but it also survived indominus so it’s not completely useless

[@johnwanderin3872]

@@Cega1985I think they’re saying they hate it because of how it is in the movie like they did with my three favorites, the Allosaurus, Baryonyx and Ceratosaurus… and the Dilophosaurus over the entire franchise. Most things are oversized or undersized. As an adult, I like the films as action/suspense movies as opposed to realistic and still find them (and the animated show) entertaining even though it makes me cringe sometimes.

[@Yourdog69]

Animals in distress usually attack other animals 😒

[@somtim1]

We need MORE Dr Dave Hone.

[@darthtace]

"That's not how wood works." I think he might be right, but I'd still like to get an arborist in here to double-check that. Also, the badger vs grizzly bear isn't the best example -- mustelids (the family badgers, wolverines, and otters belong to) don't give a *#$%. You can literally find a badger fighting a grizzly bear by Googling. Wolverines will regularly scare polar bears off of prey -- that is a 20kg animal scaring off 400kg+ predator. Don't mess with mustelids -- they're crazy.

[@Rystefn]

Yeah, dude picked the exact wrong example animal for that one. Honey badgers get all the press about it in recent years, but the simple fact is that they're all like that.

[@DanWhiteT]

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[@jshumphress13]

Honey badger don’t care. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

[@CLNCJD94]

Pretty certain there’s a documented case of a wolverine killing a polar bear which is probably the biggest weight class difference kill I’ve seen.

[@squashyhex9818]

@@Rystefn to be fair, he is from the UK, what we think of when we say badger is quite different to the US. Look up European badger

[@CryptoJordanVR]

3:09 The problem with this is that he's assuming the tree is in perfect condition. The tree is fallen over, possibly long enough to be leaning on another tree across the road, and we can presume that it could be at a very heavy stage of decay and barely holding itself together. I've broken many a decaying tree, that was still standing, while cleaning my mother's yard by simply kicking, punching, pushing, or even just touching it. Sometimes they crumble like a piece of toast.

[@Jurassicfs3-c1w]

The tree isn’t decaying, at least not yet

[@TheDimonTube]

So many good clips from Lost World that I would like his take on :(

[@jacobcox4565]

Like the T. rex parents looking for their offspring or the raptors hunting people in the tall grass.

[@jonathanvandyke8221]

What people don't understand, Alan Grant said it best in Jurassic Park 3," What John Hammond and ingen scientists in Jurassic Park, created bioengineered theme park monsters" and Dr. Henry Wu said that nothing in Jurassic World is natural

[@TheRealRodent]

I think I can explain the Rex going through the tree. So, the tree itself is across the pathway/roadway... low enough that it pops the windscreen of the Jeep. So like, why would they have a tree that low, across what is an access road for the park's staff? My guess, is the tree collapsed during the storm that has been hitting the island. Why did such an enormously thick and chonk tree fall when all the other trees around it, even the smaller ones, were fine? My guess is that chonk tree was half dead, possibly rotten... and collapsed due to its weakened state. Hence... Rex is able to clatter through it.

[@kevinnorwood8782]

Still, that was a pretty damn big risk trying to crash through that thing. T-Rex is so front heavy that if it were to trip, the fall could actually KILL it.

[@Donovan_oryx924]

@@kevinnorwood8782 which is funny in the lego game, the log is what stops rexy from chasing them.

[@mdiciaccio87]

Also, the Rex only nearly catches the Jeep because it was stuck in first gear...

[@joelara3750]

This is what a baffles me. What you just said is absolutely common sense. Sometimes these super educated geniuses are too smart for common sense

[@MJ-we9vu]

I can explain it better: It's. A. Movie.

[@knightofarkronia9968]

7:24 Huh, I didn’t think I’d see a paleontologist this day and age argue that dinosaurs could have roared! Neat!

[@dylansearcy3966]

11:48 the dinosaurs in jurassic park have frog DNA and some frogs can only see movement. Thus resulting in the t rex seeing only movement

[@WrathMania32]

It’s still an idea so stupid that chrichton himself retcons it

[@Real_MisterSir]

As a paleonthologist he should know / be informed of the context behind the "Velociraptors" in JP. They knew the much smaller size of actual Velociraptors by then, but initially when the source material was made, the size wasn't as accurately specified, as new specimen were found constantly. By the time the movie came out, the new fossil diggings of what would become Utahraptor were discovered, and they sent a wave of mysticism through the paleontology world about this new unknown superraptor. It's great size was what influenced the idea, as initially it was thought to be a record setting Deinonychus specimen, which the raptors in the movie were based on. However, I believe it was Spielberg who decided that the name Velociraptor was much more catchy and fitting than Deinonychus, hence why they went with that name despite its scientific inaccuracy. So in reality, the raptors in JP are actually based on Utahraptors, which they speculated at the time to be a large Deinonychus specimen, which then was purposefully given the Velociraptor name for the sake of memorability with the audience who wouldn't really know/realize the differences as all species were quite unknown to the wider public at the time.

[@Maazzzo]

Fabulous. Bring Dave back for more!

[@aaronbachstein2591]

The idea that a Tyrannosaurus Rex would just wear you down to kill you terrifies me even more.

[@AarushBhavsar-c3s]

Imagine if dave hone was the paleontologist assisting the director and writers of the jurassic world franchise

[@scottb3034]

there would be no change. you think the other consultants just sit there twiddling their thumbs? Much bigger and better names have attempted it.

[@Kzf_guy]

19:54 How dry just the “ I think your gonna lose” it just gets me very time 😭😂

[@JAGzilla-ur3lh]

Wow, there was quite a bit more positivity here than I'd expected. Good job giving credit where it's due rather than just criticizing the flaws. There were several things I hadn't considered here, too, like the wide jaw gape of the Baryonyx or the inaccurate teeth of the Dimorphodon. I learned things here today!

[@jvinson4181]

Something about this I absolutely loved!!! Tha k you so much for the explanations and the humor as well as stating the obvious that we forget when watching exciting movies sometimes!

[@mr.breene]

HE'S RETURNED!

[@MercilessIdiot]

"This is like a badger taking on a grizzly bear, it's not going to end well". Yeah, for the bear.

[@brycevo]

4:38 Once again, the animal portrayed in the film is Velociraptor antirrhopus, more correctly known as Deinonychus antirrhopus. It's the animal Grant was digging up in Montana. Yes, it's still oversized and should now be covered in feathers. But the height difference is a matter of a foot or so, not four feet like the true Mongolian Velociraptor.

[@mulrich]

A dinosaur that looks like the oversized velociraptors depicted in the movies was discovered in the years following the first film's release. It's called the utahraptor.

[@cameronwulff]

It absolutely is not utahraptor. Utahraptor was enormous, twice the size of the animal in the movie

[@mulrich]

@cameronwulff Utahraptor stood to about 175-180 cm in height. That's roughly the same size as in the movies. They stand taller than the children, but not taller than an adult man.

[@scottb3034]

@@mulrich It wasn't discovered in the years following, it was discovered in the 1970s. It was simply named and described in 1994, one year after the movie. And as cameron says below, Utah Raptor was huge. About 2 feet taller, 8 feet longer and 1000 lbs heavier than the movie raptors. Achillbator is the closest dinosaur to what we see in the movies.

[@scottb3034]

@@mulrich Utah Raptor is 5 feet tall at the HIPS not the top of the head. Top of the head is a foot higher. It is also 20 feet long and the mass of a polar bear. Neither are close to the size of the movie animal.

[@Dhampire2k99]

@6:35 the whole thing from the original movie about the Raptors attacking the T-Rex was a defensive or retaliatory attack. the Rex had come in and attacked a raptor, and the others had fought back as they had been described as pack animals, there would've been a bond of trying to defend themselves when attacked by a much larger opponent. Not that they were stalking or hunting the Rex.

[@kessel12]

Jurassic Park III was actually my favorite of all of them, because it didn’t pretend to be anything more than it was. It just needed a half-assed excuse to get people on the island and get chased by dinosaurs for an hour.

[@nemilyk]

It's my #2. I can't stand the Lost World adaptation. It's one of my favourite books and just watching it I was like "...look how they massacred my boy..."

[@kessel12]

@@nemilyk It’s actually different for me. The original Jurassic Park book is one of my all time favorites, so I was disappointed in the film. On the other hand, I thought The Lost World book sucked so I was like, they could still make a decent movie that doesn’t follow the book much. And the movie turned out to be worse.

[@scottb3034]

That's precisely why it sucks. That's akin to making Star Wars into Star Trek or vice versa. That's like turning schindlers list into a comedy. It's insulting to the source material. You want a brainless, popcorn dinosaur movie check out carnosaur or anything pre-dinosaur renaissance.

[@scottb3034]

@@kessel12 In no way is TLW novel better than the movie. The book is that mediocre.

[@scottb3034]

@@nemilyk The novel is terrible. I had even worse hamfisted character motives and characterization than the movie. And their decisions were even more nonsensical.

[@erickuhn2517]

This is so great, thanks a lot for the effort. I would like to see dozens of scenes analyzed this way. Please consider it!

[@Beegsire]

It's even worse in Dominion when you consider the species revived are apparently "Totally pure, no modifications". So that Pyroraptor and Therizinosaurus are apparently "Pure".

[@Gamegurladdict]

Got this in my recommendations. Didn't think I would watch it until the end but that man enthusiam and explanations were really keeping me watching and interested

[@songriderzmusiccompany3922]

I'd be interested in seeing a paleontologist react to the raptors as a representation of Deinonychus, which is actually what Chrichton was doing in the novel. He simply called them Velociraptors because he though the name was more dramatic.

[@jimbob1427]

This guy really knows his stuff, just watched one of his talks on T rex and it was first class educational

[@Notthecobracommander]

Interesting choice of scenes they glossed over many of the other scenes I noticed. Yes, velociraptor wasn’t that big, but they’ve even admitted they based it more on dinonycus which is that big.

[@ImVeryOriginal]

Deinonychus still wasn't nearly as big, but it was definitely closer and would be a legitimate threat to people.

[@AManNamedHawk]

When he pulled that skull out his pocket I giggled 😂 but it’s good to know he knows precisely what he’s talking about and that paleontology is still so well studied

[@ChristopherMallonMusic]

The Therizinosaurs was kinda based on the Ark: Survival Evolved version, in which they are complete and total jerks to anything they come across despite being vegetarians. Actually the entire Jurassic World trilogy came across as an homage to Ark, with many favourites (carnotaurus, baryonyx, therizinosauras, giganotosaurus, to name a few) making appearances. Even the ankylosaurus with the oddly flexible tails - that's how they appear in Ark (although in the game their tail clubs have actual spikes on either side also).

[@jacobcox4565]

You're making connections that aren't there. Most of these comparisons are coincidences.

[@nathanaelberkopec6699]

Therizinos are menaces in ark lol

[@haiderrazabhutta9783]

'wood does not shatter on impact that's not how wood works' is my new favorite sentence xD

[@501strookie]

Love seeing Dave Hone back again, love his podcast Terrible Lizards.

[@nickwaslen698]

Came here to shout out Terrible Lizards but you did it for me! 👍

[@argentin2306]

This guy and Alan Grant would be great friends, as Alan considers (rightfully) that the dinosaurs Ingen made are just genetic atrocities rather than actual dinosaurs

[@Dinosaur_News_Center]

Holy crap, you just had to find the worst looking T. rex model to show what paleontologists think modern T. rex looked like 2:49. Trust me, no paleontologists thinks Meth rex there is what T. rex looks like. That T. rex exhibit is really bad.

[@Jedtumble]

Agreed, it’s awful

[@elywahl9520]

Bro all I can imagine is a Rex just tweaking the fuxk out😂😂😂

[@nathanaelberkopec6699]

Meth rex lol

[@emar779]

Hahahaha "Meth Rex" is gold!

[@Theleader209]

“I’ll give it one because you won’t let me give it naught” 😂 love David Hone

[@Ferrisdoesarts2009]

What I feel a lot of people forget is that the Jurassic Park animals, while created with a basic understanding and paleontologist advisory, they're still movie monsters. They aren't meant to be documentary accurate, they're meant to be cool. They're movie monsters. Great video!

[@bkaufman91]

Even in the movies, they talk about how they genetically modified the dinosaurs to meet the expectations of park guests, as opposed to being biologically/historically accurate.

[@Bermaetel]

Problem is that the producer did advertise for one as “the most accurate dinosaurs up to date” and never really did retract that, so the sentiment (and expectations) prevail

[@Ferrisdoesarts2009]

@@Bermaetel I believe that was the Tyrannosaurus, and it was the most accurate representation of T. rex for its time. Still a terrifying movie monster, but fairly accurate for its time. The one thing they changed from the science was the teeth, giving it thin, dagger-like teeth instead of the massive railroad spikes that were inside of the actual T. rex's mouth.

[@szushycats]

@@Ferrisdoesarts2009the whole Dominion movie was advertised as such too. The first movie did great Dominion did worst of all of the movies.

[@Ferrisdoesarts2009]

@@szushycats Word

[@jedifire.]

I definitely want a Round 2. Loved his input!!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@DroctorKloebner]

I am very sure that by now everyone knows that they're actually deinonychus and they just went for the name velociraptor so that twelve year olds could tell their parent which toy they wanted for christmas without breaking their tongues.

[@CommissarPickle]

In the original book, ingen only called them velociraptors because of where the dna was recovered from

[@mattburrito]

still the movie from 1993 gives ideas how dinosaurs interact with the ecosystem

[@atimidbirb]

Sooooo one correction.... "it´d be like a honey badger attacking a grizzly, it would not go well" Have you SEEN what honey badgers do? they are batshit crazy when fighting.

[@SmashBrosAssemble]

They should have Dave react to Walking with Dinosaurs, especially the T-Rex cause it looks so horrible.

[@nickluba8178]

His presentations are so good as well

[@markdevine1157]

"Like a badger attacking a Grizzly Bear, no way they'd do that" Wonder if this guy knows what Wolverines and Honey Badgers get up to.

[@opusmaximum]

Honey badgers live in Africa and Asia, grizzly bears in North America. So, no, a honey badger won't ever attack a grizzly...

[@robinliesens7983]

Honey badgers get killed all the time when targeted by adult big cats. All those shots of honey badgers intimidating lions always involve young adults with not much experience or confidence. Yes, they can intimidate big cats, but only if the cat isn't in the mood to kill. Wolverines 1v1 wolves, but it's not like they would jump on top of a grizzly bear. Sure, they can intimidate one if it isn't that much motivated, but let's be real, a grizzly bear that wants to kill a wolverine will kill a wolverine. And if you jump on top of a grizzly bear, it will be motivated to stop you from doing what you're doing.

[@siats142]

​@@opusmaximumwow, it's almost like he refers about how honeybadgers go against lions, rhinos, ñus, leopards, hyenas and even elephants

[@scottb3034]

@@opusmaximum The point is flying way over your head.

[@scottb3034]

@@robinliesens7983 *facepalm* The point is much smaller animals aggressively attack bigger ones. The success or not of the attack is irrelevant. The fact is that it does happen.

[@wraithofsolidarity]

I remember that image at 15:35 of the ankylosaurus clubbing the t-rex from Dinosaur magazine like 32 years ago. Awesome.

[@lewilewi1800]

There was a show primeval it was great and had wormholes bringing dinosaurs to the future id love to see him do a reaction to it

[@mathiash.1379]

If memory serves correctly, the whole "It cant see you if you dont move" thing is based on the books, but in the books this is explained as a freak sideeffect of the genesplicing process and affected most / all animals they created in one particular batch.

[@mrquirky3626]

My favourite dinosaur is the T Rex just because of the tiny arms. It's like the perfect killer with these incredibly powerful legs and a massive head with long, razor shark teeth that can cause tremendous bite force, and then these wimpy little arms that don't seem to do anything. It's like evolution really does have a sense of humour.

[@deckardcanine]

You should research the Carnotaurus.

[@ishrendon6435]

They don't need them that's how powerful there head and bite is it's like the little leg bones in whales

[@raptros]

At that size they are far from perfect, just think of how much energy they must require just to sustain themselves, they'd wipe out an entire ecosystem and eventually starve if their numbers grew out of control.

[@msbrownsierra]

​@@deckardcaninedon't do carno like that xD

[@Bagelgeuse]

​@@raptrosYou know T. rex lived with other giant dinosaurs, right? I don't think enough made it to adulthood to become a problem.

[@Fede_uyz]

Fun fact, the Velociraptors are not Velociraptor Mongolensis, they are rather Deinonychus, which are of the velociraptor family. In fact almost everything is correct for the Deinonychus but they used the simple velociraptor monicker because its cooler

[@Stallion386]

The raptor was extremely accurate for the time, as they had temporarily given Deinonychus or Utahraptor, I forget which, the name 'Velociraptor'. The feathers idea was still in its infancy and just a not-widely-held belief at the time. People are always so hard on this series about that, lol, but they forget it was '93.

[@jacobcox4565]

It was Deinonychus. Utahraptor wasn't described until the same month Jurassic Park was in theaters.

[@scottb3034]

that's what ruins these types of analyses. They refuse to accept context or nuance.

[@scottb3034]

@@jacobcox4565 Utah Raptor however WAS known since the 1970s. But since it didn't have a name or a paper on it then yes it wouldn't be used. The film just used the same source as the book on the matter, Greg Paul who tried to make his naming system the new industry practice and it flopped. And thus, as you said, Deinonychus became a velociraptor.

[@jacobcox4565]

@@scottb3034 That's why I said Utahraptor wasn't *described* until the same month the movie came out.

[@scottb3034]

@@jacobcox4565 No... it wasn't.... That's just when it was made public. it was described months before and they spent months trying to get Spielberg to pay for the name. It isn't a coincidence it was published a week after the movie premiered. They were sitting on the paper publicly though it was known in academia before then. The thing you got right here is that it was Deinonychus not Utah in the movie and that's what I said you got right.

[@Kat-px7mq]

I love how he also includes the time when the movies were produced in his rating system

[@Wings-9960]

I thought we knew for certain that stegosaurus tail spikes were used for defense against predators? Didn't we find an allosaurus vertebrate with a hole that perfectly fit a stegosaurus spike?

[@johnwanderin3872]

Secondary function

[@ch4z_bucks]

I imagine that was a secondary function, as the expert in this video points out it lacks the articulation to make it the primary purpose.

[@charismw2319]

I need more of him!!! Best videos

[@Imaculata]

How can you skip over the Spinosaurus, the most controversial dinosaur of them all?

[@Indoraptor_Prototype]

He already watched that last 2 years ago, and he hates it because it's not accurate

[@GoGsApostle]

I wanna say I heard ramblings about a (fan?) theory of the Spino being a hybrid, hence the extreme aggression I'm not involved in any community or in the know, just got me a vague memory from a long long time ago

[@General_Eisenhower1945]

It is, based on Canon, it was created in 1999, experimented on for a few months and then first seen in film in jurassic park 3, it's a spino, but heavily modified at that

[@Trojan0304]

Fascinating reviews with updated info, 🦖🦖🦖new to channel & subscribed

[@Dinoslay]

Fun fact; Pteranodon means “Winged And Toothless” in Latin. In that sense the Jurassic Park 3 “Pteranodons” are very, very inaccurate since their mouths sport the exact opposite of what their name implies. In fact, it is due to it that parts of the fandom nicknamed them “hippocratesi”.

[@hellegennes]

Pteranodon is Greek, not Latin.

[@campy3888]

The first Jurassic Park movie came out in 1993 and is 6 months older than I am. I grew up in a a different part of the world where media spread to a bit later. Whenever there was a hot weekend, my parents would take us to huge indoor supermarket called Maximark to hide from the heat as very very few households could afford air conditioning. I must've been around 7-8 at the time and I was allowed to wander off by myself. I usually went to watch others play in the arcade, then headed for the electronics section where they sold TVs. The TVs played movies on repeat, most commonly A Phantom Menace and... entire the Jurassic Park series! It was the most mind blowing things I'd ever seen! I would stand there and watch whole movies by parents came to collect me! I must've seen them tens of times and had the sounds of every dialogue memorized (I didn't know English and relied on subtitles). When I emigrated to the US and started to learn English, I learned a lot by recalling dialogue from these movies and translating in my head. To me, these movies are so iconic and are great achievements in showcasing human imagination. They've sown the seeds of wonder in so many people's minds.

[@liferealgood]

Killed my childhood. Velociraptors aren’t that big!😢

[@KnawedOne]

There can be a lot of attitude contained in a small body! I used to describe my Monk Parrot as a modern velociraptor! She would make shattering shrieks as she ran to attack something! Cracked me up! Made lots believers in “birds are modern day dinosaurs”!

[@jacobcox4565]

There are other Dromaeosaurs that were as big, if not bigger, than the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park. Dromaeosaurs like Deinonychus, Austroraptor, Utahraptor, and Achillobator.

[@johnwanderin3872]

@@jacobcox4565and Dakotaraptor, which along with Utahraptor were probably bigger and even more terrifying than the movie raptors despite not being as intelligent.

[@jacobcox4565]

​@@johnwanderin3872 There's a high chance that the fossils of Dakotaraptor actually belonged to a turtle.

[@johnwanderin3872]

@ surely they could distinguish Dromeosaur fossils from that of a turtle… and if it is a turtle, they should still call it Dakotaraptor just because it’s be funny

[@lord-licht]

This was so wonderful. PLEASE MORE.

[@MaseBonggo-od3wc]

My favorite dinosaur to have as a pet is Parasaurolophus

[@jacobcox4565]

I'd rather get something more manageable, like a Compsognathus or a Psittacosaurus.

[@Rexred09]

You sure? cause those things are pretty friggen huge.

[@marisavangraan]

Great video lovely job 👏👏 thanks for the great video.

[@awesomehpt8938]

He didn’t talk about spinosaurus!

[@RippanYT]

He already did 2 years ago and hated it, just like most of us as it's nothing like what a spinosaurus was.

[@mattburrito]

@@RippanYT no duh no human nowadays knows how dinosaurs were in the past no one

[@Jurassicfs3-c1w]

@@RippanYT WHO IS US? I love the spinosaurus

[@Krookavan]

You can see someone's arm at the back of the velociraptor when it's just opened the door 😂

[@sonicrose8430]

The tail spikes were absolutely used to ward off predators there’s literally an Allosaurus find that shows it got impaled in the crotch by a Stego spike

[@johnwanderin3872]

It’s a secondary function is what he’s saying, like the Ankylosaurus tail club. For example, a ram’s horns are primarily used for combat amongst other males but they can definitely be used to fight off a wolf or mountain lion

[@severalwolves]

I’m sure I’m not the only person pointing this out, but the “velociraptor” size issue doesn’t mean that this type of animal was wholly made up for the movie. While it’s true that velociraptor was much smaller in real life - about the size of a medium dog - there were several larger “raptors” that did exist. The ones in the book & movie are closer in size to either Deinonychus (a personal favorite of mine) or Utahraptor. I’ve heard a few theories on why they sized them up for the book/movie. I’m not sure how accurate the explanations are, but in general it seems like research was still relatively inconclusive about this group of dinosaurs at the time (Utahraptor had only been discovered a couple years earlier), and it seems like Michael Chrichton just found “Velociraptor” to be the most evocative name for them.

[@maxsmith8475]

I hate when they pretend like they don’t know that the Jurassic park velociraptors are actually the Utah raptor/ deinonychus but Spielberg wanted a cooler name. I get that the movie calls them a velociraptor (cause they were also classified one at the time iirc) but I feel like they should acknowledge the accuracy to the dinosaur it is actually based on even if they’re using the wrong name.

[@Robin93k]

They don't pretend. Spielberg did an App Job there.... They intentionally screwed with monikers, to make their product appear to the masses, without care about the misinformation they spread. For the same reason that children cannot differentiate between an application and an executable. Old Generations cannot differentiate between a Velocitaptor and a Deinonychus. If KZbin comments allowed images, I'd include the "it's the same picture" meme here...

[@lachlanm2115]

I'm so sick of dorks going "actually the velociraptor was only 2 feet tall" Ita based on a bigger species

[@Spikklubba]

yeah felt it was missing, and i have even heard Hone mention this fact efore. unless they cut it like they did the pronated hands segment

[@princevermilion8799]

Utahraptor didn't even exist/wasn't known at the time of JPs creation, and deinonychus is still not even half the size of the JP raptors.

[@lachlanm2115]

@@princevermilion8799 the design still isn't based on a real velociraptor. They knew that when they did it

[@ThijsVN3]

"That's not how wood works." I really enjoy how these experts casually point out most of these discrepancies with the most basic logic.

[@simonmatejcek4039]

11:51 it is part of a lore. Because in the books they made the dinosaurs using different types of DNA such as a DNA of frogs. And some frogs dont see an object that isn't moving

[@ch4z_bucks]

But in the books the assumption that their vision is based on movement is proven wrong when a character does not move and is seen and eaten anyway (won't spoil who)

[@simonmatejcek4039]

@ch4z_bucks i dont think so. Dr Grant survives in the part by the jeeps. Tyranosaur couldn't find him so he tries to scare him by roar. When it don't works he just accidentali hit him with leg

[@ch4z_bucks]

@@simonmatejcek4039 it was explained in the sequel that grant likely wasn't eaten because the T-rex had just eaten and wasn't hungry, he only wanted to get grant because of territory I suppose. In the second book a group of hunters get eaten by a T-rex even though they don't move, it's explained after that T-rex does see stationary prey, not just movement.

[@simonmatejcek4039]

@@ch4z_bucks ahh ok. Thats something i missed

[@whitmerule2753]

In response to OP: In the books, the tyrannosaurus was explicitly not one of those dinosaurs which had been spliced with frog DNA, so we can't use that to explain any genetic differences. (However, Crichton was inconsistent in this even within the first book - dilos showed clear sexual dimorphism and mating behaviour despite not having frog DNA. Personally I think he just wasn't paying attentoin, given several other inconsistencies in the first book, such as confusing hadrosaurs with sauropods, and changing his rules on animal behaviour when it was convenient to turn them into plot-motivated monsters.) In response to the comment thread: Crichton retconned T. rex vision in the second book. In the first book it's clearly meant to be that Rexy was trying to frighten him into moving so she could see him and eat him - in the second, he had accepted that rex vision simply would not work that way, so he tried to explain it away in retrospect AND included a scene where a rex sees and kills someone who was explicitly relying on the 'vision based on movement' hypothesis. The canon is not consistent between JP and LW, and that's just a result of 'science marches on' - you can't just say 'well, they explained it in the second book', because LW explicitly contradicts JP - just as it does with the fact that Ian Malcolm survived.

[@jjmorrow214]

The size graphic of the velociraptor popped my bubble and made me cry laughing 😂😂😂😂

[@goku1693]

Again my only issue with these criticisms is that they often ignore the reason for them being unrealistic. It’s been acknowledged since basically JP3, these animals are being engineered specifically to look and behave a certain way. The scientist in the film, can’t remember his name, even acknowledges how frustrating it is to deal with the demands and that they’re essentially creating monsters. Knowing that, it makes it much easier to accept why the dinosaurs are the way they are in the latter movies specifically

[@erica1399]

True, Dr Henry Wu was his name and that was what they did, make monsters, not authentic animals.

[@JackChurchill101]

It was a major plot point in the two novels. Particularly the lost world. Much much better than the films, which were all a bit too glossy and superficial.

[@goku1693]

@@JackChurchill101agreed, I mean know we tend to judge everything off of hyper realism but I would like the context to matter as well

[@sohamshetty09]

You do know that was a stupid retcon used to justify ugly dinosaur desigslns. Btw the original nurassic park teilogy tried to make the dinosaurs look nore closer to the real thing minus a few innacueacies, at least for the time. Didnt dominion claim to have accurate dinosaurs that looked nothing like the real thing like the joker giga. ​@@goku1693

[@sohamshetty09]

Also irs highlighted here that the designs and the realism completely dropped after the 3 rd film.

[@YasminE-d2y]

Omg my lecturer 😂😂😂😂 he taught my evolution module in 1st year 😅😅😅😅

[@erica1399]

Tbh the Jurassic Park Raptors are not based on Velociraptor Mongoliensis, but on Deinonychys Antirhopus, the novel explains it clearly with some silly theory calling them Velociraptor Antirhopus, although obviously even Deinonychus is not as large as the Jurassic Park Raptors, in the movie they are closer to Utahraptor in size, if I recall correctly the movie makers heard of the by then new discovery of Utahraptor and as such made the Raptors that size. In the Lost World the Compy's are said to be Procompsognathus instead of Compsognathus, not like it is accurate for Procompsognathus either. The Tyrannosaur's vision being based on movement was explained in the novel by the blending of it's DNA with frogs, which of course makes no sense either as even frogs can see not moving objects, besides that splicing genes between unrelated genera is impossible in general. Regarding Jurassic Park 3, I really dislike the Spinosaurus vs Tyrannosaurus Rex fight, ignore the fact we know now Spinosaurus did not look like that, Spinosaurus would even with that body be unable of twisting the Tyrannosaur's neck like that as 1 its arms could not move like that, 2 its skull and teeth where not as thick and robust like those of Tyrannosaurus Rex so probably could not withstand such forces as Spinosaurus like Baryonyx was made to catch and eat fish, and even worse seeing as how the Tyrannosaurus Rex bit the Spinosaurus neck earlier, it would probably break into the Spinosaurus neck, as theropods have hollow bones whilst Tyrannosaurus Rex's teeth could crush bones. The only thing I say about the Lost World Stegosaurs is the thagomizers are too long, and they try to attack a human by turning the thagomizers downwards which they could never do in real life, otherwise they look good enough.

[@sslocke]

If im remembering correctly, while Michael Crichton was writing Jurassic Park he was in contact with the people who discovered Utahraptor in 1975. At the time Utahraptor hadnt been fully described yet and it was known (at the time) as a type of Velociraptor. It wasnt until after the book was published and the movie was out as well that it was given its proper name and recognized as NOT a type of Velociraptor but instead as Utahraptor. So at the time the book was being written and the movie was being filmed calling them Velociraptor was correct.

[@SRPM-yk9xw]

The genus is capitalised, the species is not.

[@ch4z_bucks]

Although the T-rex being unable to see stationary prey was retconned in the second book when a bunch of hunters stand still and still get eaten. Even in the first book someone gets eaten by the baby because he thinks staying still will save him.

[@scottb3034]

@@sslocke Utah raptor is still WAY too big. However, there were some fossils in the AMNH archives that suggested an animal of the novel and movies size. Also the actual 1:1 copy of JP's raptors WAS discovered in 1989 when Crichton was writing his novel. It was Achillobator giganticus however, not Utah Raptor.

[@breakingout]

I agree with the wood not shattering if it was in the ground and green. But from the looks of that tree it was a dead and dry tree. The humid climate could've caused excessive wood rot as well. Still agree t-rex would still definitely faulted or broken its leg but wood can shatter and explode