Jurassic Park (1993) Accuracy Review Part 1/2 | 20,000 Subscriber Special!

Thank you so much for all the support over the years. I'm super thankful to have reached 20k subs. To celebrate the occasion, here's a review of Jurassic Park solely regarding its scientific accuracy. Let's see how much Spielberg got right. #jurassicpark #dinosaurs #paleontology
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Sources
Brachiosaurus: www.livescience.com/25024-bra...
Dilo 2020: www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
Death pose: www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dino...
DNA Degradation: www.nature.com/articles/natur....
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Euchambersia: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Hearts: www.infoplease.com/math-scien...
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Sauropod herds: www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
Sauropod Trackways: www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...
Thescelosaurus heart: www.washingtonpost.com/archiv...
Toxungen: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/a...
Velociraptor feathers: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

[@MichaelParthum]

19:49 It just hit me. Did Spielberg show Brachiosaurus coming out of the water to symbolize the changing of sauropod depictions from swamp dwellers to land walkers? 🤯

[@dudotolivier6363]

It's can be see like a symbolic element, it's true, but it's very likely to be just a coincidence. A thing that Spielberg dosen't realize. But it's common that realisators do positive things whithout realizing them.

[@LeoTheYuty]

bruh, maybe

[@colk5373]

Fits, considering Jurassic Park played a huge part in the dinosaur renaissance

[@zooemperor3954]

Well, perhaps

[@aster965]

@@dudotolivier6363 I would say it's possible it's intentional. When they see the first brachiosaurus, Ellie says "This thing doesn't live in a swamp."

[@lukeandfamilyvideos8234]

Accurate Or Not There’s One Thing That’s True This Film Is Amazing

[@SaurianStudios1207]

Congratulations on 20K subscribers! Jurassic Park may not be accurate anymore, but it stuck closely to what scientists knew about dinosaurs at the time, while taking creative liberties with the creatures to fit the storytelling of the film using plausible science and I’d say they succeeded! Jurassic park was not only a step up from dinosaur movies before in terms of quality (as it still remains the best dinosaur film of all time), it portrayed dinosaurs in a way never before seen. Gone were the days of dumb tail dragging, upright lizards of the 20th century, Jurassic Park showcased fast moving, warm blooded and active dinosaurs that behaved more like real animals than movie monsters. The movie has for better and for worse changed the public’s perception of dinosaurs and paving the way for a new generation of paleontologists to make incredible discoveries that continue to this very day! While the film’s depiction of science and dinosaurs is fictionalized/inaccurate by today’s standards, you still gotta pay respect to the film that changed our view of dinosaurs in science and pop culture forever.

[@Skely08]

Jurassic park and dino dan was the first dinosaur thing I watched

[@TrexTamer]

it's just a shame that the modern sequels not only try and only make "cool" dinosaurs for the sake of being cool but also go even MORE INACURATE to the now from even the first movies.

[@MilesMorales827]

@@Skely08 omg I love Dino dan😂😂

[@Skely08]

@@MilesMorales827 Finally another dino dan watcher

[@wingedhussar1453]

Idk they sort of l Potreyed dinos as nothing more then vicious brutes .but it is a movie not boring doc

[@alang.bandala8863]

Some aditional notes: -The dinosaurs couldn't sneeze - The entire Dilo was like a joke on production, it was like "What if we do that" and by chaos effect, the dino looks like that. Heck, even the concept art portrayed the Dilo as a good accurate dinosaur. - Shrinkrapping on skulls

[@darryl0745]

Dinosaurs couldn't sneeze? Why?

[@manuelcanals8022]

I always thought that the Dilophosaurus was so different in the movies to it's life counterpart because of the mixing in the DNA. They say that they used frog DNA to complete the sequence, but in the Dilo's case, they could have used some type of lizard

[@gergopiroska5749]

Tbh while the venom think is debunked the frill is not fully debunkable (well for now) since soft tissue does not preserve and Dilophosaurus isn't that well known

[@joshuavis2736]

Yea like the frilled lizard also has a frill. It’s probably not the exact same but it’s close enouhj

[@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD]

I would assume they used spitting Cobra and frilled lizard, due to the blinding effects of it's spit and just the frills.

[@clamcrewcarclub6017]

I think the shaking bright red and yellow frills just looked cool to Spielberg hahaha but the mixed DNA plot point is the perfect “get out of scientific innacuracy jail free card” 🤣

[@braden6076]

The amount of excitement that shot through my body when I saw this is uncanny.

[@roguetheoutlander8800]

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one 20 thousands?! I thought you have more, but congrats

[@mikkelhkkerup7934]

Can You do an analysis of the film "Dinosaur (2000)", that was made by Disney? It was also a movie made for entertainment, but like Jurassic Park, it was made with a relatively high degree of paleontological accuracy of its time, (Some dinosaurs are smashed together to a "common" time period, primates did probably not live during the Mesozoic Are, and Iguandon (Aladar) was probably bipedal.

[@Rexred09]

Congratulations on 20K Red. You earned it. I already knew ALOT about dinosaurs but I’ve learns even more about them with your documentary reviews.

[@CooperHudgins]

Hi RRR. I just want to give a huge congratulations for everything you’ve been accomplishing over the years, especially with your channel and all it’s content. As a long time lover of prehistory since I could read, I’ve been obsessed with it, and it brings me a lot of happiness to see people talk about it so much and to see where we’ve come from since the beginning of it all. I hope you can keep up the good work and continue on in bringing us paleomedia to talk about for years to come.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

Hey, *congrats* on reaching this milestone (👏)! "Jurassic Park" is THE film that made me an overall paleontology buff (as well as a BIG fan of the franchise). While nowadays, I _do_ acknowledge the inaccuracies in the film's depictions of dinosaurs, I still personally enjoy them from the standpoint of 'these are Science-Fiction reconstructions of these animals.' But it's fun to learn how the real life-animals differed from their cinematic counterparts when it's presented to people like this (👍).

[@LeoTheYuty]

Anyone notice how the Jurassic World dinosaurs are not just outdated, but also less accurate than their Jurassic Park counterparts? Examples: nearly tail-dragging stegosaurus and triceratops that gallop like horses, gallimimus with teeth, anorexic t.rex, etc.

[@Heccy_weccy]

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[@karenanewme7520]

Agreed. Dont forget bulkier raptors and kangaroo Parasaurs.

[@joshuaW5621]

Happy 20k. You’ve earned it. It’s also fun to see how well Jurassic Park holds up accuracy wise nearly 30 years later.

[@alanqua3789]

Congrats my dude! It’s been fun to see you grow since your first Dino doc reviews! You totally deserve it!

[@calebrands4912]

If you ever need to remind yourself how dinosaurs' arms are, just remember: "if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands."

[@alexy5611]

People getting this fact right makes me want to clap my hands

[@YashPillai-r7t]

Congrats on hitting 20k, I have become addicted to your accuracy reviews. The only good addiction out there

[@SloppGG]

I’m so happy you are now at 20k! I’ve been subscribed since 10k and I’m happy you have gained so many subs so even more people can see this amazing content!

[@Felix_KS]

Awesome! I’ve been waiting for this for a while and it’s finally here!

[@BerryDeLajt]

Congrats, you earn the 20k subs and I love you're content. I wish the original Dilo scene had a big Dilophosaurus just like the novel had, because Dilo is one of my most favourite carnivores, and the scene could be much cooler imo.

[@Fernsarenice]

Hey man, congratulations! you deserve this respect!

[@randomericthings7506]

I like how in both “Jurassic Park” and “The Lost World” they don’t just have the T-Rex chasing after the people for no reason. In the first movie it attacked because of the flashing lights, and the fact that it had claimed that area as its territory, it was also curious. The next two times we see it, it is hunting not even paying attention to the people. The second movie it’s because people were in their territory and they kidnapped and (in their eyes) hurt their offspring making them feel they have to eliminate the threat. Even in the third movie, the Spinosaurus was chasing after them because the people rammed into the side of its body with a plane, I would be pretty upset too.

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[@calvinboyd9139]

Well done man, congratulations on hitting 20,000 subscribers, I'd almost say you could push this review into 3 parts, cos you really seem to be enjoying talking about it and I can say we certainly enjoy listening to you talk about it.

[@GreedGibbon]

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[@maxlombard127]

Congrats on 20k subscribers.

[@Utahraptor1987]

Congratulations on reaching 20k subscribers, love your videos btw.

[@Mutantgamer]

Great video. If you continue covering the rest of the films in the series (including the 3 sequels) you almost never run out of content.

[@CptPatrik]

Congrats on 20k subs!! You deserve it!!

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Well done on 20k

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Congrats on 20K subs bro

[@Ahalaya]

Congrats on so the milestones, dude. Well deserved. One of the major flaws i already know is coming here: Crichton occasionally decided, "Well, it's technically this dinosaur, but this name is way better."

[@godzillapro2074]

Congrats on 20k

[@keironknapp7070]

This is and always be the best thing to come out of the jurassic franchise and my favourite movie of all time

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[@NothosaurusFan1981]

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[@markcobuzzi826]

Speaking of that part you mentioned at 15:34, I was rewatching Paleo Nerd's critique of Jurassic Fight Club's "Bloodiest Battle" episode, in which he originally said that Camarasaurus rearing up was likely impossible (being a Macronarian like Brachiosaurus). But in one of his recent comments, Paleo Nerd stated that according to information he looked up afterwards, "Macronarians are perfectly capable of rearing up as it turns out, so just forget what I said in this video about it being impossible". I do not know the full context of Paleo Nerd's comment, nor whether the information he based his later comment on is applicable to Brachiosaurus in particular. But I was still curious about it, since Brachiosaurus is grouped under the Macronarian clade.

[@therosrex5488]

While Brachiosaurus and Carmarasaurus are both Macronarians, they have many anatomical differences. In particular, Brachiosaurus (or at least Giraffatitan, which the JP Brachiosaurus is mostly based on) was far more front-heavy. Granted, I have not read research on this, but just considering their anatomy, I doubt it would be possible for Brachiosaurus to rear up, at least not for long periods of time.

[@markcobuzzi826]

@@therosrex5488 Yeah, that was what I alluded to. Giraffatitan and Brachiosaurus look more front-heavy, even compared to some other Macronarians like Camarasaurus. So I wanted to acknowledge that, just because newer research apparently supports Camarasaaurus and likely other Macronarians being able to rear up, it would not necessarily prove the same for Brachiosaurus/Giraffatitan.

[@therosrex5488]

@@markcobuzzi826 ah, fair fair! I guess I misread something earlier.

[@SharksandDinos]

I know when I pointed this out to KingRexy (Raimus) on Deviantart, he did say what Paleo Nerd was wrong since a sauropod's center of mass is closer to their back legs than in the middle of their torsos. Though I am not sure if I told him before he made the change or not. I would have to check Discord to see if any form of discussion took place.

[@therosrex5488]

@@SharksandDinos which sauropods, though? There's a lot of different body plans in that group

[@Blackclaw1000]

Gratulations for so many Subs :)

[@McShizzle]

That Dan Schneider reference 🤣🤣

[@matejajanic6932]

Congratulations on 20K subscribes while definitely not the most accurate dinosaur media Jurassic Park is still my favorite movie

[@wildbytes5066]

Congrats on 20k subscribers! Awesome video keep up the great content! Look forward to part 2. At least they didn’t make the Rex as mean looking and angry as the Giga on JW.

[@Rexred09]

Or the Spinosaurus.

[@zadoski6329]

20k remember us when u hit 1mil

[@danielcain8136]

If you wondering why the creators made Dilophosaurus so small and not fully grown is so that it won't outshine the Velociraptor in the movie

[@ProxxRoxx]

Congratulations! ✌️

[@TheTrueTyrannosaurusRex]

Good Luck on Part 2.

[@NextToToddliness]

So, just to touch on the Dilophosaurus thing from the movies: the books do reference the one being a younger one, and in the film, Nedry says, "I thought you were one of your bigger brothers". Doesn't change the discrepancies with the actual animal, but it is slightly alluded to in the movie (more so in the books).

[@animalnerd4368]

The “bigger brothers” dialogue could simply mean something like T.Rex or (if JPTG is still canon, which it might not be, although the DPG websites implies some of it might be canon) even Herreasaurus. There isn’t much evidence in the film to point to the Dilo being a juvenile.

[@Kristjan0209]

1 interesting thing is that in the lego Jurassic park game the dilo is the correct size.

[@joshgamerpro5605]

I have supported you since 1k now your at 20k? I Hope you keep up the good work and continue to grow

[@redraptorwrites6778]

Awesome! Glad to have you here. I'll do my best

[@YodaBVL]

Been here since probably 15k

[@vaggos2003]

You know, about that portion of the video where you talked about how each dinosaur was scientifically represented in the movie, you could make a video like that (perhaps in a form of tier list) where you talk how well the most represented dinosaur (and animals in general) in these dino docs have been represented in their entirety.

[@diesertobey]

onto the next 20k❤️❤️

[@kairyu9207]

Good job getting 20 K subscribers. You earned this. Jurassic Park is far from an accurate representation of dinosaurs. It still did a good job portraying its animals. I hope to see videos like this for The Lost World and the rest of the sequels. There are plenty of things to talk about when it comes to accuracy in the Jurassic franchise. After part 2 of this one, of course.

[@aratherbritishdinosaur]

Didn't realise how much this channel has positively impacted your life. Neat.

[@arturosandovalsaito2704]

I’m surprised you uploaded a video about Jurassic Park. Great job! Does this mean that you’re also going to make videos about the dinosaurs in the movie’s sequels? Congratulations by the way.

[@DinoFilmClay]

Ah, what a wonderful authentic Jurassic Park review, you described it very well and I really enjoyed it. New friend with clay animation dinosaur's fictional story. ♥️🕊️🦕🙏

[@caydensteele6001]

This is where the fun begins

[@thegoose1484]

Another small nitpick is were Alan ask dr. Wu ''what species is this'' and he replies with ''its a Velociraptor'', the genus name

[@redraptorwrites6778]

Thanks for catching that! No idea how I forgot to add that.

[@voodooonevipersonstation663]

What’s interesting is that in the book, the Dilophosaurus while inaccurate, is never said to be small. It is said to be quite large, and they never mention a frill. It just spits venom which was the given theory at the time as they thought it’s jaw too weak to kill anything.

[@mailstorminurbox]

Guys its 2023 now, that means, ITS THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF JURASSIC PARK Edit: its the 2nd of march so like a month left till 15 april which is the anniversary day

[@dudotolivier6363]

Just to note, Red Raptor, in the movie, the dromaesaurid aka raptor we have is definitely Velociraptor and not at all Deinonychus. Because even if the Velociraptor of the movie, in the behind the scenes, was made and construc following the appearance of Deinonychus of the time, inside the movie universe, it's remain the genus Velociraptor and not the one of Deinonychus. Inside the movie universe, it's true that it's never precise the name specie of Velociraptor. And in the beginning at the excavating ground with Grant making the lesson to the boy the raptor fossil that the team dig it is called a Velociraptor despite being in North America instead of Mongolia. But each movies set in the same year where they are released and in 1993, Deinonychus was always considered by many taxonomic people to be a Velociraptor specie and not his own genus. So, what we have here is the characters at the excavation sequence find a true Deinonychus specimen, but call him by mistake a Velociraptor nertherless, because of the pecie's taxonomic problem of the time. For the living raptors we see later in the film, anything element throughout the film is said about the DNA material source from what they were created and where this later was obtained. Sure, from a mosquito DNA amber, and the Amber Mine sequence we see in the movie set in the Dominican Republic inside the Caribbean, that's says, near North America. But it's never confirm the raptor DNA came specifically from here. So, there alway a chance the raptor DNA was found somewhere in Asia, and since any element can in reality said hat inside the universe itself he raptor in question are Deinonychus, so far the raptor we see are definitely and confirmed to be Velociraptor ! Just they are not accurate due to the genetic manipulation, it's all ! Also, if the Brachiosaurus we see was made enterely on Giraffatitan but remain enterely Brachiosaurus noneless, so if the movie said that the raptor we see are Velociraptor despite being made on Deinonychus appearance, so they are Velociraptor.

[@joaodala549]

iirc the book explains that Alan Grant used Velociraptor/Raptor as an umbrella term for those fellows.

[@RHoi4]

No matter what, Jurassic Park remains my favourite movie.

[@gooberzilla7565]

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[@wandererak9705]

Never thought I’d see the day

[@coconutlollipop3410]

happy 20k!🥳 -sister

[@coconutlollipop3410]

lol u really had to go dr steinman on the dino😂

[@redraptorwrites6778]

Bruh you were in the Prehistoric Planet videos. You can say your name. Also yeah boi

[@coconutlollipop3410]

@@redraptorwrites6778 oh yeah

[@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115]

Congratulations for the subscribers, hopefully we'll get to 100k. I can't wait for the second part, is there a prediction for when will it be done?

[@redraptorwrites6778]

A week? Maybe a little more

[@LeanBeansOSC]

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[@drompedino5583]

Congrats good sir.

[@local._.]

Nedry does say "Thought you were one of your big brothers, you're not so bad.", implying that the Dilo wasn't fully grown.

[@t-r-e-x452]

I'll admit, I was not expecting you to cover Jurassic Park. Makes me wonder if you'll cover the other films. . . . .

[@englishwithdamoon]

Incredible

[@thedogman7846]

I love dilophosaurus so I feel the need to say it here. Dilophosaurus in the book is way more accurate. It‘s portrayed as a very large predator, around 8feet tall. There is no talk about any frills. They do still spit venom of course but other then that they aren‘t all that inaccurate in the books. The book version was more accurate AND scarier and I have no idea why they chinged it so much

[@christianjacinto7042]

To help make it stand out from the Velociraptors. Also why they're undersized. Considering the only scenes with them are in the rain at night. A more accurate frillless dilo may be more easily mixed up with Velociraptors. And we'd miss that iconic scene when it first opens its frill.

[@apenasmaisumdiogo.7115]

It was also more explicit that the venom was an unpredictable feature InGen was surprised with - if I'm not mistaken they tried to find the venom gland to remove it, but they were unable to do so, and the park refused to kill one of the specimens so there could be an autopsy.

[@brandonlyon730]

Maybe because they thought the scene was too violent and gruesome and had to change it to keep a PG-13 rating, after all in the Book it literally disembodied Nedry with part of his intestines hanging out.

[@joshuaW5621]

16:05 I remember playing Jump Ahead back in senior infants 11 years ago.

[@pandasonic1294]

In the Movie when nerdy Encountered the Dilo. He explicitly also said "Your not as bad as your big Brothers and sisters". So yeah it's a baby or juvenile.

[@anthonydepaoli1861]

You could have included that the Dilophosaurus in the book was more accurate, at least in the size and lack of frill. It still spat "venom" though.

[@Alatreon2435]

book =/= movie

[@bassmantjox1299]

@@Alatreon2435 yeah, Rexy dies in the book, and Grant killed the raptors

[@brandonlyon730]

@@bassmantjox1299 Malcom dies in the first book, but then he was suddenly back to alive again in the Lost World Book.

[@bassmantjox1299]

@@brandonlyon730 yeah, that’s why I didn’t include his death

[@cassasaurus8908]

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[@epicjonny155]

Oh god here we go

[@thedumbdumbdoes6976]

Damn I thought I remembered you having like a million subs

[@rogerrobertgamer8312]

The velociraptors were (sorta) confirmed to be deinonychus

[@SaurianStudios1207]

Yeah, I think going with Deinonychus would’ve not been as confusing but I can see why they went with the name velociraptor because it sounds more cooler and easy to pronounce.

[@dudotolivier6363]

Nope, it's maybe based on Deinonychus fossil apprearance in the behind the scene but inside the movies universe it's 100% the Velociraptor genus and specie. If the creature look like Deinonychus and aren't accurate, it's because of the genetic manipuations. And Jurassic World Evolution 1 and 2 games, even if these latter aren't canon at all, show how a Deinonychus will look in a Jurassic Park/World production and confirmed that the raptors we see in JP1 are definitely Velociraptor.

[@maxrichards3881]

I think it’s a funny coincidence how the first two dinosaurs alphabetically are the 2 actually from the Jurassic.

[@rundownamateur7253]

This is the video of the century no the greatest video of the Holocene

[@papanasicuafine]

God i love this video.

[@ddarkon1223]

Damn red raptor is now an ultimate giga chad of the paleo community

[@redraptorwrites6778]

I think you misspelled SIGMA CHAD XD

[@sonicrose8430]

when i was like 1 or 2 years old the Jurassic Park movies were funny enough the most effective way to make me stop crying or whatever and take a nap

[@randomericthings7506]

Dilophosaurus in the novel is the correct size and doesn’t have frills, it does spit venom though, but there’s no evidence for or against that, not to mention the book goes into greater detail on the side effects of gene splicing and genetic engineering than any of the movies ever do.

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

Jp is the megaboss of the broken hands in dinosaurs.

[@Aerostarm]

4:50 you mention how sauopods were gigantotherms. A recent study was released. I cant remember where that stated that they were more likely true endotherms. Maybe its been disputed though

[@dudotolivier6363]

In fact, all the things on the Dilo we see in the movie are depictions made by Michael Crichton himself ! True fact that was confirm ! The author of the two Jurassic Park book novels (I read the two, they are both awesome btw) change the appearance of the Dilo by author creative liberties ! The Dilo appear already in the original novel. I this book, he is depict completely accurate ! Being as big this specie was in real life. Okay, he already have his spitting venom at this time, but outside that, he was accurate as in real life ! He was also depict as having a pattern color similar to a leopard (being yellow with dark spot) but is a element we can't debunk. Fot the movie adaptation, for some reasons, Crichton decide himself to "edit" the Dilo appearance by adding him a frill like a australian frilled lizard, and to reduce his size. At final, in reality, what we have is a full adult Dilo. It's even consolidate by the 2011 Telltale game "Jurassic Park The Game" (this latter being 100% canon and not outside canon despite a popular believe. Even if the Jurassic World movies and Dominion especially dosen't help much by maling with some inconsistencies). Not only we see females Dilo having eggs, showing they are sexually mature. But the bonus notes of Dr Laura Sorkins revealed directly that for some reasons, any specimens reach the size of the fossil life counterpart despite being adult. What we have in Jurassic World, with the Dilo hologram, being likely a uncomon bigger specimen of the same breed (and to this day, there only 1 breed of Dilo in JP/W universe).

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I was here for 20k

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[@stevenelbert8989]

After jurassic park will you do the other movies in the series or any other dinosaur movies in terms of a acuretcy