Why Paleontology Should Thank Jurassic Park

The science behind the story of Jurassic Park changed dinosaurs forever in 1993 and even the sequels helped usher in new groundbreaking ideas. I go over why paleontology should thank the movies for popularizing those ideas that revolutionized the animals that were entrenched in a hundred year dogma.
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[@KayWhyCommando]

Jurassic Park has the best excuse in the book for the dinosaurs to be portrayed inaccurately, and yet you can still see the effort that they put in to make them as scientifically accurate as the scripts and time period would allow. That's something to be admired in my eyes.

[@drakesmith471]

I’ve read both books but it’s been years so I guess, what were the bits of you recall them?

[@ThestriX46]

@@drakesmith471 I believe he's talking about their DNA being impure, hence the unnatural look.. it's even quoted by Wu in JW to put an end to the whole "JP dinosaurs are inaccurate" bs

[@HobGungan]

It was a conversation in the first book which was also referenced in a line in Jurassic World, where Wu tries to pitch for engineering the animals more docile and Hammond poo-poos it because he wants "realism". Wu then retorts that the animals they have aren't real either, since they had little to no idea what the real animals were like and already had to blend the genetic code so much just to get something resembling what they expected. Moreover, with the Dilophosaurs specifically (who were their natural size and frilless in the book), it was stated they had no idea that they spit until they grew them, and Chrichton said he invented this as a way to drive home how little we know about soft tissue for dinosaurs and how many species probably had adaptations that we could never dream of - a trend taken to the extreme in a lot of modern paleoart.

[@drakesmith471]

@@HobGungan ah no, I recall this quote. I just didn’t think this was the one in question.

[@KayWhyCommando]

I was referring to the fact that dinosaurs in the franchise, ever since the first novel, were made by splicing DNA with modern creatures (mostly frogs). Since they're not supposed to be pure genetic clones, they can do whatever they please.

[@nolsee1176]

When the movie came out, all of the teachers in our school were baffled. Suddenly the library was filled with kids reading every dinosaur book they could get their hands on. One of my friends did indeed grow up to be a palaeontologist.

[@whitewolf3051]

You sure it wasn’t because of an illustrated book Dinotopia by James Gurney? That came out a year before the movie.

[@nolsee1176]

@@whitewolf3051 No, she credits Jurassic Park for sparking her obsession.

[@JBrotsis1]

@@whitewolf3051 I freaking love Dinotopia! I’m still crossing my fingers we get a movie in the future.

[@whitewolf3051]

@@JBrotsis1 We already kind of did, with the mini series that came out, which was fallowed by a short lived TV series.

[@southparkstanmarshofficial]

Jurassic Park made history in the dinosaur community. Truly a special franchise!

[@WhackyTailstheawsomefox]

True and correct

[@redskull378]

Too bad it got ruined by the jw sequels.

[@southparkstanmarshofficial]

@@redskull378 I disagree but I respect your opinion

[@whitewolf3051]

The illustrated book Dinotopia by James Gurney had the correct stance of theropod dinosaur in 1992.

[@WhackyTailstheawsomefox]

@@whitewolf3051 oh thanks for the info

[@Jose_Lopez08]

Jurassic Park really changed how we viewed dinosaurs not just back then but also in some sequels on how we viewed these magnificent creatures.

[@whitewolf3051]

Jurassic Park *may* or *may not* owe the new design of dinosaurs in thanks to the illustrated book Dinotopia by James Gurney, a book that came out in 1992, a year earlier than the movie.

[@Thagomizer]

And now we are desperately in need of a new change. Do you think Paleontology ground to a screeching halt after 1993?

[@dereklopez9060]

Jurassic Park is what truly got me into Dinosaurs in the first place, I was in complete awe when I first seen them on screen.

[@arcade3490]

Dude same here

[@alexanderrobertson3548]

Yeah I'm the same, well I'm a little younger than JP3 but yeah when I first saw first 2 movies when I was little I both loved it and was scared of it, but loved it more😂😂

[@whitewolf3051]

For me, Dino Riders cartoon, then the illustrated book Dinotopia by James Gurney, and Dinotopia book came out in 1992, a year earlier than the movie.

[@Thagomizer]

Are you into dinosaurs, or JP? They are not the same thing.

[@jaredmc7982]

I also remember someone on either the making of doc or featurette for The Lost World saying, “It’s important that the animals never be portrayed as villains or monsters, because they’re not. They’re just doing what they do, and it’s when humans come together out of greed or conflict, that the humans find themselves at the mercy of the animals.” I may have somewhat butchered the exact quote, but that was one of the most import elements that the original Jurassic Park films actually brought to the way they portrayed dinosaurs in media for pop culture.

[@exypnosaurus5079]

Unfortunately that had been lost throughout the Jurassic sequels. It would be fun to see a future Jurassic Park movie that returns to this philosophy although I doubt it'll be anytime soon.

[@theotherbk1819]

​@@exypnosaurus5079 eh I would argue that is still true as rexy and blue have attacked their fair share of humans despite being the "heroes". And all the villain or monster dinos were the hybrids which shouldn't even count as dinosaurs. I would argue that the giga despite being advertised as the dino joker was the most animal like carnivore in the franchise. With the spino I guess you could say it's a hybrid like it been theorized to be.

[@T-REX-KNIGHT]

All that changed when the spinosaurus was introduced. I'll give the wu hybrids an excuse since they're made to be monsters.

[@jwdominionpyroraptor4775]

Well the spinosaurus was tortured by humans

[@theotherbk1819]

@@jwdominionpyroraptor4775 he also held an agenda for the humans in jp3 cause he got hit with the plane right?

[@jessehutchings]

The truth is the tyrannosaurus in Jurassic Park 1 is absolutely fantastic and I think what makes it so jaw dropping is that it seriously looks like a real animal. Regardless of its accuracy to the real life tyrannosaurus, it carried JP to success because it was terrifying and CONVINCINGLY REALISTIC.

[@DSFARGEG00]

It STILL looks better than most video game graphic driven movies, including the Jurassic World movies.

[@Thagomizer]

The movie actually DOWNPLAYED the badassness of T.rex a bit.

[@RogueT-Rex8468]

This movie only opened up the imagination that could truly go into these creatures. They ignited imagination like nothing else or has done since for dinosaurs. Thank the people who made this film a reality, and a greatest thanks to Micheal Crichton for the path he made for it all. This movie is everything to me. It sculpted my love of these animals, my expectations, the possibilities, and cinematic desires. This movie was an art form in so many ways we could talk about it for days. I remember going to the theater to see TLW with my dad. And that theater grade sound when the T. rex roared after Malcom said they were in a completely different situation while in the high hide- that just…. Felt so real. Jurassic Park is iconic and a legacy that will be shared from parent to child for as long as our species exists.

[@brendandulaca3147]

I have these movies to thank for my love of dinosaurs!! I will forever be grateful of that!! On a more personal note, I first watched Jurassic Park with my Grandmother who sadly passed away a few years after. Without her, I may not have become as big of a dino nerd as I am today. Great video as always Klayton!! Keep up the great work!!!

[@khoonkitlim5963]

Took those words right out of my mind. I watched the first movie with my mom when I was 10 at that time and I've been fascinated with how the dinosaurs move compared to those old movies. Ngl, I even tried mimicking how the raptors stalked during the part where Alex and Tim were hiding in the kitchen. And also since the movie came out, I'd be looking for any dinosaur books I could find in the bookstores.

[@logitech1928]

Jurassic Park was the game changer, it truly made us realize how spectacular these creatures really were!

[@Thagomizer]

And now, pop culture is enamored with the memory of this movie, not dinosaurs themselves.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

All I can say is... *THANK* you, "JP (😃)!" I _really_ became a fan (and something of a paleontology buff) thanks to this franchise!

[@LilyRose8959]

I enjoy most of the movies in this franchise. It's definitely one of the best of all time. JP3 gets too much hate IMO, and I liked that Dominion brought the original 3 back together again.

[@Boneman69997]

Same here! I never skip over 3 when I rewatch the movies, I find it quite enjoyable!

[@joaovictorburgosfernandes6274]

Poor jp3, a good movie sandwiched between bigger movies and a silly debate of Rex vs Spino. It’s a really nice movie!

[@tommynazer1800]

I can understand people's dislike for 3, It's not my fav but It's still above any of those god awful Jurassic World movies. JP 3 is not really a "good" movie but it's still a fun JP adventure that keeps to the spirit of the original. Jurassic World franchise lost sight of what JP's message and feel was all about and it just turned into a slightly more barrable version of the Star wars sequel trilogy. In my opinion 1.Jurassic Park 2.Lost World 3.JP3 4.Jw 5.Fallen Kingdom 6.Dominion (1=Best, 6=Worst)

[@redskull378]

​@@joaovictorburgosfernandes6274 Jp3 isn't necessarily a good movie but I still like it nonetheless.

[@Googlysaur]

@@tommynazer1800 honestly aside from JWFK I don’t think they did bad at all with JW. There’s a reason they designed the indominus the way they did, it was supposed to represent what an average person thinks of when they see a dinosaur; a cold blooded, killing machine with more than enough tools to do so. But aside from that, they pretty accurately portrayed that dinosaurs aren’t evil or vicious, Owen proves twice in the movies that velociraptors are aggressive but not evil, then the herbivore scene I don’t think I have to explain, the only real problem with the movie was when the pterosaurs broke free and just ate everybody without any consideration, which felt unnatural and took away from the message. JWFK was a movie more so about corporate greed than dinosaurs, the pacing was super weird in this one so I’m not really going to try and defend it. Ok and dominion is a whole other story to unpack. The first message they got nailed down perfectly was that herbivores aren’t ‘cute’ and that they can be even more malicious than carnivores. That scene with the theri was maybe a little exaggerated, but animals like hippos and elephants (who are particularly going through something called ‘musth’ I believe it’s called?) will absolutely murder not just a person but other small animals on sight. Not to mention, the giga’s behaviors were pretty realistic through the movie and make up for its inaccurate design. It only became intimidating when it needed to be, and quit chasing people after it deemed them not worth the energy to catch. The pacing was still kind of weird and it was also about corporate greed but overall did a much better job than JWFK.

[@LBTElectricDinoOnline]

Great Work on this Video Klayton and great analyzing of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic franchise and I pretty much agree with you on this of how the Jurassic Franchise changed dinosaurs for generations. No wonder why the dinosaurs were popular not just because of the Jurassic franchise and other media featuring dinosaurs but because of how amazing and fascinating they are. Great work on this video Klayton and as always, Take It Easy and Life Finds A Way with this.

[@NerdyThingsWithBrendon]

Hey Klayton - Can you make a video on the history of Dinosaurs? The earliest mention of them in literature, the first bones found, the first full skeleton found, how they got their names, etc. That would be really cool to watch.

[@Thagomizer]

Why? He's going to credit everything to Crichton and JP.

[@goji3908]

What the JW series should've done was update their dinosaurs for every single movie. And because they didn't update the looks of the dinosaurs overtime, people became attached to each one, namely Rexy and Blue. It would've been quite interesting to have a different assortment of dinosaurs for each movie.

[@ianpang4157]

It comes down to brand and aesthetic consistency If too much change is made on the dinosaurs themselves, the public will not be able to tell that the design is the Jurassic Park/World's interpretation of the animal

[@goji3908]

@@ianpang4157 Perhaps they could've kept the old dinosaurs from the old parks? Idk, but it would be better than the plot of Dominion

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@ianpang4157 what about dominion’s feathered animals

[@StephenSerio]

I have a best friend who is a paleontologist and Jurassic Park is one of his favorite movies. He calls out their inaccuracies to keep us ahead of the curve and still able to enjoy the fantasy of the movies, however, we still need a good story in order to get into the Jurassic World movies; which we did not get. All of that drama aside, he always talks positive about Jurassic Park in general. My son may even become a paleontologist because of the Jurassic World movies being enticing to the much younger audience who don’t need the story premise. So yes, they did have a positive impact for the future generation of scientists because I have gone on digs with my son to appease his hardcore interest. He is a toddler.

[@calebvaldez676]

I love the Jurassic Park and World movies but I also thank Paleontology for giving us Dinosaurs 😊🥰

[@marthashepley]

I was born in 2002, so I was right in the period of no Jurassic park films. But I loved dinosaurs as a kid, I would tell adults when I was 4 that I wanted to be a palaeontologist. As I got a bit older, school became more important and I just stopped thinking about dinosaurs as much, it’s not that I stopped liking them, I just sorta forgot my love for them overtime. But then Jurassic World came out and I was slowly reminded how much I loved them. Fallen Kingdom is what did it for me though, I was so excited about it coming out and I started watching videos and reading about dinosaurs all the time. At the time I wanted to go to uni and study music production, however FK changed my trajectory, and I realised I still wanted to be a palaeontologist. I’m now in my second year at uni studying zoology, on the path to be a palaeontologist. All because of Jurassic Park.

[@ichthyovenator3351]

Jurassic park really surged the popularity of dinosaurs which was essential at the time for getting the dinosaur renaissance’s more active view to the public. But it’s frustrating how it’s deviated from trying to faithfully recreate dinosaurs (with some liberties of course), to not keeping up with the times and becoming the new dinosaur stereotype.

[@hyd3n376]

These films have done irreparable damage to the public view of dinosaurs

[@Thagomizer]

Yes.

[@rhedosaurus2251]

I can overlook any flaws the dinosaurs the first two movies had since they (Except the Dilophosaurus's frill.) were accurate for their time. I even can overlook how the 'old guard' was as is in the JW trilogy. But at the same time, I do wish that the new dinosaurs were made as accurate as possible. After all, the dinosaurs in the first two movies were, for the most part, highly accurate. Was it really too much to ask for some modernized new dinosaurs?

[@The-Black-Death]

Speaking of the part at 8:00 that you mentioned, I've actually recently thought of a fanfic idea during my JWE2 playthrough for a heavily mutated and nigh unstoppable T-rex, with it being somewhat inspired by the V-rex from King Kong 2005 and the old Robertosaurus Rex concept for JP4 that you talked about in a video awhile back. Mainly to contrast to the likes of the Indominus which was bred to be much more different and deadly than the T-rex, and somehow having this mutated Rex be even more so than that with it not being made that way on purpose as it is just a complete freak of nature, simply due to the hubris factor you mentioned here.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Tbh, when it comes to the newer depictions of T. rex in media such as in Prehistoric Planet, they’re simultaneously a drastic change and not a drastic change. And yeah, it might take a while before we have such a drastic change of dinosaurs in films to look even closer to what we know of them now, but seeing as how Prehistoric Planet has already come out and was a pretty successful series (to where it’s getting a second season), maybe it could happen a little sooner than a few decades (that would be great too, and not just because the dinosaurs would be truer to life, to whatever extent, but also we’d have something that may not be under the Jurassic brand. Goodness knows we need more dinosaur content outside this franchise).

[@jessehutchings]

One of my friends in college who was studying to be an archeologist or paleontologist was a Jurassic Park fanatic. She drove one of those little green Kia cars with the JP logo on the side. I'm pretty sure she actually moved out of state for her career. Unfortunately, we lost contact

[@acetrainerleo483]

Man i wish i saw this movie as a kid. As an adult i love it but i want some nostalgia with it and i wanna see more of the parasaurolophus

[@dbel1980]

I saw jurassic park opening weekend 93. I was 12 years old. I have to tell you, it was the closest I think to what people felt seeing king Kong in the 30s. It was the best moment of my childhood that was non godzilla related

[@victorsztorc511]

Outstanding video dude keep it up and by the way you excited for both the 30th anniversary of Jurassic park and season 2 of prehistoric planet?

[@TheRodentSama]

Just at the start and paused to type... I think the fact that some of the dinos were inaccurate made people study them more. I know it did me. Having the frills on the Dilo, or Raptors at 6ft tall... made me research them even more to discover the truth and because of the inaccuracies in the movie, I know a ton more about dinosaurs than I would ever have learned.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Sadly there’s people who will take what they see at face value, that’s a part of why there’s all this complaining against the dinosaurs’ portrayal in movies.

[@rhaenyratargaryen1stofhern55]

Dinosaur! was my introduction to dinosaurs. No tail dragging, but also no feathers. Somewhere in the 1980s. Bob Bakker was the main paleontologist on the show. It was a documentary, not a movie though.

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

Honestly before Dominion came out, I don't see what the issue was with the dilophosaurus size. I mean yeah the spitting and frill they have a point but until Dominion came out and made them the same exact size, you could have easily said that it was a juvenile. And a lot of people will say well they aren't real dinosaurs they are genetic hybrids which explains a lot of the changes, and to an extent they are right because they reckoned their mistakes after the fact. The spinosaurus was never intended to be a hybrid. They just used the best information that they had at the time to make it how they thought it would be and then applied its aggression to the fact that it's a fucking movie. the dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park are not different and featherless because they planned for them to all be hybrids. Majority of them are different because that's the science that we had at the time. They were trying, for most of them, to get them as accurate as they possibly could. And then eventually as we discovered more information we realized that they were actually different and Jurassic Park wanted to shut up the people that were whining about it and said okay they're different because of genetics. Also Jurassic may not be exact with the dinos, but what Jurassic Park did for me and probably tons of other people, is give me an interest in dinosaurs. And then from that framework, I read more about the actual animals. And I found out that stuff like the T-Rex site and the velociraptor size and the dilo venom was not scientifically correct. Can I learn more about the actual animals after my love for the movies starting. So in the long run I am learning so much more about dinosaurs than I ever would have if that interest wasn't sparked to start. Edit: I popped huge for the carnosaur reference. I saw the third one first. My stepmom was so mad I rented it haha. I then saw the first. Not sure if I've ever seen 2. So bad but def a guilty pleasure

[@fae206]

I think T-Rex and Triceratops (my fave) and others would still have been popular but maybe not some of the others. I fell in love with Triceratops because of seeing the fossils and models of them at the Natural History Museum in the UK. I think that maybe Jurrasic Park popularized the subject but I am like 90% sure that these models and fossils were at the Natural History Museum in London before the movie.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Wouldn’t it have been nice to have a T. rex vs triceratops fight in one of these movies? (Not in the bonkers level of the World movies that is)

[@Thagomizer]

​@@yuyaricachimuel555All of the JP movies have shown little interest in herbivores, and grossly understated the lethal power of Triceratops. This was a nasty and dangerous animal, and for some reason the JW website lists its threat level as "low", apparently treating it as a benevolent scaly bovine.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@Thagomizer worse yet anything that isn’t a Trike. The best we got for a dangerous herbivore is therizinosaurus but I think they saw it as a convenient dinosaur because it looked a bit like a carnivore.

[@trevorc4380]

Love this video Klayton! I agree with you 100% I also think Jurassic Park was the first Dinosaur film to feature such realistic, life-size animatronics in combination with cutting edge CGI at the time. I felt this really made the dinosaurs feel real and gave us a glimpse as to how dynamic and lifelike they could move. Thanks for the great video! As always, I'm looking forward to the next one from you!

[@smoke2351]

Thanks for mentioning Carnosaur, I've been wanting to ask you to do a video for over a year but I didn't think you'd be interested in making it

[@cookiesontoast9981]

I still love all the old upright taildragging Dino movies a lot, The Lost World 1925 being one of my favourite movies ever. But as you say it is undeniable the HUGE impact JP had on all of this stuff, JP is the reason I loved dinosaurs as a kid and still do. I WISH I was old enough/even born to have been able to see JP when it first came out and to be blown away by it in real time. Bur me being born 1999, all 3 of the original films were already out by the time I was interested in dinosaurs and I was too young to have any real memories about how I reacted when I first saw the films..

[@Thagomizer]

I was 11 when I saw JP in theater. I knew what Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus were, and I knew enough to know that the movie's version of these animals was inaccurate.

[@SpottedHares]

I actually did know about Godzilla establishing the connection between dinosaurs and birds.

[@05-032MendicantBias]

Man the OG intro music. Let's goooooo

[@dylansearcy3966]

People were already getting used to how we look at dinosaurs changed before Jurassic park

[@HannibalAcrotices]

It might be different background music, but I'm really glad to hear the background again!

[@islasornacommunications9179]

Brace yourselves there might be some paleo twitter nerds comin. Another great video Klayton

[@eddyvader22]

Hey Klayton! I've been a subscriber for a long time and always wondered what song is that that you use on your intros, that rock song that only pops for about 4 secs. I would greatly appreciate if you could share it's name! Thank you and congrats for the great work as always!

[@biosyn-ab4261]

The first JP movie was WAY ahead of it's time. It was like jumping into a time machine cause the movie changed how everyone sees dinosaurs nowadays.

[@anthonytorresproductions]

12:40 “In 1905 this was a T-Rex. In 1960 this was a T.Rex. And in 1985 this was a T-Rex.” (Though is still kinda cool)

[@z-man1237]

All thanks should be given to the late Dr. Michael Crichton for writing the books and setting groundwork for the franchise as a whole. Lost World is my favorite and currently reading through the 1st book😎👍

[@LeoTheYuty]

The first movie especially, even with all its inaccuracies at the time it was released, is a spectacular piece of cinema that got a lot of people into paleontology in general, so yeah, that's kinda awesome. Too bad a lot of the sequels continued to educate people less and less, loosening the lesson on how dinosaurs and birds were related, and sucking all the life out of the dinosaurs by making all the carnivores into rabid monsters and all the herbivores (besides the one that looks like a carnivore, the therizino) into helpless fodder.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Yeah most people like to say how Dominion changed people’s perception on herbivores, but really it’s only just because the Theri looks like a freaking dragon.

[@LeoTheYuty]

@@yuyaricachimuel555 definitely true

[@Bagelgeuse]

​@@yuyaricachimuel555Hell, it doesn't even look like a Therizinosaurus ignoring the claws. Remove them and it would make a good Gigantoraptor model.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@Bagelgeuse it just looks like Schleich’s Theri

[@jackstraw4222]

actually it was pretty accurate for the time ,more so than the jw series..most mainstream books still had dinosaurs in the old poses from before the 1980s..there was accurate books back then but most were semi-technical and not well known only by dino fans...

[@geckoraptor9397]

(jp Is my favorite movie) but id say it helped dinosaurs but also in the sequels messed them up cus they kept the acuracy from 1993 and they didnt make them any better and its sad that people hate the Real acurate dinosaurs becuse people think Jurassic park dinos are cool like people think that rex with lips and raptors with feathers arent scary but i hate to break it to you ppl they werent ever supose to be scary the scary thing is that its gonna eat you not the design :(

[@rahnal21]

Inteesting arguments, I’d counter argue that the feathers thing is completely moot when you consider how rarely pop culture used feathered dromaeosaurids. If Jurassic park brought feathers into the public view, then we probably would be seeing more feather dromeosaurids in pop culture. Also, Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs were never meant to be unnatural mutations to real dinosaurs, they’re meant accurate (looking) clones in universe.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Well they definitely got somewhere with feathers in dominion. And yeah but then they made the argument that the park’s dinosaurs weren’t pure to life (and then they threw that out with the damn prologue for Dominion)

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Klayton, you know of the Dinosaur Renaissance that took place in the 60s and through the 80s? I’m pretty sure that’s the reason Jurassic Park was able to be how it was, so honestly, I wouldn’t say paleontology owes everything to Jurassic Park. Maybe it does to an extent, a big one yes, with how many people got interested after its release, but at the same time Jurassic Park owes itself to paleontology because that field was already ahead of films before then, hence this Renaissance. Hell, Phil Tippet had his own stop motion film called Prehistoric Beast, years before JP even existed as a novel, and the dinosaurs there were far ahead of what Hollywood films would soon give us, all thanks to paleontology.

[@Thagomizer]

Agreed. He gives JP FAR too much credit.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@Thagomizer to be fair, it did change the public’s perception of dinosaurs so why not?

[@Thagomizer]

@@yuyaricachimuel555 Because we're long overdue for a new change in perspective. Do you think paleontology ground to a screeching halt 30 years ago?

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@Thagomizer yeah I agree, I think we need more dinosaur series where they design dinosaurs more like the real thing. I don’t want another Jurassic movie, give me something else with dinosaurs.

[@alexallen9640]

Nice video and topic. The Velociraptor, Dilophosaurus, Compsognathus, and the Spinosaurus are some of the dinosaurs I know because of Jurassic Park. 🙂👍🦕🦖

[@ahq1042]

The dominion prologue messed up so bad. Forget the time traveling dinos here was a chance to make the animals as accurately as possible and show how different they are to the modern counter parts so it would could add another layer to Chrichton's cautionary message of just because you think you know what you're doing you don't actually. And still kept Ramsay's line of Biosyn breading 100% accurate animals to drive that fact even further.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

What’s so funny to me is after the prologue was released, the fanboys immediately came up with a new way to defend the stupid creative choices made for the prologue :P With sayings like: “It’s an alternate Earth and Henry Wu probably didn’t know that he DID make them pure”

[@ahq1042]

​@@yuyaricachimuel555 Yeah look, I can't really blame those fans for trying to make it work for themselves and as the movies stand that's how the canon is at the moment. I guess the only way to decanon the prolouge is in a future movie show it in the background as some sort of promo video for Bioysn that they made for the Giga but I doubt that will happen. In the end we all love the movies and just want to be happy with them.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@ahq1042 studios can never make a movie coherent and sensible, but fans seemingly can.

[@ahq1042]

@@yuyaricachimuel555 Yes studios make moves 15% for the fans and the rest their worrying about the general audience to get a return on investment. These days with all movies the studios worry about ticking off these box's like marvel humor, PG 13, nostalgia to make the bottom line rather than just worrying about making a good movie.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@ahq1042 yeah pretty much It sucks being someone who tried “defending” this franchise whilst being completely clueless about what was wrong with it until Dominion showed the truth straight in my face :P

[@fireblade1408]

3:54 what video was he talking about here, I’ve been trying to find it because I’ve read the novel and I don’t remember them mentioning it

[@jaimedreamsx]

Thank you for giving this film and series the love and appreciation and respect it rightfully deserves.

[@Bagelgeuse]

Jurassic Park made dinosaurs interesting to the general public. Looking back on the Park trilogy, each movie had something to say about dinosaurs based on the science of the time. JP: Dinosaurs are active animals. TLW: Dinosaurs weren't stupid, uncaring brutes; instead they were animals with lives outside of trying to kill humans. JP3: Palaeontology is constantly changing as new discoveries are made. In addition to new genera, even old favorites can evolve with new data (even if the actual reason for the dinosaurs redesigns was probably just to make them look cool). I can't say the same for the Jurassic World trilogy. World and Dominion especially make dinosaurs feel like old news, even when they're on the mainland in the latter.

[@Thagomizer]

Dinosaurs were already interesting. They're so much more interesting than JP, which is a was never a premise designed to carry a franchise in the first place.

[@Bagelgeuse]

@@Thagomizer That's true, I meant that JP made dinosaurs interesting to the general public. I fixed it.

[@conscript900]

There is so much good that came out of JP, and while there is some flaws based on the current science, the fact it sparked such a love and an interest in them not only grew the publics eye on them but probably boosted paleontologist as a career as well as other sciences.

[@ethancoolbro18gamer86]

Great video Klayton!

[@1RaptorJosh1]

Bro I freakin’ love your content, I’m now inspired by you to make videos about Jurassic Park so thanks

[@joaovictorburgosfernandes6274]

Would love to see you doing a video on carnossaur (the novel)!

[@mushhoodahmed2997]

Yo Klayton, do u think Jurassic Park 3 will be reevaluated and loved more by people in the future?

[@KlaytonFioriti]

Yeah I think so. Especially if you watch it kind of like an old school creature feature. It kinda has an Anaconda vibe

[@juliancaraveo5700]

​@@KlaytonFioriti Do you think Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom is getting more praise recently ever since Jurassic World Dominion's disappointing release last year ?

[@Bagelgeuse]

​@@juliancaraveo5700I'm pretty sure it already has. Ignoring the movie's MANY flaws, the gothic horror atmosphere was pretty cool.

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

The movie Jurassic Park [1993] is not only a groundbreaking debut for the film series, it's definitely a classic in the sci-fi genre. Special thanks to mister Crichton, Steven Spielberg and the entire productioin team + cast that made such an immeasurably impactful contribution for the scientific study of paleontology.

[@shadowdeslaar]

Dude that intro scared the shit out of me. WAS not expecting that Full-blast at night.

[@CoreyStudios2000]

I would stick with Thomas Carr and Tracy Ford in regards to whether or not large theropods had lips. The recent “research” done in Canada blatantly ignored the fact that Dinosaurs were more closely related to Birds and Crocodiles than lepidosaurs and went about comparing them to Komodo Dragons, which is unfair and a throwback to the pre-JP depictions of dinosaurs. Plus, they ignored the presence of foramina within the pre-maxilla and maxilla above the foramina going closely along the teeth as well as the foramina in the nasal and dentry parts of the skull. Lips only make sense for dromeosaurids, smaller-sizes theropods, abelisaurs, and megaraptorids.

[@Dimetropteryx]

Compsognathus was talked about before The Lost World, if only to compare it, as one of the smallest carnivorous dinosaurs, to the largest. It was pretty much among the first 10 dinosaurs I ever heard about back in the 80s. I actually think Bakker, Horner and Gould would have done a pretty good job of changing public perception. They wouldn't have been as effective as JP, but as I recall from the documentaries back then, they were doing a pretty good job of informing the public.

[@Steve51983]

While I agree that for the majority of people, Jurassic Park was a game changer. For me it will always be Phil Tippett's stop motion work in the documentary titled Dinosaur.

[@Bagelgeuse]

Was that the documentary with the Deinonychus hunting a Struthiomimus? Cuz my god, that's some of the best stop motion I've ever seen.

[@Steve51983]

@@Bagelgeuse Dinosaur. It was narrated by Christopher Reeve. You can find it on KZbin.

[@jackstraw4222]

it was pretty good back then i remember it on another british dinosaur show ...the really wild show exclusive dinosaur episode...

[@AujiTheSquirrel]

The music really changed the signature KF vibe. Good video though 👍

[@awgates85]

In the movie, I thought Nedry said something about the Dilo being a baby, though Incould be remembering it incorrectly. That doesn't fix the frill and venomous spit, but it could explain the size.

[@laminarflow6072]

Yes!!! You brought that awesome intro music back!!!

[@steelerex9839]

I actually remember an episode of the original Land of the Lost tv series where a character mentioned how Grumpy would evolve into a bird. Also, I agree that the next thing to bring dinosaurs back into the public attention is likely decades from now

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Well Prehistoric Planet is close, although it’s a documentary. It might definitely take a while to see that kind of dinosaur in a movie.

[@Stinger522]

The first JP movie Jumpstarted my interest in dinosaurs. It's not as big as was back then but I still read about new discoveries when they pop up.

[@ethandoyle4978]

This franchise as a whole is still and always has had a special place in my heart. And I’m glad that it has gotten mine and so many other s to love dinosaurs and how they’ve changed our perspectives of theses magnificent creatures.

[@KlaymenDel]

I want to be an Ingen Executive, where to patreon? Love your videos, man! They really help during the work day!

[@The_Ghost_Gaming]

2:28. You know what... I wonder if that's why Yoshi uses his tongue for one of his movesets...

[@FarradMuseumofTruth]

I still remember Walking with Dinosaurs. Amazing scenes and truly inspiring.

[@mariofilho971]

The film is good for paleontology in the short term and then I'm afraid, thanks to the film, dinosaurs changed in cinema but then things changed and the franchise didn't change

[@TheJericho1123]

maybe the first movie, not the rest. I`ve been into dinosaurs before JP (thanks to The Land That Time Forgot, The Last Dinosaur and One Million Years B.C.) you don't need to be a franchise fanboy to like dinos.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

For me it was Disney’s Dinosaur. That movie will always be the gateway for me. Jurassic Park was never my favorite even as a kid.

[@Kevle110]

What movie is ist at time 12:49?

[@GigaChadDuPlessis]

The edit of the raptors tongues sent me😂

[@therealnuggetball]

Great video! I personally think that without Jurassic park dinosaurs would likely be not so well known as they are now. Depsite what you said the accuracy is something not easily getting around. The first movie had information that has been debunked since ( T-Rex sight and raptor size were presented as a paleontological fact ) not trying to diss it though. The sequels left the inaccurate parts in for continuity and never tried to be fully accurate anyway. Even in Jurassic world the Spinosaurus skeleton is standing on two legs... Not four as it is presented nowadays. With that dominon did two things: 1. Make the dinosaurs feathered which was welcomed 2. Fully commit to the separation between the JP canon paleontology and our paleontology by making the Giganotosaurus the biggest carnivore and the whole prologue scene ( which is inaccurate, but still pretty cool to see in a Jurassic movie) with inaccurate geographic locations of dinosaurs and the inaccurate design of dinosaurs.

[@WhackyTailstheawsomefox]

Ih klayton another nice awesome video you did and in my opinion I think why paleontologist should thank Jurassic Park is because paleontologist obviously dig up old artifacts and old skeletons and all that from ages ago

[@WaterDragon770]

It's time like this. I wish I had access to a time machine to go back in time to see what the dinosaurs really looked like, and u know, take the opportunity to study them. But never the less, I love the dinosaurs we got to see in jurassic Park.

[@robrice7246]

8:23/10:44 I actually had this personal, expanded headcannon that I want to speak with paleo-enthusiasts on social media regarding what happened around the time that Jurassic World was taking place. With the All & All Your Yesterdays books as a reference source.

[@marthashepley]

i just cited your video in an essay i'm doing comparing Walking with Dinosaurs and Planet Dinosaur, i'm hoping I don't get yelled at, wish me luck. this is for my actual degree lmao

[@brockschannel3927]

Yesterday,I came up with an interesting Jurassic park concept. What if the dinosaurs weren't cloned from preserved DNA,but Los Cinco Meurtes was a skull island scenario and Ingen wiped out the dinosaurs on those islands and cloned them so they can profit off of them? And they created the blood in amber story as an explanation to keep their deeds under the rug. It's obviously no way close to canon,but it would be a cool twist.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Would the dinosaurs be hyper evolved descendants of the real ones or would they just be normal ones. And why would they kill them off just to clone them? Just wondering .

[@brockschannel3927]

@@yuyaricachimuel555 They killed the dinosaurs off and cloned them so they could technically patent them as their own product. As for the differences,they were mostly the same,but ingen tweeked their genes in some areas.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@brockschannel3927 that… doesn’t sound right. They just kill them to do that? Wouldn’t they rather want to capture those dinosaurs and take their dna for profit?

[@brockschannel3927]

@@yuyaricachimuel555 they probably didn't do that because if people found out late surviving dinosaurs were on an island chain,it would instantly be protected by law.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@brockschannel3927 that probably wouldn’t stop poachers from sneaking in.

[@NeroAngelo616]

What a time to be alive for being into dinosaurs. You had Jurassic Park and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (okay Carnosaur also lmao) in the same year, one at the cinema and one at your nearest home TV. After that then came every imaginable rendition in every format based of them for the rest of time since. With Walking With Dinosaurs, Godzilla 1998, Turok and Dino Crisis closing off the 90's.

[@rexon31]

yeah but JP was the movie that introduced the bird and dinosaur link to the main stream with doctor grant but yet a majority of people and fans still act like that kid he pulls the claw on .

[@tylorcalvin2122]

the jurassic franchise, carnosaur franchise, and the land before time have been my inspiration for paleontology. they're the reason why i love dinosaurs in the 1st place. I've thanked them my whole life, and still do

[@andreasstavrinou6219]

Yes JP/JW Franchise give Paleontology the shot in the arm with a dose of celebrity.😮

[@iandanielcassidy8126]

Heisei Godzilla is a giant Irradiated Godzillasaurus. Heights: 80 meters tall and 100 meters tall. Relative: Godzilla Junior (Adoptive Son). Forms: Godzillasaurus, Supercharged, and Burning.

[@XmatineeX]

THANKS FOR THE JUMP SCARE AT THE START

[@whitewolf3051]

About the correct depiction of theropod dinosaur in media, Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time by James Gurney did it earlier when it came out in 1992.

[@AnimeKing6797]

I am currently working on a fan made Jurassic park game right now it’s in the works I am still working on the story little bit not fully complete yet it’s called Jurassic project it’s going to be based off the book of the first Jurassic park book not the movie 🤗

[@jurassicdocs]

Do you have Patreon?

[@GODZILLA2915]

‘If Jurassic Park never existed’ is a good question. Though realistically if they didn’t do it, than eventually someone else would have made a dinosaur film with similar results.

[@TheBombayMasterTony]

Good points.

[@parkerpshebnisky1051]

Jurassic park and the lost world were my childhood!

[@d.w.saurus5831]

Yes jurassic park 1,2 & even 3 did do a lot for paleaontology and caused major shifts in the public view of dinosaurs. some things were definatley handled better in the books over the films exm t rex sight and dilo design, but did more good than harm. The problem was the way the jurassic world films were handled, instead of following in jurassic parks foot steps and moving forward they just stayed in place or even worse went backwords ( stegosaurus ) with there portrails of the animals until dominion but that had the painfully inacurate flash back scene in the prolog / extended version, And a giganotosaurus that looks like a hybrid of acrocanthosaurus a crocodile and an iguana. id also like to know why they keep picking small dromeosaurs and making them way bigger when big ones litterally existed for jw.

[@jibrailismail1419]

where did those sick movng pics come from

[@noelanderson969]

It was THIS FRANCHISE that Inspired me to APPRECIATE THE NATURAL WORLD! And got me HOOKED on natural history!!!

[@BaldianOfIbelin]

The Triceratops has always been my favorite ever since I was a little kid ever since my first dinosaur book (which was literally called My First Dinosaur Book) I always considered it the royal king of dinosaurs (because his crest looks like a crown) and I always loved the idea of ​​a three horned Bull the size of an Elephant fighting T rex

[@CombustableLemon]

Even though I'm kinda strechting at this point, I have a fan theory about the Rexy's poor eyesight. I think that in the fight with Giga back in the Cretacous Period, her eyes were damaaged, and even after cloning the damage persisted. That's why it could only see movement.

[@shainewhite2781]

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊

[@wasselnuman3079]

I absolutely love the Jurassic park series...it scared the shit out of me when my dad took me to watch it for the first time,but from there my love for dinosaurs grew...people criticize the movies for their weak plot and all but for me if there are dinosaurs on screen,i will watch it... it's the only reason i need...😅

[@NathanSpies]

One thing that annoys me is how whenever a new Jurassic film comes out someone always brings a paleontologist on and they explain how the dinosaurs are inaccurate. Like NO ONE CARES we all know that it doesn’t change our opinions on the Dinos. I thank Jurassic films for introducing me to different dinosaurs and making me more interested in them overtime! Even Dino’s that I never knew existed!

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

Well having seen those paleontologist reacting videos, they’re not as harsh. Most of that needless harshness comes more from video commenters.

[@speedracer2008]

@@yuyaricachimuel555 Same. I think it’s important to show what is correct and incorrect in dinosaur depictions, so paleontology fans can be informed.

[@southparkstanmarshofficial]

Them wannabe paleontologists always ruin the vibe with their smarky comments like anyone asked what they think. They should just let the fans enjoy themselves for once.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@southparkstanmarshofficial if anything we need dinosaur content outside this franchise that doesn’t copy the same aesthetic (aka what’s popular to the general public(.

[@yuyaricachimuel555]

@@speedracer2008 I think if anything we should strive to use our current knowledge to make more unique and different depictions from what was established in Jurassic