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  • statistics

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how realistic are movie dinosaurs:

how close are the dinos on screen to what we know today

mosasaurus being more related to lizards

discovering new animals like the Dreadnoughtus from Southern Patagonia, Argentina, in particular Santa Cruz Province fairly closely related to Brachiosaurus from that original Jurassic Park.

Aquilop - hornless relative of triceratops

the new T. rex, the one that's in the current movie, is even more accurate than previous. - freeze if you-- you know, if you-- it can't see if you don't move, this was back then not defensible and now is not defensible at all. - Jack Horner. And he had this long-standing idea that T. rex was primarily a scavenger - So there's so much wrong with that scene, I can't even take it. This is the dumbest thing that they did in Jurassic Park, was make the T. rex not only not be able to see you but also not be able to smell you

keep on talking about how the dinosaurs wouldn't survive outside of the tropics - the Mesozoic era, was much warmer on average than it is today

people would be bored of dinos once they were here.

What PopSci Got Right: Jurassic World Dominion

The film has grossed close to $1 billion, making it the #2 blockbuster of 2022.

But Jurassic Park and its sequels have had an outsized impact on public perception of dinosaurs and paleontology

pioneering use of computer-generated imagery that made them possible

The two decades between the original Jurassic Park and the release of Jurassic World in 2015 had witnessed an unprecedented rate of discoveries about dinosaurs

Jurassic world sparked new research and interest in dinosaurs

perhaps helped in part by the many current paleontologists inspired by the original film in their youth

The franchise reboot offered a chance to once again wow popular audiences with a revised vision of dinosaurs based on the latest science and use of state-of-the-art special effects.

starting out with amber theories which are not possible with how young the dinosaurs would have to be, and in the latest movies having genetic cloning and practices that are actually backed by science or developing science like CRISPR

These developments show us that feathers evolved long before flight, starting with simple down-like fuzz and eventually leading to complex branched feathers in birds and closely related dinosaurs.

“birds are surviving dinosaurs

All this means that the raptors and ostrich-like Gallimimus of the original Jurassic Park should have been feathered, and possibly others such as T. rex.

The film includes lesser-known but visually striking dinosaurs like the scythe-clawed plant eater Therizinosaurus, the parrot-beaked and crested Oviraptor, and the enormous titanosaur Dreadnoughtus. It also features some excellent non-dinosaurian animals like Quetzalcoatlus, a flying pterosaur with a wingspan equivalent to a Cessna, as well as two distant relatives of mammals from before the dinosaur era.

32 unique extinct species in the movie

Dominion shows herbivorous dinosaurs forming herds

Jurassic Park by Michael crichton

Errors and Inconsistencies

“Amber from dinosaurs age is relatively scarce and blood sucking insects preserved in such ancient amber is rarer still” (pg 1)

the DNA will almost cer¬ tainly be badly degraded, consisting of small, incompletefragments” (pg. 1)

. By contrast, the Human Genome Project is expected to cost $3 billion and to take hundreds of researchers up to 15 years to sequence a single genome, with an unlimited supply of fresh DNA at their disposal. (pg 2)

The book pre¬ sents a distorted picture of chaos theory to prove that scientists can never be trusted to control complex systems or the "monsters" they create. In reality, mathematicians are finding ways to use chaos to control complex systems with a high degree of speed and flexibility. (pg 2)

Between Science Fact and Science Fiction

Warren Buckland

Speculation on the viability of recreating dinosaurs from fossil DNA endures despite its extreme improbability (pg. 182)

the novels and the films therefore present a possible world

Excavating knowledge - Jurassic park in the classroom

“The film provide fertile ground for sparking curiosity about dinosaurs” (pg. 3)

“Dinosaurs were more closely related to birds than lizards” (pg 3)

found evidence of velocirators having feathers and incorperated that in the new look of velociraptors

information is pieced together from a partial fossil record - open to alterations as new material is uncovered (pg 4)

great opportunity to introduce these ideas into the science classroom (pg.4)

the use of cloning in the movie leads students to naturally want to learn more about genetic mechanics of reproduction. (pg. 5)