Real life velociraptors were tiny and pathetic
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Otkon — 9 years ago(April 20, 2016 06:44 PM)
the scientists at Jurassic Park probably assumed that they belonged to V. mongoliensis, having absolutely no idea whatsoever that they really belonged to the much larger Achillobator.
Therefore, in conclusion, the scientists at Jurassic Park cloned Achillobators from Mongolian DNA. When they hatched, they assumed that they were Velociraptor mongoliensis.
It doesn't make any sense that they would assume just because the amber came from a Mongolian Cretaceous stratum that it must be some species of Velociraptor! Nor would their analysis of the cloned specimens have stopped once the animals emerged from eggs. In fact, they would have no idea what DNA they would possibly have when extracting it - certainly not down to a similar genus. And it wouldn't be until the animals were conceived and consistently x-rayed as they grew, then dissected at full size, that the scientists would have enough data to compare the skeletal structures to known and named fossilized exemplar. Once the animals grew to three times the size of anything labelled a Velociraptor in the bone records, the scientists didn't chalk up the DNA to being something still undiscovered like a larger cousin?! Hedging the fudged science in the fictional universe on future real-world finds is just bad rationale.
The fact still remains that Grant misidentifies his 6-foot North American find as Velociraptor. We are led to believe he is the world's foremost expert on this exact topic; he would know that neither what he unearthed in the Badlands nor what was chasing them around Isla Nublar could be properly called Veloci-anything. -
highway_robbery — 10 years ago(March 30, 2016 08:56 AM)
The inaccuracies have been talked about endlessly since it came out - I think you can let them off the hook for the feathers, partly because when the novel was written there wasn't really much evidence of feathered dinosaurs aside from Archaeopteryx and maybe a few others, and partly because of the old "we used DNA from other species to fill the gaps" loophole which you can use to suspend disbelief to a point.
The size is a bit harder to excuse, especially since the novel specifically calls them velociraptors, so I assume Crichton ignored his research there and just used artistic license to make them bigger and more menacing.
I find it funny that on one hand the 1st film seemed to be lauded in the media for presenting dinosaurs in such a realistic way (look how they move!), and on the other criticised it for not being paleontologically accurate (Velociraptor too big, Dilophosaur too small, Brachiosaur's head too big, Gallimimus's palms face down not inwards).
It's probably easier to list the dinosaurs that
were
fairly accurate across the 4 films rather than those that weren't. maybe Parasaurolophus? Ankylosaurus? Triceratops? -
drsaavedrab — 9 years ago(September 04, 2016 02:23 PM)
Dr. Crichton did do a lot of research for the book. While the real velociraptors were indeed pathetic, another species was discovered shortly after the novel came out: The Utahraptor, I think it's called, which is more in line with Dr. Crichton's fictional velociraptors.
He also made a very basic mistake.
Costa Rica doesn't have an air force. Or armed forces of any kind. Much less the capability to bomb the hell out of an island. -
jbaker1-2 — 1 month ago(February 03, 2026 05:03 AM)
They were around six feet long and weighed up to forty pounds. That's a pretty big chicken.
There are 8.2 billion people in the world. 8.19 billion of them have never heard of and don't give a fuck about Charlie Kirk. Get over it. -
SpringheelJack1837 — 4 years ago(July 05, 2021 11:30 PM)
Yeah.
The raptors in JP were a lot more like the Deinonychus.
But then the Dilophosaurus didn’t have frills or spit poison either.
You could explain it all away with the dinosaurs being mutated by amphibian DNA if Alan Grant didn’t describe the raptors as 6ft tall before seeing them on the island -
Donna2.0 — 3 months ago(December 22, 2025 09:49 PM)
I mean holy sh** they were normally not even half the size of a grown man, and they were full of feathers. Grant could have probably killed all 3 of them with a crowbar. In the book Muldoon
Funniest quote ever made about the movie.
Put a muzzle on Tits Malone, PI -
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