• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
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    7 hours ago

    Thanks for pointing the Jurassic Park inaccuracy! Indeed we…er the Velociraptors were not as depicted in that film, we they were covered in feathers and much more similar to a modern turkey both in size and aspect than to what you see in the film. By the size of it, the film probably depicted a Deinonychus, which was another dromaeosaurid of a size that went up to 3 mt (roughly 11 ft).

    The Utahraptor, another dromaeosaurid, was double that size, making it too big to what the film calls a Velociraptor.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Yeah, but think about how cool the word velociraptor sounds… so really… they were probably right, and science is just gonna have to take the L on this one. Rename all the stuff so that retroactively jurassic park is right. Problem solved.