The Dinosaur That Movies Always Get Wrong

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“Murder Chickens” is now my favorite way of describing the Velociraptors lol. Love it😂❤️

Ah yes, the iconic Jurassic Park characters, Ian Grant and Alan Malcolm.

Jurassic Park is actually brilliant. Not only did it spawn an entire new generation of Dino enthusiasts, but it also highlighted how corporate greed can pervert nature. The base nature of Velociraptors was absolutely corrupted, turning them more into monsters than animals, yet over time life, uh, finds a way.

It should be noted that Deinonychus was being referred to by some as "Velociraptor Antirrhopus" around the time Michael Crichton was writing Jurassic Park, which is why he called them Velociraptors in the book. I believe it was Spielberg who decided to keep the name for the film adaptation because it sounded more dramatic.

When JP first came out I was like “That’s a deinonychus, “Terrible Claw” is a much cooler name.”

Kind of ironic that Utahraptor, who appeared in JWE 2, is the most accurate raptor depiction throughout Jurassic Park/World media. 😅

My favorite dinosaur is the utahraptor and it was Alan Grant’s speech about the 6ft turkeys that made me want to be a paleontologist back when I was in diapers 😂 despite the scientific inaccuracies, Jurassic Park is a movie very near and dear to my heart lol ❤

Deinonychus has always been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid. It's a travesty they didn't think "terrible claw" wasn't cool enough of a name. But, as someone else in the comments said. Some paleontologists were calling Deinonychus as "velociraptor anthirhopus". Eitherway, they did Deinonychus dirty lol.

“Ian grant” is wild

The velociraptor was basically a murderous ground hawk with razor-sharp teeth.

10:07... Alan Grant bro. Great video, as always

I like to imagine them as prehistoric roadrunners ❤

The specimen of the raptor and the protoceratops is goddamn astonishing. The things we are able to find, the things all of Nature and Spirit have allowed to be preserved for other creatures, and for humans to find, never ceases to humble me. Imagine what other glorious and telling treasures will be discovered in our lifetimes 🥰

Nowadays it’s become cliche to dismiss Velociraptor as a “wimpy” animal, but it was still surprisingly formidable for its size. As with most other derived dromaeosaurids, Velociraptor was well-suited to tackle relatively large prey (often around its own weight, and in some cases larger), though due to its small size “relatively large prey" would have meant things like other small theropods and, in ambitious cases, Protoceratops, rather than anything particularly substantial. Its adaptations for tackling such prey are similar overall to that of other derived dromaeosaurs, such as well-developed ziphont dentition for efficiently cutting through flesh, a relatively large and well-developed sickle claw, and a foot anatomy that sacrificed some speed (though it was still reasonably fast-some formulas used to calculate dinosaur speeds give it a speed of 40kmh) in exchange for improved agility and foot-based grappling capabilities. Despite the popular scene of Velociraptor and Tarbosaurus showed living together in Prehistoric Planet, Velociraptor actually lived around 75MYA in Mongolia, being known from the Djadochta Formation which is older than the Nemegt Formation where Tarbosaurus lived. Only known dromaeosaurid lived with Tarbosaurus was Adasaurus, a slightly larger close relative of Velociraptor. While nowadays, the formation area is part of the Gobi Desert, and while it wasn’t always a desert, it had been a desert on one previous occasion-when Velociraptor was around. And as with most desert animals alive today, Velociraptor was likely nocturnal, as indicated by sclerotic ring studies.

I like to imagine a velociraptor holding on with the front claws and making jabbing bites while rabbit kicking like a cat. Idk if its accurate, but its fun to imagine a velociraptor rabbit kicking the shit out of its prey

I love how all old therapods have this thing where they were first thought to be a megalosaur

Its always so weird to me that folks still assume velociraptors had to be pack animals because cats are the most popular pets in the world and they're small and quite deadly solitary hunters. Anyway hoping someday for a new movie franchise to pop up that depicts them more accurately just because I think they're plenty cool as is, not every dinosaur has to be something that could easily eat a person lol.

To be fair, if we're assuming velociraptor reached its max speed only in short bursts, it seems more appropriate to compare their max speed with that of sprinting cyclists. In that case, their max speed is almost exactly the same, the cyclists being faster by just a hair (or maybe a feather)

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