Speculative fiction about dinosaurs usually falls into one of the following categories:
Time Travel: Scientists or explorers travel back in time to observe or hunt dinosaurs
The Flintstones visited the World's Fair. Wait... Wouldn't the Jetsons have been a more appropriate choice?
Rebirth: Dinosaurs are brought back to life by scientific means, usually cloning or genetic engineering or in some cases, drastic environmental shifts pave the way for dinosaurs to live again
Xenosaurs (dinosaurid aliens): Stories about dinosaur-like aliens or alien races descended from dinosaurs
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Lost World: Isolated ecosystems on Earth are found where dinosaurs still exist
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If you ever feel the urge to see well-intentioned dinosaur wrongness in all its glory, take a trip to Crystal Palace Park in south London. Lurking among the trees, shrubs and ponds, you will find the original Jurassic Park – a spectacular Victorian collection of prehistoric creatures in iron and concrete.
The 30 statues were the centerpiece of a geological theme park opened in 1854 under the supervision of Richard Owen, the anatomist who had coined the word “dinosaur” 12 years earlier. Brought to life by artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and based on the latest scientific discoveries, they were the first life-size model dinosaurs and the public loved them. Sadly, history hasn’t been kind to Owen’s endearing, but widely inaccurate, creations.
Jurassic World: A Park of Inaccuracies
Now, before I get into this, I do want to say that I like the Jurassic Park movies, and I am in no way trying to degrade them or anything. It's obviously just a movie, inaccuracies are guaranteed. I simply find these little facts amusing, and I imagine you will too.
National geographic summarized it best: the Jurassic Park franchise is based on what we knew about dinosaurs in the 1980's. Unfortunately, 2015 has proven that the movies have not stood the test of time, and the dinosaurs should look completely different. The producers of Jurassic World have decided to stick with the "classic" dinosaur look, which has lead to debates between either preserving a classic film and its original look, or updating it to current knowledge, but ditching its iconic image.
What are some the inaccuracies of the Jurassic World dinosaurs?
1) No feathers. In the past 10 years or so, researchers confirmed that most dinosaurs were sporting a full set of feathers.
2) Dinosaurs with thumbs. Since dinosaurs are prehistoric reptiles (and since we have the skeletons), we already know that dinosaurs didn't have thumbs.
3) They are HUGE. Too huge! A video explains the major flaw using the scene with the mosasaur eating the great white shark (see link below). An average mosasaur is ~59ft long. By comparing the size of the great white shark to the visible head/neck of the mosasaur in the trailer, just the head/neck alone is about 73.5ft long.
4) Wrong era. Let's not forget the biggest error in Jurassic Park: it should really be called "Cretaceous Park." The dinosaurs seem to be mixed across a couple different eras, but for the most part, they're Cretaceous, not Jurassic.
Unrelated to dinosaur physiology, but still apparently incorrect, is the insect shown in the amber. Entomologists have pointed out that it's not a mosquito, it is a crane fly.
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