Jurassic Park Apparently Possible

[SuperFerret]

Yeah, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are more mutants than actual dinosaurs due to that.

 

[chaseter]

Moviefan was right! Man did/will live with dinosaurs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Captain Planet!]

I wonder what Brontosaurus meat tastes like.

 

[Matt]

I look forward to the day when my kitchen sink is a wolly mammoth who after being used to do the dishes turns to the camera and says in a dead pan voice, "Its a living."

 

[Nirvana]

"Man **** Jeff Goldblum".

 

[chaseter]

I look forward to the day when my kitchen sink is a wolly mammoth who after being used to do the dishes turns to the camera and says in a dead pan voice, "Its a living."

I want a pelican toilet and after I get done pooping, he looks to the camera and says "And you think your lunch tasted like crap."

 

[Johann Krauss]

^

 

[Drizzle]

Jeez, how many Goldblum references have been made in this thread? The answer? Not nearly enough.

http://malcolmlaugh.ytmnd.com/

 

[SuperFerret]

Jeez, how many Goldblum references have been made in this thread? The answer? Not nearly enough.

http://malcolmlaugh.ytmnd.com/

He sounded truly deranged there.

 

[Immortalfire]

Hey Drizzle...love the avvy. I just finished the book today

 

[chaseter]

I finished it Friday!

 

[The Lizard]

Have you guys read "Raptor Red?" It was written by Robert T. Bakker, who was a consultant to the Jurassic Park design team and in the book (I think it's in a foreword) he talks about how the Velociraptors seen in the movie were actually modeled after recently-discovered Utahraptors because of their larger size.

I don't know about Bakker saying that, but I do remember some Jurassic Park publicity releases trying to claim that the bigger-than-normal velociraptors in the movie were validated by the discovery of the utahraptor.

But it was total BS, because utahraptor was MUCH bigger than the raptors seen in the movie. Utahraptor was around 20 feet long and 7 feet tall.

 

[Drizzle]

Hey Drizzle...love the avvy. I just finished the book today

Nice.

 

[SuperFerret]

Jurassic Park is a great movie, but it's never been a very accurate depiction of dinosaurs, even at the time is was filmed.

 

[chaseter]

They had many paleontologists on the movie to help become as accurate as possible for the current mode of thinking. Jack Horner was one of them.

 

[SuperFerret]

They had many paleontologists on the movie to help become as accurate as possible for the current mode of thinking. Jack Horner was one of them.

Still, there are a number of inaccuracies. The size of the raptors and the dilophosaurus. The T-rex vision thing. There are others, but I can't think of them right now.

 

[Venom160]

I wonder what Brontosaurus meat tastes like.

Like overcooked chicken.

*silence*

Don't ask.

 

[The Lizard]

They had many paleontologists on the movie to help become as accurate as possible for the current mode of thinking. Jack Horner was one of them.

I've personally always preferred Jack Horner to Bob Bakker as far as "celebrity" paleontologists go. Horner seems more down-to-earth and less radical in his theories as well as the way he presents himself to the media.

 

[chaseter]

Still, there are a number of inaccuracies. The size of the raptors and the dilophosaurus. The T-rex vision thing. There are others, but I can't think of them right now.

We don't know about the T-Rex vision things because they aren't alive. Dinosaurs are seen as related to birds and some birds rely on movement to focus their vision on...same goes for some reptiles. Raptors come in many shapes and sizes..some as small as the Compies and some as large as the Utah raptor as you mentioned. I don't know much about Dilophosaurs so I don't want to say something wrong. The biggest debate was over the coloring of their skin.

 

[SuperFerret]

We don't know about the T-Rex vision things because they aren't alive. Dinosaurs are seen as related to birds and some birds rely on movement to focus their vision on...same goes for some reptiles. Raptors come in many shapes and sizes..some as small as the Compies and some as large as the Utah raptor as you mentioned. I don't know much about Dilophosaurs so I don't want to say something wrong. The biggest debate was over the coloring of their skin.

That I didn't know, but skin coloring is such a pointless thing to debate over.

And Dilophosaurs should be at least twice as big as shown.

Oh, and on the vision of the Rex, freezing in place is a common tactic for prey animals, so a predator wouldn't be affective if it's vision were like that. Also, the Tyrannosaur's olfactory cavity is huge, suggesting that it had an excellent sense of smell, so even if it couldn't see Grant and Lex, she should've known they were there.

 

[The Lizard]

I have to laugh when I see artist's recreations of bigger dromeosaurs like Utahraptor showing the dinosaur covered with feathers. It may possibly have been that way, but it still looks kind of silly to me. Sometimes I think that the current trends of depicting dinosaurs as being birdlike go a bit too far...

Call me old fashioned or out of touch, but I just like non-parakeet version of Utahraptor better...

 

[chaseter]

That I didn't know, but skin coloring is such a pointless thing to debate over.

And Dilophosaurs should be at least twice as big as shown.

Oh, and on the vision of the Rex, freezing in place is a common tactic for prey animals, so a predator wouldn't be affective if it's vision were like that. Also, the Tyrannosaur's olfactory cavity is huge, suggesting that it had an excellent sense of smell, so even if it couldn't see Grant and Lex, she should've known they were there.

I would agree with the smelling issue if the Rex was use to the smell of humans as a prey item. They weren't bleeding so no blood was on their skin and they also were in the mud which can mask scents.

But yes, prey items freeze in their current spot to avoid detection and blend ino the environment. If a huge predator like the rex had keen vision, it would be an unstoppable force of nature and nature doesn't work like that.

 

[SuperFerret]

I would agree with the smelling issue if the Rex was use to the smell of humans as a prey item. They weren't bleeding so no blood was on their skin and they also were in the mud which can mask scents.

But yes, prey items freeze in their current spot to avoid detection and blend ino the environment. If a huge predator like the rex had keen vision, it would be an unstoppable force of nature and nature doesn't work like that.

All predators have keen senses, the Tyrannosaur should be no exception. It had other weaknesses to prevent it from becoming unstoppable. They probably didn't run for very long, in case they tripped and all their weight came down on their sternum (their tiny forelimbs couldn't save them). They were large, so most prey would hear or see them coming and escape. They could've also hunted large prey to feed on for a while, or ate carrion from time to time.

I personally think that they would've hunted like modern crocs, laying in wait and ambushing their prey, but that's just an idea I had.

 

[chaseter]

T-Rex had a small brain/body ratio so I don't think they are as keen as crocs are today. Many propose that T-Rex was a scavenger and not a hunter and I think that fits him perfectly. With his short arms, he wouldn't be much of a great attacker and his sheer size and weight would grant him winner of any dead carcasses.

 

[SuperFerret]

I think there's enough proof that he was a hunter at least part of the time, what with many skeletons found with healed Rex tooth marks in them, showing that the animal survived the encounter with the Tyrannosaur. It's very likely that Tyrannosaur, like many predators, would scavenge if the opportunity arose.

As for being an ambush hunter, it really doesn't take much to learn a habit like that, especially if dinosaurs were as active parents as is theorized.