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This may be stupid of me, but I have to ask, are the dinosaur looks/designs in these movies somewhat accurate to the real dinosaurs? Ever since these movies, I always envisioned a T Rex or a raptor as the ones that are in these movies.
Yes and no.
Let me give you some info. Velociraptors are the size of chickens.
At the time of this book, when Jurassic Park was written (a book first), the species of Dromeasaur called Deinonychus was thought to be a member of the Velociraptor family. So they used this dinosaur in Jurassic Park, and called it Velociraptor, and ran with it.
Actuality, the raptor used in these moves are not Velociraptors, but they are actually Dromeasaurs called Deinonychus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus
And the t rex, more than likely did not have those crests over its eyes, and it was probably a little bit more heavily built than it was in Jurassic Park.
For the record, Jurassic Park 3 was horrible, partially because of the idea of a Spinosaurus being able to over power the neck muscles of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and snaps its neck. Cause first of all, a spinosaurus had hollow teeth, and probably wouldn't be able bit through the neck without hurting its teeth. Secondly, the way it is so lightly built (it was just such a massive dinosaur though, pound for pound, light) it's neck couldn't handle the twisting motion. THIRDLY, a tryrannosaurus was the most evolved carnivorous dinosaur, estimated to have the largest bite force of any carnivore, and due to its un-proportionally large head, had massive neck muscles, so the second the rex got its mouth on the damn things neck, it would have crushed the spinosaurus neck. And secondly, the idea of a spinosaurus grabbing a Rex's neck, and actually being able to over power it, and fight the rex's resistance, and win, is just ridiculous!
-rant over -_-
Yes, aside from marvel comics, I am a dinosaur geek
I agree with the thoughts about the spinosaurus/trex fight. I thought the concept of these two big carnivores going at it was cool but when they actually started fighting, i realized how lame it really was. It was as if the writers were thinking that the only way to establish the spinosaurus as the main threat was for it to kill a TRex in a fight, which is exactly what happened. It should have been incredibly obvious even to the general audience that NO DINOSAUR could best a TRex in a straight-up fight. That was the whole point of the TRex killing the raptors in the first one.
It's awesome! Very much darker than the movie too.
Bizarre Concept Art From The Scrapped JURASSIC PARK IV
aka Human/Dino hybrids
Read more at http://www.c o m i c b o o k m o v ...chachsrants/news/?a=68431#Gwrsltqt54T0KeQd.99
Yes and no.
Let me give you some info. Velociraptors are the size of chickens.
At the time of this book, when Jurassic Park was written (a book first), the species of Dromeasaur called Deinonychus was thought to be a member of the Velociraptor family. So they used this dinosaur in Jurassic Park, and called it Velociraptor, and ran with it.
Actuality, the raptor used in these moves are not Velociraptors, but they are actually Dromeasaurs called Deinonychus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinonychus
And the t rex, more than likely did not have those crests over its eyes, and it was probably a little bit more heavily built than it was in Jurassic Park.
For the record, Jurassic Park 3 was horrible, partially because of the idea of a Spinosaurus being able to over power the neck muscles of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and snaps its neck. Cause first of all, a spinosaurus had hollow teeth, and probably wouldn't be able bit through the neck without hurting its teeth. Secondly, the way it is so lightly built (it was just such a massive dinosaur though, pound for pound, light) it's neck couldn't handle the twisting motion. THIRDLY, a tryrannosaurus was the most evolved carnivorous dinosaur, estimated to have the largest bite force of any carnivore, and due to its un-proportionally large head, had massive neck muscles, so the second the rex got its mouth on the damn things neck, it would have crushed the spinosaurus neck. And secondly, the idea of a spinosaurus grabbing a Rex's neck, and actually being able to over power it, and fight the rex's resistance, and win, is just ridiculous!
-rant over -_-
Yes, aside from marvel comics, I am a dinosaur geek
The already fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur may have been even deadlier than previously thought.
The extinct T. rex bit 10 times harder than a modern alligator and four times harder than previously calculated, according to a computer model of the dinosaur generated by researchers from the University of Liverpool.
This newfound force means the T. rex had the strongest bite of any land animal ever. Getting bitten by one would have felt like being sat on by an elephant.
Agreed. T-Rex vs Spinosaurus was a terrible representation of what would actually transpire if these two giants were to have ever met. There's no way in hell that Spino would be able to overpower T-Rex. Spino was basically an overgrown crocodile (nothing against the specie). When comparing the two, it's not close. Tyrannosaurus had the stronger bite. Period.
http://www.ibtimes.com/t-rex-bite-force-stronger-previously-calculated-418382