‘Jurassic Park’, the iconic sci-fi film directed by Steven Spielberg, captivated audiences around the world with its compelling narrative and groundbreaking visuals. However, despite its success, the film also featured a number of errors in its depiction of the dinosaurs that have been pointed out by paleontology experts.
From inaccurate anatomy to unrealistic behavior, “Jurassic Park” offered a fantastical and sometimes flawed view of these prehistoric creatures, and here are some examples.
The T-Rex didn’t have bad eyesight
One of the most tense and shocking moments of the film was when the T-Rex first appeared in the rain in search of food. Although Dr. Grant points out that their eyesight is not entirely good and that in order to avoid being noticed it is best to remain still, this is false.
According to the “Economic Times” portal, scientists who studied this extinct animal claim that it actually had excellent vision, as it could distinguish objects with up to five times more accuracy than a falcon’s and 13 times better than a falcon’s. one human.
The velociraptor was very different
Velociraptors are fierce and extremely fast predators, which made them deadly within days of birth. In “Jurassic Park” they were depicted as huge reptiles, with sharp teeth and rough skin, but paleontologists point out that this species was only half a meter tall and had a skirt of impressive feathers.
Dilophosaurus did not drop venom
In a video produced by Vanity Fair magazine in 2023, they invited a paleontologist named Mark Loewen to analyze some scenes where dinosaurs appeared and explain whether the representations were correct or not.
Arriving at “Jurassic Park,” specifically the scene where Dennis is killed by a Dilophosaurus, the expert explained that there were two specific mistakes. The first is that the dinosaur in question was between 7 and 10 meters tall according to the fossils, which is why it would never have gotten into the jeep as shown in the plot. The second is that he didn’t have ruffles around his neck or spitting venom. With this, Loewen expressed that, in his opinion, it was “literally the worst” representation of a dinosaur in the entire franchise.
Brachiosaurus could not stand on its two hind legs
It’s impossible to forget the moment in the film where Doctors Grant, Sattler and Malcolm see a dinosaur for the first time when they visit the park created by John Hammond. Specifically, it was a brachiosaurus, one of the largest animals of the Mesozoic era, and which in the plot rises on its hind legs to reach some leaves at the top of a tree.
The portal “Live Science” claimed that this could never have happened in reality, because if the species decided to make this move, its legs would not be able to fully support its body and it would have fallen hopelessly, but even so we can’t rule that the scene shocked us. Everyone is seeing it for the first time.
The T-Rex wasn’t that fast
We were all terrified to see the T-Rex running after the jepp and this scene gave the impression that this predator was extremely fast. However, experts discovered that it could only run about 30 kilometers per hour, as they didn’t really need to go any faster because their prey was slow and clumsy enough.
So it is impossible for the dinosaur to match the speed of a car, which can reach more than 120 kilometers per hour.
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