Current Events > T. Rex used to be the coolest dinosaur, then Jurassic Park came out.

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Velociraptors became the coolest dinosaur, but then scientists hypothesized that they had feathers and they became uncool (because feathers, m i rite?)

Then the Jurassic World movies came out and dinosaurs in general became uncool.

Life's funny, huh

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You make a lot of dumb topics.

Dinosaurs are always cool, and theyre even cooler with feathers. If anything hurts Velociraptor, its that it was turkeu-size irl

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T. rex will never not be cool
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Ankylosauraus is the best one.

Has a big fucking wrecking ball for a tail?!?

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Real Velociraptor is the size of a chicken

Thats not even a velociraptor its Deinonichus

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The best was the one that killed Newman.

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didn't jurassic park end with the big genetic monster murdering the little ones?

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TheCurseX2 posted...

The best was the one that killed Newman.

lmao

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Implying the T-Rexes breaking out of fences when the power is down and double teaming the Trailer aren't the coolest scenes in JP1 and Lost World respectively.

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Every boy toddler love dinosaurs. My son's first "word" was him roaring when playing with his dinos

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GS4Life posted...

Implying the T-Rexes breaking out of fences when the power is down and double teaming the Trailer aren't the coolest scenes in JP1 and Lost World respectively.

Unpopular opinion: I don't particularly like that scene in JP2 because holy fuck did Eddie Carr not deserve that death
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T-Rex had feathers too.

They also didn't roar and were known cuckolds.

I still want an explanation for the T-Rex somehow eating everyone on an enclosed space of a freight ship at the end of Lost World.

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Feathers are cool though, and heighten intimidation factor tbh

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EnterTheTekken posted...

I still want an explanation for the T-Rex somehow eating everyone on an enclosed space of a freight ship at the end of Lost World.

i always figured that was another half assed scene they stole from the books.

in the first book, raptors make it onto one of the ships before they leave. no one got eaten (i think).

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SHOOT HURRrrr

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EndOfZangoose posted...

You make a lot of dumb topics.

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UnholyMudcrab posted...

T. rex will never not be cool

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AssGender posted...

Real Velociraptor is the size of a chicken

Thats not even a velociraptor its Deinonichus

Velociraptors were larger than chickens in addition to being a bit taller, they were significantly longer head to tail. They are more like eagles.

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Betty White is still the coolest dinosaur.

BeyondWalls posted...

Exactly, still cool as hell.

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TendoDRM posted...

Exactly, still cool as hell.

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BeyondWalls posted...

I think that artist just sucks.

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Nah T-Rex was still the coolest in the first 2 movies

a raptor got taken out by a gymnastics kick in the 2nd movie. lame.

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My brother said the other day that paleontologists had been theorizing that dinosaurs had feathers since like the 80's (he likes to read paleontology research papers in his free time for some reason). So even by the dino craze, popular renditions were outdated. Even now the public perception is quite behind, I believe. Of course, this may be false, but I don't care enough to do a bunch of research to verify this, so take with plenty of salt.

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Jabodie posted...

My brother said the other day that paleontologists had been theorizing that dinosaurs had feathers since like the 80's (he likes to read paleontology research papers in his free time for some reason). So even by the dino craze, popular renditions were outdated. Even now the public perception is quite behind, I believe. Of course, this may be false, but I don't care enough to do a bunch of research to verify this, so take with plenty of salt.

you're absolutely right, but i dont think michael crichton ever claimed he was going for pure realism with the books. movies just kind of took it off the rails entirely.

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monkmith posted...

you're absolutely right, but i dont think michael crichton ever claimed he was going for pure realism with the books. movies just kind of took it off the rails entirely.

yeah the invisible dinosaurs aren't exactly realistic

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thronedfire2 posted...

yeah the invisible dinosaurs aren't exactly realistic

that was the second book right? i kind of forgot about that bit... its extra funny they stole that idea for jurassic world...

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monkmith posted...

you're absolutely right, but i dont think michael crichton ever claimed he was going for pure realism with the books. movies just kind of took it off the rails entirely.

Well as I understand it, entertainment (understandably) took liberties for the sake of coolness. It's not really a big deal, but I do think the public perception is that Jurassic Park was an accurate representation of dinosaurs according to the paleontologists of the time.

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The moment that put the velociraptors over for most people in JP1 was at the very end when they're cornered in the visitor's center and one of the two raptors comes through the curtain and it looks left to right with this shit-eating grin on its face like it's saying, "perfect, perfect."

Sam Neill is such a grossly underrated actor. When he scares the fuck out of that fat kid with the raptor claw at the beginning and how he wholesomely goes from cold and "get the fuck away from me" to the kids to basically embracing them completely and saving them a bunch.

JP1 was a gem.

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Jabodie posted...

Well as I understand it, entertainment (understandably) took liberties for the sake of coolness. It's not really a big deal, but I do think the public perception is that Jurassic Park was an accurate representation of dinosaurs according to the paleontologists of the time.

on the up side, i've talked to professors that claim that jurassic park injected a huge amount of new blood and talent into the paleontology field.

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Jabodie posted...

My brother said the other day that paleontologists had been theorizing that dinosaurs had feathers since like the 80's (he likes to read paleontology research papers in his free time for some reason). So even by the dino craze, popular renditions were outdated. Even now the public perception is quite behind, I believe. Of course, this may be false, but I don't care enough to do a bunch of research to verify this, so take with plenty of salt.

I thought they hadn't determined yet if all dinosaurs had feathers? I can't remember if they definitively proved some did, though I thought they had, but I thought the whole theory of all of them having feathers wasn't proven yet.

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Gamerguymass posted...

I thought they hadn't determined yet if all dinosaurs had feathers? I can't remember if they definitively proved some did, though I thought they had, but I thought the whole theory of all of them having feathers wasn't proven yet.

its been in flux for decades. i think the currently accepted model is that theropods (the bipedal dinos that share the same ancestors as birds) could have feathers but that sauropods (the quadrapedal ones like the brachiosaurus) didn't.

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Kobe Bryant posted...

Every boy toddler love dinosaurs. My son's first "word" was him roaring when playing with his dinos

My daughter is 4. She loves typical girl stuff like MLP, horses, etc. But thankfully she also really likes dinosaurs and Ninja Turtles. She just doesn't like the T-Rex because "he is ugly. I like longneck because it's cute".

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