More accurate dinosaurs in Jurassic Park

Don't get me started on all those traps that still work after centuaries... :eek::mad:

Never underestimate the unflappable dedication of Mayan off-site IT support.

I loved that boulder. I knocked up a wargames version from a golf ball and some sand. :D

Haha, Well done!
See, this is the kind of can-do DIY spirit I've come to expect from this message board! This place is a POD from the ordinary. My boredom is butterflied away!
 
I agree, replacing the velociraptors from the book with the Deinonychus from the movie wouldn't have changed anything. The only thing that would be different is that velociraptors would be a lot less known than it is now.
Most suggested changes wouldn't change much, they are basicly details. A more change would be using actual* velociraptors in the movie and not Deinonychi named velociraptors.

*not actual as in real living velociraptors

So... the 'raptors' in the film were not actual velociraptors? That's one more illusion shattered, then - both Stephen Spielberg and Michael Chrighton are lying to me! Waaaah!
:D
 
So... the 'raptors' in the film were not actual velociraptors? That's one more illusion shattered, then - both Stephen Spielberg and Michael Chrighton are lying to me! Waaaah!
:D

I believe that mr Crighton didn't lie to you. The velociraptors in the book were a lot closer to velocirators than the Deinonichusses or Utahraptors or whatever in the film.
 

MrP

Banned
I must admit, it's been too long since I saw read the book... :(

I don't think he did have dog-sized raptors, you know. Hang on, I'll have a look.

pp.58 & 119 of my paperback edition said:
Although relatively small - about two hundred pounds, the size of a leopard...

Charging raptors covered the ten yards to the fence with shocking speed. Grant had a blurred impression of powerful, six-foot-tall bodies, stiff balancing tails, limbs with curving claws, open jaws with rows of jagged teeth.
 
Take your mind off it with some Deinonychus models for wargaming, old man! Pack K12. :)

Just don't look down from them to the 'Raptors . . .

there's some cool stuff on that site.. particularly the African animals.. animals are one of my favorites for mini painting, because it's a challenge to get them to look real... unlike fantasy critters, everyone knows what an elephant or a zebra looks like, and if you mess it up, they'll know it...
 

MrP

Banned
there's some cool stuff on that site.. particularly the African animals.. animals are one of my favorites for mini painting, because it's a challenge to get them to look real... unlike fantasy critters, everyone knows what an elephant or a zebra looks like, and if you mess it up, they'll know it...

Yeah, I've got a load of his stuff - mainly dinosaurs I've used for Lost World safaris. :D
 

Rockingham

Banned
My reasoning was simply based on my personal preference for using -i plurals for English nouns ending in -us, hence hippopotami, rhinoceri and octopi. And yes, I know that should be octopodes in Greek but that doesn't count in English :D

I do think it's interesting that, if the other poster is correct, palentological usage seems to follow that of terms referring to game in English, i.e. not distinguishing between singular and plural- a herd of buffalo, a pack of Deinonychus.
Well, to be fair, their probably isn't a "right" answer. After all, when you convert a word from Greek, to Latin, to English, you don't now which languages plural to use;)....which further buggers linguistics up when theirs more then one possible plural for that language...:rolleyes:

I think that translator thread demonstrates that quite clearly....
 

MrP

Banned
DUDE! That website is so awesome it makes me DROOL! :cool::cool::cool:

... oh, and the Oviraptor makes me chuckle. It's depicted... stealing an egg. That's actually outdated noways, it didn't steal the eggs, it did breed upon them because they were it's own! ;)

Had good fun with those safaris! :D

Well, to be fair, their probably isn't a "right" answer. After all, when you convert a word from Greek, to Latin, to English, you don't now which languages plural to use;)....which further buggers linguistics up when theirs more then one possible plural for that language...:rolleyes:

I think that translator thread demonstrates that quite clearly....

Many problems, yes. See my dull post last page.

Sorry for typing. Using onscreen keyboard!
 
What if Steven Spielberg had aimed for more (for the time back then) scientifically accurate dinossaurs? Ie, the raptors are called Deinonychus instead of Velociraptor (the genus was actually found in North America, and was really as large as the animals in the movie), Dilophosaurus doesn't have a frill, isn't poisonous and is much larger (or alternatively, the Dilophosaurus is explicitly mentioned to be juvenile!), and lastly (minor detail, really), the brachiosaurs don't chew. (I'll faithfully ignore feathers here because, with all respect, the dromaeosaurs were unknown to have feathers at the time the movie was made, ie in 1993). How does this affect the reception of the movie and it's effects on popular culture?
never.:D:D:D;););):eek::eek::eek:
 
Yeah, I've got a load of his stuff - mainly dinosaurs I've used for Lost World safaris. :D

I've got a fair pile of dinosaur minis, most from the (now defunct) Ral Partha line... they released several in the heyday after Jurassic Park came out... I have a pack of velociraptors and another of Deinonychus (both of which I need to finish painting), a big Stegosaurus (ditto), a couple of carnosaurs, a big duckbill, a couple of goofy looking giant Pterosaurs (neither looks realistic), and some assorted odds and ends....
 
I've got a fair pile of dinosaur minis, most from the (now defunct) Ral Partha line... they released several in the heyday after Jurassic Park came out... I have a pack of velociraptors and another of Deinonychus (both of which I need to finish painting), a big Stegosaurus (ditto), a couple of carnosaurs, a big duckbill, a couple of goofy looking giant Pterosaurs (neither looks realistic), and some assorted odds and ends....

You know that by modern cladistics, only Allosaurus and the closest related kin are actually 'carnosaurs'. :p;):cool:
 
You know that by modern cladistics, only Allosaurus and the closest related kin are actually 'carnosaurs'. :p;):cool:

okay. Purist. :p

I don't know what the two CARNOSAURS I have are actually supposed to be... one of them is that one with the little horn on it's nose... the other one? No idea...
 
okay. Purist. :p

I'm a man from the business, I suppose... :cool:

I don't know what the two CARNOSAURS I have are actually supposed to be... one of them is that one with the little horn on it's nose... the other one? No idea...

Horn? The only one that comes to my mind is Ceratosaurus. It's an abelisaur, not a Carnosaur, but it's a classic, from the Late Jurassic from the Morisson Formation. :)
 
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For when one's scrubbing the crap out of the real keyboard.

Oooh, funky. Never noticed that before. Mine insists on the existence of keys called 'shft', 'pup', and 'ent', though. :D
 
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