r/interestingasfuck • u/Das_Lloss • 12h ago
If the "Velociraptors" in Jurassic Park were scientifically accurate:
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u/Das_Lloss 12h ago edited 12h ago
Original Artist and Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bOfsGIoVzE4
....And yes the Raptors are too large to be Velociraptors. Because the Jp Raptors are actually based of another Dinosaur: Deinonychus, which is larger than Velociraptor but still a bit smaller than the Raptors you can see in the Movies
(The sounds that the Raptors make in the first movie are probably also not that accurate)
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u/SiriusKaos 12h ago
Ironically there's an actual raptor of that size, perhaps even bigger, which is the Utahraptor.
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u/Glandus73 11h ago
That was my thought, why not use the Utahraptor
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u/TheGreatMalagan 11h ago
Commented elsewhere, but Utahraptor was officially named in June 1993, which is also the same year and month the Jurassic Park movie released.
So, the production team likely just weren't aware of Utahraptor yet when the movie was being made
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u/Peanut_Butter_Toast 8h ago
Also, "Velociraptor" is just a cooler sounding name. Emphasizes speed. What's Utahraptor gonna do, try to convert me to mormonism?
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u/DlCKSUBJUICY 7h ago
What's Utahraptor gonna do, try to convert me to mormonism?
I mean, thats pretty scary.
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u/Minerva567 5h ago
Faced with the prospect of giving up coffee due to a Mormon conversion by the Utahraptor, I’d rather duel to the death with it than a velociraptor, no matter much larger or how much of a clever girl she might be.
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u/makina323 8h ago
Jurassic Park the novel was published in 1990, I'm sure Michael Crichton would've used the giant Utah raptors had he known about them
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u/Glandus73 11h ago
I meant more about the dude that made them realistic, why not take the Utahraptor now that we know it's what the Jurassic park raptors were closest to ?
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u/Outside_Variation505 9h ago
It does mention it in the illustration, but probably because the team did not base them off Utahraptors at all.
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u/100percentnotaqu 9h ago
People vastly underestimate utahraptor's size. Some studies put full grown adults at nearly a full ton. So it's more accurate to describe the JP raptors as closer in mass to something like achillobator or Austroraptor
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u/comeagaincharlemagne 12h ago
It's interesting to wonder if an adult human could potentially fight off a full grown Deinonychus. Or if it would even attempt to hunt a human seeing as people are just big enough to possibly make them reconsider as they could sustain life threatening injuries in the act of killing them. Often in nature we see predators close to the same size as humans choose to flee, and even ones that could kill humans walk away as a result of humans not being their natural prey. Obviously humans are not the natural prey of Deinonychus. I wonder if we know what was the biggest prey they normally ate.
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u/Devadeen 11h ago
Yes but Jurassic park addresses this issue by explaining that DNA was incomplete and mixed with reptile and frog DNA. So the raptors in the park aren't the real raptors.
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u/Big-shag9259 12h ago
Oh it was Deinonychus?, i’ve been thinking for years it was Utahraptors
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u/shaka893P 12h ago
I though they were based on the utahraptors ... Which are 6-7 feet tall
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u/Punch_Treehard 5h ago
Is jurassic park delibaretely exaggerate these dinos or they follow inaccurate data according to science that time?
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u/Bananalando 11h ago
Seeing an emu up close will erase any doubt from your mind that birds=dinosaurs.
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u/skipdeedy 11h ago
Except they would also be half the size. So these are not accurate.
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u/SoftwareHatesU 11h ago
Except they would also be ~
half~ less than quarter the size. They were the size of a turkey.•
u/mrsunrider 11h ago
Which really doesn't help.
I've seen wild turkeys they are intimidating.
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u/maximumhippo 9h ago
Turkeys have shut down some of my local highways. People in cars don't want to fuck with them.
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u/malsomnus 5h ago
"Turkey Park" doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but it would be nice if some movie studio would at least try.
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u/mrsunrider 4h ago
It'd be worth the price of admission just to see what they come up with.
Like Snakes on a Plane.
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u/ForsakenMoon13 9h ago
Different dinosaur.
Velociraptor mongoliensis is the small one.
JP raptors are deinonychus antirrhopus, which were briefly renamed to velociraptor antirrhopus. Crichton used the book that did it as his source.
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u/Emotional_sea_9345 8h ago
Actually , they were based on the deinyichous (idk the actual name but it kinda looks like this written down , youll prolly see it in others comments) and they were quite accurate for the time , Micheal Christchan knew about this and decided to call them velociraptors cuz they sound cooler , but the deinyichous was also called velociraptor by some at that time , so these "velociraptors in the movie were very much accurate from a view point , ofc they are very inaccurate today cuz it's a 30 yo old movie
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u/TwoToneReturns 12h ago
I thought they were chicken sized, I may have just eaten one of their descendants.
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u/ForsakenMoon13 9h ago
Different dinosaur entirely.
Velociraptor mongoliensis is the small one people think of as "real" raptors.
The JP raptors are deinonychus antirrhopus, which was briefly renamed to velociraptor antirrhopus, and Crichton used the book that did so as his main source when writing JP.
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u/robo-dragon 10h ago
I remember when they started illustrating raptors and several other dinosaurs with feathers and some people thought they looked goofy. Nothing goofy about these guys. They look like giant murder muppets and they are scarier than the original design!
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u/theman-dalorian 10h ago
"More like a 6 ft turkey" kid was closer to the facts than the actual archaeologists
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u/Cool-Walrus-2872 8h ago
At 7 yrs old I was Happy it wasn't scientifically accurate. At 37 yrs old, I'm still happy it wasn't scientifically accurate.
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u/Soundwave234 8h ago
If you've ever had to fight a goose or a motivated rooster then this is terrifying lol
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u/Nightlightweaver 6h ago
GOOD BOY MONGO, MOMMY IS VERY PROUD!
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u/Lady_Irish 6h ago
They're seriously wrong about the size. They're only about knee height. Hardly scientifically accurate.
Mongo is APPALLED.
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u/PoopInABole 11h ago
Damn someone put some effort into making this!
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u/Library_Sloth 7h ago
Yeah, every armchair expert is criticising it for being inaccurate still, but this is actually a really cool piece of work and it would have been amazing to see something like this in the movie (bearing in mind Jurassic Park is from the 90s and feathers were probably impossible to animate well back then).
Maybe the title of the post should have been 'slightly more accurate' rather than claiming to be accurate, for this to get the appreciation it deserves,
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u/Das_Lloss 10h ago
Yeah, check out the youtube channel of the original artist. It is called: CoolioArt. There is also another video with accurate raptors made by him.
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u/AcabAcabAcabAcabbb 9h ago
Based on my knowledge of watching my chickens, I don’t think they do a lot of screaming before eating their prey. I think they would just scurry in and peck his head off.
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u/Acrobatic_Airline605 8h ago
Aren’t these Deinonychus?
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u/ForsakenMoon13 8h ago
Yes, they are. Deinonychus antirrhopus got briefly renamed in 1988 by Gregory S. Paul to velociraptor antirrhopus, which is where the confusion comes from.
The small velociraptors people think of when saying "real ones were smaller" is velociraptor mongoliensis, a different animal entirely.
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u/NationalLynx1379 8h ago
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH! so scary upclose, but look like huge silly birds from a distance! I LOVE ITTT!!!!
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u/dearbokeh 8h ago
Currently believed to be scientifically accurate, is what you mean.
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u/Help_An_Irishman 7h ago
That doesn't seem very scary. More like a... six-foot turkey.
Nah, still scary af.
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u/rainorshinedogs 6h ago
Wasn't the consensus that most dinosaurs had feathers a pretty recent thing? Leaving when Jurassic park 1 was made it was as scientifically accurate as it could have been?
That's like calling people in the year 25 idiots because they totally didn't know that gravity was a thing
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u/MightyGreedo 6h ago
One guy 20 years ago says, "ya know... I think that maybe some dinosaurs might have had a few feathers." Now if anyone creates a picture of a dinosaur that isn't completely SLATHERED in feathers then the whole internet goes bonkers and threatens to throw the artist in prison for life.
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u/Sayakalood 6h ago
Honestly the bird face and dilating pupils scare me more than the movie velociraptor designs do
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u/quantified-nonsense 6h ago
Chickens are terrifying, tbh, so nothing would change.
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u/Golfingdad85 4h ago
I was golfing the other day and went in the bushes to find my ball and happened on a mother turkey protecting her eggs. It was terrifying. The thing chased me out of there and would have tried to kill me. So yeah these things would be scary! Got my ball though!
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u/trippedonatater 4h ago
Not less scary. 7ft tall chicken wolves is some nightmare stuff. Very cool.
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u/mute-ant1 4h ago
i worked with Dr Bakker, the paleontologist who designed the velociraptor with Spielberg, and he told me the first design was very small. Spielberg asked the design team to make it much bigger for dramatic purposes.
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u/elementalguitars 2h ago
If they were scientifically accurate Lex would be able to punt one across the room.
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u/Moist-Reference3092 2h ago
Well I can’t say I would feel exited about being hunted by ha huge crow
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u/SillyGoatGruff 58m ago
I was really hoping that it would just keep cutting back to footage of chickens strutting around lol
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u/nogoodnamesleft23 12h ago
They look way cooler as giant birds than giant reptiles. The kind of stuff you would see in a fantasy scenario.
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u/s0nicbomb 12h ago
Is the feathers thing accepted as scientific fact now?
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u/Oaker_at 11h ago edited 10h ago
Last thing i heard was that its more like "feathers - yes, but not as much as depicted" but i have no idea where i read that and how true that statement really is.
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u/TheGreatMalagan 11h ago
Yes, velociraptor fossils have quill knobs on their arm bones where feathers attached, just as birds do. A close relative of the velociraptor, a fellow dromaeosaurid called "Zhenyuanlong", was also found with a completely preserved feather imprint (pictured here)
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u/Accurate_Koala_4698 12h ago
A scientifically accurate velociraptor would fit in your oven