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Top 20 Scientific Inaccuracies in Jurassic Park

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The "Jurassic Park" franchise is loaded with epic moments, but not all of them are scientifically accurate. For this list, we’ll be looking at various aspects about dinosaurs from this mega franchise that’s not in keeping with what we know today. Our countdown includes Stygimoloch Breaking Down Barriers, T-Rexes Weren’t Fast, The Triceratops Droppings Are WAY Too Big, Real Dinos Have Feathers, and more! What’s your favorite dinosaur? Roar about it in the comments!

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20 Comments

@WatchMojo Creator 4 years ago Pinned

What’s your favorite dinosaur? Roar about it in the comments!
For everything Jurassic World, check out our playlist!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnfLaXL_wY&list=PLmZTDWJGfRq2sbVZu4vLFw0nzSPQ6F9IH

@TheChrisildur 4 years ago

Ιt's weird that every image that we have from dinosaurs in movies, video games etc has the characteristics that we first saw in Jurassic Park. What a legacy a movie can leave behind!

@fat_ninjas_gaming 4 years ago

I think people who get upset that the dinos are t accurate forget that literally in the first film, they say that they used DNA from amphibians to finish missing parts. Meaning they fundamentally changed the core base if the dinos and they would be new versions of the species. Any differences would be due to these changes in the DNA structure.

@thecollector30000 4 years ago (edited)

Well the dinosaurs in the Jurassic series were engineered so maybe Dr. Wu made them to look how we expected them to look back then.

Edit: thx for all the likes and what I meant to say was that in Jurassic world the Indominous rex was made by doctor wu designed it so maybe he did that to the other dinosaurs.

@henri191 4 years ago

Fun fact : Velociraptors lived in Asia and the T-Rex lived in North America, maybe at the same time, but not in the same place, the T-Rex's cousin , Tarbosaurus lived in Asia and at the same time as the Velociraptor

@mahakebir3255 4 years ago

I like the spinosaurus not because it killed a tyrannosaurus rex in JP3, but because it is so unique and beautiful, yet still so mysterious.

@Batkoku 4 years ago

The name Jurassic park was brought up in the book, basically Hammond says it was chosen because it sounds cool.

@Leto85 4 years ago

05:35 That's the thing with the Jurassic Park/World franchise: whenever a carnivore appears on the screen and people are around, the animal is always on the hunt.
The Lost World the book did that in a much more interesting way: during the first encounter with a tyrannosaur the animal simply peed on the jeep to mark its territory before wandering off. No unnecessary human hunting.

@Taka-Kevz 4 years ago (edited)

The names Jurassic Park and Velociraptors sound much cooler than reality. I also love the design of the raptors in this series.

@joseibsaborrerobenavides126 4 years ago

The Gasosaurus is a dinosaur that resembles the raptor aesthetic from the movies, but I admit that "velociraptor" has a much better ring to it.

@bennieboi7114 4 years ago

I wasn’t there but I can guarantee the TRex didn’t “coo”. Probably made guttural sounds like a big gator

@tmaziriri 4 years ago

The appearance of the dinos is clearly explained by the scientist. They did not have the full genetic code so ended up mixing it with other creatures such as frogs, crocs, etc, so they would look different compared to the actual ones.

@davidmontroy3408 4 years ago

In reference to #10, not only were most of the depicted dinosaurs native to the Cretaceous Period, but many of the species on display in the franchise were separated from each other's times by dozens of millions of years. The T-Rex died off around 66 million years ago, while the Stegosaurus was extinct around 150 million years ago. So in a relative way, modern humans existed closer in time to T-Rex, than T-Rex was to Stegosaurus. The ages that the Earth was ruled by dinosaurs covered some 170 million years of the Earth's 4.5 billion year lifetime.

@marcel82821 4 years ago

Dr wu even says in the movie that they used genes from other animals to fill in the lost gene he said the dinosaurs would look sooo much different but we didn't want real we wanted bigger teeth

@ozymandiasultor9480 4 years ago

Somewhere once I was reading that there was no animal with the teeth of a carnivore and horns...And yet, that Carnotaurus has both.

@blacksaiyantrevor 4 years ago

I mean when it came to feathers and just about everything else, I disregarded the fact because every dinosaur in the show aren't pure. Even if these facts are true, the movies explained that they're hybrids of frogs, and possibly other creatures. This especially is true for dilophosaurs, indominus rex, and other creatures.