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    Was reading the goofs section on IMDB.

    When checking the jurassic Park series goofs I almost became furius.

    Factual errors: Velociraptors are in fact much smaller than the ones depicted in the film. They are actually only about six feet long, and half the height of a man.
    In the book this would be correct, but the movie depicts the Utah Raptor wich actualy had these dimensions.

    Factual errors: Why would Hammond's scientists have used amphibian DNA to "plug gaps" in the dinos' DNA? That's akin to using fish DNA to plug human DNA; amphibians and reptiles are from different phyla. It would have made more sense to use bird (direct descendants of dinosaurs) or even lizard DNA.
    This is Crichtons fault and not the movies, even if the complaint is technicaly right it wold invoke a plot hole if righted.

    Factual errors: It is unlikely that T-rexes and other large dinosaurs like Allosauruses would sprint, since if they fell over, they would fatally shatter their rib cages, as well as other bones, from the sheer velocity and weight. However, some do believe they may have run very short distances (being ambush predators).
    This is one of the most stupid and ill thought dinosaur coment I have read this year.
    It's the "Dinosaurs are big slow stupid and coldbloded" argument again!
    The fosil remains from the above mentioned predators show the same kind if of tear and wear as modern day quick runing birds like the ostridge and its nasty smaller cousin Emu (Thanks Greebe!).

    Factual errors: Two T-rexes would never associate together (except for mating). Large predators such as T-rex would immediately attack each other, because a given area could not support more than one.
    URGH....
    Top predator birds often has souch relationships.

    And worst of all:

    Despite being talked about in the book and the movie neither Chrichton nor any of the filmamkers seems to have read Robert Bakkers book about Dinosaurs...
    Last edited by Technoid; 2 September 2001, 02:30.
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    quick runing birds like the ostridge and its nasty smaller cousin (I can't remember the name).
    That would be the Emu
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    • #3

      ...amphibians and reptiles are from different phyla.
      My zoology is pretty rusty, but I don't think that is even close to true.
      Aren't ALL animals with spinal chords in the phylum Chordata?
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      • #4
        Direct desendant of the Velociraptor....



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        • #5
          If I remember right, the dino's in JP came in two forms, pupetra and cgiopa. Neither one has what could be classified as a spinal cord.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Jon P. Inghram
            If I remember right, the dino's in JP came in two forms, pupetra and cgiopa. Neither one has what could be classified as a spinal cord.
            I guess that would put them closer to Sea Urchins or Daisies than the other Dinos.
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            • #7
              The biggest goof in the movie is one pretty obvious one. The T. Rex breaks through the fence between the two Explorers, and the ground on the other side of the fence is level with the roadway. The dino just steps over the low cement wall. But when they escape back the same way, Alan and Lex have to rappel down at least a 50 ft. drop on the other side of the same wall, and the Explorer with Tim in it hurtles off the wall, falling many feet into the branches of a tree, from which it falls another 3 stories at least. This major turning point in the movie could NOT have happened(!)

              Really, there are so many bloopers in Jurassic Park, one wonders how they could have escaped everyone's attention at editing time. (But I'm sure Spielberg was too busy with Schindler's List to pay enough attention)

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              • #8
                if i renember correctly hammond´s scientists used birds dna to "stop the gap" at least in the book.

                and jurrasic park 3 has NOTHING to do with Michael Crichton.
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