Dominick+M’s+2016+OpEd+Article

=The Reality Of The Worlds Most Unreal Creatures=

Remember that movie "Jurassic Park" and seeing it for the first time thinking "wow i actually know what dinosaurs looked like now!". Guess what? Hate to burst your bubble but you don't. This cinematic of these ancient reptilians actually is not that accurate. Using only 2 examples from the movie you'll see how vastly different in size and quality this movie made these creatures from what they actually were. Do not misunderstand this article however, Jurassic Park was a fantastic movie for its time doing its best that it could with the creatures most people don't know very much about. However their representations of certain creatures spin a web of deception, a warp of reality just for the purpose of making a better movie manipulating the poor uneducated masses into believing they actually had an idea of what the creatures of our world looked like and that just simply is unjust.

First example:

=== Vs. === = = Recognize this little funny guy on the right from the movie? Yeah I'm sure everyone thinks they do. That is supposed to be Dilophasaurus one of the earliest members of the carnivore family. However that is about where the validity of the Jurassic Park version ends. The rest is made up fabricated fake etc. created in Spielberg's brain to make more suspense in the movie. First of all size is wrong. In the movie for some reason Dilophasaurus is about the size of a golden retriever whereas in real life he's about 20 feet long. Yeah just a slight difference. Second of all the most obvious part about it is the frill which in turn comes along with the venom. There is no fossil proof pointing to a frill or the ability to spit acid whatsoever, it was just something to spice up the Dino for the big screen. Now it is understandable that they have the right to creative license but these people basically just made a new impossible Dino and shoved under an already existing Dino's name forever changing public perception of it. This has even led to its presentation being this way in several video games such as the open world survival game on steam called "ARK Survival Evolved".

Second example: ===Vs.===

This bipedal "genius" of the dinosaurs has probably become the most recognizable Dino second only to the infamous T-Rex. This is Velociraptor, probably the Dino that Jurassic Park blew the most out of proportion. First of all their size in the movie is far far bigger than what they actually were. In fact the kids description of the Velociraptors being a "turkey" was probably the most accurate description. Real life Velociraptor weighed only about 30 pounds whereas in the movie they appear to clearly outsize an adult human and even took out a couple of the characters in the movie. In fact this rather puny raptor's main prey was a pig-sized relative of triceratops which it struggled to kill most of the time. Yet Jurassic park represents it as a complete killing machine even putting up a significant fight against the Tyrannosaurus. Lastly the most completely exaggerated part of this phony was its IQ. Velociraptor, to put it lightly was actually really stupid. Instead pf opening the door with its claws what would be more likely to happen would be it would bang its head on the door trying to open it until it knocked itself out.

So don't be fooled by the shenanigans of these films, enjoy them as just films but don't accept them as reality because they severely failed in that respect. Do your research find out whats really going on behind the scenes to have an actually decent understanding of the creatures that at one point roamed our earth like we do now. Don't let ignorant film producers fool you.

-Dominick A. McGrath