(#7) Brachiosaurs Didn't Sneeze
Brachiaosaurs do not stand up on their back legs like a dog begging for a treat. As adorable as this scene looks, the top-heavy dino would likely topple over if it tried. These huge dinosaurs (to the tune of 62 tons and at least 82 feet long) would never climb hills, let alone stand up to eat. When you stand as tall as a four-story building, you don't need to stand on your hind legs.
Also, let's talk about the sneezing for a sec. Sauropods probably did not sneeze, as the pressure could make their heads explode after it traveled up that four-story neck. Definitely a sad thought, but maybe one worth incorporating into the next film.
(#1) Spielberg Basically Created An Entirely New Dinosaur With The Velociraptors
The velociraptor stands as possibly the most famous dinosaur in the Jurassic Park franchise. From terrorizing kids in the classic kitchen scene to becoming Chris Pratt's BFF's in Jurassic World, the raptors go through enough character developments that some executive probably proposed a raptor spin-off called Jurassic Park: Enter the Dino.
Sadly, pretty much all of Spielberg's ideas about the raptor hold little to no scientific ground. Velociraptors grew to be about the size of a turkey, weighing in around 30 pounds. Continuing with the avian themes, the raptors should appear to be more bird-like and sport some feathers. And though they ate meat, they were not ferocious killers. At 30 pounds and the size of a turkey, the raptor would not live up to the agility they display in the films. Their top speed likely clocked in around 40 miles per hour - still fast, but not fast enough to be racing alongside Chris Pratt and his motorcycle.
(#12) Archaeological Digs Are The Same As They Were In 1800: Boring And Slow
If you ever go digging for fossils, expect it to go far differently than what you see in Jurassic Park. Despite what the film depicts, dinosaur skeletons aren't waiting to be unearthed in plain sight. The sonic technology used in Jurassic Park won't help you much, as it's more inaccurate than the film makes out to to be.
The reality is that digging up fossils today is much like it was back in the 1800s: a bunch of people carefully dig and cross their fingers that they find something. That's it. Not very glamorous. There certainly aren't any hammers and chisels involved in removing incredibly fragile fossils, even if Dr. Alan Grant says there are.
(#2) The T. Rex Could Never Chase You
One new detail in particular makes the T. rex much less terrifying... and makes the Jurassic movies even more ridiculous. According to science, if the T. rex ran as quickly as it does in the movies, it legs would break under its body weight. Not cool, bro, especially since those stubby arms would never break a fall either.
Scientists with nothing better to do used some fancy computer modeling to discover "that true running gaits would probably lead to unacceptably high skeletal loads in T. rex." So, instead of traipsing around at 45 miles an hour, the T. rex likely ran around a speed of five-to-15 miles per hour. You could have escaped!
(#6) Dilophosaurus Exhibited Abilities It Likely Never Possessed
As exciting as a venom-spitting dinosaur sounds, no one knows if the dilophosaurus actually spit any venom. Being 20 feet long, the dinosaur probably killed prey easily enough without venom. As for the frilly neck that looked like a bizarre version of an Elizabethan collar - again, it grew to be 20 feet long, so it's not like it needed to appear bigger or scarier.
However, the dilophosaurus did hail from the Jurassic period, so at least the producers nailed that part.
(#8) The Triceratops Poop Was Not Realistic
Before Laura Dern became classy as all hell in Big Little Lies, she dug through Triceratops poop in Jurassic Park. Talk about coming a long way, huh folks?
However, the pile of poop is big, like the size of the dinosaur itself. Despite Ellie Satler's willingness to plunge her arm into poop, a true expert knows this prehistoric feces are a pile of BS. If you want to see what prehistoric poop really looked like, check out some pictures of coprolites (the fancy name for fossilized crap) here. Sadly, no coprolites ever matched the size of dinosaurs.
One of the original producers, however, tells debunkers to "get a life." The guy has a point.
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The most widely recognized is the fifth mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, which caused the complete disappearance of dinosaurs that existed for 200 million years. Nowadays, more and more people are actively learning about dinosaurs, and some movies and televisions about dinosaurs have high popularity. Speaking of dinosaurs, we have to mention the Jurassic Park series directed by Spielberg.
Although the great movie series is successful, there are some wrong plots about dinosaurs in the movie. The random tool lists 12 wrong facts about dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, we could know the facts that velociraptors are not big, and dinosaurs do not growl.
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