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It should be noted that Deinonychus was being referred to by some as "Velociraptor Antirrhopus" around the time Michael Crichton was writing Jurassic Park, which is why he called them Velociraptors in the book. I believe it was Spielberg who decided to keep the name for the film adaptation because it sounded more dramatic.
Yep. Crichton was correct at the time the book was written, and Spielberg wanted to take even more liberties with Jurassic Park, but was discouraged by Bob Bakker thankfully
@demoths I'm probably in the minority with this take: But I actually like the scientific inaccuracies in the Jurassic films because I feel they help further illustrate one of the franchise's main themes, which is to never mess with the natural order. InGen didn't bring back the Dinosaurs. By tampering with their genetic code, they went and created things, unnatural abominations, that never existed to begin with. I think the inaccurate Dinosaur designs (among other things) reflect that perfectly.
@@TheHallow31this came up in the first book and possibly the second - Dr. Wu manipulated the animals so much it wasn't appropriate to say these were "real" dinosaurs. He and Hammond argued over color, size, natural aggressiveness vs being calmer for audiences, etc. Either in the second book or second movie, Grant called them genetically engineered monsters. Any inaccuracies by the movie makers on the dinos could be chalked up to this deliberate or accidental genetic tampering.
@@kyachdistent1301 it still exemplifies the genetic engineering angle. Because in the movie, the dinosaurs aren’t brought back with 100% pure code, they’re spliced with multiple other creatures, changing their look
i was 13 when JP came out but Deinonychus was my favorite dino going back to when i was 6 and got abook about them. i was upset by the book making the name swap wheni read it at 10 and then the movie upset me further.
@@DrSpooglemon Velociraptor and Deinonychus, both of whom have appeared in various Jurassic Park/World media, have inaccurate designs - where as Utahraptor does, which makes ironic.
Deinonychus has always been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid. It's a travesty they didn't think "terrible claw" wasn't cool enough of a name. But, as someone else in the comments said. Some paleontologists were calling Deinonychus as "velociraptor anthirhopus". Eitherway, they did Deinonychus dirty lol.
Terrible claw is a very cool name, but most people that watch the movies probably won't know that Deinonychus means terrible claw, nor the exact meaning of Velociraptor. They do know of raptors and velocity, so a name that has connections with those terms is clearly superior for your fast moving vicious killers
@@bartelvandervelden9894 in their defense they could have added a line mentioning what it meant, perhaps with our main character explaining to the kid exactly *why* they earned the name of Terrible Claw
My favorite dinosaur is the utahraptor and it was Alan Grant’s speech about the 6ft turkeys that made me want to be a paleontologist back when I was in diapers 😂 despite the scientific inaccuracies, Jurassic Park is a movie very near and dear to my heart lol ❤
Same here. I loved dinosaurs growing up. My son loves them too. He was born right around the time JP was released. When he was little, he couldn't understand how dinosaurs weren't alive when he could see them in the movies lol. Then he asked me one day if I had been alive when the dinosaurs were. I said i just missed them by about 65 million years. 😂 We both love dinosaurs movies.
But they don't have beaks and they have four claws, not two, so how could they've had feathers like a hawk? That's why the feather theory makes no sense
@@SteezyRedStars They had quill knobs in their bones, which are used for anchoring the organs that grow pennaceous feathers. We've also got fossils of dinosaurs closely related with their feathers preserved.
Jurassic Park is actually brilliant. Not only did it spawn an entire new generation of Dino enthusiasts, but it also highlighted how corporate greed can pervert nature. The base nature of Velociraptors was absolutely corrupted, turning them more into monsters than animals, yet over time life, uh, finds a way.
@@srobeck77Utahraptor was discovered during filming. Jurassic park velociraptors were based on deinonychus as Michael Crichton used an outdated theory that deinonychus was a subspecies of velociraptor.
@@Simon-zs9iy incorrect. the first Utah raptor was discovered in 1975. And point still stands. It was just a naming thing. Now move on with your nerd life to something more meaningful.
The specimen of the raptor and the protoceratops is goddamn astonishing. The things we are able to find, the things all of Nature and Spirit have allowed to be preserved for other creatures, and for humans to find, never ceases to humble me. Imagine what other glorious and telling treasures will be discovered in our lifetimes 🥰
I like to imagine a velociraptor holding on with the front claws and making jabbing bites while rabbit kicking like a cat. Idk if its accurate, but its fun to imagine a velociraptor rabbit kicking the shit out of its prey
Its always so weird to me that folks still assume velociraptors had to be pack animals because cats are the most popular pets in the world and they're small and quite deadly solitary hunters. Anyway hoping someday for a new movie franchise to pop up that depicts them more accurately just because I think they're plenty cool as is, not every dinosaur has to be something that could easily eat a person lol.
To be fair, if we're assuming velociraptor reached its max speed only in short bursts, it seems more appropriate to compare their max speed with that of sprinting cyclists. In that case, their max speed is almost exactly the same, the cyclists being faster by just a hair (or maybe a feather)
When my dad took me to see the original JP in thearters, I whispered to him that the raptors were more like the deinonychus than the velociraptor. He didn't care.
I remember reading the forward to Raptor red, whilst working on Jurassic park Bob Baker had a call from a colleague who had found the Utah raptor to which Baker commented “you’ve found Spielberg’s raptor!”
6:30 I wouldn't be surprised if living in a mostly dry environment with large hills and open spaces would have allowed the velociraptor to out pace larger threats by climbing hills and then jumping to semi glide down the other side and land safely on dirt, dust or sand
I've never seen anyone bring up the Red Legged Seriema bird when talking about how Raptors may have used their claws. Look up an image of their feet, they have a claw nearly identical to the Raptor. They use it for pinning snakes, eels and fish. Farmers use them in certain areas to protect their chickens.
The same thing was going to happen for the giganotosaurus in Jurassic World Dominion and it almost happened, in the concept arts for the giganotosaurus scenes we see an accurate but also scary dinosaur but it's not a giga, it's an acrocanthrosaurus without any crocodile-like skin or concavenator-like hump addition, even some earlier model design sculptures for making the animatronic used those concepts for the basic design and it makes sense, the real reason the giga in the flashback was living with the trex was actually because the giga was supposed to be the acro or even a bigger evolved descendant of the acro but again they would name it giga because it was a cooler name for them.
This is an old comment so I apologize if I'm repeating what you already know now, but Tyrannosaurus was not the only Tyrannosaur, only one type of Tyrannosaur. Tyrannosaur is actually quite a large family, with Tyrannosaurus Rex being the poster child. Other Tyrannosaurs include Tarbosaurus, Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus, and many more. Tarbosaurus was portrayed as coexisting with Velociraptor in Prehistoric Planet, but that was a minor smudging of the timeline for the sake of having the recognizability of Velociraptor with an actually named Tyrannosaur.
@@jeremiahalguire8231nope Utahraptors were too bulky to be built for speed like a dakotahraptor or velociraptor also I guess dakotahraptor is getting a new name
Also the fact jurrasic park sparked the idea of dilophosaurus having a frill(it never did and now dilophosaurus has a frill in almost any media it’s in)
Velociraptor a famous Dinosaur in Mongolia Despite the Jurassic Franchise got all of it like big one Blue and Beta and their former Packs but they had Appearance in other media Like Arcade game Dinosaur King as a Secret Card move as block oppoment as distraction
Because of the hook claw I highly doubt that raptors lived and hunted on ground level. such claw has very little advantages over more powerful jaws and front limbs, as the attack power doesn't come from the size of the claw but the muscles behind it, meanwhile they come with the high risk of tangling into all vegetation and roots (the open hook claw acts like anchor hanging off from the boat, tangling into everything that crosses its way), risking injury and getting caught by larger predators. why would evolution then favor it over stronger jaws and front limbs? my theory is that raptors were tree climbers and used the hook claw for climbing and grabbing on tree trunks while waiting for unsuspecting prey to pass under the tree. their hunting method was diving onto the prey from the tree, gaining massive attack power from the speed of the dive to weaponize the overly size claw. as more precise dive meant more prey, this would have naturally put pressure on the evolution of flying feathers, as the raptors (or their common ancestor with birds) would have learned to control the dive, eventually leading into the evolution of powered flight. it's also notable that the hook claw wasn't serrated meaning it's very well suited for climbing but not optimized as a weapon. ps. owls are among the most primitive birds alive today, and they still use this exact hunting strategy.
they lived in the desert tho, so probably not enough trees to climb and not enough vegetation to be a nuisance my theory is that they could have used it to latch on the prey like big felines do with their dew claw. Although the theory in the video seems to have more evidence
@@thelionoob I doubt the estimations of weather conditions from 70 million years are that accurate we can say for certain what type the terrain was. it's a thin layer of soil and minuscule amount of fossils after all the entire estimation is based on. certainly it's not so accurate we could say that there were no trees present that day, suppose it was above the water. and any vegetation is anyways where the animal hides and stalks the prey in, so it will be inevitably a nuisance, even if the terrain would be mostly open. but if my theory is wrong, then it's really just big mystery why they had such out of proportion claw, as they do come with very big disadvantages and very little obvious advantages. latching onto the prey animal doesn't require such overly big claw it risks the animals survival, and puncturing vital organs comes with the problem of power; the bigger the claw the more power it requires to penetrate the thick skin of the prey. if the prey animals were smaller however, then the need for big claw would also lose its importance, which should again put the weight on the disadvantages of such claw.
Wasn't there a recent theory where they proposed the claw was used for raptors to use "raptor prey restrant" where the claws anchor them to prey they have toppled over so they can eat small peices of the prey at a time until the prey dies. I'm pretty sure that's the leading theory of their claw atm. Look it up. it's pretty interesting.
@@YianKutKu2 either way you still wouldnt want to run into a pack of Velociraptors or deinonychus'es regardles of teh fact thart vel's are only 1 foot tall and deins are typcially 4-5ft not the 6-7 feet they appear in the movies. people think pfft well they aren't that big ... but god damn you ever seena casowary attack soemone? .. it aint pretty , now imagine that but with much larger claws and amouth full of sharp teeth isntead of jsut a pecky beak.
In the Jurassic Park book, Velociraptor was small, like the actual dinosaur, about the size of a turkey. Speilberg was the one who pumped up the size so it could hold it's own in the villain department along with T-Rex.
Great video Michael Crichton ultimately made the decision to use the name velociraptor. I guess from a marketing and branding perspective it worked. Mike from Prehistoric Magazine
In Jurassic Park 3 they added proto feathers to the velociraptors to makeup for current understandings of feathered dinosaurs. I believe even Indominus Rex and indoraptor had proto feathers.
My Dad recently wrote a book centered on a Velociraptor (Zenu, The Blue Velociraptor) and as a dino nerd I has some hand in the dino research (though he did most of it). It was kinda fun to work on a velociraptor that was more accurate than most media (though there are some inaccuracies obviously because it's about an adolescent velocripator who lives in a civilized Velociraptor society in prehistoric Mongolia so yeah there are some inaccuracies). Of course the book's main focus is the story of courage rather than getting a velociraptor more accurate than Jurassic Park, but it's still funny to me. I'm also surpised he let it have feathers, he HATES birds and feathers with a passion so I'm surprised he kept the feathers (I however love the feathers).
1) Could feathers helped to reach higher running speeds or helping the tail to work better as a sail while pursuing prey, like the cheetah? 2) What about the penguin waterproof feathers to move fast underwater? It could be cool to see a raptor swimming underwater as a penguin. 3) What about seasonal feathers? Maybe they were very active in winter. That topic could be a whole episode in its own, very mysterious.
Yeah I noticed that the Jurassic Park movies always have a way of making the Raptors iconic but seeing that they were always feathered its needless to say that predatory dinosaurs in reality were more like killer birds than reptiles.
the funny thing is deinonychus is still too smaller then from what i remember this whole thing. i think the utahraptor was around the correct size of the JP raptor sizes.
Minus the lack of feathers, Dakotaraptor is remarkably close to being what Velociraptor is shown as in the movies. It was about that size, had a skull of that shape, and lived alongside T-Rex.
Does anyone know where the scenes with the raptors are from? i know i watched all of these movies as a kid, but i cannot remember the name. i appreciate any help pls
I wonder if that sleep aid mask would fit with a nose-only c-pap. My partner has a terrible time sleeping, and really needs to use her c-pap for more productive brain function (enough oxygen when you sleep makes a Huge difference). She uses white noise sometimes, and often covers her face. Honestly, I think her cat is the best sleep aid. - Dynonicus was my very favorite dinosaur since I first read Dinosaur Heresies by Bakker, when I was in middle school (1980's). I was pissed off at Chichton for misnaming the velociraptor, since it was clearly a dynonicus, and anyone who has ever dealt with today's chickens knows that nothing is safe from them.
I hate it when people compare Velociraptors or any other theropod dinosaurs to chickens, like theropods are equally related to every living species of bird on this planet. velociraptor resembles modern day raptors like eagles and hawks more than a chicken 🙄 like the disrespect is crazy.
The movie adaptation initially wanted to correct the name and properly call it Deinonychus but then decided knowingly to further this confusion in pre-production sigh. It seems to have been corrected in the books in some languages, in my Dutch copy it's called deinonychus leading me to mistakenly believe for a long time the movies just changed the name 'cause it sounded cooler. Sidenote My pet pigeon hates one particular plushy for some reason. When she runs up to it, attacks it and then shoves it off the furniture and watches it plunge to its doom it's not hard to imagine a t-rex or raptor. She'd be a perfect motion capture source lol.
I am pretty sure I listen to the exact same 3hr White Noise video on RU-vid! I made my own playlist that has a bunch of them in a row and starts with a rain sounds video in case I want to fall asleep to that.
6:49 Velociraptors had a detachable tail they used to beat their prey to death with. They also used it as a fishing rod, and as a fencing foil when challenging other males for breeding rights.
About the undescribed specimens: the tyrannosaur was probably a tarbosaurus and the sauropod from the museum in Warsaw, Poland (I was there) is either opisthocoelicaudia or nemegtosaurus
It's wild that they say the raptors weren't around with t rex. We haven't dug up all the fossils, and creating fossils from dead animals is quite rare. Raptors could have been eaten hole, so no fossils would have been found. More digging is needed, and new evidence could totally change everything we know.
I've always hoped that TRex having feathers of any kind would end up being false because for me the feathers detract from their ferocious mystique. But for some reason, the feathers on the velociraptor make it seem more terrifying.
The velociraptor may not have lived with the T Rex but it did live with Tarbosaurus Bataar, the second largest Tyrannosaur (at least until the discovery of Tyrannosaurus Mcraensis). Tarbosaurus is a close relative to the T rex that didn't cross that prehistoric bridge between asia and north america back when it was just a Guanlong.
“Because he thought it sounded better and more dramatic” yeah no shit 😂 velociraptor is such a metal sounding name, one of the coolest of all time, regardless of the actual species and how cool it actually is
It’s pretty sad that the Deinonychus in the JP movies are still to this day referred to by the wrong name. Not only because it shadows the credit that the real Velociraptor deserves, but also because Deinonychus is such a cool animal that deserves recognition in its own right. That animal changed how people perceived dinosaurs. It deserves to be recognized without needing to be called by the name of another animal.
I never did buy into the Velociraptor being a major killer of larger prey. I suspect a single velociraptor would stick to small prey much smaller than itself it would of course gang up on those larger animals but even then I doubt they were much bigger. Animals instinctively know they can’t be injured or they will become unable to feed themselves so intentionally hurling their bodies at animals whose weight was far larger than themselves was a bad survival tactic. It probably only went after bigger animals when it was in a pack and it was desperate for food.
I love Jurassic Park (movie and book) but what I love most about it is that it got the look of a lot of dinosaurs wrong, but it also didn't at the same time. It wasn't substantially proven that Raptors were related to birds until 2007. And they said in the story that they filled the gaps in the DNA with Reptile and Amphibian DNA. So, they took what they thought was a lizard, and added more lizard, and made a lizard, not even realizing that they should've been trying to make a bird.
