The Dinosaur That Movies Always Get Wrong 

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“Murder Chickens” is now my favorite way of describing the Velociraptors lol. Love it😂❤️

Ah yes, the iconic Jurassic Park characters, Ian Grant and Alan Malcolm.

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.

Kind of ironic that Utahraptor, who appeared in JWE 2, is the most accurate raptor depiction throughout Jurassic Park/World media. 😅

“Ian grant” is wild

When JP first came out I was like “That’s a deinonychus, “Terrible Claw” is a much cooler name.”

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.

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.

The velociraptor was basically a murderous ground hawk with razor-sharp teeth.

10:07... Alan Grant bro. Great video, as always

I like to imagine them as prehistoric roadrunners ❤

Nowadays it’s become cliche to dismiss Velociraptor as a “wimpy” animal, but it was still surprisingly formidable for its size. As with most other derived dromaeosaurids, Velociraptor was well-suited to tackle relatively large prey (often around its own weight, and in some cases larger), though due to its small size “relatively large prey" would have meant things like other small theropods and, in ambitious cases, Protoceratops, rather than anything particularly substantial. Its adaptations for tackling such prey are similar overall to that of other derived dromaeosaurs, such as well-developed ziphont dentition for efficiently cutting through flesh, a relatively large and well-developed sickle claw, and a foot anatomy that sacrificed some speed (though it was still reasonably fast-some formulas used to calculate dinosaur speeds give it a speed of 40kmh) in exchange for improved agility and foot-based grappling capabilities. Despite the popular scene of Velociraptor and Tarbosaurus showed living together in Prehistoric Planet, Velociraptor actually lived around 75MYA in Mongolia, being known from the Djadochta Formation which is older than the Nemegt Formation where Tarbosaurus lived. Only known dromaeosaurid lived with Tarbosaurus was Adasaurus, a slightly larger close relative of Velociraptor. While nowadays, the formation area is part of the Gobi Desert, and while it wasn’t always a desert, it had been a desert on one previous occasion-when Velociraptor was around. And as with most desert animals alive today, Velociraptor was likely nocturnal, as indicated by sclerotic ring studies.

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.

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 🥰

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 ❤

I love how all old therapods have this thing where they were first thought to be a megalosaur

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

I now want to open a fast food joined called Speedy Murder Chicken.

My guy bought a Bigfoot costume for a sponsor. Respect.

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)

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!”

Dromeosaurs also probably couldn't rotate their wrists the way we do. Movies usually show their hands palms-down, but they'd be facing each other.

...and the reason i finally got chickens for pets. Always wanted a pet dinosaur

Dakotoraptor and utahraptor are my favourite

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

A surprise face reveal was not expected by the way I like your channel and your content

17:54 “Tyrannosaurus did not live at the same time as the velociraptor…… just kidding I lied” -Extinct Zoo

17:27 Khaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!

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.

10:08 “Ian grant” 😭😭😭

Always love saying your videos on a Saturday morning

Don't forget giant snakes. Movies make them lightning fast, constantly hungry and aggressive, and give them ROARS.

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

3:24 Face reveal ? 12:43 easter egg ?

Great video as usual and very informative. I had no idea we knew about so many varied species in the area. I thought we had fossil records of only a few species. I always learn a lot from your videos.... thanks.

This was a good watch, thanks!

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)

This animal is One of my favorites dinosaurs

Dakotaraptor is like wolf 🐺 and utahraptor is like a tiger 🐯 one build for speed and other is build for strength ❤

Very educational, thanks for the video!

In defense of JP on the feathers, we hadn't found the evidence that they were feathered until the third movie.

Velociraptor was like a group eagle, small but powerful.

Hey Captain Kirk, what's your favorite cretaceous period dinosaur from the east asian region? "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN"

Great video, it captured my attention the whole time which I can’t say for a lot of videos. Good job making an engaging and interesting video.

velociraptors might have been like jackals: teaming up for large prey but always fighting!

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.

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.

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

I wanted to say congrats for bypassing my natural ad block (autism) by having a simple but effective commercial Well done

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.

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).

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.

12:46 easter egg under tree

And yet my favourite raptor is the Bambiraptor

Well done, always, learning. I like how you did good research. Keep it up.

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.

Well being in cockfighting pits, I can truly see raptors fighting as fighting roosters.🐓🦖

Awesome video! Thanks!

Great vids. Greetings from The Netherlands ❤

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.

Fabulous video.... you reel of those names like they were nothing!!

12:48 Dinosaur under the tree lol, Great vid bro!

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.

it's cool to finnaly see you irl and the video is very good

Excellent video. Was not aware of the vast number of creatures so far identified that lived in the Gobi during that time. Amazing such life could flourish in desert conditions. And more so considering that only around 10% of species are preserved as fossils.

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.

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

i grew up with Jurassic Park during the 2000's and it's still my favorite Velociraptor from this Day

Awesome video bro

have you done a video on utahraptor, if not i would love to see one because the my favorite dinosuar.

Great video.

Wait that’s how you look ExtinctZoo? I did not expect that

Clever clever chicken.😮

0:32 I love how the Gigantoraptor is so different you just didn’t add it

I love the nieghboring critters parts of these videos. The whole video is badass but I love that part in particular

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.

Im sorry, I got stuck with the "KRYPTObaatar" 😂😂 Imagine raptors using that as currency .

Why do dangerous animals always have to be so cute 😔

Very nice video👏

Is that really how we say Deinoychus now? I learned to say it from We sing Dinosures and they say it different.

holly molly! we usually listen about Utahrapto and Dakotaraptor but THAT Bissekty Giant is an absolute beast!

12:44 Like the mini dino cartoon under the tree LOL

I like the arm chart at 2:34. 👍🏼

Anyone know the name of the documentary with the blue crested raptor seen in the video? I remember being captivated by that doc as a kid

I did catch that Easter egg at 12:44 I was like wait tf is that 🤣

Considering which came first, it's not the claws that are sickle-shaped. It's the sickles that are claw-shaped...

what was that tiny green thing at 12:44, it's driving me crazy!!!

The claw does the same thing a the canines of the sabre tooth cat. A sort of analogous structure. Great mind think alike-- or something like that.

Cool cameo extinct zoo 👍 !

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.

Claw hitting vital organs, possible nocturnal predator, and insanely swift.... I knew it. Velociraptors were ninjas!

“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

Many things make me things they were very close to wolves. Alone or not, eating living food or not, features for running .... Thank you for your work.

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

Please talk about the Triceratops next it is my absolute favorite dinosaur of all time

Megalosaurinae family is like the placeholder for all new Dinosaurs kindda like how in HOUSE, its always Lupus before it was another disease.

I could have though I read somewhere that the claw was use for pinning prey like modern raptors

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.