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so this is the t-rex's tooth this is the actual size only this amount would have stuck out of the mouth with the teeth this big t-rex could chew anything he wanted he would literally grab animals and tear them into pieces and swallow the pieces of whole bone and everything hello my name is mark lowen i'm a

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s jurassic park 1993. so the question The dinosaurs made sounds, of course they did, they are the sounds of Jurassic Park, realistic, sure, animals like the T-rex had huge resonance chambers, they had air sacs all over their necks, up to their lungs, in their abdomens. , this would have been part of the resonance box that brings the sound. makes a sound about t-rex, the kind of sound that would stop your heart for a second, look at us if we didn't move the real

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Alan Grant and also advisor on the film was Dr. Jack Horner. Jack Horner came up with the idea that the olfactory portion of the brain is relatively larger than in other dinosaurs, so people started saying that the T-Rex had a very good sense of smell, hence the T-Rex was a scavenger and then this went further. now the t-rex can't see very well, it just follows its nose around the t-rex had three-dimensional binocular vision the t-rex had an overlapping field of vision of about 60 degrees, which is more than something resembling a hawk, today We know that animals with binocular vision today are hunters.

We know that the T-rex could see quite well. Dr. Alan Grant bet his life and probably would have lost it in that situation. That's a stick boy. Do you like the stick? No wonder you're extinct. The interesting thing about dilophosaurus is that they made it smaller than it really is. It's actually about 25 to 30 feet long, but that's just one of the real complaints. This is the worst dinosaur, probably in the entire Jurassic Park franchise. We have absolutely no evidence of that neck. frill that emerged from the dilophosaurus at the same time, there are modern animals like the lizard that have that, but in reality we should be able to identify it in a dinosaur, so that would be pure speculation, the real artistic license is in the idea that they are representing the dilophosaurus as poisonous, but how does he get that poison from inside his body to reach nedrik?

Now animals that spit venom have hollow teeth that actually have poison glands connected to the top of that olive tooth and they can inject the poison into that tooth. under pressure to shoot the dilophosaurus had no gap teeth we have absolutely no evidence that any dinosaur was poisonous let alone that any dinosaur could spit that poison the dilophosaurus is literally the worst dinosaur in the jurassic park jurassic world franchise oh you're 2015, right? no fire, low delta, I see you backing up, well honey the main problem is its size, we actually have exquisite velociraptor fossils and this is what its skull looks like, in fact if you had maybe a pair of work boots and a stick, you could probably defend yourself against this dinosaur this is the velociraptor's sickle claw it is sharp and would have had a nail cover that would have made it even longer and sharper but at the same time it is not the size of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park this sickle claw was found fine here in utah this is actually the sickle claw for utahraptor and utah raptor it is the size of the velociraptors in jurassic park one of the things about velociraptors is that we never find them together so we don't know if the Velociraptors ran in packs, we actually know that. the velociraptor was covered in feathers the velociraptors in Jurassic Park do not have feathers because they were not known at the time the movie The Lost World 1997 came out.

One of our problems as paleontologists with this is the size of the stegosaurs, these are absolutely The huge stegosaurus got big, but it didn't have nine foot long spikes at the end of its tail, so the plates on the back of the stegosaurus have been the debate what they are for, are they for display, are they for protection, are they for thermal regulation, they are for animals pumping blood into the plates to use as a giant radiator when we look at the entire family of stegosaurus, not all of them have plates, this would actually be an argument against them being used for thermal regulation, but for It's almost certain that the plates on a stegosaurus are for the same reason that your cat, when it gets scared, stands on its side, puffs up its fur and looks bigger, it's a way for the stegosaurus to say: I'm too scary, I'm bigger than you think, you probably don't want to Mess with me and try to eat so the baby stegosaurus really has weird proportions.

They understood well that he has a big eye but he also has a strange, upturned snout that looks like a puppy. We have no idea about the ontogeny of stegosaurus. would be different than how most armored dinosaurs grew, the fact that you're changing the angle of the roof of your skull is almost certainly implausible, we have some baby stegosauruses, one that would actually be the size of a super German shepherd cute, you'd want to meet him at a petting zoo, but at the same time some of the things they're doing in this rebuild aren't legit. The stegosaurus would have to break its tail to rotate its spikes. down that way, lateral movements with its quills are possible, but a downward movement like that is not the largest stegosaurus quill at all, it is between two and a half to three feet long and has the quills we are showing in some views of these animals where the beaks are this long, that's a little bit much, actually this is a trend that we see in the Jurassic Park franchise, if there's a chance to make it a little bit bigger and so so much scarier let's make that land of the lost 2009 what a priceless movie soros female yes we are lucky these large predators are extremely territorial virtually nothing will distract them from each other run this is pure nonsense , this is one of the best representations of the Allosaurus skull that we are actually learning more and more about. about the Allosaurus skin and the Allosaurus skin wouldn't have looked like we shot it here in the movie, the Allosaurus skin basically looked like basketball leather, so it's almost certain that the top predators and the ecosystem weren't going to work together.

To chase the humans at the same time these animals never met, it turns out that there is more time between the allosaurus and the t-rex than between the t-rex and will ferrell we would have had to have included time travel in the equation to put All these characters together at the same time in this movie distributed will confuse you by running a serpentine pattern that is incapable of making quick court corrections. The T-Rex is not a fast animal, but the T-Rex is faster than Will Ferrell and would catch it even if it was running in a straight line, so if we think about the agility of dinosaurs, if you have a lot of weight on either side of a pivot point, it becomes more difficult to turn if the figure skater extends his arms to the sides and when it does.

They can't spin very fast, but if they want to speed up, pull their arms in and they will start spinning faster. The T-Rex has a long tail and a head at each end of the point where the legs are attached, which means it couldn't turn very quickly. Running in a serpentine pattern is probably a great idea against dinosaurs, but dinosaurs They're usually faster than people anyway, probably the best thing you can do is stay ahead of the rest of the people in your group Jurassic Park 3 2001. Spinosaurus has long been competing with Tyrannosaurus rex for being the carnivorous dinosaur longest of all time Spinosaurus' skull was probably a couple of inches longer than the T-rex's skull The body was almost certainly about five feet longer than the T-rex's body The T-rex surpassed the spinosaurus in a large quantity.

New specimens have recently turned up and repainted this picture of what Spinosaurus looks like. Spinosaurus was much closer to a form that looked like this, with a large long tail adapted for swimming and relatively short limbs, this animal is adapted to living in shallow oceans and eating fish, so this animal is a hunter aquatic, it will not live in the same environment as the tyrannosaurus. Spinosaurus doesn't have enough muscle to break its neck. we have skulls that are more complete and the skulls are very narrow with sharp conical teeth very well adapted for eating things like fish.

The skull of the spinosaurus is only on the order of four to five inches wide, while that of the T-Rex would have been almost two. meter and a half wide the bite of the t-rex would have crushed the skull of the spinosaurus in a single bite this would not have been a good rival for the t-rex on earth king kong 2005 and the premise of this movie is that we are in a lost world situation where the dinosaurs on this island have been alive since the extinction of the dinosaurs, so we can imply 65 million years of additional evolution.

Anything we say about the behavior of dinosaurs is pure speculation because evolution could have taken the behavior of dinosaurs at all. different kinds of directions what I like is the way the CGI artists rendered the long necked sauropod dinosaurs. These things have weight, they have muscles, and they're actually interacting with their environment in ways that really huge animals would do with these dinosaurs in this movie. They look a bit like brontosauruses or apatosaurs, but at the same time they also have characteristics that are present in a different group of long-necked dinosaurs that we call titanosaurs and they were actually the broad-carrying members of this group, the theropods that we see chasing to these.

The animal is vanatasaurus and is a species of dinosaur closely related to things like velociraptor and dromeosaurus. Their behavior is not much like what I imagine drumysaurs and velociraptorines, but 65 million years of isolated evolution on this island, anything can happen in a night at the museum. 2006. Number one, throw out the bone and I guess it's supposed to be a T. rex, but I don't recognize it. One of my problems with this is that the rib doesn't break when hitting the ground and it's also missing the belly. ribs Carnivorous dinosaurs had an extra pair of ribs along their belly that they actually used for breathing, but this is a fun movie, sounds like a dream sequence to me, the land before time, 1988.

What a classic animated movie , again we have a mix of different dinosaurs that never met each other, so sarah never met littlefoot at the time, it's interesting that we actually see molars in triceratops the teeth are not molars, they are actually a long row of teeth cut all together and I think we are anthropomorphizing these dinosaurs to make them cuter, we actually know what long neck baby dinosaurs look like inside the egg, they have huge eyes, some of them have a little beak that helps them get out of the egg and they were absolutely as cute as the dinosaurs inside before the first time. million years BC 1966 there are many problems with dinosaurs in this clip ceratosaurus his posture is incorrect the horns on his face are wrong his tail is super expressive like a cat's, so at the time this movie was filmed people thought that most carnivores Dinosaurs were these slow, industrious animals that basically sat on their tail in a tripod position, basically a tripod between the two legs and that they kept their head and arms in the air to do whatever they wanted.

We now know that carnivorous dinosaurs walked in balance. his legs with his tail up in the air at the same level as his head, it wasn't really until the '70s and '80s that we started to get a much more dynamic image of dinosaurs, not like these claymation dinosaurs in this movie. I would like to point out that humans never coexisted with real dinosaurs which we consider to be dinosaurs which never happened in Jurassic World Fall Kingdom 2018. Holy what I really like in this clip is the volcanic eruption, you can see the beginning of the pyroclastic flow that is happening.

To destroy the island you see volcanic bombs flying through the air, we have some interesting dinosaurs that we haven't seen much before. cynoceratops that's a different story. Cynoceratops has an overly large nasal horn and some strange things happen behind its skull to the point that I almost didn't recognize it. This dinosaur is famous because it is the only horned dinosaur related to the triceratops that has actually been found in Asia. We believe it is a North American animal that walked to Asia to live. Towards the end of the Cretaceous, Carnotaurus is an animal that is closely related to Ceratosaurus and is actually quite well represented,We have skin all over the body, on the tail and on the face of Carnotaurus, this is one of the best represented dinosaurs so far.

As it actually looked like in real life, Carnotaurus, which is from Argentina, never met a ceratopsian dinosaur in its entire life, it should have been scared and amazed by the size of its head and probably just run away, but it's interesting the way it Cynoceratops uses it. its frill to protect its neck, entire head, throws a cyanoceratops doesn't have a neck that's strong enough to throw a carnotaurus over its shoulder, but I love the look, cool stuff, but again, t-rex wins like I would do it against any dinosaur fantasy. 1940. This classic Disney film gave us one of our first looks at dinosaurs in the ecosystems in which they lived.

Now there are some problems here. The allosaurus faces the stegosaurus. It is its natural mortal enemy because we find the stegosaurus and the allosaurus in the same deposits but at the same time. At the same time, there are two time-traveling Cretaceous dinosaurs in Paris, rolofus and triceratops, who are watching this fight. We know that some of the depictions of some of these dinosaurs with an Allosaurus standing on its tail and a Stegosaurus flipping its tail to try to touch the Allosaurus, but again, this is an important film because it really sets the stage for the dinosaurs to be these iconic beasts.

From the past. We continued with other films until the '60s where we depicted dinosaurs in a similar way to Disney animators in fantasy and then it was really Jurassic Park that broke the mold. and began to show us the dinosaurs as we see them today. This has been great. I hope you enjoyed dissecting some of these animals as much as I did.