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Off the top of my head, brachiosaurs likely couldn't lift themselves onto their rear legs to feed, DNA from mosquitos in resin is probably a pipe dream, raptors had feathers and were probably quite stupid, and the t-rex probably had really good eyesight but wouldn't be fast enough to chase down a jeep - however, those are more recent conclusions.

There was also a lot of creative license taken with the size of a lot of the dinosaurs in the film - generally, they were scaled up to make them more impressive. Dilophosaurus spitting to attack is pure fabrication as well.




On the other hand, movies generally must take creative license to build up a satisfying plot within a 2-hour running time limit.

Casablanca is not a realistic portrayal of a Nazi regime and Citizen Kane doesn't tell the truth about Hearst.


Yes, but Rick Blaine doesn't shoot laser beams from his eyes and Jedediah Leland wasn't 12 feet tall.


Nobody has seen a live dinosaur, and most people haven't met a real 1930s Nazi. So the image of both is pretty much determined by popular culture.

The German Nazi party had 6 million members, most of whom were nothing like the bad guy in Indiana Jones. Similarly Jurassic Park isn't a true-to-life portrayal of actual dinosaurs.




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