Look at t-rex’s bird-like hips and feet. Compare them to the sprawling legs of a croc. Posture- wise, it looks way more like an ostrich than a croc.
And yeah, T-rex was almost certainly scaly, but evolved from feathered dinosaurs. Other earlier species in tyrannosauroidea like yutyrannus huali and dilong paradoxus had feathers.
Feather fossilization requires almost perfect conditions. There’s a few locations where most of the fossil evidence of dinosaur feathers come from, and those fossils started to be found a few years after the movie came out. Feathered dinosaurs had been suggested long before Jurassic Park, but the evidence back then wasn’t great.
More to the point, though, Jurassic Park was a mixture of the best science at the time and deliberate artistic license. Jack Horner, a paleontologist who worked with Spielberg in it, said “My job was to get a little science into Jurassic Park, but not ruin it”.
For example, most of the dinos in the movie have muted colors, because Spielberg thought that colorful dinosaurs weren’t scary. Modern films have deliberately kept the look and feel of the original as an artistic choice.
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Look at t-rex’s bird-like hips and feet. Compare them to the sprawling legs of a croc. Posture- wise, it looks way more like an ostrich than a croc.
And yeah, T-rex was almost certainly scaly, but evolved from feathered dinosaurs. Other earlier species in tyrannosauroidea like yutyrannus huali and dilong paradoxus had feathers.
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Jurassic Park came out literally 30 years ago.
Feather fossilization requires almost perfect conditions. There’s a few locations where most of the fossil evidence of dinosaur feathers come from, and those fossils started to be found a few years after the movie came out. Feathered dinosaurs had been suggested long before Jurassic Park, but the evidence back then wasn’t great.
More to the point, though, Jurassic Park was a mixture of the best science at the time and deliberate artistic license. Jack Horner, a paleontologist who worked with Spielberg in it, said “My job was to get a little science into Jurassic Park, but not ruin it”.
For example, most of the dinos in the movie have muted colors, because Spielberg thought that colorful dinosaurs weren’t scary. Modern films have deliberately kept the look and feel of the original as an artistic choice.
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Yes, and Jurassic Park has always been a monster movie and not a documentary.
Honestly, what we need is an updated version of Walking With Dinosaurs.
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they were portrayed that way though
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Not really. even for dinosaurs that are famous for being crocodile-like, its quite hard to see the resemblance
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