• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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    25 days ago

    Everyone that disagrees should have a little face to face time with an enraged Cassowary and then visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works
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      25 days ago

      visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

      But velociraptors were actually about the size of medium-large dogs. When Jurrasic Park was making the models, the consultants stated the length from head to tail, and the modellers thought they were referring to height

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        25 days ago

        Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that’s what they are, but Crichton and/or Spielberg just thought “velociraptor” was a cooler name.