I actually learned the bit about Raptors and Deinonychus from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin would never mention velociraptors, but several times mentioned packs of hungry deinonychus. Being a 10 year old boy when Jurassic Park came out and being obsessed with dinosaurs, I looked up what Calvin was talking about and learned that raptors were modeled after this smaller dinosaur, and that they were about the size of a turkey, not the size they are in the movies.
Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science
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#12Lovely article. Allosaurus is amazing and terrifying. Very cool factoids about the bunny hands, first time hearing they were incorrectly depicted.
I remember having two Jurassic Park velociraptor toys as a kid. One had the arms positioned as in the film but, oddly enough, the other got it right, as in the article.
Wrong:
http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/jurassicpark/loose/dinosau...
Right:
http://dinotoyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRaptor-4...
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#13I actually learned the bit about Raptors and Deinonychus from Calvin and Hobbes. Calvin would never mention velociraptors, but several times mentioned packs of hungry deinonychus. Being a 10 year old boy when Jurassic Park came out and being obsessed with dinosaurs, I looked up what Calvin was talking about and learned that raptors were modeled after this smaller dinosaur, and that they were about the size of a turke…
In the book they're specifically Velociraptor antirrhopus (rather than mongoliensis), which, as I understand it, actually was a name for Deinonychus antirrhopus for a while before they settled on the current hame. So they (kinda) really are supposed to be Deinonychus.
[EDIT] ah, I see the article covers that.
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#14This article is great! I was completely absorbed the whole time I was reading it :)
Thank you to the author and the people who shared it!
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#15Lovely article. Allosaurus is amazing and terrifying. Very cool factoids about the bunny hands, first time hearing they were incorrectly depicted.
I remember having two Jurassic Park velociraptor toys as a kid. One had the arms positioned as in the film but, oddly enough, the other got it right, as in the article. Wrong: http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/jurassicpark/loose/dinosau... Right: http://dinotoyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRaptor-4...
second is better, but you'd want the hands flattened out too, right? Claws extended straight instead of curved in.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still not sure I understand the logic of that; the only rotation I see is in the supine in the 'correct' version. The 'wrong' version doesn't require any rotation at all, even using the illustrations. It's simply lifting the front limbs up, allowing the hands to rest.
If you want to bring it in front of you in the zombie like position most people use, you should have a notable rotation of both the elbow and the wrist.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I remember having two Jurassic Park velociraptor toys as a kid. One had the arms positioned as in the film but, oddly enough, the other got it right, as in the article. Wrong: http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/jurassicpark/loose/dinosau... Right: http://dinotoyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRaptor-4...
second is better, but you'd want the hands flattened out too, right? Claws extended straight instead of curved in.
Maybe, but it's intended to be actively grabbing with them, not at rest (so having them turned correctly is probably just an accident, not a correction of the earlier pose) so the curved-in hands might make sense—I didn't get the impression from the article that their wrists and "fingers" can't bend. The toy would move the arms in a grasping motion when, IIRC, you pulled the legs a certain way. Something like that.
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#18This is my favorite talk on the T-Rex:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jD7kQvyPs
I stopped being obsessed with dinosaurs 15 years ago. This was a great introduction to how our picture of the T-Rex has advanced since then.
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#19Nice article indeed. There are actually less feathered species than I expected. It reminded me of one of my favourite article about how dinosaurs are drawn [1]. Two paleoartists draw modern animals like Hollywood draws dinosaurs. It was eyes opening to me. We mostly have skeletons of dinausors but fat and soft tissues play a very important role in how animals look. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer…
Your link is also excellent! I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs. In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-li…
Funfact: birds aren’t dinosaur-like. They are dinosaurs. Theropods specifically
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#20Lovely article. Allosaurus is amazing and terrifying. Very cool factoids about the bunny hands, first time hearing they were incorrectly depicted.
I remember having two Jurassic Park velociraptor toys as a kid. One had the arms positioned as in the film but, oddly enough, the other got it right, as in the article. Wrong: http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/jurassicpark/loose/dinosau... Right: http://dinotoyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRaptor-4...
That second image just triggered something in my brain.
I remember the texture and the smell of the rubber after 20+ years.