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I think the "common conception" comes from Land Before Time and Jurassic Park, it seems almost everything we learned about dinosaurs from those movies is wrong.

by nonbel 8y ago

I think the "common conception" comes from Land Before Time and Jurassic Park, it seems almost everything we learned about dinosaurs from those movies is wrong. Edit: I just looked it up and discovered both were made by Steven Speilberg...

monocasa 8y ago
Nah, pterodactyls and such were commonly taught to children to be dinosaurs before Jurassic Park and Land Before Time came out. Source: was child before 1988.
- nonbel 8y ago
  Where do you think it originated then?
jMyles 8y ago
Can you link to a source with some detail on what was wrong with those films? Particularly Jurassic Park?
- nonbel 8y ago
  https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/feb/08/jurassic-park-dinosaur-inaccuracies https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/feb/08/jurassic-par... Or search: "Jurassic park wrong about dinosaurs"
  - jMyles 8y ago
    This doesn't seem very strong to me. OK, so I have been misinformed about velociraptor - I'll picture it smaller and with feathers. And brachiosaurus might not have been able to made a sound or stand on hind legs. But I don't think that these relatively small details have left a generation woefully misinformed about dinosaurs. If there are major things wrong with the film - if, for example, dinosaurs weren't as "bird-like" as the film made them seem (that seemed to me to be a major overture), then sure, I'd really like to read about that.
    - nonbel 8y ago
      Look up what A t-rex looks/acts like now. No roaring, running, licking, had feathers and freckles: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rex-was-ginger-freckles-feathers-11772112 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rex-was-ginger-freckle... https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/T-Rex-Likely-Could-Not-Roar-Per-TX-Researchers-439182413.html https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/T-Rex-Likely-Could-Not-Roa... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-rex-couldnt-stick-out-its-tongue/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-rex-couldnt-sti... https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/tyrannosaurus-rex-couldnt-run-says-new-research/ https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/tyrannosaurus-rex...
chungy 8y ago
To be fair to Jurassic Park, I'm not sure its pterodactyls were explicitly claimed to be dinosaurs, and much of the film talked about non-dinosaur extinct species being resurrected as well (eg, ancient plant life). Maybe it wasn't the filmmakers intent, but they have plausible deniability here. :)
- eftychis 8y ago
  Exactly. I am pretty certain, no such claim was made by the movie. And although it mixes a bunch or eras together, it does not claim to have just brought back dinosaurs.

by nonbel 8y ago

monocasa 8y ago

Nah, pterodactyls and such were commonly taught to children to be dinosaurs before Jurassic Park and Land Before Time came out. Source: was child before 1988.

nonbel 8y ago
Where do you think it originated then?

jMyles 8y ago

Can you link to a source with some detail on what was wrong with those films? Particularly Jurassic Park?

nonbel 8y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/feb/08/jurassic-park-dinosaur-inaccuracies https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/feb/08/jurassic-par... Or search: "Jurassic park wrong about dinosaurs"
- jMyles 8y ago
  This doesn't seem very strong to me. OK, so I have been misinformed about velociraptor - I'll picture it smaller and with feathers. And brachiosaurus might not have been able to made a sound or stand on hind legs. But I don't think that these relatively small details have left a generation woefully misinformed about dinosaurs. If there are major things wrong with the film - if, for example, dinosaurs weren't as "bird-like" as the film made them seem (that seemed to me to be a major overture), then sure, I'd really like to read about that.
  - nonbel 8y ago
    Look up what A t-rex looks/acts like now. No roaring, running, licking, had feathers and freckles: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rex-was-ginger-freckles-feathers-11772112 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rex-was-ginger-freckle... https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/T-Rex-Likely-Could-Not-Roar-Per-TX-Researchers-439182413.html https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/T-Rex-Likely-Could-Not-Roa... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-rex-couldnt-stick-out-its-tongue/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-rex-couldnt-sti... https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/tyrannosaurus-rex-couldnt-run-says-new-research/ https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/tyrannosaurus-rex...

chungy 8y ago

To be fair to Jurassic Park, I'm not sure its pterodactyls were explicitly claimed to be dinosaurs, and much of the film talked about non-dinosaur extinct species being resurrected as well (eg, ancient plant life). Maybe it wasn't the filmmakers intent, but they have plausible deniability here. :)

eftychis 8y ago
Exactly. I am pretty certain, no such claim was made by the movie. And although it mixes a bunch or eras together, it does not claim to have just brought back dinosaurs.