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All birds are dinosaurs.

• colordrops 8y ago
  I suspect that most people know that - it's just that the cassowary looks a lot more like our notion of a dinosaur than other birds.
  • TheGoddessInari 8y ago
    And hopefully your local parakeet isn't trying to disembowel you...
  • etatoby 8y ago
    > I suspect that most people know that I don't think so. Spielberg and colleagues clearly didn't know it, or didn't realize the depth of the connection, and they influenced the public's perception of dinosaurs to a large degree.
    • zizee 8y ago
      > Spielberg and colleagues clearly didn't know it I don't think this is true at all. Micheal Creighton's book on which the movie was based made it really clear how birds and dinosaurs are connected. I am positive that Speilberg read it. The movie makes a lot of references to the connection: Dr. Alan Grant : A turkey, huh? OK, try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side. Later: Dr. Alan Grant : [the dinosaurs change direction] The wheel uniform changes just like a flock of birds evading a predator. In another scene: Lex : [the T-Rex has just killed a Gallimimus] I want to go now. Dr. Alan Grant : Look how it eats. Lex : Please! Dr. Alan Grant : [to Tim] I bet you'll never look at birds the same way again.
      • colordrops 8y ago
        Agreed, I watched a documentary on how the special effects and sound people used birds as a reference to design the velociraptors.