Welcome to the club of the suspicious people. I don't have social network accounts neither....because I can.Copper Zen said:P.S. The alien archeologists won't find any information about me on Facebook. I don't have an account and ever since I read that the NSA and CIA and other intelligence agencies consider people "suspicious" if they don't have social media accounts I'm inclined to never acquire such accounts out of sheer spite.
Usually when paleontology is "wrong" it's a case of being misportrayed in the media.Copper Zen said:I cringe at the thought of how screwed up our perceptions of ancient Terran animals probably are.
Jurassic Park played fast and loose a lot, but they REALLY did it with them raptors.ProtoChimp said:Is that what a velociraptor most likely looked like? That's majorly disappointing yet fucking brilliant.
Yeah, based on what I've seen on Facebook, you'd think there'd be a lot more boooooooooooooooooooobs.Deadcyde said:Not as much gratuitous cleavage as I expected though.
Google Translate.TopazFusion said:Wait, why are the aliens speaking English?
There are better reconstructions out there. And honestly, I like to think of them as more like the cassowary than a chicken. It's a much more accurate comparison.ProtoChimp said:Is that what a velociraptor most likely looked like? That's majorly disappointing yet fucking brilliant.
Zachary Amaranth said:Jurassic Park played fast and loose a lot, but they REALLY did it with them raptors.
If it weren't for the fact that it wasn't officially discovered and named at about the same time Jurassic Park was released, I feel like they would have modeled the Velociraptors in the movie after the Utahraptor, which actually was about that size. They even tried to name it after Spielberg (Utahraptor Spielbergi) in exchange for funding, though apparently the amount couldn't be agreed upon.evilthecat said:To be fair, prevailing opinion at the time was that raptors were featherless.
The size can't really be explained though. No excuses there.