JURASSIC PARK Dilophosaurus inaccurate

[dragon53]

LINK: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-famous-jurassic-dinosaur-lizard-bird.html

[Loon]

I can't believe it  .

[CityRaptor]

In other news: Water is wet!

[HD-man]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOKtuAZAFys&t=2s

[Nanuqsaurus]

I'd be way more surprised if we ever discover that any of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are actually scientifically accurate 

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

ugh..hate sensational headlines.  Is it still a shocker that dinosaurs did NOT drag their tails!?

[CityRaptor]

Well, this was put online by Fox News this year:
https://www.foxnews.com/science/dinosaurs-were-warm-blooded
So yeah...

Speaking of Fox News, here is their coverage of it, posted 1 hour ago:
https://www.foxnews.com/science/jurassic-park-nearly-everything-wrong-dilophosaurus

Apparently this is also news worthy:
https://www.foxnews.com/science/photographer-funny-picture-owl-yawning

Not sure what these "news" people are paid, but it is probably way too much.

[Stegotyranno420]

oH My I nEveR KNEw ThAT BeFORe.

Spoiler

Everyone knows that. Does a velociraptor have feathers,  or does a opposum take her kids to church every Saturday?

[close]

[Dinoxels]

This is like when all the news outlets reported the Thanos dinosaur when all we have from it is a bone from it's neck.

[Sarapaurolophus]

Someone give me that Dilopho handpuppet they used in the video!

Everyone knows that.

Eh, general public is still really resistant to the idea - in my experience. Heck, some JP/JW fans are still really resistant I drew a dilophosaurus for a friend one time and he was like "where's the frill?"

[Neosodon]

This has to be the most inadvertently funny thread title I've seen on the forum. 

[Flaffy]

Idk man, I feel that by focusing on how mass media titles their clickbait-y articles, it takes the focus away from the fantastic paper and "new" discoveries of Dilophosaurus.

[Dinoxels]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO8s85LFiiw
This video explains what the actual study was about. The news outlets are just reporting the wrong information from the study for some reason. In short, the premaxillary notch is much more flat than originally thought (interestingly similar to the recent Safari Ltd. figure), and the crests most likely had a base of bone that supported much larger, hollow crests.

[Faelrin]

A bit late to posting on this, but in case anyone isn't yet aware the study on this is open access:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/comprehensive-anatomical-and-phylogenetic-evaluation-of-dilophosaurus-wetherilli-dinosauria-theropoda-with-descriptions-of-new-specimens-from-the-kayenta-formation-of-northern-arizona/39C2921EDC6E951AC9F94A22158CA4E5

[laticauda]

While I agree it does seem similar to "water is wet", (actually it isn't but that's a totally different argument.  ) I don't think it is a fair comparison because that would mean most people know this information.

From a fellow teacher I received an email with a link to this article.  The email stated, "I know you like Jurassic Park and this is right up your alley.  Its really interesting."  I only mention this because she is a highly intelligent person and we have many interesting conversations.  On the topic of dinosaurs she is not well versed.   This is true for most Americans that I have talked to.  People are still  taught as little kids that dinosaurs were big reptiles and that animals like crocodiles are close cousins of, or are dinosaurs. They learn this from their parents, teachers, and other adults.  While many little kids do learn from education shows modern ideas on dinosaurs, as they get older they are told by other adults incorrect information.  When my son was seven he got into to trouble with his teacher who said that dinosaurs are reptiles and extinct.  My son told her ,"no they are still alive, they evolved into birds."  My son was laughed at by his teacher and his classmates.   

Hopefully people who do not know a lot on the subject will read it and further their knowledge.   

[WarrenJB]

I'm a little surprised that the usual palaeoblogs haven't picked this up and chewed over it (maybe I've missed one), leaving all those news sites to parrot the 'old movie is old!' line in my search results.

Well it is what it is. Good for EDGE.

[Faelrin]

Time to dig this up again, as there is a new video by Brian Engh on the recent paper/new reconstruction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jSOp2mr2s

Really fascinating and informative. Certainly worth a watch.

[ceratopsian]

Thanks @Faelrin. Definitely worth watching.

[Funk]

As we all know, Dilophosaurus as seen in the movie was known to be inaccurate since it came out... I guess what this study does is to make the inaccuracies more widely known, since the last description of the genus was from 1984, and was problematic because it considered the largest specimen to perhaps belong to a different genus, so it was not described. Brian Engh's new restoration of the crest is speculative as well, so it's not like something entirely new has really come to the table.

I wonder what the most accurate JP dinosaur is after all? Much has been said about inaccuracies, but what did they get right, and what holds up today?

Perhaps the TLW Stegosaurus? The hadrosaurs? The Triceratops has some issues, but seems pretty good overall. And compared to many of the other dinosaurs, I think the Tyrannosaurus isn't too unbearable either.
Maybe the TLW Mamenchisaurus is the most accurate of them all, because it is only seen from a distance, so any minor inaccuracies are obscured...