Usually when social media protrays dinosaurs as colossal, savage brutes it dissappoints me. Dinosaurs may have had vibrant colours, membranes, did intricate dances for mates or had incredible features, like frills or webbed limbs. The fact we judge them entirely off their skeletons is unjustified, if we did that with modern animals, swans would be horrible beasts that stalked wetlands, impaling prey on their long forelimbs. Elephants would be strange beasts with no defining trunk or ears and instead a slimmer reptilian body shape and long tusks with crushing teeth.
When jurassic Park does it, however, it actually makes sense. In the first films, the scientists on isla nublar would have structured the Dino dna based off their interpretation of Dinosaurs at the time, which was large savage beasts with no feathers.
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