Some of my teaching colleagues thought I got the tone wrong when I made a sign to stop students annoying us at lunch. What does Reddit think?

And more like Achillobator than Deinonychus.

One day kids will be taught that dinosaurs weren't so alien to the things we see around us.

Jurassic Park was awesome for bringing cutting edge paleontology to the public. It was the first to really introduce many new ideas to the audience, birds are dinosaurs, and not being cold blooded lazy lizards.

But they can get away with being inaccurate because they often refer to these as themepark monsters rather than accurate dinosaurs, give people what they want rather than what is scientifically accurate. It was always a good argument because essentially the latest iteration of Jurassic World is just that.

We KNOW dinosaurs didn't look like they do in Jurassic World...but to make money they made them look like most of the public want them to look to make more money. Precisely what INGEN would do if they wanted to maximize revenue at their theme park.

I was (still am?) hoping that the new film would be just as good at bringing our current paleontological theories to the general public as the first film and expose the audience to what advances in knowledge and theories we have had over the last 20 years.

As I said before we should avoid clinging to unrealistic shrink-wrapped reconstructions when thinking about their appearance, Emily probably has the most accurate reconstructions to date of dromaeosaurs best reflecting our current understanding of their morphology.

This is currently most likely our best idea of what Deinonychus antirrhopus looked like, she explains why on her page.

We must stop ignoring advances in paleontology, and say no to shrink-wrapped dinosaur syndrome, with tight gleaming skin, floppy limp hands hanging forward and palms facing the ground like bunny hands.

Especially when talking about therapods, there is a reason why they might rather resemble birds. Just because they look like birds doesn't mean they wouldn't be formidable predators. Anyone who has been attacked by a swan can agree that they are terrifying, even if they are herbivores and don't look like this (what a swan would look like if we drew it like many artists draw dinosaurs based on the skeleton).

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