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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  visualise a Cassowary the size of a large truck.

  But velociraptors were actually about the size of medium-large dogs. When Jurrasic Park was making the models, the consultants stated the length from head to tail, and the modellers thought they were referring to height

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Utahraptor is the size of the ones in the movie and was discovered the same year the movie came out. I like to think that’s what they are, but Chriton and/or Spielburg just thought “velociraptor” was a cooler name.

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The book came out in 1990.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Building the animatronics, filming, and editing still take time. According to Wikipedia, filming took place entirely in 1992 and post-production ended in May 1993.

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  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, imagine a pack of very fast small cassowaries with very sharp teeth.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’d still be large for cassowaries, just not the size of a truck.

      But yes, that’d be terrifying.

      Also relevant: youtu.be/U49R3Gqx8lw

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• criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  An angry Canada goose protecting its nest is enough

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  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, geese are terrifying and already come with “teeth”.

    a close up of a goose's open beak

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  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never happened with geese to me, but our local swans in attack mode got me running backwards more than once.

    Hissing spread-winged furies out to kill you, or at least knock and bite the living soul out of you…

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