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mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The book came out in 1990.
  
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- mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ok, imagine a pack of very fast small cassowaries with very sharp teeth.

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- mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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