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Since the first trailers came out, ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’, the last and blockbuster dinosaur world moviehas created great expectation among experts on extinct animals, especially since many and assorted specimens.
«I have seen the film as a spectator, not as a scientist. In this type of adventure productions, not everything has to be trustworthy with science. It is the sequel to the saga with more species», comments Alberto Cobosmanaging director of the Dinópolis Foundation, in Teruel.
This paleontologist, discoverer of Turiasaurus riodevensis, a type of sauropodoaffirms that this genus of dinosaurs of elongated neck it appears in Big number in this latest installment of the saga.
They have also added theropods that had never been seen in the world of ‘Jurassic Park’, like the giganotosaurus or very modern nods including reconstructions of feathered species of dromaeosauridsAs the pyroraptor that appears in the film. It speaks directly of the relationship between dinosaurs and birds”, explains the scientist before mentioning another completely new species in the saga, the therizinosaurus. “Your very successful giant claws and they also show it with feathers».
As for the representation of therizinosaurus, experts agree that it is one of the best. “The task was not easy. You had to keep the classic designs and enter other most correct creatures. The new advisor of the saga, the paleontologist Stephen L. Brusattehad to maintain the plot line and introduce scientific novelties”, comments the paleontologist, ‘influencer’ and disseminator Francesc Gascówho also declares himself a fan of the saga.
«They have introduced for the first time beings related to the origin of mammals. The dimetrodon and a scene in which some small synapsids come out, with some fur in face The real ones also had it, there the creators have been very successful“, Explains Gascó.
“These protomamíferos they lived in the Permian40 million years before the appearance of the first dinosaurs» declares Cobos.
some little exaggeration
«They increase the size of some dinosaurs such as the T-rex or the giganotosaurus; in the movie they are bigger of what they already were, “says the person in charge of Dinópolis as one of the exaggerations of the film. «They are normal licenses within a show», he points out.
«Del Quetzalcoatlus, el largest flying reptile, we only have the plane in which the protagonists travel to intuit its size. The one depicted in the film seems larger, even so this species could measure ten meters from wing to wing», assures Gascó. Other small pterosaurs and the marine reptile Mosasaurus complete the group of creatures that they are not dinosaurs and they appear on the tape.
These researchers highlight some error or scientific license, always keeping in mind that it is a movie for the general public And it’s the most normal thing in the world. For example, the species that appear do not coincide in time, they lived in different eras and would never have interbred, but this is fully justified by the plot of the film, which speaks of the creation of these beings through genetics. “In the case of pyroraptor, it has too many teeth. Carnivores most closely related to birds do not reach further back than eye level. It is a design decision that is arguably justified with the fact that this being does not have a pure DNA“Gascó says.
For the first time in the saga, a specimen whose DNA has not been crossed with that of current species appears, since in the first installments of the film it is said that they all carry parts of frogs or other beings. It is a small fearless mulberry treea kind of tyrannosauroid theropod, very similar to the T-rex. If there is a general feeling among experts, it is that this new installment has taken up many original themes from the novels by Michael Crichton, who opened the debate on the limits of biotechnology.
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