Jurassic Park fan edit reveals what scientifically accurate raptors would look like

Dinosaurs have changed since we were kids. Having a four-year-old son means I’ve recently returned to the world of these prehistoric monsters, much to the delight of my inner child and the dismay of my wife. I’m here to tell you that we were lied to. Not intentionally, of course. But it turns out that scientists didn’t have all the facts when the ’90s kid was busy growing up in “Jurassic Park.”

If you’re one of those kids, you’ll surely be a little surprised to discover that the T. rex wasn’t completely covered in scales, as Steven Spielberg would have you believe, but at least it had some feathers. More specifically, as New York Times It was reported in 2019, and is now thought to have had patches of feathers for “show”. What’s more, in 2007, A.J He studies It was confirmed for the first time that Velociraptor were also feathered dinosaurs, with scientists noting “clear indications of quill knobs” or “places where the quills of secondary feathers, the flight feathers or wings of modern birds, were attached to the bones with ligaments.”

So, at least in the case of raptors, those reptilian monsters that once adorned our lunchboxes and lined our toy shelves weren’t actually scientifically accurate in terms of their outward appearance. Nor is Steven Spielberg’s fantastic dinosaur adventure. “Jurassic Park” may have changed movies foreverbut its delivery of Velociraptor in particular, in 2024, is outdated. (In reality, The raptors in “Jurassic Park” were not realistic at all Even when the film debuted in 1993.)

Not that any of that matters. The film remains one of the greatest action-adventure films of the 20th century, and the specific look of Birds of Prey doesn’t take away from the film’s relentless pace, cutting-edge CGI, and overall Spielbergian mastery. But for those wondering what scientifically accurate “Jurassic Park” would have looked like, there’s of course the Internet, which has now given us a glimpse of what the film might have been like had it been based on more recent archaeological finds.

YouTube user CoolioArt He took the liberty of playing with Steven Spielberg’s classics by making 3D models of feathered Velociraptor and including them in the film. More specifically, the visual effects artist used 3D graphics software Blender to create accurate 3D models of the dinosaur known as Deinonychus, which served as the actual inspiration behind the “birds of prey” in “Jurassic Park.” The real Velociraptor was actually much smaller, reaching the size of a chicken or a large fox, but Spielberg and company took inspiration from the much larger Deinonychus when crafting the raptor’s look in the film.

Thanks to CoolioArt, who posted his latest creation on Twitter/X, we can now see what it would have been like if the “Jurassic Park” crew had been threatened by the meticulously rendered Deinonychus during the climactic scene in the park’s dilapidated welcome center – one of The greatest moments in “Jurassic Park”.

I did it again!

Jurassic Park with Microscopic Birds of Prey, Short Part 2#Jurassic Park #blender3d pic.twitter.com/LKyGsNiLBa

– Coolio Art (@Coolio_Art) January 5, 2025

It follows precedent video From the visual effects artist, who also added the scientifically accurate ‘birds of prey’ to The famous kitchen scene (which was more dangerous than it sounds)in which Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim Murphy (Joseph Mazzello) are hunted by dinosaurs before one of them is trapped in a freezer.

Jurassic Park with birds of prey is scientifically accurate!

(Link to the full video below)#Jurassic Park #Jurassic World pic.twitter.com/2nHdZ6NiO6

– Coolio Art (@Coolio_Art) December 24, 2024

For those interested, CoolioArt also strongly indicates that an accurate model of the T-rex is coming soon.

Did we need a scientifically accurate representation of Deinonychus in ‘Jurassic Park’? Of course not. Would it be cool to see what something like this would look like? naturally. That should really be the end of the matter, but this is the internet, and CoolioArt has elicited a variety of responses with its recent videos, from users praising the creator for doing “work the studio should have already done” to those Who took issue with excessive “feathering” in Coolio 3D models. Then, of course, there’s the controversial topic of whether the movie’s dinosaurs were even supposed to be accurate in the first place, since they’re all technically hybrids.

Other users debated whether the newly designed “birds of prey” were more or less terrifying than the original versions. While there’s no doubt that the skull heads in these 3D models are sinister in their own way, their inherent fluff is inescapably less terrifying than the scaly monsters in Steven Spielberg’s original vision — which is somewhat important considering birds of prey The scenes in “Jurassic Park” are considered some of the scariest in the movie.

Regardless of what users say, Coolio He pointed out that the videos succeeded in spreading the term “Deinonychus.” This is all great and interesting, and certainly not worth getting carried away by commenting – as one Twitter user/X did – “The movie is great as is. Deal with it.”