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Jurassic Park Phenotypes

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This article stood out to me because I used to want to be a Paleontologist and I am also a big fan of the Jurassic Park movies. This article takes a look at the Velociraptor and the genetic makeup as well as phenotypes that it displays. A recent discovery showed that the real Velociraptor was a lapdog-sized predator covered in feathers. In Jurassic park the velociraptors are shown as raptors that are bigger than humans and have a rough scaly skin. If you look at the arm bones of Velociraptor you can see a row of bumps, identical in size and shape to the quill knobs of living birds: the anchor points for big wing feathers...” These are very similar structures found on both birds. It is not for certain what these feathers would have looked …show more content…

“Its gorgeous chocolate-coloured skeleton was found by a farmer in 125-million-year-old rocks that were laid down in a quiet lake buried by volcanic ash.” The pictures and prints of the “Zhenyuanlong” were have said to be in perfect condition and the way they were preserved were very delicate. When looking at the “Zhenyuanlong” it is covered in feathers. Simple hairy filaments coat much of the body, larger veined feathers stick out from the tail, and big quill-pen-feathers line the arms, layered over each other to form a wing.” Some paleontologists would say that if this bird were alive today then you would think it was just a larger version of a turkey or even a vulture. When I went to see Jurassic Park the velociraptors were not made to look like this. These are really cool dinosaurs because they are quick and stand upright and can be pretty tall. In the movie they look horrifying and like creatures that can cut skin just by rubbing their back against you, and can eat you alive with one bite. Dinosaurs such as the “Zhenyuanlong” and the velociraptor are some of the closest relatives to birds. They are very fast, very smart for their species, and also feathered. This discovery of the new dinosaur is similar to birds however the main different to spot out is

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The evidence clearly indicates that this theropod had lung and respiratory mechanics similar to that of a crocodile—not a bird. There was evidence of a diaphragm-like muscle separating the lung from the liver, much as you see in modern crocodiles. These observations suggest that this theropod was similar to an ectothermic reptile, not an endothermic bird. Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

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The dinosaur extinction theory – a large asteroid impact and a giant volcanic eruption at the end of cretaceous – also supports that dinosaurs were cold blooded, when the dust due to the meteorite covered the earth, then the sun light could not penetrate the smoke and dust, thus sunlight did not enter the earth for many years, this lead to the drop in temperature on the land, as dinosaurs were cold blooded they could not raise their body temperature without sunlight and hence were

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These birds are magnificent black and yellow honeyeaters with a curved bill. Its head, neck, throat and bill are black and the back is yellow with a black unique pattern. The feathers on the wings and tail have a bright yellow colour. There is dark pink around the eye. Females and males are very similar, but the males are larger, have darker colours and have a larger area of pink around the eye.

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Once they are in the past and see the Tyrannosaurus Ray Bradbury uses imagery to explain what the dinosaur looks like. The Tyrannosaurus was described as, “...thirty feet above half the trees, a great evil of god, folding its delicate watchmaker’s

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Title Researchers and scientists have constructed extensive research on dinosaur’s extinction. Speculation instead of real evidence seems common in most theories about the dinosaurs’ extinction. However, Jay Gould’s essay “Sex, Drugs, and the Extinction of Dinosaurs” is the complete opposite of speculation over evidence. Rather, Gould uses the mix of persuasive techniques, such as rhetorical questions, logos, along with profound evidence to not only disapprove of other theories but convince readers of his place on the dinosaur’s extinction.

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This wing is filled with a variety of plants. Some are for eating, others for herbs. Some of the plants are marked with skulls and crossbones, but those are towards the back of the wing. A wing like this had to be maintained, so it is probably the one the raiders were taking care off. At the end of the wing is a

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He uses juxtaposition when he says the movie will be “Jurassic Park meets Friday meets The Pursuit of Happyness,” creating a creature movie with the influence of “hood boys” (Smith, Dinosaurs in the Hood, line 2). In the last three lines of the first stanza, Smith uses imagery to paint the scene of an African American boy playing with a toy dinosaur as he gazes out his window to see a T.Rex because “there has to be a T. Rex.” Smith is saying that if this was a stereotype filled movie it would have to have a T.rex in it due to the overuse of that certain beast, but leaves the question open to if the dinosaur is stereotyped what African American cliches of the boy have to be in the

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It’s awesome! You could fit hundreds of dinosaurs in here!” She was the nerd of the group, who liked reading comic-books and studying up on dinosaurs and things like that in her spare time - when she wasn’t selling her clay sculptures on the internet as her job. As she her appearance, she had short red hair that was usually very messy, ever so slightly tanned skin, brown eyes with a flex of green, about 5’6” in height, and was twenty four years old. On that day, she was wearing a black t-shirt with the Jurassic Park logo on it, wore her favorite pair of ripped denim jeans, and black

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As in the case with many novels and their film adaptions, Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel version of the original Jurassic Park story differs greatly from that of its 1993 film variation. One such disparity that can be noted between the two is the beginning of both adaptions. The beginning of the novel version deals with the enigmatic migration of packs of small carnivorous dinosaurs to the Costa Rican mainland, where they cause havoc in the form of attacking people and their domestic animals throughout the heavily-forested countryside and Dr. Grant and Sattler are dispatched to investigate these occurrences (only to find out that what they are dealing with are dinosaurs), whereas the beginning of the film adaption deals with the transport of

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Though early speculation of breeding further north the artificial evidence is lacking, it is here that small nesting boxes are evidenced in the record Casa Grandes (Minnis, 271). Common beliefs originally sees Casa Grandes having a tight hold on the distribution of the macaws and their feathers. In a 1993 study by Paul Minnis et al, there may be a source of macaw feathers and breeding in outlaying south central Chihuahua that is not under the dominance of the Paquime (Minnis,274). Whether the feathers found in the American Southwest are found to be from direct trade with the peoples down in the southern most area of Mesoamerica, and their large complexes, or through trade within the Chihuahua in northern Mexico, the use of these feathers in ceremonial artifacts and depiction in craft/ pottery works, shows the value of this unusual resource supplied from

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The fourth movie of The Jurassic Park franchise takes place two decades after the preceding installment’s setting. Here, dinosaurs have become a rather common sight, having been available for viewing for decades. Geneticists then, instead of simply cloning more of the species the park had, decide to make a new attraction, something new and fresh to their collection – something with “more teeth”. The Indominus rex or the “Fierce or Untamable King” was created through gene splicing from different dinosaur and other animal species. This carnivorous giant is a hybrid of Gigantosaurus, Majungasaurus, Carnotaurus, Rugops, Therizinosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor, cuttlefish, tree frog, pit viper, and other unspecified present-day animals.

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Ray Bradbury used figurative language to describe the Tyrannosaurus Rex in “A Sound of Thunder. ’’ Ray Bradbury compared the legs to pistons, this means that the Tyrannosaurus Rex has strong legs. He compared it’s eyes to ostrich eggs, this means that the dinosaur has big eyes. He also compared muscles to thick ropes, this means that the dino has big thighs.

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Obviously, the real analogy would be the butterfly preceding the cocoon, but animals in the Lepidoptera order coexisted with dinosaurs. These were not just butterflies but also moths, and they lived during the Triassic period, which is a big deal. Fossil-based data collected in this new study suggests they lived over 200 miion years ago but possibly as much as 250 million years ago, and this prehistoric butterfly was reportedly much more like a moth in the first place than any butterflies currently

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There is also the description of “Under each head two wings rose terribly, …, They were not feathers-their texture and their form were like a bat’s wings” (Alighieri 266).

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