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

Dinosaurs have changed since childhood. Having a four-year-old son means I've recently re-immersed myself in the world of these prehistoric beasts, much to the delight of my inner child and the chagrin of my wife. I am here to tell you that we have been lied to. Not intentionally, of course. But it turns out scientists just 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 be a little surprised to learn that the T-rex wasn't, as Steven Spielberg would have us believe, completely covered in scales, but it did at least have some feathers. More precisely, how The New York Times In 2019, the T-rex is said to have had patches of feathers for “display”. In addition, all the time in 2007, a study confirmed for the first time that Velociraptors were also feathered dinosaurs, with scientists noting “clear indications of feather knobs,” or “places where secondary feathers, the flight or wing feathers of modern birds, were anchored to bone by ligaments.”

So, at least as far as predators go, those reptilian beasts that graced our lunchboxes and lined our toy shelves weren't really that scientifically accurate in terms of outward appearance. It's also not Steven Spielberg's quintessential dino action adventure. “Jurassic Park” may have changed movies foreverbut especially the depiction of velociraptors in 2024 is outdated. (Actually, heists in “Jurassic Park” have never been so real 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 distinctive physiognomy of the robbers does not detract from the film's relentless pace, cutting-edge CGI and overall Spielberg craftsmanship. But for those interested in what a scientifically accurate “Jurassic Park” would look like, of course, there's the internet, which has now given us a glimpse of what the movie might look like if it were based on more recent archaeological discoveries.

YouTube user CoolioArt took the liberty of playing with Steven Spielberg's classic by rendering 3D models of the velociraptors and putting them into the film. Specifically, the VFX artist used the 3D graphics software Blender to create accurate 3D models of the dinosaurs known as Deinonychus, which served as the actual inspiration behind the “raptors” in “Jurassic Park.” The real Velociraptors were actually much smaller, reaching the size of a large chicken or fox, but Spielberg and company took inspiration from the much larger Deinonychus when creating the look of the predators in the film.

Thanks to CoolioArt, who posted his latest work on Twitter/X, we can now see what it would look like if the cast of Jurassic Park were threatened by an accurately rendered Deinonychus in the park's crumbling welcome center during the climactic scene. from The best moments of “Jurassic Park”.

I did it again!

Jurassic Park with precision predators, short part 2#jurassicpark #blender3d pic.twitter.com/LKyGsNiLBa

— CoolioArt (@Coolio_Art) January 5, 2025

It follows the previous one video from a VFX artist who also added his scientifically accurate 'raptors'. the famous kitchen scene (which was even more dangerous than it looked)where Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim Murphy (Joseph Mazzello) are hunted by dinos before being trapped in a freezer.

Jurassic Park with SCIENTIFICLY ACCURATE Raptors!

(Full video link below)#jurassicpark #jurassicworld pic.twitter.com/2nHdZ6NiO6

— CoolioArt (@Coolio_Art) December 24, 2024

For those interested, CoolioArt also strongly suggests that an accurate model of the T-rex is on the way.

Did we need a scientifically accurate depiction of Deinonychus in “Jurassic Park.” Of course not. Is it nice to see what it would have looked like? Of course. It really should stop there, but this is the internet, and CoolioArt's latest videos have sparked a range of responses, from users praising the creator for “a job the studio should have already done” to those taking issue with the excessive ” feather coating” in Coolio 3D models. Then, of course, there's the hotly debated topic of whether the movie's dinosaurs need to be accurate at all, since they're all technically hybrids.

Other users debated whether the newly created “raptors” were more or less frightening than the original versions. While there's no doubt that the skull heads of these 3D models are menacing in their own way, their inherent fluffiness is inevitably less intimidating than the scaly beasts of Steven Spielberg's original vision — which is crucial given the predator. scenes in the movie “Jurassic Park” are among the scariest in the movie.

However, regardless of what users had to say, Coolio pointed out that the videos managed to get the popular term “Deinonychus”. It's all just cool and interesting, and certainly not worth commenting — as one Twitter/X user did — “The movie is great as it is. Get over it.”