And most likely it’s because of that movie that regular people know a Cretaceous even existed and what animals where there. It did kick the field and public interest into high gear.
"Jurassic" Park
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 hours ago
logicbomb@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Welcome to Cretaceous Park!
West_of_West@piefed.social 3 hours ago
Doesn’t quite have the ring to it.
tomiant@piefed.social 5 minutes ago
COME TO THE MESOZOIC MEGAPOLIS!
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I think it would, if that was what they named the book and movie.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
We really won’t talk about those “velociraptors”? The annoying kid at the beginning of the movie was the only one to get their description surprisingly accurate when he said they looked like a 2m turkey.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Velociraptors? Nowadays we have Wall Street
massive_bereavement@fedia.io 45 minutes ago
But a very smart one!
bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 2 hours ago
This has been talked about again and again yes. Thymey wanted them bigger for better visual result, they made them bigger
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
The name itself was foreshadowing of their ignorance.
tomiant@piefed.social 3 minutes ago
The Huge Animals of Various Geological Periods Park.