Film Theory: The Dinosaurs In Jurassic World Are NOT Dinosaurs! (Jurassic Park)

I'm so glad you brought up the book "All Yesterdays" - it's an incredibly interesting look into Paleo-art. Fun Fact: They then made another one, "All Your Yesterdays" - which used fan-submitted artworks which speculated on random features on extinct creatures, and some even turned out to be completely true!

There's one crucial detail that should be mentioned regarding the feasibility of resurrecting dinosaurs, and that is the overwhelming gap of pathogenic microbe variation that evolved since the time of the dinos until today. Basically, the Dinosaur's outdated immune systems would be so overwhelmed with unfamiliar variants of diseases, that they might be unable to survive till adulthood at all.

Matpat said that people won’t enjoy being at the park at night to see nocturnal dinosaurs, but I think that would be a really cool thing to do. Theorassic Park Night Dino Tour

I love the terrarium idea. It is also amusing to imagine that if a dinosaur escaped their enclosure and was put back in, their experience would’ve so miserable outside their enclosure that they wouldn’t want to escape.

"i doubt any guest would wanna be out at 2am seeing raptor chickens" matpat you have underestimated the curiosity and patience of tourists especially for dinosaurs

Theoretically if the workers at Jurassic Park can alter genes and make clones. then they could probably figure out a way to alter a dinosaurs oxygen consumption and modify their body temperature to survive the current climate conditions better. But doing those type of changes would probably result in the dinosaurs looking a lot different then they're supposed to. [Edit: fixed a couple spelling mistakes]

3:00 "Safest zoo ever" Well yes and no. The jurassic park as portrayed would have been a perfectly safe zoo if it only weren't for a combination of criminal negligence and felony corporate espionage. Even with less dangerous animals the above factors would still make the park dangerous.

I'm so glad you referenced All Yesterday's, the author has made a lot of really interesting speculative biology books and they really turn the world on it's head, especially with All Tomorrows

i miss you matpat

As a paleo nerd and big Jurassic Park fan, a handful of corrections: Archaeopteryx was known waaaay before the 2016, more like 1861. We've also known about it having feathers for that long. At 6:50, that's a Compsognathus (which is not from the Cretaceous), not a Velociraptor, and that's a Brachiosaurus, not Brontosaurus (again, both from the Jurassic period, not Cretaceous). Also, brushing all of JP's issues as lack of feathers and shrinkwrapping is a little off. Jurassic Park actually went a great length to portray dinosaurs that were much more realistic for the time being and speculated where there were blank spaces in our knowledge. For the time being, Jurassic Park's dinosaurs were very much accurate to the modern science of 1993.

Also, plant life has changed a lot since the Mesozoic. A lot of the ground foliage dinosaurs were eating included ferns and horsetails which are so much more nutritious than grass. Grass wasn't even around in the Mesozoic. So any herbivorous dinosaur that escaped that mansion in California would have a very hard time finding anything that they could eat.

The oxygen levels were probably higher, explans the sizes of the dinosaurs of the eras. Also there are 4 stages in the evolution of feathers in the fossil record, more likely quills were the normal coverage, they could provide protection, camouflage, insulation and mative display.

I love how this man can make a theory about everything and anything.

6:01 “What would we have to do if we wanted to make a REAL Jurassic Park?” The only real answer: We don’t. Not if we value our lives at least.

If dinosaurs were feathered, then they were fundamentally insulated from the cold. A recent study by Olsen et al., titled "Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs" discusses physical evidence of seasonal freezing in high latitudes where dinosaurs lived, which is also supported by climate models of that era. Also, dinosaurs survived a bunch of volcanic winters.

I mean, after all...Grant himself said it in the first movie: "They're genetically-engineered, theme park monsters!"

2:05 Speaking of which, it has recently been discovered that the Tyrannosaurus Rex likely had a much larger brain to body ratio, meaning it was likely much smarter than the earlier movies showed

4:40 slight correction: tyrannosaurus was slightly covered as an adult, as a hatchlings fully covered however as it got older the feathers(fuss) would become less visible.

Since you brought up “All Yesterdays”, I will take this opportunity to recommend “All Tomorrows”, a speculative evolution based science fiction story about how a race of aliens transforms humanity into a series of different creatures which evolve into their own societies over time. It’s a fascinating story that I think this community would absolutely love

If I’m remembering correctly, in the novel there is a moment where someone comments on this type of thing. “These are not dinosaurs, simply the closest thing.” It’s either the novel or another place I read it, but it has truth to it. There is no way to truly recreate their patterns or lifestyle without other features.