I'm convinced that the only reason that Jurassic Park called the dinosaurs Velociraptors instead of Deinonychus's (Deinonychi?) was because it was a catchier name... With all the paleontologists they had helping with that film, one of them must have pointed out that their Velociraptors didn't really look like Velociraptors (I would hope... although their Dilophosaurus was the wrong size as well - but in the opposite direction, so you never know)...
Heck, they were probably fighting over pronunciation... Depending on the book I've seen it as both Dye-Know-Nye-Kuss and Dye-Non-Ih-Kuss... After ten minutes they probably just said "Fuck it - we'll say they're Velociraptors and be done with it."
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I'm convinced that the only reason that Jurassic Park called the dinosaurs Velociraptors instead of Deinonychus's (Deinonychi?) was because it was a catchier name... With all the paleontologists they had helping with that film, one of them must have pointed out that their Velociraptors didn't really look like Velociraptors (I would hope... although their Dilophosaurus was the wrong size as well - but in the opposite direction, so you never know)...
Heck, they were probably fighting over pronunciation... Depending on the book I've seen it as both Dye-Know-Nye-Kuss and Dye-Non-Ih-Kuss... After ten minutes they probably just said "Fuck it - we'll say they're Velociraptors and be done with it."