Saw this today. Has anyone given it a read? Didn't pick it up but thought the cover art looked really cool.

Please provide why too.

As a prehistoric life enthusiast, I'm among the many who were let down by the designs of the Jurassic World series' animals. They missed the opportunity of including scientifically-accurate animals and today, the difference between Jurassic World’s animals and those of modern representations is far too great, which is a shame, given the relation that always existed between the Jurassic franchise and palaeontology.
If Jurassic World really wanted to respect the spirit of the original Jurassic Park, it should have shown some accurate animals to the public, in order to popularize new depictions of dinosaurs, just like Jurassic Park showed the results of the Dinosaur Renaissance movement.

This issue, along with others, pushed me to write an entire rewrite of the first film, available here:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20436878

This rewrite has not only a bestiary where some of the species introduced in the original trilogy coexist with new species/variants with (mostly) scientific accurate designs (for example, Owen's raptors are feathered, the Mosasaurus has a smooth skin and is not as oversized as the films' version...), but also plenty of other aspects which differ from the film:

- Alternate park aesthetic and layout.

- A more adult tone and a longer story which fully takes advantage of its Open Park setting. I wanted this rewrite to be an Epic Drama à la Titanic or Peter Jackson's King Kong and not a typical run-of-the-mill sanitized 2010s summer blockbuster which retreads the original film like Trevorrow's JW ended up.

- Reworked characters.

- More connections to The Lost World and Jurassic Park 3.

I talk more about the reflexions behind this project here :https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies/comments/oad5i5/reimagining_jurassic_world_into_an_rrated_epic/ (Introduction and my gripes with the film)
https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies/comments/oad80k/reimagining_jurassic_world_as_an_rrated_epic_part/ (How I fix those grips)

If you have questions or want me to talk more detail about some aspects, please ask.

I wish you a good read!

(IG: dinosaurdaydream) Colors inspired by Bumpy from Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous & Chaos Theory

Disney's Dinosaur introduced me to the Carnotaurus

I have a burning desire to create accurate dinosaur paintings but I don't know how to do my research or where to find scientific descriptions of specimens or even how to interpret them if I did read them. would love guidance because, while I've done paleoart in the past, I don't think my paintings have been all that accurate. Also suggestions on dinosaurs you'd like to see painted might be nice. always down to show love to under appreciated animals.

Art work by me

Out of all the Dino shows, I can’t think of a more hilarious and then sudden heart breaking turn.

I was visiting Smithsonian natural history museum and this tail of ankylosaur caught my attention. It looks like the tail extends like a single bone instead of vertebrae connecting to the club at the end (I think they are fused and contracted). Looked fascinating! Didn’t know it fused like that.

Like how agile was it, what prey did it like most, how did it inflict fatal wounds?

I've seen some contradictory information on some of these subjects so if guys have any up to date information to share i would like to hear it

I know that is not allowed, but I don't know where to post this, the story is centered around Nestor, an Arambourgiania, and Flick, just an ordinary great tit