Welcome to Cretaceous Park!

It's named that way because of the raptor intelligence. "Can this raptor open doors?" "You bet jurassican"

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.

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.

iirc John Hammond covers this in the book. I was so young, but something is triggering it for me. Could just be the subconscious trying to protect grade 4 nostalgia, though.

Hell, I could've picked that up off playing Jurassic World Evolutions in the last six months and it's backpedal lore.

Whatever it is, Michael Crichton was no idiot.

Jurassish Park

It wasn't even a park, it was a zoo.

Cropped off the final text because fuck everyone that's why

The name itself was foreshadowing of their ignorance.

Don’t be pedantic. They picked the name because it sounded cool and got the point across.

What if Neil deGrasse Tyson was a paleontologist

The Huge Animals of Various Geological Periods Park.

Dino Land!

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