If you are a big lover of the “Jurassic Park” saga, you will have to sit down before reading this article! Indeed, for 32 years, the title of the franchise has false on the whole line!
Considered a great cinema classic, Jurassic Park has marked the history of the 7th art of his imprint (of dinosaur)! 32 years later, its heritage is considerable and the saga continues with the release of a 7th installment on July 4: Jurassic World Renaissance.
An error from its title?
However, what we know less is that the franchise has everything wrong with this title! Indeed, a freedom was taken with the historical (pre) reality in order to have this name that slaps, invented by the writer Michael Crichton.
According to the famous paleontologist Jack Horner, who inspired the character of Alan Grant (Sam Neill), the dinosaurs present in the film never lived during the Jurassic period!
“The animals that are characterized as dinosaurs are those which have many attributes such as points, horns, breastplates and so on; and most of those who have this kind of attributes come from the Cretaceous”said the scientist at the microphone of Huffington Post. Yes, Cretaceous Park, it still sounds less cool than Jurassic Park!
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The animals that are characterized as dinosaurs are those which have many attributes such as points, horns, breastplates and so on; And most of those who have this kind of attributes come from Cretaceous.
Error on the period
“The Jurassic corresponds to a geological period which has spread from around – 201 million to – 145 million years. Fossils showed that at that time, already lived dinosaurs such as sauropods and theropods but they were not in the majority”indicates the site Geo.fr.
“It was during the following period, the Cretaceous, between – 145 and – 66 million years, that the family of dinosaurs widely enlarged and began to dominate fauna. It is also this era which saw the most famous specimens appear whose tyrannosaures [ou les vélociraptors]””underlines Geo.
Then the dinosaurs have disappeared, “Like almost all of the life that existed at that time, during the mass extinction which marked the end of the Cretaceous.” However, according to Jack Horner, who officiated as a consultant on Jurassic Park, this error is not very serious.
“Regardless of the name of the park. Calling it” Jurassic Park “does not imply that the dinosaurs come from the Jurassic. It does not imply anything concrete. It's just the name of the park”he nuanced during his interview with the Huffington Post in 2015. It should also be noted that not all dinosaurs date from the Cretaceous. For example, Horner says that the stegosaur is actually dating from the Jurassic.
