About the JP Raptors.

[Anonymous]

I've noticed how most people are saying, the only reason the raptors were so huge was because of the DNA modifications. And that, in the movie, they were meant to be on 2 feet tall. But then why is the skeleton dug up in Montana (and Velociraptors have never been found in Montana, by the way) six feet tall? Grant even says its, "Nine feet long." And then in TLW, Dr. Burke says they grow to be over six feet tall, and then we have an another skeleton, just as big, being dug up in JP3.

[Guest]

those are REALLY Utahraptors..if I'm not mistaken..who knows why they called them Velocis..and in JP3 it was for continuity...

[Oviraptor]

They're to small to be Utahraptors, unless they're all juveniles.

[KyleRipman]

Perhaps sense really can't be made of it, and it's just a genuine mistake. That or maybe they purposely ignored science in order to make for better entertainment. After all, most of us agree that they took certain liberties with the spinosaur, right?

[Dinosaur_Neill]

They intentionally made the "Velociraptors" larger because Spielberg believed that the raptor being closer to human sized made them seem more menacing and scary, it has nothing to do with DNA modification...

[Anonymous]

They're closer in size to Deinonychus.

[Anonymous]

I wonder why they couldn't been deinonychus(es) so they would make sense. Even if they didn't have feathers. Speilburg/Koepp changed the stego to a trike and apatosaurs to brachios.

[KyleRipman]

Yeah, a lot of the changes from the book to the movie don't seem to have any real reason behind them, like the dinosaur changes you mentioned.

[Anonymous]

because the word velociraptor seems more diabolical or something

[Anonymous]

Because for a brief time Deinonychus was considered to be a species of Velociraptor.