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Cameras are still rolling on Jurassic World: Dominion, the third film in the Jurassic World series and the sixth in the overall Jurassic Park franchise. Director Colin Trevorrow confirmed the title of the film when production began with a photo from the set and fans were quick to notice a new version of the logo that appeared on the production slate. This new version of the logo calls back to the original Jurassic Park logo with red and black, but also uses the yellow accent around the logo like the first film. A high-res version of this logo has arrived online now thanks to production company Amblin who have revealed a placeholder promo poster for the film with a crisp look at the new logo. Check it out below!

Plot details for the still-untitled Jurassic World 3 remain under wraps but theprevious movie, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, ended with man and dinosaur forced to share the world after the genetically engineered dinosaurs were unleashed into the wild. The plot of the upcoming movie was also set up by last year's short film Battle at Big Rock, which shows the state of society across the United States now that dinosaurs are roaming free on the North American continent. For Trevorrow, that development means the franchise will do "something that we haven’t seen before."

The new film will see the return of many characters from throughout the franchise which will be lead by Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing and Chris Pratt as Owen Grady, reprising their roles from the other Jurassic World movies. They'll be joined by other returning cast members from the recent films including Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, Daniella Pineda, and Justice Smith. Newcomers DeWanda Wise, Mamoudou Athie, and Dichen Lachman will also appear.

Most importantly though, Jurassic World: Dominion will see the return of Jurassic Park alums Laura Dern (Ellie Sattler), Sam Neill (Alan Grant), and Jeff Goldblum (Ian Malcolm) all returning as their characters from the 1993 original movie.

“We’d have had to come up with a reason why Ellie, Malcolm and Grant all went to the theme park on the exact same day it broke down – again,” Trevorrow said regarding their absence in the first film while speaking with Empire. “The next film allows the legacy characters to be a part of the story in an organic way. Emily Carmichael and I call it Jurassic Park VI because it is."

“You start asking the most basic questions: who are these people now?" Trevorrow added. "What do they make of the new world they’re living in, and how do they feel about being part of its history? Ultimately it will be in collaboration with the actors. They know and love these characters. We’ll do it together.”

Actor BD Wong also teased his villainous return as Dr. Henry Wu, the geneticist that first appeared in the original Jurassic Park and returned for the 2015 film and its 2018 sequel.

Jurassic World 3 is scheduled to be released on June 11th, 2021.

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The Jurassic Park franchise is known for its dino carnage. Here are the 10 best kills in the series, also ranked.

The one certainty in a Jurassic Park film is that there are deaths awaiting to unfold, with each film featuring demises in different varieties. For the protagonists, the islands are like survival games they have to overcome, which leaves side characters and villains to complete the death count.

However, these sequences are one of the entertaining parts of the films as the deaths have proper context attached to them, along with creativity. For this list, we haven’t considered the Jurassic World films, as that deserves another list entirely. That said, here are 10 of the best kill scenes in the Jurassic Park trilogy, ranked.

10 - The Boat Crew

To this day, we don’t know exactly what it was that got to these guys, but it’s the mystery behind it that makes it such a memorable scene. There are multiple theories over the killer either being the Spinosaurus or a Pteranodon; these remain just theories, though.

The ambiguity of the disappearance of the crew makes it out to be one of the truly scariest scenes in the series, and we have to hand it to the director for using fog to great effect in completing the kill.

9 - Udesky

Out of all the mercenaries in Jurassic Park III, it was Udesky who not only lasted the longest, but was also a pretty likable guy. This made his death scene hard to watch, although it was a perfect illustration of the cunning tactics of the raptors.

Udesky was effectively paralyzed by a raptor so that he couldn’t move anymore, save for a feeble attempt to stir awake. This was just a trap to lure in the humans’ help, as the raptors pounced on Mrs. Kirby and almost had her as well. With Udesky having served his purpose, his neck was instantly snapped by the departing raptor.

8 - Ray Arnold

This is a mixture of the previous two points mentioned, as Arnold was killed off screen yet managed to make his death both terrifying and an example of the viciousness of the raptors. As it happened, Arnold had gone to turn the power back on, and never returned.

After Ellie arrived to do what Arnold hadn’t, she was attacked by a raptor. As Ellie fell back, she had a momentary sense of relief as Arnold’s arm fell on her shoulder, only for it to turn into horror as she realized that the man had been devoured. In the case of this kill, less really was more.

7 - Peter Ludlow

The movies figured out a way to add in some comedy in a death scene, and nobody feels bad for Ludlow either as he deserved his fate. After having entered the area holding the T-Rex infant, Ludlow realizes its father was there as well.

His pathetic attempts at escape do him no good, as Ludlow is wounded and left to become T-Rex infant chow, while its father humorously watches with pride. It was a bit too comedic, but we do prefer the kill for delivering Ludlow his just desserts.

6 - Dieter Stark

Who knew Compsognathus (better known as Compies) could be so dangerous? After this scene, we’re very glad these dinosaurs don’t exist in the real world anymore. Stark found this out the hard way, as a pack of Compies began pursuing him.

The scene plays out eerily as Stark’s several attempts at scaring the Compies away fail, and it dawns on him that they’re in the mood to feast. Transitioning from an initially funny scene, we watch as Stark is brutally devoured by what seems like hundreds of Compies as they jump on him altogether. This was the kind of death where saying “Ouch!” is a gross understatement.

5 - The Raptors

While we’re considering all the raptors as part of the kill in this scene, we’re also specifically pointing toward the raptor that was taken out by the T-rex when the latter made her entry. While we've ranked it relatively lower since it was part of a fight scene, it also represented a moment of sheer triumph and an awe-inspiring piece of cinematography.

Just when it seemed like it was curtains for the heroes, with the raptor in perfect position to pounce, the T-Rex appeared from nowhere and trapped the raptor in its orifice, breaking it apart at once. She then proceeded to maul the others too, memorably smashing the last raptor into the skeleton of another T-Rex.

4 - Jophery Brown

There couldn’t have been a better opening to the series than this one, where we saw the first kill happen in scary fashion. Jophery Brown, the name of this doomed park worker, was pushed to the ground by the pack leader of the raptors.

In a testimony to the raptors’ strength and intelligence, he was dragged inside the containment, despite the many other workers attempting to save him. Robert Muldoon screaming “Shoot her!” is what brought this kill out to be a chilling depiction of more to come, and a death we won’t ever forget.

3 - Donald Gennaro

You’d think a guy getting eaten by a T-Rex while sitting on a toilet would make for a funny skit, yet this death scene has been one of the more iconic moments of the Jurassic Park series. It also makes for a superbly choreographed kill that was set up with the T-Rex reveal.

As the T-Rex released itself from its captivity, Gennaro took off from the car to save himself by abandoning the kids. However, Malcolm inadvertently guided the T-Rex over to Gennaro, who had been hiding in a toilet cubicle. With no place to go, Gennaro was devoured whole by the dinosaur, as we saw him last being swung around in the great beast’s jaws.

2 - Robert Muldoon

We’ve touted the raptors’ intelligence quite a bit, but nothing tops this moment where they used it to the deadliest effect. Bringing Alan Grant’s theory about raptor attacks eerily to life, Muldoon was played for a fool by two of these dinosaurs.

When he thought he’d got the one raptor he was targeting in his sights, it turned out to be a set-up as a second raptor reared its head right beside Muldoon. Despite him acknowledging the raptor as a “clever girl,” Muldoon was violently devoured. However, one feels like giving a hand for this death, both as a tribute to Muldoon and for the incredible tactics the raptors pulled off.

1 - Dennis Nedry

Combining everything from comedy, mystery, horror, and pure intrigue level, Nedry’s death felt cathartic as he was the one responsible for the deaths on the island. Still, it does make one queasy to see the Dilophosaurus play around with Nedry; in this case, literally playing with her food.

Even when the comedic moment of Nedry bumbling around the dinosaur takes place, there’s an uneasiness in the air marking a certain doom. There’s always a jump care when the sound and sight of the Dilophosaurus arrives in the car as she makes Nedry a late night snack. If there’s one death scene to represent the theatrics in the Jurassic Park series, it would certainly be Nedry’s demise.

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Torreites sanchezi, an extinct species of rudist clam that lived during the Cretaceous period, some 70 million years ago, grew fast, laying down daily growth rings. In a new study, a team of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University used lasers to sample minute slices of Torreites sanchezi’s shell and count the growth rings. The rings allowed the scientists to determine the number of days in a year and more accurately calculate the length of a day 70 million years ago. The new measurement also informs models of how the Moon formed and how close to Earth it has been over the 4.5-billion-year history of the Earth-Moon gravitational dance.

Torreites sanchezi mollusks look like tall pint glasses with lids shaped like bear claw pastries. They had two shells, or valves, that met in a hinge, like asymmetrical clams, and grew in dense reefs, like modern oysters. They thrived in water several degrees warmer worldwide than modern oceans.

In the Late Cretaceous epoch, rudists like Torreites sanchezi dominated the reef-building niche in tropical waters around the world, filling the role held by corals today. They disappeared in the same event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

“Rudists are quite special bivalves. There’s nothing like it living today,” said Dr. Niels de Winter, an analytical geochemist at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

“In the Late Cretaceous epoch especially, worldwide most of the reef builders are these bivalves. So they really took on the ecosystem building role that the corals have nowadays.”

Dr. de Winter and colleagues analyzed a single individual of Torreites sanchezi that lived for over nine years in a shallow seabed in the tropics — a location which is now dry land in the mountains of Oman.

“We have about four to five datapoints per day, and this is something that you almost never get in geological history. We can basically look at a day 70 million years ago. It’s pretty amazing,” Dr. de Winter said.

The team’s method focused a laser on small bits of shell, making holes 10 micrometers in diameter, or about as wide as a red blood cell.

Trace elements in these tiny samples reveal information about the temperature and chemistry of the water at the time the shell formed. The analysis provided accurate measurements of the width and number of daily growth rings as well as seasonal patterns.

The researchers used seasonal variations in the fossilized shell to identify years.

They found the composition of the shell changed more over the course of a day than over seasons, or with the cycles of ocean tides. The fine-scale resolution of the daily layers shows the shell grew much faster during the day than at night.

“This bivalve had a very strong dependence on this daily cycle, which suggests that it had photosymbionts. You have the day-night rhythm of the light being recorded in the shell,” Dr. de Winter said.

This result suggests daylight was more important to the lifestyle of the ancient mollusk than might be expected if it fed itself primarily by filtering food from the water, like modern day clams and oysters.

The mollusks likely had a relationship with an indwelling symbiotic species that fed on sunlight, similar to living giant clams, which harbor symbiotic algae.

“Until now, all published arguments for photosymbiosis in rudists have been essentially speculative, based on merely suggestive morphological traits, and in some cases were demonstrably erroneous. This paper is the first to provide convincing evidence in favor of the hypothesis,” said Dr. Peter Skelton, a retired lecturer of paleobiology at the Open University and a rudist expert unaffiliated with the new study.

The scientists also found that ocean temperatures were warmer in the Late Cretaceous epoch than previously appreciated, reaching 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in summer and exceeding 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) in winter.

“The summer high temperatures likely approached the physiological limits for mollusks,” Dr. de Winter said.

The team’s careful count of the number of daily layers found 372 for each yearly interval. This was not a surprise, because scientists know days were shorter in the past. The result is, however, the most accurate now available for the Late Cretaceous epoch, and has a surprising application to modeling the evolution of the Earth-Moon system.

The length of a year has been constant over Earth’s history, because Earth’s orbit around the Sun does not change. But the number of days within a year has been shortening over time because days have been growing longer.

The length of a day has been growing steadily longer as friction from ocean tides, caused by the Moon’s gravity, slows Earth’s rotation.

The pull of the tides accelerates the Moon a little in its orbit, so as Earth’s spin slows, the Moon moves farther away. The Moon is pulling away from Earth at 3.82 cm (1.5 inches) per year. Precise laser measurements of distance to the Moon from Earth have demonstrated this increasing distance since the Apollo program left helpful reflectors on the Moon’s surface.

But scientists conclude the Moon could not have been receding at this rate throughout its history, because projecting its progress linearly back in time would put the Moon inside the Earth only 1.4 billion years ago.

Scientists know from other evidence that the Moon has been with us much longer, most likely coalescing in the wake of a massive collision early in Earth’s history, over 4.5 billion years ago. So the Moon’s rate of retreat has changed over time, and information from the past, like a year in the life of an ancient clam, helps researchers reconstruct that history and model of the formation of the Moon.

Because in the history of the Moon, 70 million years is a blink in time, Dr. de Winter and co-authors hope to apply their new method to older fossils and catch snapshots of days even deeper in time.

Their findings appear in the journal Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

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Niels J. de Winter et al. Subdaily-Scale Chemical Variability in a Torreites sanchezi Rudist Shell: Implications for Rudist Paleobiology and the Cretaceous Day-Night Cycle. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, published online February 5, 2020; doi: 10.1029/2019PA003723

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Meltwater pulses (MWPs) known as abrupt sea-level rise due to injection of melt water are of particular interests to scientists to investigate the interactions between climatic, oceanic and glacial systems. Eustatic sea-level rise will inevitably affect cities especially those on coastal plains of low elevation like Hong Kong. A recent study published in Quaternary Science Reviews presented evidence of abrupt sea level change between 11,300-11,000 years ago in the Arctic Ocean. The study was conducted by Ms Skye Yunshu Tian, PhD student of School of Biological Sciences and Swire Institute of Marine Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) during her undergraduate final year project in the Ecology & Biodiversity Major, solving the puzzle of second largest meltwater pulse (labelled as "MWP-1B" next to the largest and already well understood MWP-1A).

Source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/

Guess Chris Pratt wasn’t kidding about the worldwide aspect of Jurassic World 3 (or Jurassic World: Dominion, as we should be saying now).

A new set image released via Colin Trevorrow’s Instagram account showcases something seldom seen in a Jurassic Park movie – snow. It should be said that just because it’s snowy that doesn’t mean it’s “worldwide.” On the contrary, the dust and snow gives off a markedly western vibe. But in terms of expanding the palette of the franchise, which is what I take worldwide to mean, this image certainly does that and seems to indicate that we’ll be seeing some dinos roaming around in this terrain.

See for yourself down below:

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Annys & Rebecca—Associate Producer and Trusted Assistant—on the open range. #JWCrew

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Cool, eh? Hopefully it’s a sign of more to come – as I stressed in an earlier article, I want nothing more than for Jurassic Park/World/Dominion movies to excite, as opposed to dragging their exhausted arses back into your multiplex for another joyless billion-dollar paycheck. Joyless on the viewer’s part, as I’m sure the cheque went down very well at Universal Towers. But come on guys, give us something to cheer for.

Drop a comment, leave a like, take a selfie (don’t do that), the message boards are your oyster. Jurassic World: Dominion is just, oo, let’s run this down, 469 days from release. That really does make it sound like the distant future. Does 67 weeks make it sound easier? You could get a lot done in 67 weeks. Fall in love, learn the banjo, join a cult.

What are you doing wasting it reading drivel like this? Forget the message boards, the world is your oyster. Go out and live your best life, and do so before Jurassic World: Dominion comes out. Let the cave trolls work in peace.

Paleontologists have long determined that modern-day birds evolved from smaller members of the two-legged, meat-eating theropods, such as velociraptors. However, for many years, the only transitional fossil linking the two had been that of the Archaeopteryx — a bird-dinosaur hybrid that lived on Earth about 150 million years ago, during the late Jurassic period.

Now, the perfectly-preserved remains of a small feathered raptor, dating back 120 million years, is providing scientists a glimpse into how the feathered fauna appeared during the Cretaceous period, the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era. The new dinosaur species may also help researchers determine the early connections — and differences — between birds and dinosaurs.

"The new dinosaur fits in with an incredible radiation of feathered, winged animals that are closely related to the origin of birds," said study leader Ashley Poust, a postdoctoral researcher at the San Diego Natural History Museum. "Studying specimens like this not only shows us the sometimes surprising paths that ancient life has taken but also allows us to test ideas about how important bird characteristics, including flight, arose in the distant past."

Named Wulong (Chinese for "dancing dragon") bohaiensis for the artful pose of its impressively preserved fossil, the new species was discovered by a farmer in the Jiufotang Formation in China's Liaoning Province, about a decade ago. However, it lay unnoticed in the collection of the Dalian Natural History Museum until a few years ago when Poust, then a student at Montana State University, stumbled upon the rare find.

The raven-sized dinosaur had a narrow face filled with small, sharp teeth, winglike feathers on its arms and legs, and two plumes at the end of its elongated bony tail. When examining the fossil, Poust and his team, which included scientists from the Dalian Natural History Museum, noticed an anomaly. Poust said, "The specimen has feathers on its limbs and tail that we associate with adult birds, but it had other features that made us think it was a juvenile."

To determine the dinosaur's age, the researchers performed bone histology, which involved cutting up some of its bones and examining them under a microscope. The results proved their suspicions right — the "dancing dragon" specimen was a juvenile with adult feathers. This is in sharp contrast with modern-day birds, which typically do not get their adult feathers — particularly the tail plumage, which is usually used for mating — until they are fully-grown. "Either the young dinosaurs needed these tail feathers for some function we don't know about, or they were growing their feathers really differently from most living birds," Poust explained.

The Jiufotang Formation, where the "dancing dragon" remains were unearthed, is a treasure trove of fossil deposits. Once home to a wide variety of animals, it is one of the earliest-known bird environments, where birds, bird-like dinosaurs, and pterosaurs all shared the same habitat.

"There was a lot of flying, gliding and flapping around these ancient lakes," Poust said. "As we continue to discover more about the diversity of these small animals, it becomes interesting how they all might have fit into the ecosystem. It was an alien world, but with some of the earliest feathers and earliest flowers, it would have been a pretty one."

Resources: www.sdnhm.org, phys.org

Here’s a little exciting news to report – it seems that a new live-action TV series based in the continuity of the Jurassic World movies may be in development potentially for the NBC Peacock TV streaming service.

The news originates from the folks over at Jurassic Outpost – a reliable source – who say that the series is set for a shoot in Vancouver for a 2021-2022 debut. The proposed series would be produced by Amblin TV – Colin Trevorrow and Steven Spielberg – along with Justin Falvey, and Darryl Frank, the co-presidents of the aforementioned Amblin Television.

The third movie in the current ‘Jurassic’ series is currently shooting in Canada for a release in cinemas next summer (2021) with Trevorrow once again at the helm. That movie already has a title – Jurassic World: Dominion – and will see the return of Chris Pratt, as well as Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, Isabella Sermon, and BD Wong.

More as it is fired our way.

Source: www.thehollywoodnews.com/

Trixie the triceratops was one of the new additions to the main cast of toys in Pixar's Toy Stoy 3. Here are 10 hidden details about her.

The Toy Story franchise has now spanned over three decades. First appearing on the big screen in 1995 when Pixar was still a fledgling company trying to find its market audience. Toy Story captured the imagination of children and parents alike, making Pixar a household name. As one of the most popular 3D animated movie series, Toy Story just completed its 4th installment, drawing in a new generation of fans and introducing them to animation that at the time of its original film was groundbreaking.

While many older fans are accustomed to the original cast of toys, Toy Story 3 introduced a few new characters that have quickly become fan favorites. Let's learn about one of these new characters, Trixie and find out what makes her so special.

10 - Trixie Has Bonnie Written On Her Foot

With her introduction coming in the third installment of the franchise, no one knows how long Trixie has been Bonnie's toy. From the look of the paint wearing off on her horns, it must have been for most of Bonnie's life.

She, also, must not be a hand-me-down toy, since if fans look closely to her left foot, they will notice Bonnie's name on it, signaling who her original owner was. She shares this similarity with Buzz Lightyear and Woody who have the name Andy at the bottom of their right feet.

9 - Trixie Resembles Dim From A Bug's Life

Since A Bug's Life and Toy Story are made by the same company, it is no surprise to see crossover content between the two films. In fact, many characters from A Bug's Life can be seen as toys in the background of Al's Toy Barn in Toy Story 2.

Dim, the childlike rhinoceros beetle has a special connection with Trixie from Toy Story 3, in that Trixie is almost a replica of him. Pixar used the same model they created Dim with and used it on Trixie, with the exception of his middle legs.

8 - Trixie Loves Video Games

When Bonnie is not forcing Trixie to drink tea during imaginary tea parties, she can be found letting out some of her dinosaur aggression playing massively multiplayer online games with other toys that she meets while playing the game.

Trixie has even found a kindred spirit and gamer in her fellow dinosaur Rex. From the moment they met, they have shared a bond that goes beyond them being the only two dinosaurs in the main cast. Both enjoy spending their alone time online, killing orcs and goblins for skill points.

7 - Trixie Was Originally Going To Be In Lotso's Gang

When Toy Story 3 was being fleshed out, concept art was designed to be a visual guide for how the new characters were expected to look in the film. A few of these early concept drawings have Trixie not being Bonnie's toy but, instead, a part of Lotso's gang of disgruntled toys.

It is never stated whether or not Trixie was meant to be an actual villain since some of Lotso's gang were not evil, just misguided. For fans, it would be hard to ever imagine Trixie being any sort of villain with her bubbly disposition.

6 - Trixie And Mabel Pines Have The Same Voice Actress

When fans listen to the voice of their favorite characters in cartoons, they often find a similarity with other characters, possibly even in that particular cartoon's world. So, when fans first heard Mabel Pines on Disney's Gravity Falls, many of their minds raced back to Toy Story 3 and Trixie.

Both characters share the same voice actress, Kristen Schaal. In fact, Trixie was actually the very first Disney character Schaal voiced. Now 10 years later, Schaal has a resume full of familiar Disney films and series characters under her belt.

5 - Rex And Trixie Are Possibly Part Of The Same Toy Line

Rex and Trixie's connection is more than just their dinosaur roots. Both have formed a close friendship around playing online games, as they are one of just a few toys that have interests that go beyond being played with. Another connection might be that they are from the same toy line.

Trixie is an old dinosaur judging by the paint coming off specific parts of her body. While Rex dates to at least 1995. So, it wouldn't be shocking to find out that they're both a part of a series of dinosaur toys that date back to the 1990s.

4 - Trixie Plays The Main Protagonist

In the Toy Story Christmas special, Toy Story That Time Forgot, Trixie finds herself as the main protagonist. When Bonnie takes Trixie over to a play-date with a friend, she meets another dinosaur named Reptillus Maximus. Seeing how he is played with by his owner, Trixie begins to wish Bonnie treated her like a dinosaur.

However, after she learns of Reptillus' true evil nature, she defeats him, saving her friends in the end. During her adventure, she learns to accept that she isn't a dinosaur but a toy. A toy that is thankful, however, Bonnie plays with her.

3 - Trixie And Buttercup Were The First Of Bonnie's Toys To Welcome Woody

Woody had a terrible time accepting that Andy no longer needed him. His attempts to return to Andy's house from Sunnyside Daycare is how he first met Bonnie, who found him and brought him home. Upon arriving at her house, Woody is introduced to Trixie and Buttercup, who are regularly forced to play pretend tea with Bonnie every day.

They try to convince him that life isn't so bad with Bonnie and that he now has a new home with someone who will play with him every day but still in denial, he initially refuses their offer.

2 - Trixie's Character Was Hinted At In The Original Movie

Fans might notice that many of the characters in the movies either come in a set or have some sort of partner that they can relate to. Two exceptions being Buzz Lightyear and Rex. However, during the original film, Rex makes an unusual comment that he hopes the next toy Andy gets is a dinosaur.

Fast forward 15 years and he finally got his wish when Trixie is introduced in Toy Story 3. While his words might have been an innocent comment, they, also, could have been a hint at what the creators of Toy Story were planning.

1 - Trixie Has An Online Boyfriend

Ever since Toy Story 3, fans have pondered who Velocistar237 is. While Trixie is determining how far it is from Bonnie's to Andy's house, she receives an IM from Velocistar237. The message asks "U there? I made it 2 the Dark Fortress!!". When asked who it is, Trixie quickly tries to change the subject, saying that it is just a dinosaur down the street.

Though, she clearly looks embarrassed by the situation, hinting that this dinosaur might be someone she has feelings for, instead of just another online gamer from across the street.

Source: https://screenrant.com/

This stereotypical portrayal of a dinosaur is the dinosaur of our imaginations. It is not an accurate portrayal of what a dinosaur really was like.

Dinosaurs are typically pictured as big, green scaly monsters that have sharp, long teeth to tear apart their victim’s flesh. They are portrayed with razor sharp claws and make a terrible, deep roar that will scare the pants off anyone or anything. This stereotypical portrayal of a dinosaur is the dinosaur of our imaginations. It is not an accurate portrayal of what a dinosaur really was like. Yes, dinosaurs were tenacious carnivores, but they were also docile and slow giants. Dinosaurs came in many sizes and lived all over the world. They had feathers and may have been brightly colored. Read through the top ten myths about dinosaurs listed below to learn the real truth behind dinosaurs.

10. All Dinosaurs Only Had Scales

When dinosaurs were first discovered, they were thought to be related to crocodiles, alligators, and lizards. Naturally then they were thought to have scales. It wasn’t until the 1970’s though that palentologists began to wonder if dinosaurs were releated to birds. In 1997, a small carnivorous dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx, was discovered to have a soft, fuzzy covering-and not scales. Since then, feathers have been discovered on ornithopods, fanged Heterodontosaurs, and many families of carnivorous dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosauridae. In fact, a cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex called the  Yutyrannus had tufts of fluff. A feathery covering may have helped smaller dinosaurs regulate their body temperatures. Even plant-eaters may have had some feathers. Some dinosaurs also had spots of bright colors or stripes. So it's very probable the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex had feathers, not leathery scales.

9. Dinosaurs Were Terrible Parents

It was once a common belief that dinosaurs would lay their eggs and leave them to survive on their own. That changed when a dinosaur skeleton was found sitting on top of eggs in the Gobi Desert of Southern Mongolia and Northern China. It was thought that the dinosaur was trying to steal eggs. More dinosaurs were soon found in the region sitting on top of eggs. Paleantologists realized the dinosaur, the Oviraptor, wasn’t trying to steal the eggs-it was guarding them. Paleantologist, Jack Horner, discovered a fossil of a juvenile Maiasaura, which means "good mother." This discovery proved dinosaurs were socialable, built nests, and cared for their young.

8. All Dinosaurs Were Huge

Some dinosaurs were very big, but some movies have made them even bigger. The Trynasaurus rex was about 12 meters long and weighed around 10,000 pounds. The T. rex has been portrayed as big as a house The Velociraptor was about the size of a golden retriever. Jurrasic Park made the dinosaur bigger to make it scarier. Smaller dinosaurs like the Hesperonychus was the size of a cat and the Tianyulong was the size of a rabbit. However, in movies, the bigger the dinosaur, the scarier the movie.

7. Dinosaurs Had Mighty Roars

No one knows for sure the exact noises a dinosaur made, but there are some clues. For example, the Lambeosaurus had a crest on its head that filled with air when it breathed. When air was pushed out of the crest, the dinosaur made a sound like a horn. Dinosaurs probably made closed-mouth vocalizations, which sound more like a pigeon’s coo or an ostritches mumble. Paleontoligists have found some dinosaur larynx fragments. However, this doesn’t prove if a dinosaur could make sounds, since a larynx has other purposes as well. The creators of Jurassic Park combined the sounds of elephant cries, a gargling alligator, and tigers to make an inaccurate dinosaur roar sound.

6. Mammals Came After Dinosaurs

200 million years ago, a scaly looking rat called the cynodont, lived among the dinosaurs. Mammals began to evolve around 165 million years ago. Mammals had diversified into marsupial and placental lines around that time. Scientists haven’t found a mammal bigger than a badger during that time peroid. Mammals really began to quickly diversify after the non-bird dinosaurs went extinct. Mammals evolved to become bigger in size and spread around the world.

5. Dinosaurs Instantly Died After an Asteroid Hit

It is possible that the dinosaurs were starting to die out before a giant asteroid hit the earth due to frequent volcanic eruptions and rising sea levels. A 180-kilometer wide asteroid did hit the earth on Mexico’s Yucatan Penninsula. Dinosaurs were not quickly wiped out from it though. Scientists believe the dinosaurs could have been wiped out by the aftermath of the asteroid which included tsunamis, clouds of dust, and acid rains. It may have taken a few hundred thousand years for the last of the dinosaurs to die out from starvation.

4. Humans Lived Alongside Dinosaurs

The Flintstones cartoon depicts humans living alongside dinosaurs, but none of that is actually true. The belief that humans lived alongside dinosaurs is known as the Flintstone Fallacy. Dinosaurs died out sixty-five million years ago, and the earliest fossils of human ancestors date back only six million years. It’s a fun idea to think about early humans having a dino pet, but that never actually happened.

3. Flying Reptiles Were Dinosaurs

Pterosaurs, a flying reptile came just after dinosaurs. The largest flying reptile was about as big as a small plane. Many were terrifying. Some had graceful wings and long necks. Others looked like bats. Still others were only 10 inches long. Like dinosaurs, flying reptiles came in a variety of sizes. Flying reptiles also died out at the same time as dinosaurs. Flying reptiles are closely related to dinosaurs, but are not true dinosaurs.

2. Dinosaurs Were the First Reptiles to Take Over the World

True reptiles evolved from amphibians more than 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period. Dinosaurs came during the early Triassic period about 250 million years ago. During that time, the earth was invaded by prehistoric reptiles like the therapsids, pelycosaurs and archosaurs. These reptiles were able to move further away from water-where their early amphibeaus relatives lived-because they walked on four legs and had scaly skin. Scientists think the elevated oxygen levels during the Carboniferous period may have quickened the pace of evolution.

1. Dinosaurs Do Not Have Descendants

Fossil evidence shows that modern birds evolved from dinosaurs. Some evolutionary biologists even believe that birds are actually dinosaurs. Birds are sometimes known as avian dinosaurs. Ostriches, chickens, pigeons, and sparrows are more related to dinosaurs than modern reptiles. The next time you look out a window and see a modern bird, you actually may be looking at a modern dinosaur.

Source: https://www.worldatlas.com/

Jurassic World featured in a brief but hilarious from Margaritaville owner Jimmy Buffett. Here is where to spot Jimmy Buffett’s very apt cameo in Jurassic World. Following the underwhelmed response from Jurassic Park III, the franchise went on ice for many years. 

While Stephen Spielberg and the producers of the franchise occasionally commented on the fourth entry being in development, it never seemed to move ahead. 

The main problem was that trying to come up with a unique scenario for it, with writer John Sayles once producing a now-infamous script involving a team of human/dinosaur hybrids being trained for rescue and assassination missions.

Jurassic World finally arrived in the year 2015 almost 15 years after the third movie from director Colin Trevorrow. The story only took things back to the basics, with a fully functioning dinosaur park becoming undone with the arrival of a highly intelligent and hungry hybrid creature. 

The movie had received mixed reviews, including the weirdly mean spirited death of supporting character Zara, but it was an enormous hit regardless. Stars like Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas later returned for sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

The presence of Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville in Jurassic World can’t help raise a smile, however, since it resulted in the movie’s funniest easter egg. 

During the sequence where the Pterosaur’s break free and start swarming the guests including the aforementioned Zara, a brave bartender at the park’s Margaritaville can be seen saving two margaritas from a table during an attack.

That is because Jimmy Buffett himself is playing the bartender and while this gag can be easy to miss on first viewing, it is a fun one.

Jimmy Buffett hasn’t been confirmed to return for the Jurassic World Dominion in 2021, but considering Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jake Johnson and many more are all coming back, there must be room for Jurassic World’s Margaritaville bartender too.

Colin Trevorrow will return for this third entry, which promises to be a suitably epic conclusion to the current saga.

Source: https://honknews.com/