Jurassic Park 4's Dinosaurs Will Not Have Feathers

Friday, April 5, 2013 - 15:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Jurassic Park's T-Rex Universal PicturesWhich means the movie about cloning legions of dinosaurs from preserved DNA will be unrealistic. There's going to be a Jurassic Park 4, and there's some super-vague details coming out about what it's like. (Some kind of "scary" dinosaur will make a cameo?) The director is Colin Trevorrow, and last month he sent out this tweet: No feathers. #JP4 — Colin Trevorrow (@colintrevorrow) March 20, 2013 We've known for a while now that many dinosaurs were feathered, instead of the more reptilian look we've been giving them. Which means this movie will be inaccurate. New Scientist has rounded up a couple quotes from scientists who are earnestly upset by this: Palaeontologist Darren Naish, of the University of Southampton, UK, isn't impressed with Trevorrow's choice. "I'm pissed off by a disregard for knowledge," he says. "It helps perpetuate the notion that dinosaurs were all scaly dragons, alien and unlike...

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