Velociraptor was about as dangerous as your neighbour’s dog
Jurassic Park opens with drama: a velociraptor escapes from its cage and brutally attacks a man. Nobody can stop such an awesome predatory dinosaur. But what about the scientific facts? The real Velociraptor weighed 15-20kg – less than an adult Golden Retriever, or about the same as a child in kindy. Its claws were not able to rip prey open, as the film claims. In overall terms, it was about as dangerous as your neighbour’s dog.
Real scientists discovered dinosaur blood in a mosquito
In the next scene, miners find amber that has trapped an ancient mosquito with dinosaur blood in its stomach. Such a discovery has never been made. Scientists have found a mosquito with blood in it, but it existed long after the dinosaurs. On the other hand, they have discovered dinosaur blood in another insect: a tick embedded in a
