Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-25238001-20160218163941/@comment-25238001-20161110013916

CrashBash wrote: Why does everyone keep bashing on about Spinosaurus not being Spinosaurus and claiming everyone is an idiot when the Velociraptors are nothing like real Velociraptors, even with what was known when the first movie took place (y'know, BEFORE we knew they were feathered) and nobody makes any such claim?

You either apply that logic to every dinosaur species in the franchise, or you apply it to none of them. You can't cherry pick. Ah, but there has already been a canon explanation posited for the differences in the JP raptors. The species seen in the movies, instead of being the classic V.mongoliensis seen in real life, but an entirely different species dubbed V.nublariensis. And the lack of feathers is due to an imperfection in the DNA from which the raptors are being cloned (that last bit is actually canon). So there's your explanation for Spino as well as for the raptors. Perhaps we can handle the rexes another day.