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RokuroCarisu wrote: 99.229.12.145 wrote: I'd also like to see Deinonychus in the movie, probably getting into a brawl with the Velociraptors. Fun fact: The Velociraptors in Jurassic Park are Deinonychus.

In the 80's, author and paleoartist Gregory Paul came up with the idea that all dromaeosaurids should be classed as subspecies of Velociraptor. It never took a foothold in official taxonomy, but Michael Crichton went with it, hence the raptors in his book and later in the movies are "Velociraptor antirrhopus". In film canon, though, Jurassic World revealed in their Holoscape that Deinonychus is a separate genus like in real life.