Dinosaurs
This is my first time using Medium. I have a lot of varied interests. One of those interests is dinosaurs. I have been fascinated with these extinct creatures since I was about seven years of age. Dinosaurs are as varied as are their sometimes mispronounced names. Parasaurolophus, for instance, is a fun name to say and it kind of just rolls off your tongue. They lived through three different eras. The Jurassic is probably the one most people are familiar with, thanks to that great 1993 classic, Jurassic Park. The dinosaurs in that movie were altered in various ways to make them more fearsome than their real life counter part. For instance, the Dilophasaurus, which name means dual crested lizard. didn’t have a frill that it expanded, or did it spit venom. Also it was much larger in real life than it was portrayed in the movie. Another example is the Velociraptor. It was increased in size to make it look more fierce, which it didn’t really need to, the real ones were about the size of a chicken, or turkey, and did have a six inch retractable claw on their foot. The Velociraptors shown in the movie were probably Utahraptors, which are larger than their cousins.
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The closest examples of what real dinosaurs looked like would be to visit a natural history museum. All we have left to study is their bones to know what they might have looked like. We can theorize what they may have sounded like or felt like, but because no one has ever seen an actual dinosaur in person, we will never know.
