There was a time when
dinosaurs were perceived as nothing more than large scaly lizards, on both the
silver screen and in the real world. It wasn’t until Steven Spielberg’s
earth-shattering Jurassic Park that
this perception began to alter drastically. That’s not to suggest the film
changed the landscape of science, of course, but rather the viewpoint of the
average person and cinemagoer alike. In fact, in the decades since, the film
has been scrutinised by palaeontologists for some its scientific inaccuracies.
In its defence, though, some were deliberate (who actually wants to see a feathered T-Rex?), while other
representations were simply drawn from the research that existed at the time.
