Robosaurs of Robosaur Park
I had a lot of fun writing the 'robosaur' parts. Because there are a lot of latin names in this chapter, I'll do a little overview of species apearing thus far in Robosaur Park that are less familiar than your typical stegosaurus. I did a toooon of research, even if it doesn't show. ;)
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There were no raptors in the original Robosaur Park, but since they are pretty iconic to Jurassic Park, I included them in the form of Deinonychus. (Dinosaur Fact from Otto Raptor: In the film Jurassic Park, the 'velociraptors' are portrayed several times larger than their real life counterparts, which were no bigger than road runners. The biggest known raptor is the Utahraptor, discovered a year after the movie). So if you don't know what a Deinonychus is, just think Jurassic Park raptor only smaller. I like Chicago's Field Museum model of a raptor (seen above) better than the models used for Jurassic Park, it looks more like a real animal as opposed to a movie monster. And yes...techinically this model is 10 years out of date...more and more research has proven that most, if not all, theropods have feathers! Wah! My childhood!
I'm one of those people who's still in the habit of calling these by their outdated name 'brontosaurus.' Gertie is a tribute to Gertie the Dinosaur.
(Image from Disney's Dinosaur)
(Image from BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs)
(screenshot from Jurassic Park (Yeah I know, I made a TON of Jurassic Park references. Coulldn't help it :))
(Image from Wikipedia)
Key 'antagonistic robosaurs' of Part 1. The coloring described is based on the coloring of the megalosaurus (or metalosaurus??) in the show.
See? Now if only the show had used the correct posture for its dinosaurs. I'm not going to give it a free pass, Jurassic Park came out in 1993, a year before Robosaur Park aired! They could have copied!
(diagrams from wikipedia)
Chart comparing the relatives sizes of a Deinonychus, Megalosaurus (substituted with an image of the similar Carnotaurus) and Tyrannosaurus rex.
