Dave Hone
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And he says, oh, no, that's from such and such's research.
And I tried looking it up.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't exist and never did.
So I think it's just straight fiction.
And it's like, it works for the...
it works for the book and it works for the movie, but it's as far as I can tell, it's straight fiction and Crichton just made it up.
If it's buried in some bit of literature, he's done better finding it than I have.
And I've had a really good look and I know how to look and I've never come across anyone who's found it either.
Um,
But it does.
It just warps the perception.
Velociraptor, cheetah speed, pack hunters, super intelligent, giant-sized animals.
And, okay, 1993, it's a bit more forgivable, but even then we were pretty confident they had feathers.
Is any of that true?
Probably not.
The pack hunter aspect?
So that's something I've written quite a lot about.
The evidence for pack hunting in any dinosaur at all
is almost non-existent.
It basically doesn't exist.