Have you seen the block buster Jurassic World with Chris Pratt? It’s on our to-do list for sure! Did you know you could actually use the Jurassic movie series as more of a educational experience then just strictly entertainment?
Sure you can. Yes they change a lot of sizes and characteristics in the movies but that is your chance to teach. Also you can even make it a fun experience with real claws and teeth too!
Velociraptor Claw (Teaching Quality Recreation)
Velociraptor (Actual Size) –
Velociraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 75 to 71 mya (million years ago) during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. Only two species are currently recognized, although others have been assigned in the past. The type species is V. mongoliensis; fossils of this species have been discovered in both Inner and Outer Mongolia in central Asia. A second species, V. osmolskae, was named in 2008 for skull material from Inner Mongolia. Smaller than other dromaeosaurids like Deinonychus and Achillobator, the turkey-sized Velociraptor nevertheless shared many of the same anatomical features. It was a bipedal, feathered carnivore with a long, stiffened tail and an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to kill its prey. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout. Velociraptor (commonly shortened to ‘raptor’) is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park motion picture series. In the films it was shown with anatomical inaccuracies, including being much larger than it was in reality and without feathers. It is also well known to paleontologists, with over a dozen recovered fossil skeletons—the most of any dromaeosaurid. One particularly famous specimen preserves a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops.
Tyrannosaurus rex Tooth (5.5 in) (Teaching Quality Recreation)
(tie-RAN-oh-SORE-us) best known simply as T-rex.
first discovered by Barnum Brown in eastern Wyoming during 1900. Described by Henry Fairfied Osborn in 1905. T-rex has been debated to be both warm and cold blooded, predator and scavenger. Tyrannosaurus made the news recently when viable protein was discovered in the fossilized bone of a new specimen. The concept of a slow moving, tail dragging beast has changed a lot over the 100 plus years since first discovered, and Tyrannosaurus is now thought to have been an agile hunter that may have lived in family groups. This tooth measures just over 5 inches when measuring along the curve.
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