Really Late Thoughts On Jurassic World

Spoiler: Spoiler Alert

NO FEATHERS. WHY. WHY ARE THERE NO FEATHERS. COME ON! GIMME FEATHERS! FEATHERS! FEEEAAAAATHEEEEERRRRRSSS


oh yeah, the indominous was pretty boring i guess


BUT NO FEATHERS WHY WERE THERE NO FEATHERS AND WHY DID DDAWDSwaafeadfwasEAS

 

This is a question I have asked myself many, many times. And well, I think I came up with a kind of satisfactory answer. At one point in the movie a scientist says that Jurassic World's dinos look nothing like they normally would if they were in the wild. Something to do with all of the DNA for them not being found. So my theory is that for whatever reason they never found the DNA strands for feathers, and they just replaced it with some random reptiles DNA.

 

Probably the best bet for making a dinosaur would be using the only dinosaurs living today- birds.
The DNA wouldn't exist in amber. It would fully deteriorate over 5 million years.
The last (non-avian) dinosaur went extinct 65 million years ago.
Even then, if it miraculously did survive somehow, you'd have a lot of mosquitos.

We would probably retro-engineer things like ostriches or cassowaries or chickens into close replicas of prehistoric dinosaurs.
I would love to see Tyrannosaurus feathered, or a Utahraptor with 'wings'.

 

Because it's a film, not a documentary. If we're really nitpicking, how were they able to extract DNA from mosquitoes trapped in amber when that's not actually possible?

 

Two things I noticed near the end of the film.

Claire Dearing holding a flare leading the T-Rex to the Indominus Rex scene:

ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY RUN IN HIGH HEELS

The Indominus Rex communicating with the velociraptors to join its side scene:

Oh, you want me to join a randomly computer generated dinosaur's side that I don't even know and give a fuck about? Sure.

 

But at least introduce feathered dinosaurs to the public! Heck, a PIXAR film is doing better!

 

No feathers is actually explained in the movie. The rich guy in charge of everything requested they looks like "traditional" dinosaurs because they would generate more revenue for the park. Also, the frog DNA would also explain past movies.

 

1. Frog DNA would generate smooth, thin skin that needs to keep wet, not scaly alligator skin.
2. When the original Jurassic Park was made, feathers were already a thing on dinosaurs and dinosaurs weren't even popular yet.