I might add that in the poll, 'pteranadon' is mispelled. It's 'pteranodon.' Technically, pterodactyl is not the name of a specific species, but a name that envelops pterosaur-type creatures.

[edit]Yay! Pteranodon got a vote. I don't have to feel sorry for it now.[/edit]

Rosse_modest wrote:

If it was released in the mid nineties they still would have called it velociraptor because that sounds a lot cooler. And I wouldn't call the things in JP to be "a little bigger" than the actual animal.
You're probably right, or they would've just mentioned 'utahraptor' and just plain old called it a raptor from then on. And 'a little bigger' was a purposeful understatement.

Kenthar wrote:

Seriously, why isn't Utahraptor a choice?

I got this book right here; Raptor Red. Maybe you've heard of it? No? Well, I'll transcribe a paragraph from the introduction, written by the Robert T. Bakker himself.

"When the movie Jurassic Park came out at the beginning of the summoer of 1993, it became the biggest blockbuster ever and made Velociraptor a household word. A significant percentage of the moviegoing public knew that the true star was more accurately called Utahraptor."
I've read it a couple of times. Unique viewpoint, a dinosaur's, and it took me back to all the big hardcover first-person dinosaur books I read as a kid. I wanted to be a paleontologist or geologist as a kid, but accomplished neither due to the horror stories I've heard about their pay. But I still retain some amount of knowledge; enough to get my kids through science, if I ever have any. Yes...a strict education of technological/natural science, math, English, history and the ages of computer games.

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