Let's Design Some Dinosaurs - A Fun Speculative Zoology Exercise
Bloody hell, it's been five years since Jurassic World came out and paleontology nerds the world over despaired at ever seeing scientifically accurate dinosaurs in cinema ever again. Bringing up that again wasn't what inspired this post, however. The recent speculative zoology binge I've been on got me thinking: what fun it would be to imagine a dinosaur. Back in the day, Jurassic World had a go and the Indominus Rex ended up being a rather boring design that was simultaneously too exaggerated and not outlandish enough. Naturally, this prompted the palaeontology nerds to rally and come up with much more interesting designs: Jolly good stuff, people. But now we can stop talking about the creatively bankrupt institution that is Hollywood, let's imagine some dinosaurs! First, some ground rules for the process: Our Dinosaurs Must be... - Physically possible. They shouldn't break the laws of physics or biology. - Placed somewhere on the dinosaur family tree.