Jurassic Wars Meets Jurassic Park

The enormously successful Jurassic Park trilogy consists of Jurassic Park, based on the original novel by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, and Jurassic Park III. Fans of the films may be interested to know which dinosaurs featured in the Jurassic Park films and novels also feature in Jurassic Wars®, the dinosaur combat game. These are:

Jurassic Park

Tyrannosaurus card Apatosaurus card Utah Raptor card

Jurassic Park: The Lost World

Jurassic Park III

Velociraptor or Utahraptor?

One dinosaur that features strongly in all three Jurassic Park movies is the velociraptor. However, actual velociraptors would have been much smaller than those depicted in the films and their tails would probably have been rigid rather than whip-like. When the famous sickle-like claw is unearthed at the start of Jurassic Park this was actually based on the discovery of Utahraptor (source: Dinofiles by Richard Moody). Indeed, the size and appearance of the velocirpators in the films probably more closely resemble Utahraptor, a dinosaur which is included in Jurassic Wars.

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