*Spoilers ahead, if you haven't seen the movie and care about any potential plot spoilers read no further*
(I am also about to go amateur paleontologist and rant about Indominus and how it looks extremely Hollywood B movie monster material and an evolutionary dead-end)
Did anyone figure out Indominus had Raptor DNA before the big plot twist? Like was it physically obvious or behavior? Or were you caught off guard?
Physically I saw so little of Indominus when it wasn't in motion or fully in view but when I got a decent view I figured it was a blend of Large Apex Theropods like Carcharodontosaurus. There was hardly anything about the way it moved or anatomically appeared that suggested it had Dromaeosaur DNA. Behavior wise some habits seemed raptor-like like when it decloaked the first time in the film it seemed to emulate that weird raptor smugness they always seem to display when they have caught people unaware ala Muldoon and the case of the "Clever Girl". Still when they pulled the plot twist I had suspected they might pull something but I still grinned in pleasant surprise, and a small sense of vindication that one of my little theories proved correct, but maybe that's because the Raptors are my favorite Dinosaurs in all the films. Still Indominus is a bit lack-luster in design and I feel like the writer wasn't sure how to come up with a viable way to explain how a fully functional park could be brought down by one dinosaur without some kind of super power... or four.
Writer: 'Uhhhh T-Rex?'
Braintank: 'Too popular and if T-Rex has lived peacefully in an enclosure it would be unlikely to escape and there would be plenty of fail-safes'
Writer: 'Raptors?'
Braintank: 'Too obvious and same case with the Rex'
Writer: '... Spino?'
Braintank: 'Fossil evidence and if we do that again the fanbase will flay us alive'
Writer: '... OH Carcharodontosaurus!'
Braintank: 'Whats a cardiosaurus?'
Writer: 'Carcharodontosaurus; An Apex Theropod that WAS larger than T-Rex and we do have good fossil records'
Braintank: 'Too wordy, kids won't like it and we have merchandise to sell'
I imagine the writer and production heads going at it like this for a while before Indominus started to take shape.. And looking at Indominus her head it has a close resemblance to Carcharodontosaurus
http://www.arizonaskiesmeteorites.com/D ... rcharo.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/1ctHQnB.jpgBody wise she looks like a bigger, meatier and, shorter-in-length Carcharodontosaurus but with more evolutionary designs flaws than a Kakapo. The large irregularly spaced and sized teeth are shaped like they are meant to puncture and hold prey but the jaw is remarkably small and the number and irregularly set teeth look horrendously inadequate.
http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb2015 ... empire.jpgAnother fun note is that Indominus was supposed to have 72 teeth in its mouth... Thats a stretch I think.
http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_ ... _72165.jpgNow Indominus is supposed to be a combination of many Theropod species which does explain why she looks like a Theropod in most cases but not how she possess opposable thumbs. No dinosaur species, not even Dromaeosaurs possess a true opposable thumb. Some have suggested that this, and her incredibly long claws, comes from therizinosaurus. While another hypothosis about the opposable thumb is it comes from her tree frog DNA with certain tree fog frog species possessing opposable thumbs.
So take all of this and combine it with the plethora of DNA from different animals and you create something with so many holes in the laws of genetics and evolution that I have only the following to say: Thank god it's dead!
Final Opinion:
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