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Jurassic Park – Discovered a new type of dinosaur (kinda)

Jurassic Park may be an iconic moment in movie history, but did you know it also made some amazing archaeological discoveries along the way? Well, sort of.

Jurassic Park tells the tale of a world where cloned dinosaurs walk the Earth in an amusement park. John Hammond uses the huge advancements in science to clone prehistoric creatures and opens Jurassic Park. He invites a handful of guests, including his two grandchildren, to join him at the park, but things run amok, and critical security systems are shut down, letting dinosaurs roam freely around the island.

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg has been praised for his work on the movie, which utilized groundbreaking special effects as well as animatronic dinosaurs to make the film as realistic looking as possible.

When it came to designing the velociraptors, Spielberg said he wanted them to be about 10 feet tall, which is actually taller than they were supposed to have been. However, during the filming of Jurassic Park, paleontologists actually uncovered 10-foot-tall raptors, which were dubbed Utahraptors. Visual effects guru Stan Winston joked about the fact: “We made it, then they discovered it.”

Almost two decades after the film was released, a paleontologist named Dr. Mary Schweizter made a huge discovery that could make the movie a reality. She found red blood cells and soft tissue in the fossilized bones of a T-Rex. That means that one day, cloning dinosaurs could be a reality…but if the movie taught us anything, we should never, ever even attempt that.