what is the name of the dinosur that killed the fat guy in jurassic park 1?

Question

please tell me

no the one that had the fin thing around his neck

it spits stuff and it blinds the guy

Answer 1

As a few have mentioned, the critter that killed Wayne Knight's character in the movie Jurassic Park was a Dilophosaurus.

However, the Dilophosaurus in the movie had quite a few um... speculative changes from the Dilophosaurus we know from fossils.

In the movie, the Dilophosaurus was only about 3 feet tall - smaller than the Velociraptors (which were actually closer to Troodon or even Deinonychus in size than they were to Velociraptor, but we're talking about Dilophosaurus here).

The real Dilophosaurus was considerably larger - up to 20 feet long or more, standing about eight feet high. Slender and slim, they were probably very agile and fast predators.

Here's a page with an image of a guy standing in front of a Dilophosaurus skeleton for comparison http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/dilophosaur/intro.html (there's also plenty of good Dilophosaurus info there).

In the movie, the Dilophosaurus also had an expanding neck frill like the frilled lizard. There is absolutely no evidence that indicates that Dilophosaurus had such a neck frill. The structure and position of Dilophosaurus' neck vertebrae make it very unlikely that they would have had such a frill, and couldn't have erected it even if they had. They added one into the movie just because they thought it looked cool.

Also, there is absolutely no evidence to indicate that Dilophosaurus (or any other kind of dinosaur) had venom at all, let alone a venom system sophisticated enough to spit venom to blind opponents. The spitting cobras today only do it because they live in regions with plenty of large predators, and they use it to discourage critters like lions, tigers, leopards, wild dogs and wolves from eating the cobra. A twenty-foot long predator like Dilophosaurus would likely be near the top of its own food chain, and unlikely to need that much protection from predators.

Answer 2

Jurassic Park Fat Guy

Answer 3

Velociraptor. Here's a little information about them:

Velociraptor (meaning "swift thief") is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. There is only one universally recognized species, V. mongoliensis, although others have been attributed in the past. Fossils of this species have been found in central Asia, from both Inner and Outer Mongolia.

Smaller than other dromaeosaurids like Deinonychus and Achillobator, the turkey-sized Velociraptor nevertheless shared many of the same anatomical features. It was a bipedal carnivore with a long, stiffened tail and had an enlarged, sickle-shaped claw on each hindfoot, which is thought to have been used to kill its prey. Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.

Due in large part to its prominent role in Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park and the subsequent motion picture series, Velociraptor (commonly shortened to 'raptor') is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public. It is also well-known to paleontologists, with over a dozen recovered fossil skeletons — the most of any dromaeosaurid. One particularly famous specimen shows a Velociraptor locked in combat with a Protoceratops.

Answer 4

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what is the name of the dinosur that killed the fat guy in jurassic park 1?
please tell me

Answer 5

Back when God walked among men, His Presence would allow mankind to control the will of animals, including dinosaurs. The Flintstones is a much more accurate depiction of life in 5000 b.c.

Answer 6

NO It's not Vilociraptor or Charizard. It's Dilophisaurus. Dilophisaurus had an ability to spit poison(much like the King Cobra) into it's preys eyes and blind it so it can kill it and eat it. Hope that helps.

Answer 7

No, it was NOT a velocoraptor. It was one of these guys:
http://www.jpdatabase.net/db_gallery/index.php?display=jp%2Fjp_329.jpg

http://www.jpdatabase.net/db_gallery/index.php?display=jp%2Fjp_331.jpg

Which is a dilophosaur according to the script.

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FYI, everything Jaysus says below is 100% true. No expanding neck frills, was MUCH larger than depicted in the film, etc. While I absolutely deserve the "best answer" points I would say give them to Jaysus. :) After all, it's his birthday on Monday

Answer 8

Charizard

Answer 9

I think his name was Ralph Johnson. He was a union fill in who worked for scale.

Answer 10

man I find that extremely offensive!