From Moros to Giganotosaurus, here are all the newest additions to the Jurassic series' menagerie. JurassicWorldDominion
Editor's Note: The following contains Jurassic World: Dominion spoilers.Just how many dino-sucking mosquitos did InGen get their hands on, anyway? Jurassic World: Dominion should have had enough on its hands, with dinosaurs loose in the world and an evil genetics company taking a page from Moses’ playbook against Egypt, but it introduced a few new species to the series’ roster anyway.
The real Atrociraptor lived in what is now Alberta, Canada, at around the same time that Tyrannosaurus rex roamed that territory. Its size, just like its distant cousin Velociraptor, was significantly exaggerated for film purposes; were you ever to encounter an Atrociraptor, you’d be dealing with something about knee height. It would have been covered in feathers, too.
Giganotosaurus Given that director Colin Trevorrow described Giganotosaurus as “the Joker,” you might expect that it would function as the main antagonist, not scientists and locust plagues. As it is, the Southern Giant Lizard is engineered by Biosyn, kept near its sanctuary in Italy, and controlled with a chip in its brain – sort of a giant guard dog. It only really gets involved in the action once the compound goes up in flames.
Moros Before the Giganotosaurus did for T. rex in the Dominion prologue, it enjoyed a tooth cleaning from another member of the tyrannosauroid clade: Moros intrepidus. This sort of behavior, not unlike the supposed symbiosis between modern plover birds and crocodiles, probably kept the Moros from becoming dinner, but it didn’t get its genetically engineered descendent much more than a walk-on in the film proper.
Nasutoceratops means “large-nosed horn face,” and you can’t deny that’s an apt description. It had two large curved horns over its eyes, the longest of any in the centrosaur family, and a giant beak. In life, it would have lived alongside other ceratopsian dinosaurs, though not the two it herds with in Dominion; Sinoceratops lived at the same time but in another place, while Triceratops lived in the right place but in another time.
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