The Jurassic Park Rebirth movie started showing in Malaysian cinemas today. The Jurassic Park series is famous for its thrilling scenes. In the first two movies, for example, T-Rex chases cars and Velociraptor hunts humans without any problems. But the latest study found that dinosaurs are likely to run almost 5 times slower than originally estimated.
Researchers from Liverpool John Moores University analyzed the movement of the caped guinea fowl, which has the same leg and waist structure as bipedal dinosaurs such as Velociraptor. Bipedal dinosaurs are the closest ancestors of the caped guinea fowl. The footprints left by these guinea fowl were studied and then compared with the actual speed estimated based on video recordings.
Until now, the speed of dinosaurs has been estimated using a formula developed by anthropologist Robert McNeill Alexander in 1976. The distance between the dinosaur footprints left behind is the basis of Alexander's formula that is used today.
But when the distance left by the caped guinea fowl is entered into Alexander's formula, the estimated running speed is 4.5 times higher than the actual speed. So the Velociraptor that can run at 40 km/h in Jurassic Park Dominion would actually lag behind the motorcycle ridden by Chris Pratt in the movie.
Recent research has found that T-Rex and Velociraptor were actually feathered and chirped like birds and had lips like lizards instead of crocodiles. After this we have to accept the fact that Velociraptor ran slower than Usain Bolt,.