Jurassic World: 5 Reasons Why Dinosaurs Shouldn't Have Feathers

They evolved into birds, but so what?

By Alex Leadbeater /

People can't stop talking about Jurassic World. Following it's record-breaking opening all bets are off on just how big it'll become, while the simple fact of whether the film's a fun nostalgic treat or a cynical cash-in spat out by a computer. But already the conversation has turned away from the film€™s merits and onto scientific accuracy. That dinosaurs had feathers is now a well-accepted theory and yet Jurassic World inexplicably keeps with the more reptilian design seen throughout the series and further back through cinema, causing uproar in the scientific community and an endless stream of criticisms on social media. Now, Colin Trevorrow and his team could have included feathered beasts, but they didn€™t. And that's totally OK and justified. Woah, calm down there before you dive to the comments section with the speed of a velociraptor and comment all the various quotes that have been flung around on the internet since the film's trailer premiered back in November. This isn't disputing the feathers theory nor is it saying feathered dinosaurs don't have a place on our screens. It's just that Jurassic World shouldn't be the movie to do so. World isn't a documentary, as much as the paleontologists bemoaning the film's representation of accepted prehistory want it to be. It's a film and as a film it's more than acceptable for the dinos to walk around naked. Here's why (and, don't worry, one of the points isn't that it'd look stupid).