10 Movies That Fixed Infamous Plot Holes

The Jurassic Park series has gotten a number of things wrong about dinosaurs, but that’s mostly because they were working with what knowledge they had at the time. We really only know a finite about our prehistoric buddies, and much of it is educated guesses. One thing, for instance, is that some of those dinos featured in the films were not even on the Earth during the same time periods.

Here’s the big glaring omission, though: Since the original Jurassic Park back in 1993, it’s become widely accepted among paleontologists that most dinosaurs had feathers. In our current world, birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs. Birds today have feathers, just like their ancestor dinosaurs.

This was learned after the release of the first film and supposedly before The Lost World, the film’s artists drew some mockups of dinosaurs with feathers, but director Steven Spielberg thought they looked more goofy than menacing, so he nixed the idea. The third film and subsequent entries in the series have added some plumage to the tops of raptors’ heads, but the films have yet to go full-platypus.

This lacking of feathers was finally addressed in the 2015 reboot, Jurassic World. Geneticist Dr. Henry Wu complains to Simon Masrani, CEO of Jurassic World, that the dinosaurs in the park don’t look accurate on purpose, that Masrani, and John Hammond before him, ordered the geneticists to make the dinosaurs without feathers so they would match the public’s popular conception of them. Well now it all makes sense. It’s the billionaires’ fault, as is always the case in these films.