One of the greatest blockbuster adventure flicks of the 1990s and beyond was Jurassic Park.

But did you ever wonder how true to life the dinosaurs Stephen Spielberg put on movie screens are compared to the real-life dinoes he based him on?

I'm Patty Steele.

What Jurassic Park got right and what it got wrong about those prehistoric creatures.

That's next on the backstory.

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Jurassic Park and its six sequels have thrilled audiences

since the first one debuted in June of 1993, a summer blockbuster that captivated the world

and was the biggest ever moneymaker up to that time. It's been a huge hit with multiple

viewings in my house.

There were two sets of trilogies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic World.

Then another flick was added to the Jurassic World series, which came out last summer,

with kind of crummy ratings.

But what is it that got us all so excited about animals that went extinct 66 million years ago.

It's just that.

These beings inhabited the earth for around 180 million years.

Humans, at least Homo sapiens like us, have only been here for 300,000 years.

And our earliest ancestors showed up only about six or seven million years ago.

But all we saw of dinosaurs were skeletons and fossils until Jurassic Park brought them to life.

Steven Spielberg said he wanted to show that, for the most part, dinosaurs weren't monsters,

they were animals, and he wanted to portray them as accurately as possible. He even had the eminent paleontologist Jack Horner on board as a consultant

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