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The numbers are in, and to little surprise, the much-anticipated release of cult favorite 鈥淛urassic World鈥� has blown away the box office this weekend, , according to reports.

But as critics buzz over the film鈥檚 potential bank as the , some dinosaur fans are conferring about the credibility of the science in the movie 鈥� and the possible confusion over blending fact and fiction.听

鈥淚 feel like paleontologists fear they may get a lot of dumb questions because of the dinosaurs in this film,鈥� fossil enthusiast Brian Switek told .

聽鈥淧art of the reason the director聽Colin Trevorrow鈥檚 dinosaurs have such potential to confuse is because not everything about them is scientifically far-fetched,鈥� the report continued.

For years, 鈥淛urassic Park鈥� creators have trumpeted the amount of careful research that has poured into creating some of their dinosaurs鈥� features. In its latest film, for instance, the interior 鈥減alatal鈥� teeth of a mosasaur聽impressed many experts. "That聽really shows an attention to detail,鈥� a paleontologist .

So what mistakes were made in 鈥淛urassic World?鈥�

• Most dinosaurs should have feathers 鈥� all different kinds.
  The dinosaur community鈥檚 No. 1 complaint is that the film鈥檚 research appears to be outdated, relying on hypotheses made in the 1980s rather than scientists鈥� recent discoveries. We now know, for example, that the majority of dinosaurs had a variety of plumage, 鈥渇rom insulating tufts to decorative barbs to fully developed feathers,鈥� reported . The movie鈥檚 feather-free velociraptors appear to show otherwise.
• The velociraptors are too big.
  Real velociraptors were roughly the same size as a 鈥渕edium-sized dog鈥� weighing 75 pounds, according to the .听
• Similarly, the mosasaurs are also too big, and should not have a frill on their backs.
  厂肠颈别苍迟颈蝉迟蝉听聽of a frill about 10 years ago, and expressed amazement at how 鈥渟upersize鈥� the mosasaurs appeared.

• Pterosaurs can't lift people into the air.
  The ones in 鈥淛urassic World鈥� managed to, but real pterosaurs would not have had half the strength required, .
• The velociraptors鈥� wrists shouldn鈥檛 be able to move so much.
  Experts said the velociraptors鈥� hands were shown in a posture the paleontology community has since departed from. Their wrists should instead have been pointed inward, 鈥渁s if they were holding a basketball,鈥� reported .

Why then, do paleontologists continue to express their fondness for the Jurassic Park movie series in the face of聽such striking inaccuracies? "If you're a young paleontologist, and you have a job, the movies have some part in that, frankly," Smithsonian paleontologist Matthew Carrano told .