Speaking of things that aren’t what they seem, here’s a fun fact about the Dilophosaurus from the first Jurassic Park movie: it’s completely wrong! In the film, you see this turkey-sized, venom-spitting, neck-frilled monster that kills Dennis Nedry. In reality, the Dilophosaurus was actually six feet tall (exactly my height), had no frill, and couldn’t spit poison at all.

Hollywood basically took the real Dilophosaurus – a 23-foot-long, 880-pound carnivore with two crests on top of its head for mating displays – and turned it into something completely different for dramatic effect. They even swapped characteristics with the Velociraptor, which in the movie is portrayed as six feet tall but was actually closer to the size of a turkey in real life.

The two crests on the Dilophosaurus’s head were more like mohawks and were probably used to attract mates, similar to how some birds can puff up their chest feathers. The movie took inspiration from the frilled-neck lizard in Australia and just ran with it. Just goes to show – sometimes Hollywood’s version is way more dramatic than reality!