Paleontologist Reviews Dinosaur Movie Scenes | Vanity Fair
How accurate is Hollywood when it comes to depicting dinosaurs on the big screen? Paleontologist Mark Loewen reviews dinosaur scenes from films including ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park,’ ’Jurassic World,’ ‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,’ ‘Land Of The Lost,’ ’King Kong,’ ‘Night at the Museum,’ and more.
Filmed in Paleontology Collections at the Natural History Museum of Utah, located on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Special thanks to Abby Curran, Carrie Levitt-Bussian, and Beth Mitchell from NHMU.
Site: https://nhmu.utah.edu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/naturalhistorymuseumofutah
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nhmu/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/nhmu
—
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Jurassic Park
3:41 Jurassic World
4:54 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
7:31 Land of the Lost
9:36 Jurassic Park 3
11:26 King Kong
13:01 Night at the Museum
13:45 The Land Before Time
14:34 One Million Years B.C.
15:42 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
17:38 Fantasia
Still haven’t subscribed to Vanity Fair on YouTube? ►► http://bit.ly/2z6Ya9M
Want to stay in the know? Subscribe to Vanity Fair Magazine and be exquisitely informed ►► http://vntyfr.com/2RuQGW2
ABOUT VANITY FAIR
Arts and entertainment, business and media, politics, and world affairs—Vanity Fair’s features and exclusive videos capture the people, places, and ideas that define modern culture.
@codygraves509
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
He looks like a mix of Gabriel Iglesias and Jack Black in the best way possible and I love it
@shadow_knight154
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
thing is jurassic park all dinos were custom made to entertain the public evrything was lore wise like : more theeth , make it bigger, make it cooler . lore wise they didnt go for realisem they gone for what public wanted
@jordangustke1877
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
I like to pretend that the Dilophosaurus in Jurassic Park is just a juvenile and that his DNA was mixed with one of those Frilled Lizards and a venomous lizard to make my viewing of the movie easier …
@Tyrsdottir
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
This video is awesome, and this gentleman's descriptions are so interesting to listen to.
I think something that a lot of people also forget about when it comes to dinosaur movies is that 1) Jurassic Park dinosaurs are very different because of the plot point that there was canonical genetic tampering to make the dinosaurs bigger and scarier.
2) scientists learned about the meteor very recently. Up until basically the 70s-80s, common accepted idea was that there had been a massive dought event that caused dinosaur extinction. My dad remembers when he started hearing about the meteor as an older kid and how cool that was to learn.
@netanelostrov3425
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Am I the only one who thought it was Jack Black?
@psyche9908
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
I knew a Spinosaurus couls never do that to a T-Rex in Jurassic Park 3: The Lost World.
There's a reason the scientist called that dinosaur "king", because if they've discovered a predator that's well more, they'd better name more than a 'king'.
@ShaunMartinez4
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Did you watch land of the lost? They were all together exactly because of time travel 😂
@erussel12
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
I thought Littlefoot was an Apatosaurus??
@ellessartelrunya8191
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
You're a T-Rex Harry!
@devinbriggs1355
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
All credibility was lost after buddy mixed up venom and poison. What kind of scientist doesn't know the difference between venom and poison?
@frostyguy1989
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Jurassic Park really did change everything when it came to pop culture imagining what dinosaurs were like. For the most part it's been positive. We no longer think of large dinosaurs being slow, lumbering slothful beasts. We don't see T-Rex dragging its tail on the ground all the time. The introduction of Velociraptors (Deinonychus according to Crichton) was an eye opener for so many who had only ever thought of the large dinos without considering the smaller ones and how they might pose a threat. Dinos were more active, dynamic and even more intelligent than previously depicted in earlier movies.
@ZiggyWhiskerz
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Turns out now that we understand that Spino was semi-aquatic.
@Justin1337Sane
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
IJUSTSAWARUS IAN Drink Bearnaisesaurus
@e46ivy
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
alright, didd not know fantasia existed, gonna have nightmares because of it, thanks guys :') (Awesome vid!)
@EllaY-y8u
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
This is the coolest video ive seen in forever
@Johnnyboy-f1j2v
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
The T-Rex could actually pivot faster than a Carnotaurus
@fuxkthor
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
1:56 hawk tuah
@coolgameboy8077
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Actually, the dino in Fantasia is a T-Rex, not an allosaurus.
@wayneworthen2411
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
I am an amateur paleontologist, and your analysis of the dinosaurs in movies is so spot on. They should have hired you as a technical dinosaur consultant! I've always thought the Deinonychus would have been the best replacement for Velociraptor in the Jurassic movies
@tc98826
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
How tf is the CGI in Jurassic World worse than Jurassic Park??
@aquatic_sunbeams
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
couldn't the Diliptosaurus just be a behbeh
@daviddriscoll-v5y
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
hagrid crossed with dennis nedry.
@EdTzMania
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
It’s just a movie stop rating the accuracy they’re for entertainment
@nikk796
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Probably the coolest paleontologist I've ever seen.
@RAMROD1847
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
Only a paleontologist would dress like that
@lockonsock6206
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
"You are a Paleontologist Harry"
@lucifer9362
January 23, 2026 at 8:02 pm
so hagrid is a paleontologist in muggle world. cool!
Comments are closed.