JURASSIC PARK
Accurate Paleoart

Hello there!

Jurassic Park - Accurate Paleoart is an art project focused on reconstructing the creatures of the Jurassic Park franchise, including all species that were depicted in the three Jurassic Park films, the three Jurassic World films, with considerations on the wider Jurassic canon, including the animated series Camp Cretaceous, novels, video games, comics, toy lines, and others (though the main focus remains in the movies, for the most part). This however, is meant to be a retelling of the Jurassic Park franchise adapting it to a scientifically accurate lens, that is, all animals of the franchise will be promptly reconstructed in a fashion that conforms with our current scientific understanding of these creatures, avoiding perpetuating inaccuracies that these films frequently maintained, allowing for science about these prehistoric creatures to be divulged, while accepting the fictional context they're placed in.

Here the aim is to preserve as much of the original canon as possible. The behaviours and the role each species of animal adopts in the films is maintained, and that will influence how the animals are depicted in a scientifically accurate fashion here. Many extinct animals that are inaccurately portrayed in the franchise will be here redesigned to better fit a more updated look to them. Sometimes, the behaviours and roles that some species adopt in the films do not conform with the behaviours they would have in real life, and because of that, some species are often replaced by others that most fit with the roles they have in the movies (for example, Velociraptor will be replaced by Deinonychus, as the former was too small to provide a palpable threat to adult humans, but the latter was large enough for that). Replacing species shown in the films with others will also follow its own set of internal rules. For example, a species cannot be replaced by another one that wasn't yet discovered or described by the time a certain film in question was released (for example, because Pteranodon was a piscivore, it would not have attacked and hunted humans, so it will be replaced by the carnivorous azhdarchid Arambourgiania, which was described in 1989, eight years before the release of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, where Pteranodon first appeared on-screen). Unless the situation pressures it, it will also not be permitted to replace a species of animal by another one that is already present in the franchise (Pteranodon cannot be replaced by Quetzalcoatlus, as that one already appears in Jurassic World: Dominion). Also because the Jurassic Park franchise has mostly been restricted to Mesozoic creatures, the very few instances where the franchise breaks that trend, that certain non-Mesozoic species is replaced by a Mesozoic one to retain that consistency (for example, Dimetrodon, a Paleozoic creature, is here replaced by Arizonasaurus, which is from the Mesozoic era).

This will hopefully also expand into notes on the lore of the Jurassic Park franchise if it reveals itself as interesting and elucidative to explain and justify the creatures redesigns.

Welcome... to Jurassic Park!

The following is a list of prehistoric animals expected to be covered here:

First introduced in Jurassic Park (1993)

Barosaurus (replacement for Brachiosaurus)

Sarcosaurus (replacement for Dilophosaurus)

Deinonychus (replacement for Velociraptor)

First introduced in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

Aristosuchus (replacement for Compsognathus)