Dinosaurs. New visions of a lost world / Динозавры. Новый взгляд на потерянный мир

The monster bears down on the fleeing jeep, the earth shaking as its feet come down with thunderous steps; it snatches up an outhouse in its jaws, grabs the nervous lawyer and swallows him down in one gulp. So we meet Tyrannosaurus rex in Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993). It is a truly terrifying sight: all shining, scaly skin, talons and teeth. This image of the dinosaur is so widespread we often don’t ask how we know they looked like that. In fact, we now know that they didn’t look much like that at all. <...>