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!!Animated Films
* While the WolfMan didn't look much like a wolf already (see far below), his animated design in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'' looks even less so. He has a shorter muzzle and a mane around his head, making him more resemble a lion than a wolf. He also has only three toes in each foot, unlike in the original where he has four toes like a wolf.
* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked.
* The art-style of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' makes it impossible to distinguish what breed Duchess and her kittens are. They're supposed to be Turkish Angoras.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'':
** Steele is a malamute with IcyBlueEyes. Malamutes can only have brown eyes, As a result, Steele looks more like a husky than a malamute.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest'', it's repeatedly mentioned that Aleu looks and acts more like a wolf than her wolf-dog father, to the point where no one wants to adopt her. She has IcyBlueEyes and a brownish pelt. Neither of these attributes are associated with grey wolves, but fit well with the Husky breed.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' is supposed to be a white German Shepherd (also known as a "White Shepherd") and, from the looks of it, an adult as well. One of the most noticeable errors is he's way too small. He's barely larger than a cat. In fact, Bolt looks more a Hinks Bull Terrier and there is even some concept art of him with a slightly curved head. There's [[http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/a/a0/BoltMittensPF.jpg concept art]] of him looking much more accurate than in the final product, but the final film opted for an unusually small White Shepherd instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'':
** Kron and Bruton are supposed to be ''Iguanodon'' like Aladar and Neera, but Kron looks more like an ''Altirhinus'' and Bruton looks more like a ''Muttaburrasaurus'' since real ''Iguanodon'' do not have nose crests like they do.
** Aladar and Neera, for that matter, possess flexible lips instead of beaks. This detail apparently was changed after it was decided that the characters would speak (in the original draft, the only spoken lines came from a narrator) and it would have been too difficult to get the ''Iguanodon'' beaks to look good while moving in such a way.
** The ''Carnotaurus'' have heavily-built bodies more akin to ''T. rex''.
** The ''Ichthyornis'' from the beginning look more like ducks rather than seagulls.
* The Sarco Brothers from ''Dino Time'' are supposed to be ''Sarcosuchus'' as their name suggests, but they look more like mutated crocodiles instead.
* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand. Amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.
** From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking Archaeopteryx]] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its small size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it meant to be, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur, which explains its oddly-shaped head.
* ''WesternAnimation/DogGoneTrouble'': Rousey is a Pitbull, but she looks more like a large Boston Terrier.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'':
** As noted by many youtube commentators of ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' Kong is decidedly dissimilar to the more anatomically correct cats that populate the movie, looking more like a bear/bulldog hybrid than an actual cat.
** In the books, most of the cats [[AllDogsArePurebred are purebred]]. Felicity is a Russian Blue, Pascal is a Havana Brown, etc. The stylized nature of the film makes it harder to tell everyone's breed. It doesn't help that the film features characteristics not associated with the breeds (for example, Felicity is long-furred despite Russians Blues being short-furred).
* Horse the stray cat from "Footrot Flats: A Dog's Tale" barely looks like a domesticated cat, instead looking like a cross between a cougar, a bulldog, and a jaguar.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'':
** Arlo and his family are supposed to be ''Apatosaurus'', but they more closely resemble ''Brachiosaurus'' in that they have longer forelimbs and shorter tails. This is especially evident with the father, Henry.
** Forrest Woodbrush is stated to be a ''Styracosaurus''. While he does have the distinctive spiked frill, he also has long brow horns and a short nasal horn like a ''Triceratops''.
** Thunderclap. His crest would indicate he's a ''Nyctosaurus'', but since he also has teeth and wing claws (''Nyctosaurus'' is known for being the pterosaur to lack wing claws) his exact genus is impossible to clarify.
* Remember the fact that Ratigan from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' actually hates being called a rat? WordOfGod confirms that he is indeed a mouse, but for some reason he looks like a rat.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'':
** [[SeaMonster Cretaceous and Maelstrom]], the main villains of ''Ice Age 2: The Meltdown'' are apparently a pliosaur and an ichthyosaur respectively, but neither look like the real animals. Although ''Ice Age Village'' identifies Cretaceous as a ''Metriorhynchus'', which he more closely resembles, but not quite.
** And the aardvarks look more like big-eared giant anteaters with mouths at the base of their snouts.
** Also, the ''Troodon'' are featherless and look more like ''Coelophysis'' or ''Compsognathus''.
** Despite being claimed by the creators to be a ''Baryonyx'', [[SuperPersistentPredator Rudy]], the {{Big Bad}} of the third film, doesn't look all that much like this genus. He exceeds ''Spinosaurus'' in size (in RealLife ''Baryonyx'' was only about 7 or 8 meters long, although Rudy may just be overgrown), and has several exaggeratedly crocodilian features such as bony scutes down his back and nostrils at the end of his snout. He would actually make a pretty good ''Suchomimus'', a fairly close relative of ''Baryonyx'' that approached ''Spinosaurus'' in size.
** Silas the petrel from the fourth film has feet like a blue-footed booby.
** Sid the Sloth is supposedly a ground sloth of some kind. While identifiable as some form of sloth, Sid looks fairly different from any known species. He ''does'' look somewhat like a modern sloth, though, and WordOfGod says that he was based on one. Although his nose looks more like a koala's, and his head is bizarrely shaped with his eyes placed on the side of his head like a hammerhead shark's. Overall, he looks like a weird-looking otter.
* Baloo from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'' is supposed to be a sloth bear, but he doesn't even look like one at all! The only indication that he's a sloth bear are of course, the long, sharp claws unique to that animal.
** ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' goes even further by depicting Baloo as looking a Himalayan brown bear, even though Bagheera calls him a sloth bear. Although that might have been a {{Pun}} on Bagheera's part considering how lazy Baloo is.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KatyLaOruga'', the three chameleons whom Katy encounters in the forest look more like geckos with multicolored skin and googly eyes, and the salamanders are generic cartoon lizards. Also, when Katy herself [[spoiler:becomes a butterfly at the end, she looks way too anthropomorphized to the point she resembles a standard fairy more than a butterfly.]]
* The animals of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' are pretty easy to identify, even when their features are changed or exaggerated for artistic license. Shifu is another matter, and unless you've [[AllThereInTheManual read the guidebooks]] you might guess anything from raccoon dog (face, tail) to lemur (hands, ears) [[labelnote:*]]non-native to China[[/labelnote]]. Creator/DustinHoffman, who plays Shifu, went for, "I don't know... some kind of raccoon?" He's officially a red panda, but since red pandas look like [[https://www.google.es/search?q=red+panda&tbm=isch this]] and Shifu looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shifu_5_4093.png this]], you can understand his confusion. Shifu has huge round ears, more whitish orangey fur, and dark brown hands, while [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda4.jpg red]] [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda2.jpg pandas]] have medium sized, rounded triangular ears and are more reddish with a black underside and legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'':
** Cera is hardly recognizable as a ''Triceratops'' since she only has one horn, though as her family are three-horned it's implied that this is due to her young age. Dinah and Danah from the sequels, though, are much younger yet have their brow horns. We now know that baby ''Triceratops'' actually grew in their brow horns ''first'', which makes Cera having just one horn inaccurate.
** Poor Ducky. Sources can't decide if she's a ''Parasaurolophus'', an ''Edmontosaurus'', or a ''Saurolophus'' since she doesn't really look completely like one or the other. Some sources even say that she's a ''platypus!''
** Likewise, Hyp and his father from the third film don't really look much like ''Hypsilophodon'', and Mutt looks more like a ''Gryposaurus'' than a ''Muttaburrasaurus''.
** The main sharptooth villain of the fifth film is apparently a ''Giganotosaurus'', but looks more like some kind of abelisaurid (aside from the arms). The fourteenth film introduces proper abelisaurid ''Carnotaurus''...which looks more like a generic large carnivorous theropod with horns, a short snout, and armor.
** Elsie from the fifth film is supposedly an ''Elasmosaurus'', but she has a head-crest resembling a shark's fin and a ToothStrip for some reason.
** ''The Secret of Saurus Rock'' had an ''Allosaurus'' which looked more like a ''T. rex'', to the point of having two fingers instead of three ([[OffModel though it's sometimes shown with three fingers]]).
** The ''Styracosaurus'' that appear starting in ''The Stone of Cold Fire'' have short nose horns, and their spiky frills barely resemble what the real dinosaur had.
** The "Tinysauruses" are apparently ''Mussaurus'', but they look more like generic sauropods the size of mice.[[note]]''Mussaurus'' was initially thought to have been mouse-sized (hence the name meaning "Mouse Reptile") based on the first specimens discovered, but these turned out to be infants and the adults were quite big albeit still one of the smaller sauropodomorphs.[[/note]]
** Guido from ''The Great Day of the Flyers'' is supposed to be a ''Microraptor'', but with his toothless parrot-like beak, lack of claws (including its raptorial claw), and more humanoid frame he barely looks like the real animal.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the real animals, having too broad skulls instead of the crocodilian jaws of spinosaurs and lacking the huge thumb claw.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''
** Rafiki is stated to be a mandrill, but he looks slimmer and more bluish gray than a real mandrill and has the tail of a baboon in an odd inversion of InexplicablyTailless. Gets odd when ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' introduces his apprentice Makini, who actually looks like a real mandrill.
** Zazu is supposed to be a red-billed hornbill. And, while he does look like a bird with a reddish beak, he doesn't look much like the bird he's [[http://www.underwater.org/mermaid/tanzania/images/hornbill1-800.jpg supposed to be]].
** Mild Example: Pumbaa is supposed to be a warthog, but he looks a little more like a tanned domesticated pig with a mane and tusks than an actual warthog. Though he looked more like a warthog in early artwork. Averted in the [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 CGI remake]], where Pumbaa looks like a real warthog.
---> '''Pumbaa''': [[BerserkButton They call me... ...MISTER PIG!!!"]]
** Timon looks almost nothing like a meerkat either, having peach-yellow colored fur (real meerkats are usually sand colored) bigger, downturned ears and a head full of red hair like a human would have. Plus, they walk on all fours and have black eyes.
*** And the worst part is, it seems that only Timon's colony looks like him. Other meerkats shown during the Circle of Life sequence look like actual meerkats.
** The hyenas are supposed to be spotted hyenas (they have the spots and the matriarchal social structure), and they are made such in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 the CGI remake]], but have coloration and other body traits which more closely resemble the striped hyena (and a FurryFemaleMane which matches neither).
* Flounder in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' is portrayed as a large yellow fish with blue fins and stripes and nothing like actual flounders (which are large, flat brown fish whose eyes are both on one side of its face) at all. However, that could just be his name, not his species. A possible identity for him may be the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthurus_triostegus Manini]], a tropical fish also known as Convict Tang, but even then the ressemblance is vague at best. Also, many of the species described in the song "Under the Sea" look ''nothing'' like their real-life counterparts.
* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': In-universe, Drix mistakes Chill for a virus, and figures they should arrest him, until Ozzy informs Drix that he's a flu shot, to which he replies "That's funny, he doesn't look fluish."
* Drake, the villain of ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'', doesn't look much like a penguin, with his musclebound physique and massive teeth.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'':
** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny human.
** Monstro is clearly supposed to be some kind of whale, but he doesn't resemble any real species. He most closely resembles a sperm whale with wide shovel-jaws and the belly lining of a baleen whale.[[labelnote:note]]He actually resembles the extinct whale species ''Liviyatan melvillei'', which was similar to the sperm whale but with broader jaws as well as teeth on the upper jaw, which sperm whales lack. Though it's coincidental, as the species hadn't been described yet at the time ''Pinocchio'' was made.[[/labelnote]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'':
** Priscilla is supposed to be an [[MisplacedWildlife aye-aye]], but she actually looks more a mouse instead. This has led to conflicting info on her species -- logically, she can and should be a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus_mouse cactus mouse]], but WordOfGod on the DVD commentary says aye-aye.
** Rango's love interest Beans is supposed to be a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_iguana Desert iguana]], but she looks more like an... alien... thing...
* Chirin's adult form at the end of ''Anime/RingingBell'' is supposed to be a ferocious ram, but he vaguely resembles more of an antelope or a goat instead and nothing like the other sheep in the film, not even himself as a lamb. [[spoiler:As a result of this, at the end of the film, he ends up being chased out of his own farm!]]
-->'''Narrator''': ...but to them, he was neither ram nor wolf, but a monster...
* The characters of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' are, according to the American version's opening narration, mutated dogs, cats, and rats. However, for many of them, it's pretty much impossible to tell who's meant to be what. The lead character Angel looks pretty much completely human aside from her nose and ears (which aren't visible except in a few shots).
* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'':
** Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
** Lola is supposed to be a lionfish, but it's hard to tell, as the signature trait of lionfish is their long, stiff spines, which she doesn't have. Your first bet would probably be "stylized woman in a dress."
* The Aracuan Bird from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' is pink, unlike its real world counterpart the Plain Chachalaca, which is more of a dull brown. Even more so, plain chachalacas don't have red crests.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'':
** The baboons that chase Jane are the same sort of mandrill/baboon hybrids as Rafiki himself. The animated series has a trio of mandrills that are more accurate to their real-life counterparts.
** The "lovebirds" from the "Strangers Like Me" sequence have body shapes more like a macaw's.
* Toto in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Meets Film/TheWizardOfOz'' doesn't really resemble the original Toto from the film. While Toto is a Cairn Terrier, the Toto from the cartoon looks more like a Scottie.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'':
** Frankie the flea for some reason actually looks more like a large green mosquito than an actual flea. Also, fleas aren't the same size as mice!
** Similarly, the largest member of [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the Singing Cat Gang]] actually does not look like a cat at all and looks more like a gorilla instead.
* ''Anime/YouAreUmasou'':
** The ''Chilantaisaurus'' barely looks like the real animal in that it has bull shaped horns and a short, rounded snout (which led to some viewers mistaking it for a ''Carnotaurus''). At least it's the same size as ''Tyrannosaurus'' and retains the huge arms and claws.
** Most of the dinosaurs in the movie don't really look like their real-life counterparts, especially the ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Maiasaura''. The ''Triceratops'', ''Protoceratops'', and ''Parasaurolophus'' are exceptions, however.
* In the spanish animated film ''El Bosque Animado'' (''The Living Forest'') and it's sequel "Espiritu del Bosque" (Spirit of the forest), the main characters are suposed to be moles, but they hardly look like them. Instead, they have big black snouts, [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue fur]], no visible claws, a rabbit-like tail, and apparently good eyesight. [[CartoonCreature They can't be identified with any other living creature either]].
!!Live-Action Films
* The large prehistoric feline from ''Film/Alpha2018'' is supposed to be a cave lion, but it is depicted with saber teeth, making it resemble a ''Machairodus''.
* ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'': Cool Cat's features don't quite come across as feline. In fact, he vaguely resembles a fox. His excitable personality isn't very catlike either.
* [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} Zilla]], a.k.a., the American Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, is an interesting variation. He's supposed to be a mutated marine iguana, but his physical structure is more akin to that of a theropod dinosaur. Since he is mutated, this might be justified.
** Ironically Godzilla himself , who was in fact supposed to be a mutated theropod of some variety, doesn't really look like any real dinosaur so much. Part of this is ScienceMarchesOn, since back in the 50s when Godzilla was created, the classic 'tripod' pose for theropods was still in vogue, but even taking that into account, his head is way too small to be a theropod. Granted, this may be justified on account of his mutation, as his original form, the ''Godzillasaurus'', has a more big head in proportion to its body. Some fans also interpret other incarnations of him as a synapsid.
*** May be the reason why in the 2014 reboot he is portrayed as a type of Permian reptile instead of a dinosaur. However, suplementary material in the special features of the home release of this movie states that yes, the ''Monsterverse'' Godzilla is a dinosaur as well, but given he originates from the Permian era, it means his species were either the very first dinosaurs or extremely derived dinosauriforms.
** Anguirus in ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', despite the claims of the contrary, doesn't really look much like an ankylosaur. He is more like some kind of ''Styracosaurus''/crocodile/armadillo hybrid.
** Likewise, Film/{{Rodan}} doesn't really look like a ''Pteranodon''. He's got a small head reminiscent of a bird of prey and lacks pycnofibres, but at least he possesses membranous wings like real pterosaurs. His Heisei version has a more ''Pteranodon''-like head as well as a slimmer body build closer to real pterosaurs, but he unfortunately has bat-like wings which other versions of the character lack. In the ''Monsterverse'' Rodan is now an ancient organism from a time before pterosaurs emerged, making his inaccuracies more justifiable, as that version of him isn't a pterosaur at all.
** The [=MUTOs=] featured in the Film/MonsterVerse continuity are described by the MPC visual effects supervisor in ''Godzilla: The Art of Destruction'' as probably being mammals based on the fact they possess skin, bones and muscle, but he also admitted that they do look more insectoid than mammalian. To say nothing of the [=MUTOs=]' reproductive cycle, which in light of this information makes the platypus look like nothing to gawk about.
* The large carnivorous dinosaur from the 2008 ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' film is supposed to be a ''Giganotosaurus'', but it looks more like a three-fingered ''Tyrannosaurus''.
* The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise is ''NOTORIOUS'' for this:
** ''Film/JurassicPark'':
*** The ''Velociraptor'' are an infamous case of this, resembling the larger ''Deinonychus''. This is because the [[Literature/JurassicPark novel the film was based on]] described ''Deinonychus'' as being synonymous with ''Velociraptor'', a now-discredited hypothesis proposed by Gregory S. Paul, and also because Creator/MichaelCrichton though ''Velociraptor'' sounded [[RuleOfCool much cooler]] than ''Deinonychus''. And let's not get to the fact raptors should have feathers.
*** The ''Dilophosaurus'' not only possess non-existent neck-frills (which wasn't even present in the novel) and venomous spit but also a skull shaped more like a carnosaur lacking the spinosaur-like notch in the upper jaw.
** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'':
*** The ''Mamenchisaurus'' look more like ''Diplodocus'' or ''Barosaurus'' in that they don't have a hump or a tail club. Most glaringly, they don't have the extra-long neck this dinosaur is famous for, meaning that they mostly just look like generic sauropods.
** ''Film/JurassicParkIII'':
*** The ''Spinosaurus''. It's got a skull and teeth more similar to ''Suchomimus'' as well as two crests instead of one. And now discoveries in 2014 and 2020 have made the film's depiction look ''even more inaccurate'' than its real-life counterpart. Granted, this can be excusable since suplementary material for ''Jurassic World'' and ''Fallen Kingdom'' implies [[spoiler:the Spinosaurus was a prototype for the Indominus rex project.]]
*** The ''Pteranodon'' have hooked bills full of sharp teeth, in spite of the animal meaning "Wing ''Without Teeth''". And especially egregious in that the ''Pteranodon'' from the previous film had the proper toothless bill albeit also hooked, though ''Film/JurassicWorld'' would bring back the toothless bills which are this time correctly pointed. All versions possess grasping feet and leathery wings however. Both the ''JPIII'' and ''JW'' versions lack pycnofibres, while it's ambiguous whether the ''TLW'' version has them or not (the concept art and macquettes portrays it with such).
** ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
*** The ''Gallimimus'' have broader skulls and beaks full of small teeth, which is jarring since the ones that appeared prior looked somewhat more like real ''Gallimimus''. They also should have feathers.
*** The ''Dimorphodon'' have heads shaped more like a typical carnivorous theropod than the real animal. Perhaps this could be the reason why they are ferocious carnivores rather than inoffensive insectivores. They do have pycnofibres unlike the ''Pteranodon''; the problem is that they don't have ''enough''.
*** There's a HandWave by Dr. Wu that all the dinosaurs were purposely modified to look "cooler" rather than biologically accurate, as their purpose was to serve as theme park entertainment. This is true even in the books; it is explicitly explained that none of them are perfect replicas because of all the modifications and substitutions that had to be made. The use of Frog and modern reptile DNA rather than Bird DNA to fill the gaps in the sequences is a major reason for this.
** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'':
*** The ''Baryonyx'' is a major offender. It has a considerably shorter and smaller skull than the real animal as well as atrophied forelimbs, both of which make it look more like a generic theropod than a spinosaurid. Especially jarring seeing as promotional art for the website of the [[Film/JurassicWorld previous film]] featured a ''Baryonyx'' design much closer to its RealLife counterpart (as this one was drawn by a renowned paleo artist).
*** According to the script, the ceratopsian skull that the Indoraptor is impaled on is that of an ''Agujaceratops'', not a ''Triceratops'', as viewers commonly assume. The thing is, the skull's frill is clearly solid, a feature only ''Triceratops'' had. Interestingly, the junior novelization identifies it as a ''Triceratops horridus''.
*** Likewise, the movie's ''Sinoceratops'' have holes in their frills. While real ''Sinoceratops''--and most other ceratopsians--did have these holes, in life they would have been covered by skin, not exposed like they are in the movie. The ''Sinoceratops'' also have a horn that is also much broader than the real animal's, and they also have small spikes on the center of the frill like a ''Pachyrhinosaurus''. Though the latter may be because they were originally going to be ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', which would have played this trope even straighter since ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' is famous for not having horns.
* The turkey from ''Film/{{Thankskilling}}'' looks more like a vulture.
* The giant ground sloth from ''Film/UnknownIsland'' barely resembles the real animal, instead looking more like a bizarre hybrid between a bear and an ape. And then there's the fact that it's ''carnivorous''.
* In a similar case to ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', the epononymous ''Allosaurus'' from ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' looks more like a ''T. rex'' with three fingers.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Toon Patrol are said to be weasels, but they look more like dogs instead. Justified, though, as they're Toons as opposed to actual in-universe animals.
* The titular werewolf of ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' doesn't really look like a wolf and instead looks more like a cross between a bear and a gorilla. This is because of TechnologyMarchesOn, since at that time special effects and make-up were not sophisticated enough to go beyond adding just hair and fangs or having a dog (or [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} hyena]]) play the role of a werewolf. The [[Film/TheWolfMan2010 2010 remake]], while sticking to the classic design, adds in more wolf-like features such as pointy ears and a muzzle, although the redesign still resembles more of a bear than a wolf.
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* While the WolfMan didn't look much like a wolf already (see far below), his animated design in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'' looks even less so. He has a shorter muzzle and a mane around his head, making him more resemble a lion than a wolf. He also has only three toes in each foot, unlike in the original where he has four toes like a wolf.
* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked.
* The art-style of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' makes it impossible to distinguish what breed Duchess and her kittens are. They're supposed to be Turkish Angoras.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'':
** Steele is a malamute with IcyBlueEyes. Malamutes can only have brown eyes, As a result, Steele looks more like a husky than a malamute.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest'', it's repeatedly mentioned that Aleu looks and acts more like a wolf than her wolf-dog father, to the point where no one wants to adopt her. She has IcyBlueEyes and a brownish pelt. Neither of these attributes are associated with grey wolves, but fit well with the Husky breed.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' is supposed to be a white German Shepherd (also known as a "White Shepherd") and, from the looks of it, an adult as well. One of the most noticeable errors is he's way too small. He's barely larger than a cat. In fact, Bolt looks more a Hinks Bull Terrier and there is even some concept art of him with a slightly curved head. There's [[http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/a/a0/BoltMittensPF.jpg concept art]] of him looking much more accurate than in the final product, but the final film opted for an unusually small White Shepherd instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'':
** Kron and Bruton are supposed to be ''Iguanodon'' like Aladar and Neera, but Kron looks more like an ''Altirhinus'' and Bruton looks more like a ''Muttaburrasaurus'' since real ''Iguanodon'' do not have nose crests like they do.
** Aladar and Neera, for that matter, possess flexible lips instead of beaks. This detail apparently was changed after it was decided that the characters would speak (in the original draft, the only spoken lines came from a narrator) and it would have been too difficult to get the ''Iguanodon'' beaks to look good while moving in such a way.
** The ''Carnotaurus'' have heavily-built bodies more akin to ''T. rex''.
** The ''Ichthyornis'' from the beginning look more like ducks rather than seagulls.
* The Sarco Brothers from ''Dino Time'' are supposed to be ''Sarcosuchus'' as their name suggests, but they look more like mutated crocodiles instead.
* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand. Amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.
** From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking Archaeopteryx]] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its small size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it meant to be, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur, which explains its oddly-shaped head.
* ''WesternAnimation/DogGoneTrouble'': Rousey is a Pitbull, but she looks more like a large Boston Terrier.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'':
** As noted by many youtube commentators of ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' Kong is decidedly dissimilar to the more anatomically correct cats that populate the movie, looking more like a bear/bulldog hybrid than an actual cat.
** In the books, most of the cats [[AllDogsArePurebred are purebred]]. Felicity is a Russian Blue, Pascal is a Havana Brown, etc. The stylized nature of the film makes it harder to tell everyone's breed. It doesn't help that the film features characteristics not associated with the breeds (for example, Felicity is long-furred despite Russians Blues being short-furred).
* Horse the stray cat from "Footrot Flats: A Dog's Tale" barely looks like a domesticated cat, instead looking like a cross between a cougar, a bulldog, and a jaguar.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'':
** Arlo and his family are supposed to be ''Apatosaurus'', but they more closely resemble ''Brachiosaurus'' in that they have longer forelimbs and shorter tails. This is especially evident with the father, Henry.
** Forrest Woodbrush is stated to be a ''Styracosaurus''. While he does have the distinctive spiked frill, he also has long brow horns and a short nasal horn like a ''Triceratops''.
** Thunderclap. His crest would indicate he's a ''Nyctosaurus'', but since he also has teeth and wing claws (''Nyctosaurus'' is known for being the pterosaur to lack wing claws) his exact genus is impossible to clarify.
* Remember the fact that Ratigan from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' actually hates being called a rat? WordOfGod confirms that he is indeed a mouse, but for some reason he looks like a rat.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'':
** [[SeaMonster Cretaceous and Maelstrom]], the main villains of ''Ice Age 2: The Meltdown'' are apparently a pliosaur and an ichthyosaur respectively, but neither look like the real animals. Although ''Ice Age Village'' identifies Cretaceous as a ''Metriorhynchus'', which he more closely resembles, but not quite.
** And the aardvarks look more like big-eared giant anteaters with mouths at the base of their snouts.
** Also, the ''Troodon'' are featherless and look more like ''Coelophysis'' or ''Compsognathus''.
** Despite being claimed by the creators to be a ''Baryonyx'', [[SuperPersistentPredator Rudy]], the {{Big Bad}} of the third film, doesn't look all that much like this genus. He exceeds ''Spinosaurus'' in size (in RealLife ''Baryonyx'' was only about 7 or 8 meters long, although Rudy may just be overgrown), and has several exaggeratedly crocodilian features such as bony scutes down his back and nostrils at the end of his snout. He would actually make a pretty good ''Suchomimus'', a fairly close relative of ''Baryonyx'' that approached ''Spinosaurus'' in size.
** Silas the petrel from the fourth film has feet like a blue-footed booby.
** Sid the Sloth is supposedly a ground sloth of some kind. While identifiable as some form of sloth, Sid looks fairly different from any known species. He ''does'' look somewhat like a modern sloth, though, and WordOfGod says that he was based on one. Although his nose looks more like a koala's, and his head is bizarrely shaped with his eyes placed on the side of his head like a hammerhead shark's. Overall, he looks like a weird-looking otter.
* Baloo from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'' is supposed to be a sloth bear, but he doesn't even look like one at all! The only indication that he's a sloth bear are of course, the long, sharp claws unique to that animal.
** ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' goes even further by depicting Baloo as looking a Himalayan brown bear, even though Bagheera calls him a sloth bear. Although that might have been a {{Pun}} on Bagheera's part considering how lazy Baloo is.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KatyLaOruga'', the three chameleons whom Katy encounters in the forest look more like geckos with multicolored skin and googly eyes, and the salamanders are generic cartoon lizards. Also, when Katy herself [[spoiler:becomes a butterfly at the end, she looks way too anthropomorphized to the point she resembles a standard fairy more than a butterfly.]]
* The animals of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' are pretty easy to identify, even when their features are changed or exaggerated for artistic license. Shifu is another matter, and unless you've [[AllThereInTheManual read the guidebooks]] you might guess anything from raccoon dog (face, tail) to lemur (hands, ears) [[labelnote:*]]non-native to China[[/labelnote]]. Creator/DustinHoffman, who plays Shifu, went for, "I don't know... some kind of raccoon?" He's officially a red panda, but since red pandas look like [[https://www.google.es/search?q=red+panda&tbm=isch this]] and Shifu looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shifu_5_4093.png this]], you can understand his confusion. Shifu has huge round ears, more whitish orangey fur, and dark brown hands, while [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda4.jpg red]] [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda2.jpg pandas]] have medium sized, rounded triangular ears and are more reddish with a black underside and legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'':
** Cera is hardly recognizable as a ''Triceratops'' since she only has one horn, though as her family are three-horned it's implied that this is due to her young age. Dinah and Danah from the sequels, though, are much younger yet have their brow horns. We now know that baby ''Triceratops'' actually grew in their brow horns ''first'', which makes Cera having just one horn inaccurate.
** Poor Ducky. Sources can't decide if she's a ''Parasaurolophus'', an ''Edmontosaurus'', or a ''Saurolophus'' since she doesn't really look completely like one or the other. Some sources even say that she's a ''platypus!''
** Likewise, Hyp and his father from the third film don't really look much like ''Hypsilophodon'', and Mutt looks more like a ''Gryposaurus'' than a ''Muttaburrasaurus''.
** The main sharptooth villain of the fifth film is apparently a ''Giganotosaurus'', but looks more like some kind of abelisaurid (aside from the arms). The fourteenth film introduces proper abelisaurid ''Carnotaurus''...which looks more like a generic large carnivorous theropod with horns, a short snout, and armor.
** Elsie from the fifth film is supposedly an ''Elasmosaurus'', but she has a head-crest resembling a shark's fin and a ToothStrip for some reason.
** ''The Secret of Saurus Rock'' had an ''Allosaurus'' which looked more like a ''T. rex'', to the point of having two fingers instead of three ([[OffModel though it's sometimes shown with three fingers]]).
** The ''Styracosaurus'' that appear starting in ''The Stone of Cold Fire'' have short nose horns, and their spiky frills barely resemble what the real dinosaur had.
** The "Tinysauruses" are apparently ''Mussaurus'', but they look more like generic sauropods the size of mice.[[note]]''Mussaurus'' was initially thought to have been mouse-sized (hence the name meaning "Mouse Reptile") based on the first specimens discovered, but these turned out to be infants and the adults were quite big albeit still one of the smaller sauropodomorphs.[[/note]]
** Guido from ''The Great Day of the Flyers'' is supposed to be a ''Microraptor'', but with his toothless parrot-like beak, lack of claws (including its raptorial claw), and more humanoid frame he barely looks like the real animal.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the real animals, having too broad skulls instead of the crocodilian jaws of spinosaurs and lacking the huge thumb claw.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''
** Rafiki is stated to be a mandrill, but he looks slimmer and more bluish gray than a real mandrill and has the tail of a baboon in an odd inversion of InexplicablyTailless. Gets odd when ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' introduces his apprentice Makini, who actually looks like a real mandrill.
** Zazu is supposed to be a red-billed hornbill. And, while he does look like a bird with a reddish beak, he doesn't look much like the bird he's [[http://www.underwater.org/mermaid/tanzania/images/hornbill1-800.jpg supposed to be]].
** Mild Example: Pumbaa is supposed to be a warthog, but he looks a little more like a tanned domesticated pig with a mane and tusks than an actual warthog. Though he looked more like a warthog in early artwork. Averted in the [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 CGI remake]], where Pumbaa looks like a real warthog.
---> '''Pumbaa''': [[BerserkButton They call me... ...MISTER PIG!!!"]]
** Timon looks almost nothing like a meerkat either, having peach-yellow colored fur (real meerkats are usually sand colored) bigger, downturned ears and a head full of red hair like a human would have. Plus, they walk on all fours and have black eyes.
*** And the worst part is, it seems that only Timon's colony looks like him. Other meerkats shown during the Circle of Life sequence look like actual meerkats.
** The hyenas are supposed to be spotted hyenas (they have the spots and the matriarchal social structure), and they are made such in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 the CGI remake]], but have coloration and other body traits which more closely resemble the striped hyena (and a FurryFemaleMane which matches neither).
* Flounder in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' is portrayed as a large yellow fish with blue fins and stripes and nothing like actual flounders (which are large, flat brown fish whose eyes are both on one side of its face) at all. However, that could just be his name, not his species. A possible identity for him may be the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthurus_triostegus Manini]], a tropical fish also known as Convict Tang, but even then the ressemblance is vague at best. Also, many of the species described in the song "Under the Sea" look ''nothing'' like their real-life counterparts.
* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': In-universe, Drix mistakes Chill for a virus, and figures they should arrest him, until Ozzy informs Drix that he's a flu shot, to which he replies "That's funny, he doesn't look fluish."
* Drake, the villain of ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'', doesn't look much like a penguin, with his musclebound physique and massive teeth.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'':
** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny human.
** Monstro is clearly supposed to be some kind of whale, but he doesn't resemble any real species. He most closely resembles a sperm whale with wide shovel-jaws and the belly lining of a baleen whale.[[labelnote:note]]He actually resembles the extinct whale species ''Liviyatan melvillei'', which was similar to the sperm whale but with broader jaws as well as teeth on the upper jaw, which sperm whales lack. Though it's coincidental, as the species hadn't been described yet at the time ''Pinocchio'' was made.[[/labelnote]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'':
** Priscilla is supposed to be an [[MisplacedWildlife aye-aye]], but she actually looks more a mouse instead. This has led to conflicting info on her species -- logically, she can and should be a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus_mouse cactus mouse]], but WordOfGod on the DVD commentary says aye-aye.
** Rango's love interest Beans is supposed to be a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_iguana Desert iguana]], but she looks more like an... alien... thing...
* Chirin's adult form at the end of ''Anime/RingingBell'' is supposed to be a ferocious ram, but he vaguely resembles more of an antelope or a goat instead and nothing like the other sheep in the film, not even himself as a lamb. [[spoiler:As a result of this, at the end of the film, he ends up being chased out of his own farm!]]
-->'''Narrator''': ...but to them, he was neither ram nor wolf, but a monster...
* The characters of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' are, according to the American version's opening narration, mutated dogs, cats, and rats. However, for many of them, it's pretty much impossible to tell who's meant to be what. The lead character Angel looks pretty much completely human aside from her nose and ears (which aren't visible except in a few shots).
* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'':
** Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
** Lola is supposed to be a lionfish, but it's hard to tell, as the signature trait of lionfish is their long, stiff spines, which she doesn't have. Your first bet would probably be "stylized woman in a dress."
* The Aracuan Bird from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' is pink, unlike its real world counterpart the Plain Chachalaca, which is more of a dull brown. Even more so, plain chachalacas don't have red crests.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'':
** The baboons that chase Jane are the same sort of mandrill/baboon hybrids as Rafiki himself. The animated series has a trio of mandrills that are more accurate to their real-life counterparts.
** The "lovebirds" from the "Strangers Like Me" sequence have body shapes more like a macaw's.
* Toto in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Meets Film/TheWizardOfOz'' doesn't really resemble the original Toto from the film. While Toto is a Cairn Terrier, the Toto from the cartoon looks more like a Scottie.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'':
** Frankie the flea for some reason actually looks more like a large green mosquito than an actual flea. Also, fleas aren't the same size as mice!
** Similarly, the largest member of [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the Singing Cat Gang]] actually does not look like a cat at all and looks more like a gorilla instead.
* ''Anime/YouAreUmasou'':
** The ''Chilantaisaurus'' barely looks like the real animal in that it has bull shaped horns and a short, rounded snout (which led to some viewers mistaking it for a ''Carnotaurus''). At least it's the same size as ''Tyrannosaurus'' and retains the huge arms and claws.
** Most of the dinosaurs in the movie don't really look like their real-life counterparts, especially the ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Maiasaura''. The ''Triceratops'', ''Protoceratops'', and ''Parasaurolophus'' are exceptions, however.
* In the spanish animated film ''El Bosque Animado'' (''The Living Forest'') and it's sequel "Espiritu del Bosque" (Spirit of the forest), the main characters are suposed to be moles, but they hardly look like them. Instead, they have big black snouts, [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue fur]], no visible claws, a rabbit-like tail, and apparently good eyesight. [[CartoonCreature They can't be identified with any other living creature either]].
!!Live-Action Films
* The large prehistoric feline from ''Film/Alpha2018'' is supposed to be a cave lion, but it is depicted with saber teeth, making it resemble a ''Machairodus''.
* ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'': Cool Cat's features don't quite come across as feline. In fact, he vaguely resembles a fox. His excitable personality isn't very catlike either.
* [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} Zilla]], a.k.a., the American Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, is an interesting variation. He's supposed to be a mutated marine iguana, but his physical structure is more akin to that of a theropod dinosaur. Since he is mutated, this might be justified.
** Ironically Godzilla himself , who was in fact supposed to be a mutated theropod of some variety, doesn't really look like any real dinosaur so much. Part of this is ScienceMarchesOn, since back in the 50s when Godzilla was created, the classic 'tripod' pose for theropods was still in vogue, but even taking that into account, his head is way too small to be a theropod. Granted, this may be justified on account of his mutation, as his original form, the ''Godzillasaurus'', has a more big head in proportion to its body. Some fans also interpret other incarnations of him as a synapsid.
*** May be the reason why in the 2014 reboot he is portrayed as a type of Permian reptile instead of a dinosaur. However, suplementary material in the special features of the home release of this movie states that yes, the ''Monsterverse'' Godzilla is a dinosaur as well, but given he originates from the Permian era, it means his species were either the very first dinosaurs or extremely derived dinosauriforms.
** Anguirus in ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', despite the claims of the contrary, doesn't really look much like an ankylosaur. He is more like some kind of ''Styracosaurus''/crocodile/armadillo hybrid.
** Likewise, Film/{{Rodan}} doesn't really look like a ''Pteranodon''. He's got a small head reminiscent of a bird of prey and lacks pycnofibres, but at least he possesses membranous wings like real pterosaurs. His Heisei version has a more ''Pteranodon''-like head as well as a slimmer body build closer to real pterosaurs, but he unfortunately has bat-like wings which other versions of the character lack. In the ''Monsterverse'' Rodan is now an ancient organism from a time before pterosaurs emerged, making his inaccuracies more justifiable, as that version of him isn't a pterosaur at all.
** The [=MUTOs=] featured in the Film/MonsterVerse continuity are described by the MPC visual effects supervisor in ''Godzilla: The Art of Destruction'' as probably being mammals based on the fact they possess skin, bones and muscle, but he also admitted that they do look more insectoid than mammalian. To say nothing of the [=MUTOs=]' reproductive cycle, which in light of this information makes the platypus look like nothing to gawk about.
* The large carnivorous dinosaur from the 2008 ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' film is supposed to be a ''Giganotosaurus'', but it looks more like a three-fingered ''Tyrannosaurus''.
* The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise is ''NOTORIOUS'' for this:
** ''Film/JurassicPark'':
*** The ''Velociraptor'' are an infamous case of this, resembling the larger ''Deinonychus''. This is because the [[Literature/JurassicPark novel the film was based on]] described ''Deinonychus'' as being synonymous with ''Velociraptor'', a now-discredited hypothesis proposed by Gregory S. Paul, and also because Creator/MichaelCrichton though ''Velociraptor'' sounded [[RuleOfCool much cooler]] than ''Deinonychus''. And let's not get to the fact raptors should have feathers.
*** The ''Dilophosaurus'' not only possess non-existent neck-frills (which wasn't even present in the novel) and venomous spit but also a skull shaped more like a carnosaur lacking the spinosaur-like notch in the upper jaw.
** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'':
*** The ''Mamenchisaurus'' look more like ''Diplodocus'' or ''Barosaurus'' in that they don't have a hump or a tail club. Most glaringly, they don't have the extra-long neck this dinosaur is famous for, meaning that they mostly just look like generic sauropods.
** ''Film/JurassicParkIII'':
*** The ''Spinosaurus''. It's got a skull and teeth more similar to ''Suchomimus'' as well as two crests instead of one. And now discoveries in 2014 and 2020 have made the film's depiction look ''even more inaccurate'' than its real-life counterpart. Granted, this can be excusable since suplementary material for ''Jurassic World'' and ''Fallen Kingdom'' implies [[spoiler:the Spinosaurus was a prototype for the Indominus rex project.]]
*** The ''Pteranodon'' have hooked bills full of sharp teeth, in spite of the animal meaning "Wing ''Without Teeth''". And especially egregious in that the ''Pteranodon'' from the previous film had the proper toothless bill albeit also hooked, though ''Film/JurassicWorld'' would bring back the toothless bills which are this time correctly pointed. All versions possess grasping feet and leathery wings however. Both the ''JPIII'' and ''JW'' versions lack pycnofibres, while it's ambiguous whether the ''TLW'' version has them or not (the concept art and macquettes portrays it with such).
** ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
*** The ''Gallimimus'' have broader skulls and beaks full of small teeth, which is jarring since the ones that appeared prior looked somewhat more like real ''Gallimimus''. They also should have feathers.
*** The ''Dimorphodon'' have heads shaped more like a typical carnivorous theropod than the real animal. Perhaps this could be the reason why they are ferocious carnivores rather than inoffensive insectivores. They do have pycnofibres unlike the ''Pteranodon''; the problem is that they don't have ''enough''.
*** There's a HandWave by Dr. Wu that all the dinosaurs were purposely modified to look "cooler" rather than biologically accurate, as their purpose was to serve as theme park entertainment. This is true even in the books; it is explicitly explained that none of them are perfect replicas because of all the modifications and substitutions that had to be made. The use of Frog and modern reptile DNA rather than Bird DNA to fill the gaps in the sequences is a major reason for this.
** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'':
*** The ''Baryonyx'' is a major offender. It has a considerably shorter and smaller skull than the real animal as well as atrophied forelimbs, both of which make it look more like a generic theropod than a spinosaurid. Especially jarring seeing as promotional art for the website of the [[Film/JurassicWorld previous film]] featured a ''Baryonyx'' design much closer to its RealLife counterpart (as this one was drawn by a renowned paleo artist).
*** According to the script, the ceratopsian skull that the Indoraptor is impaled on is that of an ''Agujaceratops'', not a ''Triceratops'', as viewers commonly assume. The thing is, the skull's frill is clearly solid, a feature only ''Triceratops'' had. Interestingly, the junior novelization identifies it as a ''Triceratops horridus''.
*** Likewise, the movie's ''Sinoceratops'' have holes in their frills. While real ''Sinoceratops''--and most other ceratopsians--did have these holes, in life they would have been covered by skin, not exposed like they are in the movie. The ''Sinoceratops'' also have a horn that is also much broader than the real animal's, and they also have small spikes on the center of the frill like a ''Pachyrhinosaurus''. Though the latter may be because they were originally going to be ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', which would have played this trope even straighter since ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' is famous for not having horns.
* The turkey from ''Film/{{Thankskilling}}'' looks more like a vulture.
* The giant ground sloth from ''Film/UnknownIsland'' barely resembles the real animal, instead looking more like a bizarre hybrid between a bear and an ape. And then there's the fact that it's ''carnivorous''.
* In a similar case to ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', the epononymous ''Allosaurus'' from ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' looks more like a ''T. rex'' with three fingers.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Toon Patrol are said to be weasels, but they look more like dogs instead. Justified, though, as they're Toons as opposed to actual in-universe animals.
* The titular werewolf of ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' doesn't really look like a wolf and instead looks more like a cross between a bear and a gorilla. This is because of TechnologyMarchesOn, since at that time special effects and make-up were not sophisticated enough to go beyond adding just hair and fangs or having a dog (or [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} hyena]]) play the role of a werewolf. The [[Film/TheWolfMan2010 2010 remake]], while sticking to the classic design, adds in more wolf-like features such as pointy ears and a muzzle, although the redesign still resembles more of a bear than a wolf.
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* While the WolfMan didn't look much like a wolf already (see far below), his animated design in ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'' looks even less so. He has a shorter muzzle and a mane around his head, making him more resemble a lion than a wolf. He also has only three toes in each foot, unlike in the original where he has four toes like a wolf.
* A few of the reviews for ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' when it first came out complained about how un-catlike Tiger looked.
* The art-style of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' makes it impossible to distinguish what breed Duchess and her kittens are. They're supposed to be Turkish Angoras.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Balto}}'':
** Steele is a malamute with IcyBlueEyes. Malamutes can only have brown eyes, As a result, Steele looks more like a husky than a malamute.
** In ''WesternAnimation/BaltoIIWolfQuest'', it's repeatedly mentioned that Aleu looks and acts more like a wolf than her wolf-dog father, to the point where no one wants to adopt her. She has IcyBlueEyes and a brownish pelt. Neither of these attributes are associated with grey wolves, but fit well with the Husky breed.
* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'' is supposed to be a white German Shepherd (also known as a "White Shepherd") and, from the looks of it, an adult as well. One of the most noticeable errors is he's way too small. He's barely larger than a cat. In fact, Bolt looks more a Hinks Bull Terrier and there is even some concept art of him with a slightly curved head. There's [[http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/a/a0/BoltMittensPF.jpg concept art]] of him looking much more accurate than in the final product, but the final film opted for an unusually small White Shepherd instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'':
** Kron and Bruton are supposed to be ''Iguanodon'' like Aladar and Neera, but Kron looks more like an ''Altirhinus'' and Bruton looks more like a ''Muttaburrasaurus'' since real ''Iguanodon'' do not have nose crests like they do.
** Aladar and Neera, for that matter, possess flexible lips instead of beaks. This detail apparently was changed after it was decided that the characters would speak (in the original draft, the only spoken lines came from a narrator) and it would have been too difficult to get the ''Iguanodon'' beaks to look good while moving in such a way.
** The ''Carnotaurus'' have heavily-built bodies more akin to ''T. rex''.
** The ''Ichthyornis'' from the beginning look more like ducks rather than seagulls.
* The Sarco Brothers from ''Dino Time'' are supposed to be ''Sarcosuchus'' as their name suggests, but they look more like mutated crocodiles instead.
* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand. Amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.
** From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking Archaeopteryx]] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its small size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it meant to be, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur, which explains its oddly-shaped head.
* ''WesternAnimation/DogGoneTrouble'': Rousey is a Pitbull, but she looks more like a large Boston Terrier.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'':
** As noted by many youtube commentators of ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' Kong is decidedly dissimilar to the more anatomically correct cats that populate the movie, looking more like a bear/bulldog hybrid than an actual cat.
** In the books, most of the cats [[AllDogsArePurebred are purebred]]. Felicity is a Russian Blue, Pascal is a Havana Brown, etc. The stylized nature of the film makes it harder to tell everyone's breed. It doesn't help that the film features characteristics not associated with the breeds (for example, Felicity is long-furred despite Russians Blues being short-furred).
* Horse the stray cat from "Footrot Flats: A Dog's Tale" barely looks like a domesticated cat, instead looking like a cross between a cougar, a bulldog, and a jaguar.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'':
** Arlo and his family are supposed to be ''Apatosaurus'', but they more closely resemble ''Brachiosaurus'' in that they have longer forelimbs and shorter tails. This is especially evident with the father, Henry.
** Forrest Woodbrush is stated to be a ''Styracosaurus''. While he does have the distinctive spiked frill, he also has long brow horns and a short nasal horn like a ''Triceratops''.
** Thunderclap. His crest would indicate he's a ''Nyctosaurus'', but since he also has teeth and wing claws (''Nyctosaurus'' is known for being the pterosaur to lack wing claws) his exact genus is impossible to clarify.
* Remember the fact that Ratigan from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' actually hates being called a rat? WordOfGod confirms that he is indeed a mouse, but for some reason he looks like a rat.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'':
** [[SeaMonster Cretaceous and Maelstrom]], the main villains of ''Ice Age 2: The Meltdown'' are apparently a pliosaur and an ichthyosaur respectively, but neither look like the real animals. Although ''Ice Age Village'' identifies Cretaceous as a ''Metriorhynchus'', which he more closely resembles, but not quite.
** And the aardvarks look more like big-eared giant anteaters with mouths at the base of their snouts.
** Also, the ''Troodon'' are featherless and look more like ''Coelophysis'' or ''Compsognathus''.
** Despite being claimed by the creators to be a ''Baryonyx'', [[SuperPersistentPredator Rudy]], the {{Big Bad}} of the third film, doesn't look all that much like this genus. He exceeds ''Spinosaurus'' in size (in RealLife ''Baryonyx'' was only about 7 or 8 meters long, although Rudy may just be overgrown), and has several exaggeratedly crocodilian features such as bony scutes down his back and nostrils at the end of his snout. He would actually make a pretty good ''Suchomimus'', a fairly close relative of ''Baryonyx'' that approached ''Spinosaurus'' in size.
** Silas the petrel from the fourth film has feet like a blue-footed booby.
** Sid the Sloth is supposedly a ground sloth of some kind. While identifiable as some form of sloth, Sid looks fairly different from any known species. He ''does'' look somewhat like a modern sloth, though, and WordOfGod says that he was based on one. Although his nose looks more like a koala's, and his head is bizarrely shaped with his eyes placed on the side of his head like a hammerhead shark's. Overall, he looks like a weird-looking otter.
* Baloo from ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook'' is supposed to be a sloth bear, but he doesn't even look like one at all! The only indication that he's a sloth bear are of course, the long, sharp claws unique to that animal.
** ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'' goes even further by depicting Baloo as looking a Himalayan brown bear, even though Bagheera calls him a sloth bear. Although that might have been a {{Pun}} on Bagheera's part considering how lazy Baloo is.
* In ''WesternAnimation/KatyLaOruga'', the three chameleons whom Katy encounters in the forest look more like geckos with multicolored skin and googly eyes, and the salamanders are generic cartoon lizards. Also, when Katy herself [[spoiler:becomes a butterfly at the end, she looks way too anthropomorphized to the point she resembles a standard fairy more than a butterfly.]]
* The animals of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' are pretty easy to identify, even when their features are changed or exaggerated for artistic license. Shifu is another matter, and unless you've [[AllThereInTheManual read the guidebooks]] you might guess anything from raccoon dog (face, tail) to lemur (hands, ears) [[labelnote:*]]non-native to China[[/labelnote]]. Creator/DustinHoffman, who plays Shifu, went for, "I don't know... some kind of raccoon?" He's officially a red panda, but since red pandas look like [[https://www.google.es/search?q=red+panda&tbm=isch this]] and Shifu looks like [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Shifu_5_4093.png this]], you can understand his confusion. Shifu has huge round ears, more whitish orangey fur, and dark brown hands, while [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda4.jpg red]] [[http://www.pluspets.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Red-Panda2.jpg pandas]] have medium sized, rounded triangular ears and are more reddish with a black underside and legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'':
** Cera is hardly recognizable as a ''Triceratops'' since she only has one horn, though as her family are three-horned it's implied that this is due to her young age. Dinah and Danah from the sequels, though, are much younger yet have their brow horns. We now know that baby ''Triceratops'' actually grew in their brow horns ''first'', which makes Cera having just one horn inaccurate.
** Poor Ducky. Sources can't decide if she's a ''Parasaurolophus'', an ''Edmontosaurus'', or a ''Saurolophus'' since she doesn't really look completely like one or the other. Some sources even say that she's a ''platypus!''
** Likewise, Hyp and his father from the third film don't really look much like ''Hypsilophodon'', and Mutt looks more like a ''Gryposaurus'' than a ''Muttaburrasaurus''.
** The main sharptooth villain of the fifth film is apparently a ''Giganotosaurus'', but looks more like some kind of abelisaurid (aside from the arms). The fourteenth film introduces proper abelisaurid ''Carnotaurus''...which looks more like a generic large carnivorous theropod with horns, a short snout, and armor.
** Elsie from the fifth film is supposedly an ''Elasmosaurus'', but she has a head-crest resembling a shark's fin and a ToothStrip for some reason.
** ''The Secret of Saurus Rock'' had an ''Allosaurus'' which looked more like a ''T. rex'', to the point of having two fingers instead of three ([[OffModel though it's sometimes shown with three fingers]]).
** The ''Styracosaurus'' that appear starting in ''The Stone of Cold Fire'' have short nose horns, and their spiky frills barely resemble what the real dinosaur had.
** The "Tinysauruses" are apparently ''Mussaurus'', but they look more like generic sauropods the size of mice.[[note]]''Mussaurus'' was initially thought to have been mouse-sized (hence the name meaning "Mouse Reptile") based on the first specimens discovered, but these turned out to be infants and the adults were quite big albeit still one of the smaller sauropodomorphs.[[/note]]
** Guido from ''The Great Day of the Flyers'' is supposed to be a ''Microraptor'', but with his toothless parrot-like beak, lack of claws (including its raptorial claw), and more humanoid frame he barely looks like the real animal.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the real animals, having too broad skulls instead of the crocodilian jaws of spinosaurs and lacking the huge thumb claw.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing''
** Rafiki is stated to be a mandrill, but he looks slimmer and more bluish gray than a real mandrill and has the tail of a baboon in an odd inversion of InexplicablyTailless. Gets odd when ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' introduces his apprentice Makini, who actually looks like a real mandrill.
** Zazu is supposed to be a red-billed hornbill. And, while he does look like a bird with a reddish beak, he doesn't look much like the bird he's [[http://www.underwater.org/mermaid/tanzania/images/hornbill1-800.jpg supposed to be]].
** Mild Example: Pumbaa is supposed to be a warthog, but he looks a little more like a tanned domesticated pig with a mane and tusks than an actual warthog. Though he looked more like a warthog in early artwork. Averted in the [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 CGI remake]], where Pumbaa looks like a real warthog.
---> '''Pumbaa''': [[BerserkButton They call me... ...MISTER PIG!!!"]]
** Timon looks almost nothing like a meerkat either, having peach-yellow colored fur (real meerkats are usually sand colored) bigger, downturned ears and a head full of red hair like a human would have. Plus, they walk on all fours and have black eyes.
*** And the worst part is, it seems that only Timon's colony looks like him. Other meerkats shown during the Circle of Life sequence look like actual meerkats.
** The hyenas are supposed to be spotted hyenas (they have the spots and the matriarchal social structure), and they are made such in [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 the CGI remake]], but have coloration and other body traits which more closely resemble the striped hyena (and a FurryFemaleMane which matches neither).
* Flounder in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' is portrayed as a large yellow fish with blue fins and stripes and nothing like actual flounders (which are large, flat brown fish whose eyes are both on one side of its face) at all. However, that could just be his name, not his species. A possible identity for him may be the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthurus_triostegus Manini]], a tropical fish also known as Convict Tang, but even then the ressemblance is vague at best. Also, many of the species described in the song "Under the Sea" look ''nothing'' like their real-life counterparts.
* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': In-universe, Drix mistakes Chill for a virus, and figures they should arrest him, until Ozzy informs Drix that he's a flu shot, to which he replies "That's funny, he doesn't look fluish."
* Drake, the villain of ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'', doesn't look much like a penguin, with his musclebound physique and massive teeth.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'':
** Jiminy Cricket is so heavily anthropomorphized that he looks more like a little green man with a rabbit nose and no ears. Animator Creator/WardKimball, who designed him, admitted that "he's a cricket because we ''say'' he's a cricket." And then the live-action adaptation actually had him as a tiny human.
** Monstro is clearly supposed to be some kind of whale, but he doesn't resemble any real species. He most closely resembles a sperm whale with wide shovel-jaws and the belly lining of a baleen whale.[[labelnote:note]]He actually resembles the extinct whale species ''Liviyatan melvillei'', which was similar to the sperm whale but with broader jaws as well as teeth on the upper jaw, which sperm whales lack. Though it's coincidental, as the species hadn't been described yet at the time ''Pinocchio'' was made.[[/labelnote]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'':
** Priscilla is supposed to be an [[MisplacedWildlife aye-aye]], but she actually looks more a mouse instead. This has led to conflicting info on her species -- logically, she can and should be a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus_mouse cactus mouse]], but WordOfGod on the DVD commentary says aye-aye.
** Rango's love interest Beans is supposed to be a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_iguana Desert iguana]], but she looks more like an... alien... thing...
* Chirin's adult form at the end of ''Anime/RingingBell'' is supposed to be a ferocious ram, but he vaguely resembles more of an antelope or a goat instead and nothing like the other sheep in the film, not even himself as a lamb. [[spoiler:As a result of this, at the end of the film, he ends up being chased out of his own farm!]]
-->'''Narrator''': ...but to them, he was neither ram nor wolf, but a monster...
* The characters of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' are, according to the American version's opening narration, mutated dogs, cats, and rats. However, for many of them, it's pretty much impossible to tell who's meant to be what. The lead character Angel looks pretty much completely human aside from her nose and ears (which aren't visible except in a few shots).
* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'':
** Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
** Lola is supposed to be a lionfish, but it's hard to tell, as the signature trait of lionfish is their long, stiff spines, which she doesn't have. Your first bet would probably be "stylized woman in a dress."
* The Aracuan Bird from ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'' is pink, unlike its real world counterpart the Plain Chachalaca, which is more of a dull brown. Even more so, plain chachalacas don't have red crests.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'':
** The baboons that chase Jane are the same sort of mandrill/baboon hybrids as Rafiki himself. The animated series has a trio of mandrills that are more accurate to their real-life counterparts.
** The "lovebirds" from the "Strangers Like Me" sequence have body shapes more like a macaw's.
* Toto in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry Meets Film/TheWizardOfOz'' doesn't really resemble the original Toto from the film. While Toto is a Cairn Terrier, the Toto from the cartoon looks more like a Scottie.
* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'':
** Frankie the flea for some reason actually looks more like a large green mosquito than an actual flea. Also, fleas aren't the same size as mice!
** Similarly, the largest member of [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment the Singing Cat Gang]] actually does not look like a cat at all and looks more like a gorilla instead.
* ''Anime/YouAreUmasou'':
** The ''Chilantaisaurus'' barely looks like the real animal in that it has bull shaped horns and a short, rounded snout (which led to some viewers mistaking it for a ''Carnotaurus''). At least it's the same size as ''Tyrannosaurus'' and retains the huge arms and claws.
** Most of the dinosaurs in the movie don't really look like their real-life counterparts, especially the ''Tyrannosaurus'' and ''Maiasaura''. The ''Triceratops'', ''Protoceratops'', and ''Parasaurolophus'' are exceptions, however.
* In the spanish animated film ''El Bosque Animado'' (''The Living Forest'') and it's sequel "Espiritu del Bosque" (Spirit of the forest), the main characters are suposed to be moles, but they hardly look like them. Instead, they have big black snouts, [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife blue fur]], no visible claws, a rabbit-like tail, and apparently good eyesight. [[CartoonCreature They can't be identified with any other living creature either]].
!!Live-Action Films
* The large prehistoric feline from ''Film/Alpha2018'' is supposed to be a cave lion, but it is depicted with saber teeth, making it resemble a ''Machairodus''.
* ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'': Cool Cat's features don't quite come across as feline. In fact, he vaguely resembles a fox. His excitable personality isn't very catlike either.
* [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} Zilla]], a.k.a., the American Franchise/{{Godzilla}}, is an interesting variation. He's supposed to be a mutated marine iguana, but his physical structure is more akin to that of a theropod dinosaur. Since he is mutated, this might be justified.
** Ironically Godzilla himself , who was in fact supposed to be a mutated theropod of some variety, doesn't really look like any real dinosaur so much. Part of this is ScienceMarchesOn, since back in the 50s when Godzilla was created, the classic 'tripod' pose for theropods was still in vogue, but even taking that into account, his head is way too small to be a theropod. Granted, this may be justified on account of his mutation, as his original form, the ''Godzillasaurus'', has a more big head in proportion to its body. Some fans also interpret other incarnations of him as a synapsid.
*** May be the reason why in the 2014 reboot he is portrayed as a type of Permian reptile instead of a dinosaur. However, suplementary material in the special features of the home release of this movie states that yes, the ''Monsterverse'' Godzilla is a dinosaur as well, but given he originates from the Permian era, it means his species were either the very first dinosaurs or extremely derived dinosauriforms.
** Anguirus in ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', despite the claims of the contrary, doesn't really look much like an ankylosaur. He is more like some kind of ''Styracosaurus''/crocodile/armadillo hybrid.
** Likewise, Film/{{Rodan}} doesn't really look like a ''Pteranodon''. He's got a small head reminiscent of a bird of prey and lacks pycnofibres, but at least he possesses membranous wings like real pterosaurs. His Heisei version has a more ''Pteranodon''-like head as well as a slimmer body build closer to real pterosaurs, but he unfortunately has bat-like wings which other versions of the character lack. In the ''Monsterverse'' Rodan is now an ancient organism from a time before pterosaurs emerged, making his inaccuracies more justifiable, as that version of him isn't a pterosaur at all.
** The [=MUTOs=] featured in the Film/MonsterVerse continuity are described by the MPC visual effects supervisor in ''Godzilla: The Art of Destruction'' as probably being mammals based on the fact they possess skin, bones and muscle, but he also admitted that they do look more insectoid than mammalian. To say nothing of the [=MUTOs=]' reproductive cycle, which in light of this information makes the platypus look like nothing to gawk about.
* The large carnivorous dinosaur from the 2008 ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' film is supposed to be a ''Giganotosaurus'', but it looks more like a three-fingered ''Tyrannosaurus''.
* The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise is ''NOTORIOUS'' for this:
** ''Film/JurassicPark'':
*** The ''Velociraptor'' are an infamous case of this, resembling the larger ''Deinonychus''. This is because the [[Literature/JurassicPark novel the film was based on]] described ''Deinonychus'' as being synonymous with ''Velociraptor'', a now-discredited hypothesis proposed by Gregory S. Paul, and also because Creator/MichaelCrichton though ''Velociraptor'' sounded [[RuleOfCool much cooler]] than ''Deinonychus''. And let's not get to the fact raptors should have feathers.
*** The ''Dilophosaurus'' not only possess non-existent neck-frills (which wasn't even present in the novel) and venomous spit but also a skull shaped more like a carnosaur lacking the spinosaur-like notch in the upper jaw.
** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'':
*** The ''Mamenchisaurus'' look more like ''Diplodocus'' or ''Barosaurus'' in that they don't have a hump or a tail club. Most glaringly, they don't have the extra-long neck this dinosaur is famous for, meaning that they mostly just look like generic sauropods.
** ''Film/JurassicParkIII'':
*** The ''Spinosaurus''. It's got a skull and teeth more similar to ''Suchomimus'' as well as two crests instead of one. And now discoveries in 2014 and 2020 have made the film's depiction look ''even more inaccurate'' than its real-life counterpart. Granted, this can be excusable since suplementary material for ''Jurassic World'' and ''Fallen Kingdom'' implies [[spoiler:the Spinosaurus was a prototype for the Indominus rex project.]]
*** The ''Pteranodon'' have hooked bills full of sharp teeth, in spite of the animal meaning "Wing ''Without Teeth''". And especially egregious in that the ''Pteranodon'' from the previous film had the proper toothless bill albeit also hooked, though ''Film/JurassicWorld'' would bring back the toothless bills which are this time correctly pointed. All versions possess grasping feet and leathery wings however. Both the ''JPIII'' and ''JW'' versions lack pycnofibres, while it's ambiguous whether the ''TLW'' version has them or not (the concept art and macquettes portrays it with such).
** ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
*** The ''Gallimimus'' have broader skulls and beaks full of small teeth, which is jarring since the ones that appeared prior looked somewhat more like real ''Gallimimus''. They also should have feathers.
*** The ''Dimorphodon'' have heads shaped more like a typical carnivorous theropod than the real animal. Perhaps this could be the reason why they are ferocious carnivores rather than inoffensive insectivores. They do have pycnofibres unlike the ''Pteranodon''; the problem is that they don't have ''enough''.
*** There's a HandWave by Dr. Wu that all the dinosaurs were purposely modified to look "cooler" rather than biologically accurate, as their purpose was to serve as theme park entertainment. This is true even in the books; it is explicitly explained that none of them are perfect replicas because of all the modifications and substitutions that had to be made. The use of Frog and modern reptile DNA rather than Bird DNA to fill the gaps in the sequences is a major reason for this.
** ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'':
*** The ''Baryonyx'' is a major offender. It has a considerably shorter and smaller skull than the real animal as well as atrophied forelimbs, both of which make it look more like a generic theropod than a spinosaurid. Especially jarring seeing as promotional art for the website of the [[Film/JurassicWorld previous film]] featured a ''Baryonyx'' design much closer to its RealLife counterpart (as this one was drawn by a renowned paleo artist).
*** According to the script, the ceratopsian skull that the Indoraptor is impaled on is that of an ''Agujaceratops'', not a ''Triceratops'', as viewers commonly assume. The thing is, the skull's frill is clearly solid, a feature only ''Triceratops'' had. Interestingly, the junior novelization identifies it as a ''Triceratops horridus''.
*** Likewise, the movie's ''Sinoceratops'' have holes in their frills. While real ''Sinoceratops''--and most other ceratopsians--did have these holes, in life they would have been covered by skin, not exposed like they are in the movie. The ''Sinoceratops'' also have a horn that is also much broader than the real animal's, and they also have small spikes on the center of the frill like a ''Pachyrhinosaurus''. Though the latter may be because they were originally going to be ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', which would have played this trope even straighter since ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' is famous for not having horns.
* The turkey from ''Film/{{Thankskilling}}'' looks more like a vulture.
* The giant ground sloth from ''Film/UnknownIsland'' barely resembles the real animal, instead looking more like a bizarre hybrid between a bear and an ape. And then there's the fact that it's ''carnivorous''.
* In a similar case to ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', the epononymous ''Allosaurus'' from ''Film/TheValleyOfGwangi'' looks more like a ''T. rex'' with three fingers.
* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Toon Patrol are said to be weasels, but they look more like dogs instead. Justified, though, as they're Toons as opposed to actual in-universe animals.
* The titular werewolf of ''[[Film/TheWolfMan1941 The Wolf Man]]'' doesn't really look like a wolf and instead looks more like a cross between a bear and a gorilla. This is because of TechnologyMarchesOn, since at that time special effects and make-up were not sophisticated enough to go beyond adding just hair and fangs or having a dog (or [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} hyena]]) play the role of a werewolf. The [[Film/TheWolfMan2010 2010 remake]], while sticking to the classic design, adds in more wolf-like features such as pointy ears and a muzzle, although the redesign still resembles more of a bear than a wolf.
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* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand.[[labelnote:Note]]amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with the ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.[[/labelnote]]
** From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking ''Archaeopteryx'']] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur.
** From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking ''Archaeopteryx'']] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur.
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* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand.[[labelnote:Note]]amusingly, Amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with the ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.[[/labelnote]]
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** From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking''Archaeopteryx'']] Archaeopteryx]] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its small size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it, it meant to be, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur.pachycephalosaur, which explains its oddly-shaped head.
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** The ''Triceratops'' from the third film look more like ''Chasmosaurus'' or ''Torosaurus'' due to their large frills. Also, the ''Troodon'' are featherless and look more like ''Coelophysis'' or ''Compsognathus''.
** Roger, Buck's pterosaur mount. Being a large rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur with a crest, she could be a ''Harpactognathus'', but her crest is more similar to a ''Pteranodon'''s. It doesn't help the sources call her a "Pterodactyl". Also, the enemy pterosaurs (not identified by the sources) appear to be oversized ''Pterodactylus''.
** Roger, Buck's pterosaur mount. Being a large rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur with a crest, she could be a ''Harpactognathus'', but her crest is more similar to a ''Pteranodon'''s. It doesn't help the sources call her a "Pterodactyl". Also, the enemy pterosaurs (not identified by the sources) appear to be oversized ''Pterodactylus''.
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** The ''Triceratops'' from the third film look more like ''Chasmosaurus'' or ''Torosaurus'' due to their large frills. Also, the ''Troodon'' are featherless and look more like ''Coelophysis'' or ''Compsognathus''.
** Roger, Buck's pterosaur mount. Being a large rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur with a crest, she could be a ''Harpactognathus'', but her crest is more similar to a ''Pteranodon'''s. It doesn't help the sources call her a "Pterodactyl". Also, the enemy pterosaurs (not identified by the sources) appear to be oversized ''Pterodactylus''.''Compsognathus''.
** Roger, Buck's pterosaur mount. Being a large rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur with a crest, she could be a ''Harpactognathus'', but her crest is more similar to a ''Pteranodon'''s. It doesn't help the sources call her a "Pterodactyl". Also, the enemy pterosaurs (not identified by the sources) appear to be oversized ''Pterodactylus''.
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** Sabor the leopard has larger, scarcer spots that make it look more like a jaguar instead, though [[AmbiguousGender it]] at least lacks the spots in its rosettes. It also has very massive canines similar to the clouded leopard, as well as slitted pupils (which are a trait of the small cats).
** Similarly, the baboons that chase Jane are strange mandrill/baboon hybrids like Rafiki himself. The animated series has a trio of mandrills that are more accurate to their real-life counterparts.
** The Lilian's lovebirds from the "Strangers Like Me" sequence have body shapes more like a macaw's.
** Similarly, the baboons that chase Jane are strange mandrill/baboon hybrids like Rafiki himself. The animated series has a trio of mandrills that are more accurate to their real-life counterparts.
** The Lilian's lovebirds from the "Strangers Like Me" sequence have body shapes more like a macaw's.
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** Sabor the leopard has larger, scarcer spots that make it look more like a jaguar instead, though [[AmbiguousGender it]] at least lacks the spots in its rosettes. It also has very massive canines similar to the clouded leopard, as well as slitted pupils (which are a trait of the small cats).
** Similarly, theThe baboons that chase Jane are strange the same sort of mandrill/baboon hybrids like as Rafiki himself. The animated series has a trio of mandrills that are more accurate to their real-life counterparts.
** TheLilian's lovebirds "lovebirds" from the "Strangers Like Me" sequence have body shapes more like a macaw's.
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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Toon Patrol are said to be weasels, but they look more like dogs instead.
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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Toon Patrol are said to be weasels, but they look more like dogs instead. Justified, though, as they're Toons as opposed to actual in-universe animals.
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*** The ''Mamenchisaurus'' look more like ''Diplodocus'' or ''Barosaurus'' in that they don't have a hump or a tail club.
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*** The ''Mamenchisaurus'' look more like ''Diplodocus'' or ''Barosaurus'' in that they don't have a hump or a tail club. Most glaringly, they don't have the extra-long neck this dinosaur is famous for, meaning that they mostly just look like generic sauropods.
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*** The ''Ceratosaurus'' looks more like a downsized ''T. rex'' with a nose-horn, scutes, and four-fingered hands.
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* From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking ''Archaeopteryx'']] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur.
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* From the same sequence, there is a small theropod dinosaur with a domed head, shown chasing an ''Archaeopteryx''. It's often believed to be an ''Ornitholestes'' (which was [[StockAnimalBehavior commonly shown attacking ''Archaeopteryx'']] in contemporary paleo-art), a ''Compsognathus'' (because of its size), or even a ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''. What is it, according to the script? A ''Troodon''. This one actually makes sense if you know that, at the time, ''Troodon'' was considered to be a pachycephalosaur.
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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Toon Patrol are said to be weasels, but they look more like dogs instead. Justified, though, as they're Toons as opposed to actual in-universe animals.
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* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', the Toon Patrol are said to be weasels, but they look more like dogs instead. Justified, though, as they're Toons as opposed to actual in-universe animals.
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* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''TyrannosaurusRex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand.[[labelnote:Note]]amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with the ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.[[/labelnote]]
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* The large theropod featured in the "Rite of Spring" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is supposed to be a ''TyrannosaurusRex'', ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but it looks more like an ''Allosaurus'' instead, with a blocky head and three claws on each hand.[[labelnote:Note]]amusingly, it's shown fighting a ''Stegosaurus'', which lived millions of years before the ''T. rex'' but indeed coexisted with the ''Allosaurus'', so having simply made it an ''Allosaurus'' to begin with would have been more accurate.[[/labelnote]]
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i mean... how. explain how.
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* The great white sharks in ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' look more like orcas than sharks.
** Likewise, Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
** Likewise, Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
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* The great white sharks in ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' look more like orcas than sharks.
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**Likewise, Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
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* ''Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids'': Cool Cat's features don't quite come across as feline. In fact, he vaguely resembles a fox. His excitable personality isn't very catlike either.
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** The [=MUTOs=] featured in the Film/MonsterVerse continuity are described by the MPC visual effects supervisor in ''Godzilla: The Art of Destruction'' as probably being mammals based on the fact they possess skin, bones and muscle, but he also admitted that they do look more insectoid than mammalian. To say nothing of the [=MUTOs=]' reproductive cycle, which in light of this information makes the platypus look like nothing to gawk about.
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If "he looks convincingly like one", then it's not Informed Species - his lack of long middle finger is merely Funny Animal Anatomy.
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* Maurice from ''{{WesternAnimation/Madagascar}}'' is supposed to be an Aye-Aye, and while he does look convincingly like one, he lacks the real animal's iconic long fingers, instead having generic primate hands.
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* The characters of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' are, according to the American version's opening narration, mutated dogs, cats, and rats. However, for many of them, it's pretty much impossible to tell who's meant to be what. The lead character Angel looks pretty much completely human aside from her nose and ears (which aren't visible except in a few shots).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/KatyLaOruga'', the three chameleons whom Katy encounters in the forest look more like geckos with multicolored skin and googly eyes, and the salamanders are generic cartoon lizards. Also, when Katy herself [[spoiler:becomes a butterfly at the end, she looks way too anthropomorphized to the point she resembles a standard fairy more than a butterfly.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/KatyLaOruga'', the three chameleons whom Katy encounters in the forest look more like geckos with multicolored skin and googly eyes, and the salamanders are generic cartoon lizards. Also, when Katy herself [[spoiler:becomes a butterfly at the end, she looks way too anthropomorphized to the point she resembles a standard fairy more than a butterfly.]]
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* The large prehistoric feline from ''Film/Alpha2018'' is supposed to be a cave lion, but it is depicted with saber teeth, making it resemble a ''Machairodus''.
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* The large prehistoric feline from ''Film/Alpha2018'' is supposed to be a cave lion, but it is depicted with saber teeth, making it resemble a ''Machairodus''.
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It's easy to confuse alligators with crocodiles.
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* Brutus and Nero from ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' suffer from confusion over whether they're meant to be alligators or crocodiles. They're called alligators in the concept art and the movie's North American setting would seem to support this, but they look more like crocodiles and are referred to as such in the movie.
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** Likewise, Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like a miscolored Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
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** Likewise, Oscar looks less like a cleaner wrasse and more like [[InkSuitActor a miscolored miscolored]] Creator/WillSmith with a tailfin.
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Most of these are Artistic License Biology, not this trope.
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*** The ''Brachiosaurus'' more closely resemble ''Giraffatitan'' in that they have shorter tails and a high-crested skull. This is because ''Giraffatitan'' was initially believed to have been an African species of ''Brachiosaurus'', ''B. brancai''.
*** Even the ''TyrannosaurusRex'' isn't completely immune to this, having a skull too short and box-shaped.
*** Even the ''TyrannosaurusRex'' isn't completely immune to this, having a skull too short and box-shaped.
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*** The ''Stegosaurus'' have become a mild case of this as of late. It is now known the real animal had a longer neck with throat armor, and the tip of the tail should be curving downwards.
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*** The ''Ankylosaurus'' has osteoderms much too spiky with non-existent long spines along its sides like a nodosaur, its armor is also depicted resembling a turtle-like carapace rather than being fused to the body (''Ankylosaurus'' means "''Fused'' Reptile"), and both its horns and tail club are wrongly shaped.
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*** The ''Apatosaurus'' have necks too thin (apatosaurines are known for their muscular necks), making them resemble ''Diplodocus'' more.
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*** The ''Stegosaurus'' now seem to be lacking a beak (unless if it's just blended into the skin), after the previous films ''got this right''.
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** Fuli the cheetah of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'' has rosettes, which would indicate she's a king cheetah. However, her rosettes are more similar to a jaguar's and her facial tear stripes are too short.
** Also from ''The Lion Guard'', Shupavu and her skink group all have colorings that look nothing like on real African skinks.
** Another example from ''The Lion Guard'' - Bunga is intended to be a honey badger. He looks more like a cross between [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Gopher]] and a chipmunk.
** Also from ''The Lion Guard'', Shupavu and her skink group all have colorings that look nothing like on real African skinks.
** Another example from ''The Lion Guard'' - Bunga is intended to be a honey badger. He looks more like a cross between [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Gopher]] and a chipmunk.
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They're still obviously rabbits
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* The rabbits in ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'' have noses resembling pig snouts rather than the "v"-shaped noses of actual rabbits.
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** Guido from ''The Great Day of the Flyers'' is supposed to be a ''Microraptor'', but with his parrot-like beak and more humanoid frame he barely looks like the real animal.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the real animals.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the real animals.
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** Guido from ''The Great Day of the Flyers'' is supposed to be a ''Microraptor'', but with his toothless parrot-like beak beak, lack of claws (including its raptorial claw), and more humanoid frame he barely looks like the real animal.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the realanimals.animals, having too broad skulls instead of the crocodilian jaws of spinosaurs and lacking the huge thumb claw.
** The ''Beipiaosaurus'' (Yellow Bellies) from ''The Wisdom Of Friends'' hardly look like the dinosaurs they're supposed to be either, looking more like Muppet-esque Dodos instead. And the ''Baryonyx'' from the same film don't remotely resemble the real
