History Trivia / Carnosaur

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally the third film was not supposed to be a ''Carnosaur'' film and was instead going to be a stand-alone film that just recycled the props. In some territories such as Japan, it was still released as such under the title "Dinosaur Crisis".

* DisownedAdaptation: Brosnan didn't care for the film adaptation and especially disliked the portrayal of the dinosaurs, including comparing it unfavorably with the ''[[Film/JurassicPark1993 other]]'' dinosaur movie that came out in 1993, but he did credit the movie with bringing more attention to his novel.

* DisownedAdaptation: Brosnan didn't care for the film adaptation, including comparing it unfavorably with the ''[[Film/JurassicPark1993 other]]'' dinosaur movie that came out in 1993, but he did credit the movie with bringing more attention to his novel.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally the third film was not supposed to be a Carnosaur film and was instead going to be a stand-alone film that just recycled the props. In some territories such as Japan, it was still released as such under the title "Dinosaur Crisis".
* YouLookFamiliar: Rick Dean plays two unrelated characters in Carnosaur 2 and 3

** The larger ''Tyrannosaurus'' animatronic was reused for the second and third films without changes, by the time of the latter film it was very much degraded from its constant use.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally the third film was not supposed to be a Carnosaur film and was instead going to be a stand-alone film that just recycled the props. In some territories such as Japan, it was still released as such under the title "Dinosaur Crisis".

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: Almost exclusively the novel, but Brosnan turned out to be on the ball several times.

* PropRecycling: The Marines' uniforms in ''Carnosaur 3'' are the same urban camouflage [=BDUs=] from ''Film/TheRock''. An in-series example is the Tyrannosaurus rex prop, that was reused movie to movie. By the time it was used for "Eden Formula", you can tell the prop has degraded.

** There is one case of this in the film. A brief shot of the ''Deinonychus'' as a hatchling shows it with feathers, although when it becomes an adult it is scaly. This was presumably done [[ViewersAreMorons to emphasize that]] the dinosaurs were made from chicken DNA. Nowadays, of course, it's generally agreed that ''Deinonychus'' and other small predatory dinosaurs had feathers naturally.

** There is one case of this in the film. A brief shot of the ''Deinonychus'' as a hatchling shows it with feathers, although when it becomes an adult it is scaly. This was presumably done [[ViewersAreMorons to show that]] the dinosaurs were spliced with chicken DNA. Nowadays, of course, it's generally agreed that ''Deinonychus'' and other small predatory dinosaurs had feathers naturally.

** ''Deinocheirus'' gets a brief mention and is imagined as a super-sized dromaeosaur due it only being known from its arms and foreclaws at the time the novel was written. The real animal isn't even close to this depiction, instead being a giant, hump-backed ornithomimosaur with a duck-like bill.

** It used to be thought that some theropods could be at least partially quadrupedal, and the ''Atispinax'' is portrayed as such in the novel. This is now seen as anatomically impossible. ''Spinosaurus''-- which, despite also having the word spine in its name, is of no relation to ''Altispinax''-- was once considered to have been quadrupedal due to having short hind legs, but even that was disputed and it has been reestablished as a short-legged biped.

** It used to be thought that some theropods could be at least partially quadrupedal, and the ''Atispinax'' is portrayed as such in the novel. This is now seen as anatomically impossible. Although ''Spinosaurus'' (which, despite also having the word spine in its name, is of no relation to ''Altispinax'') was once considered to have been quadrupedal due to having short hind legs, but even that was disputed and it has been reestablished as a short-legged biped.

* FanNickname: "''Carnosaurs''" for the second movie, due to its plot being '''extremely''' similar to [[{{Film/Aliens}} another sequel with a plural title]].

* HilariousInHindsight: At one point in the novel, Sir Penward theorizes that ''Deinocheirus'', then known only from its arms, was a much larger relative of ''Deinonychus'' and muses that he'd love to clone one just to see if his hypothesis is correct. One can only imagine his disappointment since we now know exactly what the full animal [[https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/scifindr/articles/images/deinocheirus/deinocheirus.jpg looked]] like.

** There is one case of this in the film. A brief shot of the ''Deinonychus'' as a hatchling shows it with feathers, although when it becomes an adult it is scaly. This was presumably done to show that the dinosaurs were spliced with chicken DNA. Nowadays, of course, it's generally agreed that ''Deinonychus'' and other small predatory dinosaurs had feathers naturally.

** Sometime after the novel was written, ''Scolosaurus'' became synonymous with ''Euoplocephalus''. But then in 2013, ''Scolosaurus'' turned out to be its own valid genus after all. However, it is portrayed with the two-spiked club from outdated portraits, so it sort of cancels out.

** Sometime after the novel was written, ''Scolosaurus'' became synonymous with ''Euoplocephalus''. But then in 2013, ''Scolosaurus'' turned out to be its own valid genus after all. Although the book portrays it with a two-spiked club so it sort of cancels out.

** Sometime after the novel was written, ''Scolosaurus'' became synonymous with ''Euoplocephalus''. But then in 2013, ''Scolosaurus'' turned out to be its own valid genus after all. Although the book portrays it with a two-spiked club so it sort of cancels it out.

** Sometime after the novel was written, ''Scolosaurus'' became synonymous with ''Euoplocephalus''. But then in 2013, ''Scolosaurus'' turned out to be its own valid genus after all.

** It is now known that plesiosaurs cannot lift their necks above water. They also cannot move on land and therefore, gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs.

** It is now known that plesiosaurs cannot lift their necks above water. They also cannot move on land and therefore do not reproduce by laying eggs.

** It is now known that plesiosaurs cannot lift their necks above water or move on land, and they do not reproduce by laying eggs.

** The novel describing the ''Tarbosaurus'' feed in a method very similar to a bird, by pinning the food down with its food and pulling strips of meat off with its front teeth in place of a beak actually lines up very nicely with 2010s hypotheses about how large theropods ate.

** The novel describing the ''Tarbosaurus'' feed in a method very similar to a bird, by pinning the food down with its food and pulling strips of meat off with its front teeth in place of a beak actually lines up very nicely with 2010s hypotheses about how large Theropods ate.

** Depicting the ''Deinonychus'' as able to climb effectively was widely considered inaccurate in the 1980s by all but a few researchers. More recent evidence in the 2000s onwards indicate all but the absolute heaviest Dromaeosaurids were actually very good climbers and juvenile ''Deinonychus'' might have been heavily arboreal to avoid predators with even the adults still able to climb effectively.

** It is now known that plesiosaurs do not reproduce by laying eggs (they cannot even move on land to do it) and cannot lift their necks above water.