“As any true dinosaur nerd will tell you, Jurassic Park’s clever girls are not even velociraptors; they’re actually deinonychus (from the Greek for “terrible claw”) and were deliberately misnamed by Michael Crichton, the original novel’s author, because “velociraptor” is more fun to say and most Americans don’t have a working knowledge of Greek.”
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Hannah McGregor,
Clever Girl: Jurassic Park