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My take on the Indoraptor, the hybrid dinosaur that served as the primary antagonist in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Although I wasn't terribly fond of the film itself, I personally liked the Indoraptor. Many in the paleo community disliked the design because it was more monster than dinosaur, yet for those reasons I liked it. As discussed in my Iguanoraptor post, I think a hybrid dinosaur should be disturbing. There were so many bizarre and interesting dinosaurs in the fossil record that if you're going to make one up, it should be unnerving. I feel they could have gone a bit further with making it a monstrous beast, but I still liked it. That said, I didn't want to copy the film's design. I took their concept and built my own monster.

For my Indoraptor, I wanted to combine traits of Tyrannosaurus and large dromaeosaurs (the primary base of the Indoraptor along with cuttlefish, crocodiles, Therizinosaurus, and a laundry list of other stuff depending on which website you're looking on). Also like my Iguanoraptor, I didn't go into this trying to optimize the animal. For example: some of its teeth come from the raptors, some from crocodilians, and some from T. rex, and they aren't situated in the mouth in a way that particularly aids in gripping, tearing, or cutting. It has the heavy build of an adult T. rex despite being around the size of a Utahraptor or small Allosaurus, and might be a bit ponderous. Having robust arms on a tyrannosaur body just makes it front-heavy, forcing it on all fours. This would still be a formidable animal, combining traits from numerous apex predators, but evolution has not refined it to excel in any particular context, so it would surely perish outside of captivity.

Cheers, folks!

-Keenan

Description
My take on the Indoraptor, the hybrid dinosaur that served as the primary antagonist in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Although I wasn't terribly fond of the film itself, I personally liked the Indoraptor. Many in the paleo community disliked the design because it was more monster than dinosaur, yet for those reasons I liked it. As discussed in my Iguanoraptor post, I think a hybrid dinosaur should be disturbing. There were so many bizarre and interesting dinosaurs in the fossil record that if you're going to make one up, it should be unnerving. I feel they could have gone a bit further with making it a monstrous beast, but I still liked it. That said, I didn't want to copy the film's design. I took their concept and built my own monster.

For my Indoraptor, I wanted to combine traits of Tyrannosaurus and large dromaeosaurs (the primary base of the Indoraptor along with cuttlefish, crocodiles, Therizinosaurus, and a laundry list of other stuff depending on which website you're looking on). Also like my Iguanoraptor, I didn't go into this trying to optimize the animal. For example: some of its teeth come from the raptors, some from crocodilians, and some from T. rex, and they aren't situated in the mouth in a way that particularly aids in gripping, tearing, or cutting. It has the heavy build of an adult T. rex despite being around the size of a Utahraptor or small Allosaurus, and might be a bit ponderous. Having robust arms on a tyrannosaur body just makes it front-heavy, forcing it on all fours. This would still be a formidable animal, combining traits from numerous apex predators, but evolution has not refined it to excel in any particular context, so it would surely perish outside of captivity.

Cheers, folks!

-Keenan