“A bullet will shatter it.” But Mallon isn’t so sure. “It’s still bone it’s brittle,” he tells The Verge. However strong, that armor couldn’t have stopped bullets, says Philip Senter, a paleontologist at Fayetteville State University. rex, which had fangs as long as bananas, if you include the roots. That allowed the armor to withstand the bites of a T. “They would have been difficult to take out.” The bony plates, which were embedded in their skin, had collagen fibers that were crisscrossed like fibers in a Kevlar bulletproof vest. “Their skulls were just one solid mass of bone,” Mallon tells The Verge. These massive dinosaurs sported incredibly strong armor - bony plates that covered their backs, skulls, and even their eyes and cheeks. One particular dino could have withstood gunfire more effectively than others: a tank-like creature called the Ankylosaurus. “I guess that depends on what kinds of bullets you’re shooting at them”īut just as the bullet size matters, so does the dinosaur.

I suspect the same would be true of dinosaurs.” But if you shoot it with a rifle round, then you’re going to kill it. 22 at a big moose, you’re probably just going to make it angry. “I guess that depends on what kinds of bullets you’re shooting at them,” says Jordan Mallon, a paleobiologist and dinosaur expert at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Is there any basis in fact there? Could dinosaurs actually have been bulletproof? But that image of dinosaurs shrugging off gunfire for dramatic purposes pops up fairly often in action movies where dinosaurs and modern weaponry somehow co-exist. Obviously, there’s a fair bit of scientific fudging going on in the Jurassic Park series, given that the entire series’ premise is based on an incorrect idea of how long DNA can be preserved. Like the Indominus rex in the first Jurassic World, the franchise’s latest human-made dino seems to be immune to gunfire. The dinosaur cowers for a couple seconds, then charges at its prey, seemingly undamaged. At one point in the new film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Velociraptor trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) fires multiple rifle shots into the “Indoraptor,” a new dinosaur hybrid constructed from DNA taken from Tyrannosaurus rex samples, Velociraptors, and god knows what else.

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