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The geologist J. Bret Bennington noted in 1996 that though Dilophosaurus probably did not have a frill and could not spit venom like in the movie, its bite could have been venomous, as has been claimed for the Komodo dragon. He found that adding venom to the dinosaur was no less allowable than giving a color to its skin, which is also unknown.
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This dinosaur restoration is inaccurate, or its accuracy is disputed. Reason: The Dilophosaurus have pronated hands and a Jurassic Park style frill.. You may ask further questions about the accuracy of this image at the image review page of WikiProject Dinosaurs on the English Wikipedia.
A fictionalized version of Dilophosaurus appears in the first novel and its film adaptation, both depicting it with the ability to spit venom. [148] [149] The film's Dilophosaurus also has a fictionalized neck frill that retracts, and the dinosaur was made significantly smaller to ensure that audiences would not confuse it with the Velociraptors.
The spitting spiders Scytodes can spit a venomous sticky fluid that traps its victims and also poisons them. [1] The bombardier beetle is unusual by using a violent exothermic chemical reaction to launch a boiling noxious chemical spray in a rapid burst of pulses from special glands in its abdomen, accompanied with a popping sound.
Frilled lizards can breed during the late dry and early wet seasons. [12] Competing males display with gaping mouths and spread frills. Fights can ensue, in which the lizards pounce and bite each other's heads. [3] The female digs a shallow cavity to leave her eggs.
After learning how to spit, some kids take this new skill and use it outside of the appropriate context. For example, if a child gets frustrated they may begin to spit to express their anger.
The inclusion of a pubic fenestra is one of the characteristics that Gay uses to set Kayentavenator apart from the contemporaneous, and better known Dilophosaurus. [1] As Dilophosaurus lacks a pubic fenestra as a subadult or an adult, [ 2 ] it is unlikely that it had one during any stage of ontogeny .