вЂњIf you shoot a bullet at any animal, the bullet is going to go into the animal, the animal is going to bleed, even if itвЂ™s a genetically engineered monster,вЂќ Senter says. It couldnвЂ™t have outrun even a human, and thatвЂ™s why it had a spiny club at the tip of its tail, Horner says: it used it to defend itself against the more agile T. The Ankylosaurus, for instance, weighed tons and was very slow. вЂњIt wouldnвЂ™t be running around through the woods like it does,вЂќ Horner says. If the Indominus rex had bulletproof armor, itвЂ™d be so heavy that itвЂ™d have problems moving. вЂњThey wanted to give it superpowers,вЂќ Horner tells The Verge. And no animals alive today are bulletproof. But Horner told them that even an engineered creature shouldnвЂ™t have fictional characteristics - it had to borrow attributes from existing animals whose DNA is embedded in the new dinosaur. Initially, the makers of Jurassic World wanted to know if the Indominus rex could be bulletproof, according to NBC News. Horner, the science advisor on all the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, says he actually pushed back against the idea of making dinosaurs bulletproof in the franchise. A shot from a rifle or other big Hollywood weapons are another story, he says. вЂњThereвЂ™s no doubt that the armor of an Ankylosaurus would likely stop small gun fire,вЂќ Horner tells The Verge. John вЂњJackвЂќ Horner, a paleontologist at Montana State University, agrees.

Though itвЂ™s an exaggeration to call the armor вЂњbulletproof,вЂќ an Ankylosaurus could have likely survived a shot from a small pistol, he says. вЂњA bullet will shatter it.вЂќ But Mallon isnвЂ™t so sure. вЂњItвЂ™s still bone itвЂ™s brittle,вЂќ he tells The Verge. However strong, that armor couldnвЂ™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. вЂњThey would have been difficult to take out.вЂќ The bony plates, which were embedded in their skin, had collagen fibers that were crisscrossed like fibers in a Kevlar bulletproof vest. вЂњTheir skulls were just one solid mass of bone,вЂќ 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. вЂњI guess that depends on what kinds of bullets youвЂ™re shooting at themвЂќД«ut just as the bullet size matters, so does the dinosaur. I suspect the same would be true of dinosaurs.вЂќ But if you shoot it with a rifle round, then youвЂ™re going to kill it. 22 at a big moose, youвЂ™re probably just going to make it angry. вЂњI guess that depends on what kinds of bullets youвЂ™re shooting at them,вЂќ 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, thereвЂ™s a fair bit of scientific fudging going on in the Jurassic Park series, given that the entire seriesвЂ™ premise is based on an incorrect idea of how long DNA can be preserved. Like the Indominus rex in the first Jurassic World, the franchiseвЂ™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 вЂњIndoraptor,вЂќ a new dinosaur hybrid constructed from DNA taken from Tyrannosaurus rex samples, Velociraptors, and god knows what else.

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