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The Deinonychus is the main antagonist in both the novel and the film, Carnosaur. He only appeared in the first film and the novel.
Novel[]
Carnosaur[]
In the novel, the Deinonychus is the main villain. Like all dinosaurs in the novel, it was created by Lord Darren Penward after he found dinosaur DNA fragments in fossils and used them as a basis for restructuring the DNA of chickens.
At the beginning of the novel, the Deinonychus manages to escape from Penward's private zoo before attacking a chicken farm, killing both the farmer and his wife. A reporter named David Pascal comes to investigate the carnage, but Penward's men have thoroughly cleansed the location in order to cover the Deinonychus's footprints.
A few days later, the Deinonychus attacks a stable, killing a horse, its keeper, and her daughter, leaving only one survivor, a young boy. Penward's men manage to capture the dinosaur and bring it back to their zoo. Pascal arrives and sees them towing the concealed animal with a helicopter. Shortly after, he interviews the boy, who reveals him that the killer was a dinosaur.
Later, Pascal begins a sexual relationship with Penward's wife, who eventually takes him into the zoo. However, he's then captured by Penward's men but is given a tour of the establishment and sees a variety of different dinosaur species, including the Deinonychus. Pascal is finally rescued by Lady Penward, but during there escape he notices that his ex-girlfriend Jenny Stamper, also a reporter, has been caught in the act of infiltrating Penward's zoo. Due to the fact that he decides to help her, Lady Penward, jealous, releases all the dinosaurs in the zoo, the Deinonychus included.
A few days later, a second Deinonychus goes to Jenny's home and kills all her family, while also injuring her. However, Pascal arrives and manages to kill the Deinonychus with a pitchfork.
Films[]
Carnosaur[]
Dr. Jane Tiptree tammpers with the DNA of chickens, thus causing them to lay Dinosaur eggs. When one of said eggs hatches into a Deinonychus, it escapes and starts tearing up the local countryside. It manages to kill two Eunice workers, a group of hippies, and others on its bloody killing spree, and when it attacked Sheriff Fowler, it charged at him, but he manages to shoot it with a shotgun blast to the chest, however, the blast didn’t finished it off yet, and the Deinonychus angrily screeched and pierced with a claw through the belly, but the dying Sheriff Fowler still shot its head, unfortunately, he finally dies, taking him with the carnivore.
Tiptree possessed a large number of Deinonychus eggs, and manages to impregnate herself with a virus that causes women to reproduce dinosaurs, as her Tyrannosaurus attacks Doc, Dr. Tiptree gets into labor, and was killed ultimately from reproducing a Deinonychus baby thanks to the virus.
Reality[]
Deinonychus is a genus of carnivorous dinosaur of the Dromeosaurid order. There is one described species, Deinonychus antirrhopus. These dinosaurs, which could grow up to 3.4 meters long, lived during the early Cretaceous period, about 115-108 million years ago. Fossils have been recovered from the U.S. States of Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma, in rocks of the Cloverly and Antlers Formation, through teeth that may belong to Deinonychus have been found much farther east in Maryland.
Stages[]
In the first movie, the Deinonychus goes through 3 stages:
1.) Hatchling: Small, and covered in feathers
2.) Sub-adult: Larger, and scaly
3.) Adult: Fully grown, and still scaly
Trivia[]
- The Deinonychus was replaced by the Velociraptors in Carnosaur 2. However, the exact same Deinonychus costume molds from the first film were used to create the bodies for the Velociraptor costumes. Only the heads/necks were changed to reflect the longer neck and snout that distinguish the two dinosaurs. Close-ups were achieved using puppet heads with mechanical devices.
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Videos[]
Attack of the Deinonychus - Carnosaur (1993)