


Meanwhile, massive aquatic, non-dinosaur reptile discoveries populated the Mesozoic oceans with bus-sized predators like the Mosasaurus (seen chomping people and dinosaurs alike in the Jurassic World movies). The park's dinosaurs-still standing today-became avatars of the outdated, and discoveries since have consistently brought paleontology further away, toward more aerobic, warmblooded, active-even feathered-dinosaurs. Squatting, lizard-like and arrayed in or near bodies of water, the cutting edge depictions were quickly made obsolete by an explosion of new discoveries. Workers cleaning one of the Crystal Palace dinosaurs in 1927.
