Watch Professor Buzzkill the dinosaur expert critique kids’ toys

It’s all about dinosaurs this week, after Jurrasic World crushed previous box office records in its opening weekend.

Watch Professor Buzzkill the dinosaur expert critique kids’ toys

But we can't have our fun without a few palaeontologists coming along to tell us we're all completely wrong about everything. Enter Dr. Paul Olsen of Columbia University, who critiques dinosaur toys for being FULL OF NONSENSE.

Just wait until the two-minute mark when the respected professor starts making dinosaur noises with the toys.

"This one is 100% BS. There is nothing about this animal that is real. I don't even know what it's supposed to be," he says of one.

And for another, he knows it's supposed to be a velociraptor because it looks like the ones in Jurassic Park - despite the fact that they actually looked like long-tailed toothed turkeys.

In fact, dinosaurs were basically birds - as this great little video from Joe Hanson at It's Okay To Be Smart lays out.

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