>>211915054 (OP)I personally like the beluga inspiration, think the skull is a little too much T-rex for something obviously really deformed but I guess you have to make the connection obvious for audiences. Fucked up monsters is the logical route to go ever since JP3 when we found out Ingen was doing weird experiments and then the retcon about the spinosaurus being the first hybrid.
>>211915224The dinosaurs were always things that walked a grey line between animals and monsters or something else depending on character perspective. The raptors were just directionless feral killing machines in the novels and movie and the most monster-like of the dinosaurs, in every case they're functionally just evil horror movie slasher villains. JP characters frequently have different takes on the creatures and there's multiple conversations about what the nature of them really is. Grant, Sattler, Sarah and Levine from the 2nd novel treat them like animals. Wu treats them like software and a means to enable his genetic research but not animals. They're just business assets and an ego trip for Hammond. Muldoon treats them like monsters because he works with the most monstrous dinosaurs in the park. The Lost World in both book and movie leans heavily towards them being sympathetic animals, while JP3 has a mixed bag of animal behavior and horror movie monsters. The sequel trilogy movies treat the dinosaurs more as animals on the whole, with the exception of the hybrids who are actually just monsters. The new movie seems to be taking them back to a more monster-like approach which is more inlign with the original story in my opinion.