That's the sad thing about the Jurassic Park trilogy ...there will come a time when it will be horribly dated, both in terms of the CGI used as well as the information given. On the CGI - there are some movies that I marveled at when I was a kid, and grimaced when I watched them again as an adult. On the information - we saw gray T-Rexs and Velociraptors, when apparently they were feathered and multi-colored.
I don’t know why people assume they were brightly colored. Most birds are shades of white, grey, brown and black. They need to be camouflaged, too. I have a roadrunner who hangs out in the back yard every morning. He’s black, brown and white.
If he weren’t, it’d be much more difficult for him to hunt.
We notice the cardinal because it’s so noticeable. We make a note of it because it’s unusual.
Show me an owl or an eagle with red and blue feathers.
Some may have been, but I can’t see it being the norm.
There’ll be remakes of the movies. And remakes of the theories as well.
Heck, I’m waiting for it to be decided that all dinos were furry. Then, for it to be decided that all the feathers and fur was decided wrongly because of some strange anomaly in the fossilizing process of a few dinos.
Then, living dinos to be discovered on a high plateau in the amazon, who are a mix of bald, feathered and furry.