JPQUESTIONS ANATOMY EDITION: INDORAPTOR SKULL

Since we're about to reach the American release of JURASSIC WORLD FALLEN KINGDOM!
I've decided that it's now time for another session of...

JP QUESTIONS!
where you can submit questions about the JP/JW FRANCHISE that I can try to answer in the best way I can....
(depending on the complexity of the question)

(Note-These "answers" will not be as common as the asset files, as I would need to think how to structure an answer to said question.)

But enough with that, onto the page...
Now, after I had first seen film (if you want my non-spoiler review on it, look here-taliesaurus.deviantart.com/jou…) I had been wanting to draw the horrifying antagonist hybrid: the INDORAPTOR!

or as I think of it: THE BEAST OF LOCKWOOD MANOR!

I mean, I love this hybrid, while I will always say the indominus rex is DEFIANTLY scary, for being the first entirely hybridized dinosaur, her great intelligence, her brutal strength and her upbringing. But when it comes to horror, the new hybrid, called the INDORAPTOR, kinda takes the ENTIRE CAKE.
No doubt about ir, this is that "living weapon" that Hoskins hinted at the end of Jurassic World (2015).

"Imagine that one (gestures to the indominus rex) a fraction of the size, deadly, intelligent, able to hide from our most advanced military tech."
I mean, this takes the primal fear of the last hybrid and dials it up to 100! his creature is basically like some dark nightmare monster that prowls the darkness of this Lockwood manor.

But after a while, some people began the usual "biased bashing" that people do for click-bait, when i came across an article by a certain paleo group that has a reputation of needlessly bashing the JP franchise's "inaccuracies" and they had made an article that claimed the INDORAPTOR was terribly designed, weak jaw, small brain, eye-holes too large yadda yadda yadda etc. You get the point it was the usual bashing without proper consideration of context taking place. But aside from them neglecting the context (which was comparing the indoraptor to ONE dinosaurs instead of factoring in the hybrid element of it) what really made me angry was that their skull depiction of the indoraptor was crudely drawn and exaggerated many of the features, they just barely drew the head, added holes and then made it look like the most basic idea of a skull before then "analysing" it.

so, to try and be less biased and fairer to the designers of the indoraptor, i decided to try a more professional method.
And here we have it, i present to you a specially ANATOMY EDITION of JPQuestions...

I give you: THE INDORAPTOR SKULL
An anatomy analysis by Talie the pyroraptor.

now before we begin i'll explain how i did this...
basically when reconstruction the skeleton of this creature i basically started with basically the reverse of the common reconstruction method that many paleontologists use to imagine the fleash on the dinosaurs. In my case I had to try imagining this dinosaur without it's proto-feathers, scaly skin, keratin layers, muscle tissue, and even the tendons that help to connect the bones together and then i had to consider the genetic traits that this hybrid (and it's "ancestor" the indominus rex) what i found was interesting...

PT1- THE SKULL ITSELF
first up, the skull's eye-obit (not big surpise) is not as oversized as they were claiming. it was simply the case of the indominus rex, where the thickened brow-ridges enhances the "skull-like" appearance of the face, you see that all the time in dinosaurs like t.rex, Giganotosaurus, and various species of abelisaurids, all of which just so happen to be part of the animal's genetic code.

other strange traits about the indoraptor's skull is the way it's jaw joints don't quite connect to each other, at least not in the same way as a "normal" theropod. And the thing is the bias folks i talked about (which for sensitivity reasons i will NOT mention here) used this to say it couldn't work properly. But while i'll respect them for having knowledge on basic theropod anatomy, the fact is you can't really COMPARE it to "normal" theropod jaws as it's directly taken from the description of it's predecessor, the indominus rex who had the unique feature of opening its mouth EXTREMELY wide! wider than ANY OTHER INGEN dinosaur in the park.

now at first this trait comes off as...rather bizarre for a dinosaur, but when you learn that a good chunk of it's genetic code was filled in with the genes of a common pit-viper, enabling it the ablity to sense thermal heat and...to have a unhingable jaw! Basically, like a snake, the lower jaw doesn't DIRECTLY connect to the upper jaw, allowing for a wider gap, the major difference to a snake is that the lower jaw isn't split in two sections

last thing to note in the SKULL section, is the strange-looking  crooked teeth that, while VERY similar to the i.rex, are actually sharper and narrower, allowing a more effective tearing and ripping bite (though it's still mainly built for GRIPPING, using it's arms to rip human limbs off)

last of all is that along the front of the snout, one can find certain, crocodile-like pressure sensors which have been found to help with the animal's ECHOLOCATION, in that they can pick up vibrations, allowing them to hunt in total darkness.

now that's out of the way...it's time to address how the skull is covered.

PT2- THE TENDONS, MUSCLES AND KERATIN

going back to the jaw-attachment, i've that the jaw muscles are more on the INSIDE of the jaws and that the OUTER jaw muscles are more attached to the neck than the face. again, if you are not keeping the bias of "normal" theropods, you find it's more similar to lizards....and SNAKES.
(you lot see where I'm getting at now?)

but despite that, the bite force is still comparable to a rex, capable of tearing a human, limb from limb (with the help of it's long arms)

and as for those ridges and armour on it's back, those are reinforced and thickened by KERATIN!
and a  thing about keratin is it's lightweight, it's replaceable and a IT CAN BE USED AS ARMOUR!
and this can be reinforced EVEN FURTHER by osteoderms (which i will get to in the third part)

and of course, one thing you might like, it has PROTOFEATHERS!
which are ALSO made of keratin.

PT3- OSTERODOERMS

one particularly interesting think about the indoraptor is that, just like the indominus rex, much of it's genetic code is made of several abelisaurids (like carnotaurus, majungasaurus, rugnops) all merged together create a tough, almost bulletproof armor. This armour is mostly comprised of a feature called OSTERODERMS (which are hardened scales filled with tiny bits of lightweight bone). In the indominus rex, this armor was durable but could be penetrated with enough force (whether it be from a missle or from the bite force of isla nublar resident rex). When the INDORAPTOR was made this armor was PERFECTED, to the point that not even a shotgun at close range could injure it.

I hope you like my diagram.
put your reactions down below!