One of those features that has popped up in recent fiction is poison/venom the Trope Codifier for this is Dilophosaurus, whose famous appearance in both the book and film versions of the first installment of the Jurassic Park franchise showcased the dinosaur being able to spray venom from its mouth that allows the species to blind and paralyze its prey. Even after our knowledge of dinosaurs improved, portrayals of dinosaurs in fiction still tend to give them outwardly "reptilian" features that they probably did not possess in life, either to make them more frightening or simply because it's cool. Long before it was understood that dinosaurs were most closely related to birds (or, more accurately, that birds are dinosaurs) many writers gave their depictions of dinosaurs attributes of modern-day reptiles.
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