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Why didn't they make the dinosaurs all male?
From the movie, it sounds as though they chose female because it was less work. Since they apparently neglected to consider the possibility of life finding a way the dinosaur's sex spontaneously ...
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Was the T-Rex the same one?
Yes
The film's director, Colin Trevorrow confirmed explicitly that she's the same dino seen in Jurassic Park in a few different interviews.
“The T. Rex in this movie is the same T. Rex from ‘Jurassic ...
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How does Dr. Grant know the Tyrannosaurus Rex won't see him?
Unfortunately, Dr Grant was wrong, and this theory only comes from Jurassic Park and is not accepted at all in paleontology.
I will use this article , but there are a lot similar on the web that ...
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Why was there a toilet with working plumbing near the T-Rex paddock?
This appears to be a guest toilet. Next to it is a large and prominent sign that shows what's in the paddock and offering the "camera" symbol to show that it's a good place to stop and take photos. It ...
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Why didn't they make the dinosaurs all male?
This is mentioned in the original novel by Micheal Crichton:
It's easier to manage
“Sex organs vary with the species. It's easy to tell on some, subtle
on others. But, to answer your question, ...
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How does Dr. Grant know the Tyrannosaurus Rex won't see him?
The movie's source novel makes it clear that Grant didn't know it beforehand, he worked it out from observations, like the good little scientist that he is:
The tyrannosaur bellowed in the night ...
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Why didn't they make the dinosaurs all male?
I am addressing this question from a biological standpoint.
With the technology available at the moment, it is not possible to clone a male in the absence of an egg-donor i.e.the female. Most ...
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Did/do the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park reproduce asexually or did some turn into males?
Doctor Grant, in the source novel surmises that some of the dinosaurs have turned male, then impregnated the remaining females. At no point does he seem to change his opinion;
“It's not frog DNA,” ...
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What is this red thing on a Jurassic Park poster?
Fitting with the theme of genetic manipulation and the corresponding character to the left of the gates, it appears to be a cartoon version of a DNA chromatograph:
Researchgate Fair usage 2021
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What's the little black box on Nedry's Desk in Jurassic Park?
User TokyoSpark on therpf claims to have worked for a production design company called frogdesign in the 1990s. Spielberg had a serendipitous meeting with the head of frogdesign on a plane journey and ...
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Are all of the Jurassic Park films canon?
Yes. All five movies are canon to each other.
According to a Yahoo Movies interview with Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow, the rebooted sequel is indeed canonical with the earlier trilogy. That ...
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Is the mosquito in amber inspired by a real object?
Your friend was perhaps thinking of The Amber Time Machine, a documentary that David presented, many years later, which did indeed talk about the creatures preserved in a block of amber he owned.
In ...
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Does Ian Malcolm know what awaits them at Jurassic Park?
In the novel Ian Malcolm was one of the park's earliest consultants. He insisted that it wasn't going to work even before the initial design stage.
“I think so. None of them had much to do with the ...
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What can be found on the "terminal" on the Jurassic World promotional website?
After downloading the Javascript powering it, it seems it has the following commands and subcommands:
help displays a help message (also works in submenus)
assets allows to query the assets: the ...
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How large exactly is the mosasaurus in Jurassic World?
Their animation director, Glen Macintosh actually discussed this discrepancy in a recent interview with Engineering & Technology magazine:
[...] the Mosasaur originally started out as like 60ft ...
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Why does Nedry have a photo of Oppenheimer on his computer monitor?
Upon completion and testing of the first bomb, Oppenheimer famously recalled the text from the Bhagavad Gita - "I am become death. The destroyer of worlds". Possibly a subtle shout out to the fact ...
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Which dinosaurs on the Island were actually from the Jurassic period?
Here is a wikipedia page about the dinosaurs (and other prehistoric creatures) shown in the Jurassic Park movies (it also lists the ones mentioned in the books, but I take it from the comments you ...
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What is this red thing on a Jurassic Park poster?
DNA sequence
I'm not a scientist so this might not be the right term but it looks like uncoiled DNA strands as a lab result.
It is also opposite Mr. DNA on the image.
Here is a stock image of test ...
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Why did they name change from Deinonychus to Velociraptor?
I think that you have already answered your own question. It is clear that, both, the film-makers and Crichton wanted a perfect mash-up of scary dinosaur AND scary-sounding name. So, they decided to ...
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How Dangerous is Jurassic Park/World?
Body Count = 75(ish) depending on how you choose to count the boat crews.
Jurassic Park
Surprisingly non-bloody. There were only a few guests and most of the park's staff had already left. In the film,...
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How old are the adult dinosaurs in Jurassic Park?
The implication (at least according to the source novel) is that the park has been breeding live dinosaurs for approximately 5 years by the time the events of Jurassic Park take place.
A single ...
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How large exactly is the mosasaurus in Jurassic World?
If the shark it eats in Jurassic World is a Great White, there's no way the mosasaur is 18 meters long: it must be considerably longer than a Blue Whale. This site makes a case for it being 50 m long, ...
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Who killed the crew of the Venture in "The Lost World"?
There's been a rumor for years that in a deleted scene, the crew was killed by raptors. IMDB's trivia page says the following:
The script called for a scene where the Velociraptors got on board the ...
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Why would John Hammond build the visitor center out of glass?
Hammond's sin is hubris. He doesn't see the animals in the park as a major threat, hence there's no need to give the visitors (in the Visitor Centre or elsewhere in the park) any more protection than ...
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What can we infer about the programming language used in "Jurassic Park" (the book, not the movie)?
From a purely out-of-universe perspective, these snippets seem to be a perfect example of the Hollywood Hacking trope, with each code block containing a chunk of human-readable text
on whte_rbt....
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Why did Michael Crichton write that the T. rex can’t see you if you don’t move?
In the novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton makes the point that frog DNA was used to fill gaps in the genetic code where genuine dino DNA was missing. As an unintended consequence, the dinosaurs ...
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Did Hammond not pay Nedry well?
In the source novel, we learn that Nedry is grumpy because his team was (he feels) intentionally misled by Hammond. Although he's been well compensated for his work, he's had to put in extra work and (...
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Why didn't they make the dinosaurs all male?
I wholeheartedly agree with what has been said about aggression and females - unlike males - pairing together. I'd like to add something about gender however.
First off, there are some species that ...
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