Jurassic World

That one was more of a Giganotosaurus than a Carcharodontosaurus, in fact. If you compare it to the typical museum mounts of those animals, you can see it has the rough nasals and awkwardly expanded occipital area of Giganotosaurus mounts.◊

Edited by Eriorguez on Dec 10th 2021 at 2:08:51 PM

Or died out naturally. The most unbelievable part of this entire scenario is the idea that the handful of animals released from one dude's garage could constitute a serious invasive threat to the world.

Like. The one tyrannosaurus that got loose? She's supposed to repopulate a whole species alone? Spread rexes across the planet? By herself?

The predators are not the problem. The herbivores are. One triceratops or stegosaurus is going to be eating as much as a whole herd of smaller animals and their natural predators will instead be going after easier prey.

Realistically yes they should all be hunted down but if they are not (because Plot) then yes, even in limited numbers dinosaurs are very bad for the ecosystem.

It’s not the handful of dinosaurs that escaped from a mansion that’s the main concern. It’s the fact that their DNA is out there for free, and there are many genetic companies eager to make their own dinosaurs.

Which is why Dodgson is back to finish what he had started in Dominion.

Dodgson? We have Dodgson here?

Now people are going to care. x_x

The issue with dinosaurs is that, well, they were explosive breeders, with very small relative to adult size newborns, that were nonetheless precocial and had a different ecological niche from their parents; think crocs, which start out as wall lizard-sized insect munchers, then graduate to fish, and end up being able to feed on zebras.

Animals with that strategy generally are predated en masse when young; however, a single Tyrannosaurus won't be able to control the population of breeding herds of ceratopsians and hadrosaurs, and, cougars, coyotes, and even wolves and bears likely wouldn't be able to mess with a megaherbivore of that size past a few months old. They also started to reproduce fast; before reaching full size, and cronologically far earlier than, say, an elephant.

And that isn't really taking sauropods into account.

They would likely be invasive megafauna. That's a very scary concept, as it involves utter ecosystematic replacement.

If you want to clone extinct animals to set free, do it with missing pieces of modern ecosystems. Steppe megafauna, Australian megafauna (dingoes are making a patchwork solution, but that ecosystem is in shreds anyway)... those would be fine. But don't release a mix of Lancian and Morrison fauna in modern NA FFS.

Giant sloths

History has shown gunning down dinosaurs has been far harder than advanced militaries assumed.

If there is not a reference to the Emu War in Dominion, I will be disappointed.

Atrociraptors and pyroraptors will make their movie debut.

The Atrociraptors were originally going to be Deinonychus, but, ONCE AGAIN, the most important dinosaur of the 20th century gets robbed of the spotlight. And, not by an impressive animal which has merits by itself, but by a friggin' nose tip.◊

No really, Deinonychus is an awesome animal and has a sensible name, rather than edgy ones.

Pyroraptor is known from scraps, and its role would had been beautifully played by the actual Velociraptor, if the original plan to use the proper name in 1993 had been upheld.

Goddammit, Ostrom deserved more.

Here's something I noticed in that article. Trevorrow says, "There's a little one called the Moros intrepidus, who doesn't do a ton in the movie, but whenever it shows up, I always love it."

Now, Moros has already appeared in the prologue (it's the little dinosaur cleaning the Giganotosaurus's teeth), so is this suggesting that it'll appear in the main movie as well?

I've got to say "Pyroraptor" sounds fearsome even for a Raptor Attack-causing dinosaur.

I'm a little sad that the actual explanation for their name is so hilariously mundane, 'cause I wanted some raptors that can breathe fire.

Then again, the Komodo dragon can't breathe fire either, but it's doing pretty well.

A toy checklist has revealed some potential new animals for the movie. A lot of them are probably toy-only creatures, but some of them seem to be appearing in the movie— those being Geosternbergia, Kosmoceratops, Rajasaurus, and Liopleurodon.

Pteranodon sternbergi and Liopleurodon were added to Jurassic World Evolution 2, while all other Dominion critters we know of even due to rumors were kept out, so, I would not expect them.

Well, Geosternbergia and Kosmoceratops are in the JW Legacy collection, which normally only contains animals from the movies.

Not sure what the point of Liopleurodon would be (in universe or out) when the Mosasaur still exists.

Spinosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Baryonyx, Carnotaurus, Allosaurus and now Giganotosaurus.

True but amber/DNA for terrestrial animals would be much more abundant than aquatic ones.

Though given that at least in the JP era they were partly just growing any old dinosaur DNA and seeing what they got, they could end up with just about anything.

Aquatic mosquitoes, the deadliest of their kind, roamed the Earth at the time.

Ah of course. Truly, Life Will Find A Way.

Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that at some point they managed to figure out how to extract DNA from fossils?