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GIU3232 In reply to SpacePozzolo [2013-02-11 18:08:52 +0000 UTC]

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UltraMovieFan01 In reply to Paleo-King [2012-09-18 14:32:52 +0000 UTC]

You're totally right with the skull structure of the JP T-Rexes, but maybe it fits cause how they're mutated by the frog and lizard DNA.

This is an awesome piece!

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Paleo-King In reply to UltraMovieFan01 [2012-09-19 04:59:52 +0000 UTC]

That's a good point! While it might have been totally accidental, based on Spielberg's outdated notions of what dinosaurs looked like, the JP dinos DO indeed look like they have a bit of lizard and frog DNA affecting their overall appearance. What an interesting escape clause from accuracy there.... In fact I'm surprised that they didn't make them look even more like frogs given that in the story there were so many gaps to fill in the original dinosaur DNA.

Though I doubt you could actually splice frog DNA into dinosaur DNA and make a viable embryo out of it. Croc or bird DNA, maybe. Frog is a LONG stretch from dinosaur. Then we have the problem that different, distantly related dinosaur species may have had different numbers of chromosomes, some of which probably don't exist in frogs OR crocs OR modern birds, but still have needed splicing anyway.

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UltraMovieFan01 In reply to Paleo-King [2012-09-19 23:47:03 +0000 UTC]

Well I remember the behind the scenes video and in their original motion capture claymation for the animals, their is a particular scene where they intended to make the raptors tongues slip in and out of the mouth like snakes. However, they wanted to be more accurate to the animal's instincts.

Totally. The trouble does start from the origins of DNA replication in the book, I think in the novel they did use all kinds of lizards and amphibians, but if you look at the scientific leap from dinosaur to any modern animal today ... the bone structures of dinosaur fossils are more similar to modern day birds than lizards. It's the Gene splicing of all these chromosomes that can be put together and fit in the gaps ... boy how much money did Hammond had anyway?

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Paleo-King In reply to UltraMovieFan01 [2012-09-20 03:58:39 +0000 UTC]

Good question. The Jurassic Park photo books (a series of thin hardcover volumes full of screenshots from the film and pics of the real skeletons of those dinosaurs) claim that Hammond has billions. For all my knowledge of real dinosaurs, I've never read Crichton's books in any detail. So I don't know about the source of Hammond's wealth. But in the movie he says the first "business enterprise" he ever set up was a flea circus. So I'm not totally sure but it seems he was totally self-made, didn't inherit his billions. In the book didn't he have a company that built amusement parks ("attractions") before he founded InGen? It seems his main line of business for a long time was creating very successful theme parks that raked in billions. "Spared no expense" of course. Make huge profits by sparing no expense? It's almost like he could magick money out of thin air. On the other hand, the owners of the Titanic planned the same sort of business model, and it probably would have worked if the ship didn't hit an iceberg. The demand is there, it just takes a phenomenal salesman/advertisement to draw it in.

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UltraMovieFan01 In reply to Paleo-King [2012-09-21 02:21:10 +0000 UTC]

Jurassic Park is such a phenomenal series cause it was a great interpretation at a hands on take of designing these leviathans of history. I wish the park existed, but functionally worked.

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Paleo-King In reply to UltraMovieFan01 [2012-09-21 03:02:41 +0000 UTC]

Me too. And I wish it could work without frog and lizard DNA. Maybe with bird DNA spliced in instead. I'd definitely pay to visit. Of course cloning a Puertasaurus [link] [link] would make it even better.

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UltraMovieFan01 In reply to Paleo-King [2012-09-22 22:34:03 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god, those designs are amazing

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TyrannosaurusPrime In reply to Paleo-King [2012-09-19 06:15:48 +0000 UTC]

In the Jurassic Park novel they also used croc and bird DNA, and frog DNA was only present in the Velociraptors, Maiasaura, Procompsognathids, Othnielias and Hypsilophodonts, which is why they are the only dinosaurs in the park that bred in the novel.

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