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Speaker 1: One of the greatest blockbuster adventure flicks of the nineteen

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Speaker 1: nineties and beyond was Jurassic Park. But did you ever

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Speaker 1: wonder how true to life the dinosaurs Steven Spielberg put

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Speaker 1: on movie screens are compared to the real life dinos

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Speaker 1: he based them on. I'm Patty Steele. What Jurassic Park

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Speaker 1: got right and what it got wrong about those prehistoric creatures?

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Speaker 1: That's next on the backstory. We're back with the backstory.

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Speaker 1: Jurassic Park and its six sequels have thrilled audiences since

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Speaker 1: the first one debuted in June of nineteen ninety three,

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Speaker 1: a summer blockbuster that captivated the world and was the

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Speaker 1: biggest ever money maker up to that time. It's been

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Speaker 1: a huge hit, with multiple viewings in my house. There

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Speaker 1: were two sets of trilogies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic World.

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Speaker 1: Then another flick was added to the Jurassic World series,

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Speaker 1: which came out last summer crummy ratings. But what is

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Speaker 1: it that God is all so excited about animals that

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Speaker 1: went extinct sixty six million years ago? It's just that

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Speaker 1: these beings inhabited the Earth for around one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty million years. Humans at least Homo sapiens like us

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Speaker 1: have only been here for three hundred thousand years, and

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Speaker 1: our earliest ancestors showed up only about six or seven

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Speaker 1: million years ago. But all we saw of dinosaurs were

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Speaker 1: skeletons and fossils until Jurassic Park brought them to life.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Spielberg said he wanted to show that, for the

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Speaker 1: most part, dinosaurs weren't monsters, they were animals, and he

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Speaker 1: wanted to portray them as accurately as possible. He even

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Speaker 1: had the imminent paleontologist Jack Horner on board as a

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Speaker 1: consultant for the entire production, but of course they were

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Speaker 1: also making an action adventure flick and they needed drama.

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Speaker 1: Horner said there were a lot of inaccuracies, but he

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Speaker 1: said the film is not a documentary, and I was

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Speaker 1: happy with having some fiction thrown in. My job was

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Speaker 1: to get a little science into Jurassic Park, but not

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Speaker 1: to ruin it. While the sequels sort of focused on wild,

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Speaker 1: rampaging dinosaurs, Horner said that in reality, visiting a dinosaur

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Speaker 1: park would be kind of like going to a wild

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Speaker 1: animal park. As long as you keep the windows rolled up,

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna hurt you, but he said, I guess that

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Speaker 1: doesn't make a very good movie, does it. So what

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Speaker 1: doesn't follow science in Jurassic Park? Well, first off, microbiologists

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Speaker 1: say gathering dino DNA through a mosquito trapped an amber

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Speaker 1: after biting a dinosaur one hundred million years ago just

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Speaker 1: wouldn't work. DNA doesn't last. It degrades as far as

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Speaker 1: they've seen after a million years at most, said Horner.

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Speaker 1: Even if they had dinosaur DNA, we wouldn't know how

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Speaker 1: to actually make an animal just from DNA. The animal

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Speaker 1: cloning that we do these days is with a live cell,

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Speaker 1: and we don't have any dinosaur live cells. The whole

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Speaker 1: business of creating a live dinosaur is a lot of fiction,

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Speaker 1: at least for now. And what about the animals themselves,

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Speaker 1: signed Toss say, Spielberg and crew really did their homework.

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Speaker 1: They praised the premise in the flick that dinosaurs eventually

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Speaker 1: evolved into birds, which was a pretty new discovery back

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Speaker 1: in the early nineties. They now say that the closest

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Speaker 1: living relative of a t rex is the chicken. Now,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, paleontologists say a lot of dinosaurs,

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Speaker 1: like veloci raptors had brightly colored feathers, which of course

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Speaker 1: we don't see in Jurassic Park. While that discovery came later,

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Speaker 1: the Jurassic franchise mostly stuck with featherless dinosaurs just to

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Speaker 1: be consistent, but a few feathered dinosaurs were added in

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Speaker 1: Jurassic World Dominion, although some of the filmmakers thought they

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Speaker 1: looked like big chickens and weren't all that scary. Jack Horner,

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Speaker 1: the paleontologist, said, Steve and Spielberg made the point several

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Speaker 1: times to me that feathered, colorful dinosaurs are not very scary.

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Speaker 1: Scaly creatures in gray and brown and black are a

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Speaker 1: lot more scary. Horner said he considered the colors to

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Speaker 1: be the most inaccurate part of the film's dinosaurs. He

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Speaker 1: also said, in addition, the animals are often shown roaring,

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Speaker 1: but in actuality, since dinosaurs evolved into birds and birds sing,

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Speaker 1: I think most dinosaurs actually sang rather than growled. In

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Speaker 1: the movie, the roars of the t rex were created

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Speaker 1: by mixing the recorded vocals of a baby elephant, a tiger,

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Speaker 1: and an alligator, none of them singing. Some other changes,

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Speaker 1: Spielberg purposely altered the size of some of the on

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Speaker 1: screen dinosaurs so audiences wouldn't confuse them with another species

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Speaker 1: shown in the film. But they were even careful there.

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Speaker 1: They created some of these fictional dinosaurs by studying the

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Speaker 1: DNA of various times and combining them to create the

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Speaker 1: kind of animal they needed for the storyline. They frequently

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Speaker 1: added dramatic coloring, frills that could fan out in battle,

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Speaker 1: and feat that could accommodate puppeteers inside some of the dinosaurs,

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Speaker 1: all in an effort to add to the story. Again,

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Speaker 1: not a documentary. Now, on a funny side note, the

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Speaker 1: Jurassic Park script called for a dinosaur to spit black

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Speaker 1: venom on the face of the character Dennis Nedri played

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Speaker 1: by Wayne Knight. That was a great scene, but the

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Speaker 1: slime they used left a stain on Wayne's face, a

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Speaker 1: problem for him when he had to leave the Jurassic

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Speaker 1: Park set to film his role as the Nasty mailman

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Speaker 1: Newman on Seinfeld. So, if you're a fan of the

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Speaker 1: Jurassic films or an ardent student of dinosaurs, understand that

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Speaker 1: the point of the original novel by Michael Crichton and

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Speaker 1: the original movie from Stephen Spielberg was to give us

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Speaker 1: a broader sense of these amazing animals. They rule the

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Speaker 1: earth for hundreds of millions of years, far longer than

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