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About this book
A tale of some of the most amazing creatures ever to grace this tiny planet—unearth how the science fiction of the Jurassic World franchise inspired the evolution of dinosaur science. It all began in 1993. Jurassic Park was a movie landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual effects. Jurassic Park becamethe highest-grossing movie of that year, andthe highest-grossing film ever at the time, a record held until the 1997 release of Titanic. The field of dinosaur science has blossomed by leaps and bounds and branched out in recent years, in no small part to this iconic movie series. In The Science of Jurassic World, we experience the amazing story of the birth of the dinosaurs, how they evolved to world dominance, how some became gargantuan in size, how others grew wings and flew, and how the rest of them met an untimely end. Chapters include:
- How did Jurassic Park transform dinosaur science?
- Was Dr. Alan Grant's job a walk in the park?
- What's with the giant dinosaur poop?
- When will we clone dinosaurs?
- And so much more!
Discover how some of cinema's most incredible creations do justice to the jaw-dropping evolution of these fantastic creatures.
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INDEX
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3D printing technologies, 52–54, 111, 158, 171
3D scanners, 49–50. see also paleontology technology
A
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 60
additive manufacturing (AM), 53
Africa, 68
African elephants, 108, 137
Age of Faith, 8–10, 104–105
Age of Reptiles, 220
The Age of Reptiles (Zallinger), 107–109
air sacs, 114–115
Alamosaurus, 56
Alaska, 186
albertonykus borealis, 120
allosaurus, viii, 108, 122–123, 159
alpha behavior, 193–194
Alvarez, Luis, 65, 83
Alvarez, Walter, 65, 81–82
amber, 23–29
dinosaur tail in, 20, 25
DNA discoveries, 26–28
DNA issues, 230–231
in Jurassic Park, 23–24
learnings from, 28–29
locations and time periods, 25
size of organisms, 20, 23–24
solidification process, 24–25
American Museum of Natural History, 152–153, 185
amino acids, 38–39
ammonites, 17
amphibians, 35–36
animal behavior. see behavior of extinct animals; training animals
ankylosaurs, ix, 132, 133, 156, 161
apatosaurus, viii
apex predators, 117–118, 122–124, 144–145
archaea, 32
archaeopteryx, 119, 121, 179
archosaurs, 96–97, 101, 166–167
Arctic Circle, 96
Argentina, 100, 102, 103
Argentinosaurus, 111...
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Dinosaur Timeline
- Introduction: How Did Jurassic Park Transform Dinosaur Science?
- How Was Deep Time Discovered?
- Why Didn’t All Dinosaurs Become Fossils?
- How Does Amber Help Us Peer into The Past?
- Does “Life, Uh, Find a Way?”
- Was Dr. Alan Grant’s Job a Walk in the Park?
- How Has Rapid Prototyping Tech Transformed Paleontology?
- How Are Dinosaur Skeletons Reproduced in Museums?
- How Many Dinosaur Species Are There?
- How Did the Dinosaurs (Mostly) Die Out?
- What Is the “Smoking Gun” for Dinosaur Extinction?
- What Was the Great Dinosaur Rush?
- Jurassic Backdrop: Continents and Tectonics
- How Did Dinosaurs Get So Big?
- What Predators Pose the Biggest Threat in the Jurassic Series?
- How Do You Feed a Herd of Hungry Herbivores?
- What’s with the Giant Dinosaur Poop?
- Meet the Jurassic Family: At Home with the Tyrannosaurs
- Was T. Rex King of the Jurassic World?
- How Can We Know the Behavior of Extinct Animals?
- How Did Dinosaurs Acquire Feathers?
- Did Dinosaurs of a Feather Flock Together?
- How Do You Train Your Velociraptor like Owen Grady?
- How Did Dinosaurs Do the Deed?
- Fallen Kingdom: How Would Trump’s America Deal with the Escaped Dinosaurs?
- Was Mosasaurus the Greatest Sea Beast?
- Should We Make a Real-Life Jurassic World?
- Extinction: Will Humans Go the Way of the Dinosaurs?
- Index