Jurassic Park | how dinos became a modern craze

Illiterate

What are the origins of the mega franchise? How did the book come to be? And did anybody listen to the warnings about messing with the natural order, or will we have wooly mammoths in 5 years?! Come listen and learn!

a correction: Pleistocene should be pronounced “PLY-stow-seen”. Apologies to all the ice age aficionados!

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Extras:

• trailer, Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
• article, original 1982 study on a fly in amber
• video, news segment with scared kid on ’93 release day
• video, Crichton’s TED talk from 1992
• article, speculative viable dino DNA uncovered in fossil
• site, Colossal Biosciences (the wooly mammoth company)
• article, on Pleistocene Park in Siberia
• book, Jack Horner’s “How to Build a Dinosaur” (2009)
• instagram, Evan’s Jurassic Park Jeep (TJJP18)

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