Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton's Imagination Running Wild!
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Michael Crichton's Big Lizard Imagination On The Big Screen!
As a former marine biologist as well as someone who studied tropical reptiles in graduate school--crocodiles, sea turtles, and monitor lizards--reading Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park was vivid enough to scare the mess out of me (in a good way!).
Watching the movie, however, was a whole 'nuther dimension--even more scary.
In addition to beautiful cinematography--the settings, the scenery, the angles, and the good choice of actors--the story was well represented as a PG (Parental Guidance) version of the tad more graphic novel. The movie is good for kids (I took my 7-year-old boy to it--it did scare the mess out of him--but he liked enough to go to watch it again two or three more times).
The movie is done well enough (as the book is) such that "suspended disbelief" is possible and it's easy to imagine romping around in the wilds along with the actors being chased by huge reptiles.
If it weren't for "global cooling", we'd probably still be fighting the big reptiles! But now with climate change (which our planet does frequently on a galactic/universal scale anyway) and "global warming" and with the new advances in biotechnology, maybe there is a way to have bigger lizards marching around in the boonies.
Some lizards still have a side-profile of a velociraptor ..... such as this Micronesian mangrove monitor
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When Fiction Resembles Reality... The Lines Blur For Jurassic Park
Recently a zoo that had a single female Komodo Dragon (Monitor Lizard) in captivity discovered eggs in the animal's enclosure, which then later were found to be viable and which even later, hatched into a bunch of baby Komodo Dragons.
This story fits so well into what was first thought to be semi-plausible "fiction" in the movie. But now it's real!
Now, when you watch any of the Jurassic Park movies, you have to ask yourself--what part of this can really be true? And even better... when you get home, try sleeping through the night. And be careful before you go camping on the beach!
Large lizards ... are they cold-blooded killers? (Uh, some, like Komodo Dragons, may have warmer blood than you'd expect!)
Maybe Dinosaurs Aren't Extinct After All... You Can Still Find BIG Lizards... Like this Komodo Dragon!
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Velociraptors have front claws .... maybe similar to those of this monitor's
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Dinosaurs - Living or Not. Scientists have cloned animals. Komodo Dragons exist. Go figure.
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MelonyVaughan
Apr 5, 2012 @ 11:15 pm | delete
- Too bad the storyline was changed so much in the movie! Still worth the watch though! Acting is superb, visual effects stunning and the story engaging. Wonderful lens!
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Shadrosky
Aug 6, 2011 @ 11:11 am | delete
- Gotta love Jurassic Park, a flawless film and excellent novel
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hunksparrow
Feb 11, 2011 @ 12:07 pm | delete
- Really cool lens with great pics. Thanks
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Absolutely_Prehistoric Apr 21, 2008 @ 9:07 am | delete
- We are a fan of all things prehistoric. Cool Lens!
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