The Science of Jurassic World
The Dinosaur Facts Behind the Films
Published on 15. June 2021
264 pages
978-1-5107-6259-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 became the highest-grossing movie of that year, and the 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!
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Persons
Mark Brake developed the world's first science and science fiction degree in 1999. He also launched the world's first astrobiology degree in 2005. He's communicated science through film, television, print, and radio on five continents, including for NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, the BBC, the Royal Institution, and Sky Movies. He was one of the founding members of NASA's Astrobiology Institute Science Communication Group. He has written more than a dozen books, including Alien Life Imagined for Cambridge University Press in 2012. Mark also tours Europe with Science of Doctor Who, Science of Star Wars, and Science of Superheroes road shows.
Content
- 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
