

The latter immediately expresses concern regarding the park’s ability to contain the creatures they’ve created. Wu, the company has managed to genetically engineer dinosaurs from ancient DNA.Īlso present on the island are Hammond’s lawyer, Donald Genaro, and brilliant mathematician Dr. There, the protagonists discover that with the help of an ingenious geneticist, Dr. He informed them that they were going on a tour of what he calls Jurassic Park. There, they meet John Hammond, the owner of InGen, which funded many of Dr. Ellie Sattler with whom he was working on various paleontological digs, are flown to a mysterious island off the coast of Costa Rica. Soon after, he and his research partner Dr. Alan Grant, who is shocked to see an x-ray of the lizard skeleton, which he immediately recognizes as a dinosaur. A technician calls world-renowned paleontologist Dr.

The previously unknown species piques the interest of a lab at Columbia University. Jurassic Park begins with a series of lizard attacks in Costa Rica. Spoiler alert: important details of the novel are revealed below. They battle for survival while also trying to prevent the dinosaurs from escaping to mainland Costa Rica where they can cause far more destruction. It follows several characters invited to a mysterious island where dinosaurs have been recreated using ancient DNA.Ī series of strange animal attacks begins this book and alludes to the chaos to follow as unprepared paleontologists, doctors, and children, contend with a host of creatures that long since went extinct. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a unique 1990 thriller and a cautionary tale against genetic engineering.
