Creating Jurassic World’s New Genetically Modified Dinosaur
Released on 06/12/2015
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I'm Jack Horner, curator of paleontology
at the Museum of the Rockies.
The Alan Grant character from Jurassic Park
One and Three is loosely based on me.
I first got involved with the Jurassic Park movies
when Steven Spielberg called me up one day
and asked me if I'd like to work on a movie.
Most of the dinosaurs that we see in Jurassic World
are dinosaurs we created for the other ones,
except for the new dinosaur, Indominus Rex.
[Woman] We have a new attraction.
Think it'll scare the kids?
This will give the parents nightmares.
He just went and made a new dinosaur?
We started out with a dinosaur called Therizinosaurus
which has big arms and then added a little T-Rex in,
a little velociraptor, plus using cuttlefish,
which is sort of for their camouflage and infrared.
Well the recipe for Indominus Rex,
it's not only a hybrid of different kinds of dinosaurs,
but it's also a transgenic dinosaur,
which means that we could take genetic characteristics
from other kinds of animals and add them.
What's really cool about this is the concept
of making a hybrid dinosaur or a transgenic dinosaur
is actually plausible, we can do that today.
Probably not a good idea.
I mean if you want a really scary one,
I would splice together a T-Rex to give it size
and bulk and power and then give it the bloodthirstiness
of maybe a vampire bat, then all he has to do
is just slash away, slurp up the blood.
Am I gonna do it, am I gonna make myself
a bloodsucking dinosaur?
Well, not likely.
But I was thinking about making a chickenosaurus.
There's lots going on where you have four laboratories
actually working pretty hard on doing some of these
transformations, I think we're moving right along.
Recently, I've been thinking about
what kinds of creatures could we make?
We could probably make a unicorn that glows in the dark.
We already make glow-in-the-dark rabbits
and other kinds of animals using genes from jellyfish.
All we have to do now is figure out a way
to put a horn on a horse and I actually think
there's a pretty easy way to do that.
As weird as it sounds, I think we can do it.
I think you could do it right now.
Starring: Jack Horner
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