"Jurassic World 3" "Demon Reform" Dinosaur?Paramgrach research takes you to distinguish between true and false

Author:Beijing Science and Technology Time:2022.07.04

"Jurassic World 3", which is being released, is the final chapter of the Jurassic Park series of science fiction movies. In the past 30 years, what are the "changes and unchanged" dinosaurs in this series of works?

Article/Ma Zhiheng (Member of the Chinese Popular Science Writers Association)

Editor/Ding Ling New Media Editor/Lu Bingxin

Image source/"Jurassic World 3" trailer (except for indication)

The cold wind of the Bai Ling Strait whistled, and a crab catcher was retracted the cage. The shaking of the hull gradually becomes larger inadvertently ...

The fishermen are about to face a more terrible threat than the cold -a huge Canglong suddenly appeared through the cover of waves, opened the blood basin to bite the meter, and then dragged over a helpless boat. Canglong was originally a marine crawling animal living in the late Baiji period, that is, the end of the dinosaur era. After "reappearing the earth", he was still at the top of the food chain.

This summer, we ushered in the final chapter of "Jurassic World" of "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" series of science fiction movies. After the first "Jurassic Park" in 1993, the series that was carried out around the "dinosaur resurrection" was fermented by a generation of time, and finally a new world was derived from the original science fiction novel.

Thirty Lessons Witness New Progress of Potenology

Whether it was the trilogy of Jurassic Park in the last century, or the new series "Jurassic World" restarted in 2015, their biggest highlights are undoubtedly the prehistoric reptiles such as "resurrected" dinosaurs to bring to the protagonists. The crisis.

In "Jurassic World 3", it is natural to have dangerous scenes. The old -fashioned transport aircraft of the male and female protagonist Owen and Claire took the female pilot Kalar, near the dinosaur protection area controlled by the genetic company BIOSYN, which was raid by the pterosaur. Claire's parachute and escaping with tan feathers, like a sickle dragon wearing a ripple dress, met the road, and Irving and Kara, who were forced to fall on the ice, encountered the pursuit of the fire dragon of dark red feathers.

▲ The aircraft pterosaur attack the protagonist and other planes

The sickle dragons and fire stolen dragons in the movie, as well as the flashes in the laboratory scene, showed people in the image of feathers. The changes in the image of dinosaur film and television seem to have made people look back at the great progress of paleontology research in the past few decades in the history of scientific history.

From the word "dinosaurs" in 1842, when the Jurassic Park was released in 1993, people always thought that dinosaurs were ugly, cold -ice reptiles. But in 1996, scientists discovered the fossils of Chinese dragon birds in Liaoning Province, China. It was considered a bird with feathers, but subsequent research showed that it was a small meat dinosaur. This discovery made people realize that feathers are not "patents" of birds.

▲ Chinese dragon bird fossils and hand -painted schematic diagrams from the early Baiji Ji River group.

After the Chinese dragon bird, paleontologists around the world have discovered a large number of dinosaur fossils with feathers. The research on these specimens reveals the inextricable connection between birds and dinosaurs, making us convinced that birds have evolved from the dinosaurs. Today, the mainstream view believes that the "dinosaurs extinct" 65 million years ago only destroyed all non -bird dinosaurs; some dinosaurs evolved into birds and still accompanied us.

With the continuous accumulation of dinosaur feathers, people have begun to re -examine the recovery image of some dinosaurs. The sickle dragon in the movie is the "close relative" of Bei Ticket Dragon in Liaoning Province. The fossil of the North Ticket Dragon has the traces of primitive feathers, so paleontologists speculate that the sickle dragon surface is likely to cover similar feathers.

▲ The North Ticket Dragon Model exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History (Source: New York Times)

In contrast, the feathers on the fire dragon are likely to be more "advanced", or closer to modern birds. In 1992, the forest of Provence, France suffered a fire, exposed some fragmented dinosaur fossils. After 8 years of research, paleontologists found that these fossils belonged to a small type of meat dinosaur and named it "Olympus Flame Dragon" to commemorate the forest fire of the year. The basics of "same age" with "Jurassic Park", "Gorgeous debut" in the final chapter of the series of movies, as if paying tribute to paleontologists in recent years to understand the process of taking feather dinosaurs.

▲ The image of the fire dragon wearing feathers in the film

The Ecuaulon, who was only naming scientifically in 2019, was the rookie of "step on the point" when the movie was about to start filming. Considering that in the real world, paleontologists don't know much about it, so there are only a few flashes of shots in the movie in the movie.

The inspiration and materials brought to the film in reality are not the only feather dinosaur. In the "Jurassic World 3" film, the scenes of dinosaurs strolling, running, and even hunting in the ice and snow appeared. These plots also supported research evidence as support.

In recent years, a series of research on dinosaurs' metabolism and growth shows that many dinosaurs are not similar to the warming animals similar to lizards or turtles. Some dinosaurs can have the ability to maintain constant body temperature like humans and birds. Therefore, as long as they can get enough food, the four -seasons environment in the modern earth is not a big challenge.

"Inheritance Traditional" error settings

Although "Jurassic World 3" has learned many latest research results, in order to make the plot more exciting, the film people can't help but "magic reforms" for some dinosaurs. For example, the fire dragon in the real world is only about the same as the turkey, and its body structure is not suitable for diving swimming. However, such an image obviously cannot cause the audience to cause too much waves, so the fire dragon in the movie is set as "slightly larger than a person", and at the same time retains the agile characteristics of the action, with the sharp and sharp teeth, creating a one to create a one Strong sense of oppression. When Klair's parachute fell into the forest in the movie, the sickle dragon just waved the giant claw to kill a wild deer. Before it enjoyed the prey, it was attracted and tracked by the sound of Claire's landing, forcing her to dive into the pond to avoid it. In fact, the giant claws that are somewhat incomparable with the body are probably given "new features" by Hollywood.

▲ Claire sneak into the pond to avoid sickle dragons

The sickle dragon in reality is likely to eat plants. Their giant claws cannot bear much impact, so it is not a weapon that actively attacks. It can only be used to pull the branches of the trees to their mouths. But in the movie, this giant claw can not only kill the wild deer in one blow, but also pierce the body of the southern monster dragon, adding a lot of color to the ending of the meat dinosaur.

In addition, some error settings in the movie are "wrong" inheritance of tradition. Starting from the first "Jurassic Park", the action is sensitive, fast, and aggressive (old translation "Raptors"), because it is possible to make a group of "high IQ" that can cooperate with the hunting "high IQ", it is attractive. Note. Small meat dinosaurs such as Linglielong may indeed be the most "smart" member of the dinosaur. However, the recovery image drawn by paleontologists for the dragon of the Linglie looks like a bird wearing feathers.

▲ The real size of the Linglong Dragon is equivalent to turkey, but in the "Jurassic Park" series of movies, they are taller than humans. The picture shows paleontologists showing the skull fossils of adults (source: wired.com)

However, in order to maintain the consistency of the film settings, the "Jurassic World" series can only adopt the solution of "old dragon and old image, Xinlong new image", while restoring the fire dragon and other feather dinosaurs according to the new research results. Let the Lingling Dragon still maintain the original smooth appearance and "integrate" some structural characteristics of the fastest claw dragon that is larger than its body. For a bit of thriller. For the "Jurassic World" series of movies, the "cold -blooded killer" image shows the acting dragon, which is obviously more conducive to creating a thrilling atmosphere than furry.

In fact, the audience does not have to be too harsh. If we judge the knowledge of dinosaurs we have controlled today, whether it is the early "Jurassic Park" movie or the original novel published by American science fiction writer Michael Clydon in 1990, there are some "flaws" that are difficult to avoid. One of the most important flaws is undoubtedly the method of "resurrection" dinosaurs, which is also the foundation of the entire story. According to the author's setting, the genetic material used by human "resurrection" dinosaurs is taken from the blood of the dinosaur blood in the body after mosquito bite dinosaurs. Ancient insects that bite dinosaurs come from amber from Dominica. People fill the missing parts in genetic information with the frog's DNA.

▲ Comparison of the image of the "Prehistoric Planet" produced in "Prehistoric Planet" (the image of the barbaric dragon (pictured above and lower on the left) and the image in the "Jurassic World" movie

At that time, people really thought that amber was a perfect "plastic wrap", which allowed the genetic material of animals to span 10 million years. But modern life science research has proven that such an idea is impossible. After about 1.5 million years, the "genetic password" carried by the DNA in amber will be broken to the point where it is completely unpredictable.

Although it is out of reach to return to the earth to return to the earth, this fact is not harmful to the classic status of "Jurassic Park" and a series of movies. This is because the original novel wants to explore is far more profound than resurrected dinosaurs.

Awear is the constant theme

Whether it is the original novel "Jurassic Park" or in the series of movies, there is a continuous main line, that is, humans try to control and tame other life (such as dinosaurs), but life is the instinct to grow and reproduce the "finding the way out" It determines that human beings conquer natural ambitions will always fail due to the smallest leakage.

For example, in the "Jurassic Park" initially built by human beings, all dinosaurs were artificially selected as females and intentionally set genetic defects. Only a certain drug can survive in a continuous feeding in the circle of care. But after the fence was destroyed and the dinosaurs fled to the wilderness, the genetic defects in the expected expected did not cause all dinosaurs to die. On the contrary, the surviving dinosaurs are also like some modern reptiles (such as Komodo giant lizards). They reproduce their offspring by virtue of the ethical and female reproduction, and finally let the island completely out of control.

In "Jurassic World 3", the "Little Blue" of the Female Linglong Dragon in the Forest Forest also relies on the way of lonely female reproduction and has its own descendants "Beta", which has stepped out of an important step to take root on the modern earth. , And once again confirmed the timeless motto in the original novel: "Life, always find your own way (Life Finds A Way)." The concept of awe of nature and life in this sentence is the theme that runs through the entire series.

(Source: "Jurassic Park")

In "Jurassic World 3", human beings not only face dinosaurs to reproduce the earth, but also invade the crisis of human life; the "super locust" that originated from BIOSYN has also become a thought -provoking dark line. In order to ensure the sales of grain seeds, this company has cultivated locusts mixed with the Loco genes mixed with the white -cricket locust, and it is about the same as the Chihuahua dog. It intentionally spreads them to the wild and let them destroy the farmland. Long food. With the "super locust" accurate assault, this company can dominate the grain seed market. ▲ The headquarters of BIOSYN genetic company in the film

But Dr. Ian Malcol, who was employed by BIOSYN, saw this "business model" that would bring huge risks to human society. As an expert in studying the theory of chaos, he knows that humans cannot control the evolution of life, and lack understanding of the power of genes and lack of awe. Essence

In the bridge of academic speeches in the movie, Malcolm reviewed the lesson in the history of science and technology as the alarm to the new generation of researchers. Human research on atomic energy eventually led to a military reserve competition that pursued the power of nuclear weapons, misunderstanding and coincidence made humans go to the edge of destruction several times. s consequence. Over time, the super locusts that are scattered to the wild will one day break through the barrier preset by the trainer, so that humans are familiar with and survived the farming civilization, and the earth collapses in a short time.

The development of the plot then confirmed Malcolm's concerns. In order to destroy the evidence, Biosyn tried to kill all the "super locusts" in the laboratory, but caused the control system failure due to high temperature, but made them all escape. Fortunately, the scientists who cultivated this kind of locust cliff, before the locust began to evolve, found the way of extinction, so that all humans avoided a catastrophe.

In order to make selfish interests, humans created the animals that did not exist in nature in nature, and finally paid a heavy price for the disabled. Such a plot also appeared repeatedly in the three movies of the Jurassic World - "Dragon", to the "violent Lingling Dragon" as a weapon research, and then to the overwhelming "super locusts", whenever human beings despise nature arrogantly, they will soon encounter a crisis of difficulty. The warnings of these disaster stories on "technical out of control" are also particularly precious in the more turbulent real world. After all, in real life, humans may not always be as lucky as in movies.