Dave Hone

One of my PhD students got some money from the Jurassic Foundation.

Like, that's great.

He didn't have to do that.

He went, paleontology's helped give me this.

I'm going to give back a bit.

And after what must be 30 years now, it's probably funded an awful lot of research and helped young researchers get a start.

So there's a level of engagement there that I think hasn't been in subsequent films, which you can kind of see for once it goes from being a one-off to being a franchise and it's changed hands.

I mean, how many different directors has it had now?

Spielberg did the first two and then done about the next five, must be two, if not another three more people, and 30 years later, it's all changing.

Yeah, and again, there's some oddities.

So like, Gallimimus, I mentioned it earlier, so one of the Ornithomimosaurs, the model for Gallimimus in Jurassic World

is nearly identical to that from Jurassic Park.

One of the differences, which you can barely see on film, but I know this is true because I found it in Jurassic World kids' books.

I flicked through it when it came out.

It's a close-up of the head with an arrow to the teeth.

Gallimimus doesn't have teeth.

It's got a beak.

So someone has taken the original model and actively spent time adding teeth to an animal that didn't have them.

I would understand it.

I'm not saying I agree with it, but I'd understand if it was a rule of cool and like, yeah, but it would look so much better with all these gnarly big teeth and whatever.