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For going on 30 years, we've been dreaming about what it would be like the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park

were let loose on the world.

Well, now we have an answer.

The newest movie in the series, Jurassic World Dominion, takes place four years after dinosaurs

escaped into America and started to spread.

And our heroes are very scattered in different places.

Some are digging more fossils.

Some have changed career tracks entirely.

Some are hiding out in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Riley Black is a paleontologist and author of the book The Last Days of the Dinosaurs.

She's written extensively about the scientific joys and shortcomings of the Jurassic franchise.

And the big thing, I guess, that's trying to move this movie forward, right, is the locus plot.

They're multiplying like crazy and they're not dying.

What part of this don't you understand?

Well, I do understand.

This is going to be a global famine.

A company called Biosyn has been secretly modifying the DNA of locus with Dino DNA.

And Biosyn is also managing all the world's dinosaurs.

It seems and their own private compounds.

Well, I just invite this land for the amber deposits back in the 90s, but we've managed to turn

into a safe haven for about 20 displaced species.

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