If you liked pop culture happy hours, recent podcasts about Jurassic World, Dominion, check

out this episode from our friends at Shortwave, NPR's Daily Science Podcast. They went deep

on the dinosaurs in the film and they talked to a paleontologist about the accuracy or lack

thereof, and imagination the filmmakers brought to the newest dinosaurs and other prehistoric

critters that give the franchise a reason to exist. I'm Stephen Thompson, and NPR's pop culture

happy hour team is off today, so enjoy this shortwave episode all about the dinosaurs in Jurassic

World Dominion.

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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 up 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.

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