The Jurassic Chronicles
Dedicated To:
Patrick Heath
In The Memory Of:
Pat Worth and Sally Worth
Disclaimer: I own nothing of this Jurassic Park novel. Nor do I own anything else dealing with Jurassic Park. All of the rights to this belong to Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor. Please do not sue me for this, because I have no money to give.
"Virunga's not exactly a garden spot these days. The Kigani are on the rampage, and they're cannibals. Pygmies aren't friendly anymore either. Likely to find an arrow in your back for your troubles. Volcanoes always threatening to blow. Tsetse flies. Bad water. Corrupt officials. Not a place to go without a very good reason, hmm? Perhaps you should put off your trip until things settle down."
-Captain Charles Munro, 1979
"Also in the Congo. For years there have been reports by pygmies of a large sauropod, perhaps even an apatosaur, in the dense forest around Bokambu. And also in the high jungles of Irian Jaya, there is supposedly an animal the size of a rhino, which perhaps is a remnant ceratopsian-"
-Dr. Richard Levine, 1995
"When the hunter goes out in the rain forest to seek food for his family, does he expect to control nature? No. He imagines that nature is beyond him. Beyond his understanding. Beyond his control."
-Dr. Ian Malcolm, 1989
INTRODUCTION:
"The Mysteries of Dinosaur Cloning"
Right before the turn of the twenty-first century, a man named John Hammond created what everyone knew today to be the place called Jurassic Park, where scientists cloned dinosaurs from DNA trapped in ancient remains of amber. This amber contained mosquitoes that were trapped inside the amber for hundreds of millions of years. Did this really happen, or was it just a myth? People like Dr. Alan Grant, a Paleontologist from Montana, and Dr. Richard Levine, a Paleontologist from Berkeley have told several stories about the islands of death. One of these islands was Isla Nublar, where the showcase for Jurassic Park was created. The second island was a part of Las Cinco Muertas, or in English, The Five Deaths. This island was called Isla Sorna or the second site for InGen, the bioengineering company that created these prehistoric animals.
Science has proven to be a very interesting thing to impact everyone's way of life. Genetics has made most of these impacts with the main implications of cloning. The cloning of the sheep was possible. How about the cloning of a human being? Could someone actually clone himself or herself? Who knows? The fact is that InGen did so, but with something that didn't ever seem to be possible.
80 million years is a long time. Simply put, DNA does not last that long. At least, that's what scientists thought. Scientists that didn't ever work for InGen that is.
In 1992, Dr. Raul Cano extracted DNA from ancient amber, just like what the scientists of Jurassic Park did. 2 years later, in a 1,800-foot- deep coalmine near Provo, Utah, Dr. Scott Woodward found DNA molecules on what was suspected to be dinosaur bones. One thing was for sure-the DNA matched no known animal. However, these molecules only produced nine readable sequences from a single strand of DNA for a particular gene.
A clone couldn't be created from such a small amount of information. DNA was too unstable and too easy to contaminate. This was especially true of extinct, ancient animals like dinosaurs, as there were already very little biological information about them.
A saying that life will find a way was made about InGen. That saying was made by Dr. Ian Malcolm, a mathematician whose life has been filled with the theories of chaos. Eight years ago this man was invited to an island called Isla Nublar; which was owned by InGen. On that island strange happenings occurred making his theories of chaos more accurate then ever before.
The fact was that no scientists could ever possibly believe that Jurassic Park did happen, or that the novels that Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Alan Grant wrote a few years ago explaining the events that occurred on Jurassic Park as not being fact, and only fiction. Malcolm and Grant were said as being lunatics for what they wrote. All of the chaos factors and horrors of death from these so-called monsters that surrounded the islands near Costa Rica were entirely unbelievable. The books explained the deaths of several employees on Isla Nublar and how Malcolm almost died himself.
Dinosaurs were believed to have been extinct for 65 million years and that there was no chance of them ever coming back. The genetics company was called InGen. They changed that factor creating their own dinosaurs. They then put these animals on the island, which they called Jurassic Park.
On top of that, some scientists believed that the DNA found in ancient bones and eggs weren't that of a dinosaur, but just pollutants. So until scientists have the ability to better recognize and harvest DNA, and until they can clone dead cells, there will be no modern dinosaurs. And it will most likely stay that way for a long time.
InGen's park backfired causing the deaths of at least five people, maybe more. After that, the island was destroyed and InGen went into Chapter 11.
Several years later Dr. Malcolm found out that InGen had another island. It was an island that existed with no one having the slightest idea about it. John Hammond, the owner of InGen had created this island without telling anyone so he could do his testing on the animals at a place known as his Site B.
Isla Sorna was known to be the dark side of Jurassic Park, where Dr. Malcolm and several other people soon found out to be a place of new danger and chaos that ended up bringing Lewis Dodgson-the man that gave Dennis Nedry the shaving cream can-and the Biosyn Corporation to the island to steal dinosaur eggs, and create their own Jurassic Park. The plan failed, leaving Dodgson and his men dead as well as the lives of two other people on Dr. Malcolm's team.
Ever since, the Costa Rican government has been trying their best to stop people from traveling to this island in fear of more deaths. Until three weeks ago when several people stumbled onto the island trying to find a lost boy who went parasailing when something went very wrong. That story was told in the words of Eric Kirby-a young boy that went on the trip-Dr. Alan Grant, and several other people involved with the incident.
After that, in late 2001, there several accidents were reported in the Congo region of Zaire, near Bokambu and Irian Jaya, where several pygmies of large animals had been reported seen back in 1992. These incidents were reported as maulings with large numbers of dead found. They were all apparently members of a Bioengineering company called Zinj. Zinj received its name from the lost city called Zinj. Rumors were spread around that the company had been setting up some kind of park facility that they'd planned to open to the public within the next year or so.
However, something terrible went wrong. The Society of Jurassic Park Survivors (SJPS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) caught wind of what was going on with the Zinj Corporation and had sent spies to infiltrate the park that was in the Congo.
These incidents were just more troubling factors that faced the Congo along with the mystery of the Lost City of Zinj that appeared at the time to be inhabited by killer gray gorillas. That mystery came to a close thanks to Dr. Peter Elliot, of the Department of Zoology and Dr. Karen Ross, formally of Earth Resources Technology Services Inc. Those two people were able to discover the plague of these monsters and watched while Mt. Mukenko destroyed the Lost City and hopefully the killer gorillas. That was at least until John Hammond found this area and made Site C for his Jurassic Park.
This new threat from the company Zinj however, was determined to not be caused by Gorilla attacks, but as one local called them "Monsters from another time". The locals of these areas however have known to oveRexagerate from time to time. Could this all be the return of the nightmare that InGen created? The events that occurred in the Congo are still a mystery to the SJPS and the FBI. For no one truly knows what really happened in the dark depths of the Congo.
Dedicated To:
Patrick Heath
In The Memory Of:
Pat Worth and Sally Worth
Disclaimer: I own nothing of this Jurassic Park novel. Nor do I own anything else dealing with Jurassic Park. All of the rights to this belong to Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor. Please do not sue me for this, because I have no money to give.
"Virunga's not exactly a garden spot these days. The Kigani are on the rampage, and they're cannibals. Pygmies aren't friendly anymore either. Likely to find an arrow in your back for your troubles. Volcanoes always threatening to blow. Tsetse flies. Bad water. Corrupt officials. Not a place to go without a very good reason, hmm? Perhaps you should put off your trip until things settle down."
-Captain Charles Munro, 1979
"Also in the Congo. For years there have been reports by pygmies of a large sauropod, perhaps even an apatosaur, in the dense forest around Bokambu. And also in the high jungles of Irian Jaya, there is supposedly an animal the size of a rhino, which perhaps is a remnant ceratopsian-"
-Dr. Richard Levine, 1995
"When the hunter goes out in the rain forest to seek food for his family, does he expect to control nature? No. He imagines that nature is beyond him. Beyond his understanding. Beyond his control."
-Dr. Ian Malcolm, 1989
INTRODUCTION:
"The Mysteries of Dinosaur Cloning"
Right before the turn of the twenty-first century, a man named John Hammond created what everyone knew today to be the place called Jurassic Park, where scientists cloned dinosaurs from DNA trapped in ancient remains of amber. This amber contained mosquitoes that were trapped inside the amber for hundreds of millions of years. Did this really happen, or was it just a myth? People like Dr. Alan Grant, a Paleontologist from Montana, and Dr. Richard Levine, a Paleontologist from Berkeley have told several stories about the islands of death. One of these islands was Isla Nublar, where the showcase for Jurassic Park was created. The second island was a part of Las Cinco Muertas, or in English, The Five Deaths. This island was called Isla Sorna or the second site for InGen, the bioengineering company that created these prehistoric animals.
Science has proven to be a very interesting thing to impact everyone's way of life. Genetics has made most of these impacts with the main implications of cloning. The cloning of the sheep was possible. How about the cloning of a human being? Could someone actually clone himself or herself? Who knows? The fact is that InGen did so, but with something that didn't ever seem to be possible.
80 million years is a long time. Simply put, DNA does not last that long. At least, that's what scientists thought. Scientists that didn't ever work for InGen that is.
In 1992, Dr. Raul Cano extracted DNA from ancient amber, just like what the scientists of Jurassic Park did. 2 years later, in a 1,800-foot- deep coalmine near Provo, Utah, Dr. Scott Woodward found DNA molecules on what was suspected to be dinosaur bones. One thing was for sure-the DNA matched no known animal. However, these molecules only produced nine readable sequences from a single strand of DNA for a particular gene.
A clone couldn't be created from such a small amount of information. DNA was too unstable and too easy to contaminate. This was especially true of extinct, ancient animals like dinosaurs, as there were already very little biological information about them.
A saying that life will find a way was made about InGen. That saying was made by Dr. Ian Malcolm, a mathematician whose life has been filled with the theories of chaos. Eight years ago this man was invited to an island called Isla Nublar; which was owned by InGen. On that island strange happenings occurred making his theories of chaos more accurate then ever before.
The fact was that no scientists could ever possibly believe that Jurassic Park did happen, or that the novels that Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Alan Grant wrote a few years ago explaining the events that occurred on Jurassic Park as not being fact, and only fiction. Malcolm and Grant were said as being lunatics for what they wrote. All of the chaos factors and horrors of death from these so-called monsters that surrounded the islands near Costa Rica were entirely unbelievable. The books explained the deaths of several employees on Isla Nublar and how Malcolm almost died himself.
Dinosaurs were believed to have been extinct for 65 million years and that there was no chance of them ever coming back. The genetics company was called InGen. They changed that factor creating their own dinosaurs. They then put these animals on the island, which they called Jurassic Park.
On top of that, some scientists believed that the DNA found in ancient bones and eggs weren't that of a dinosaur, but just pollutants. So until scientists have the ability to better recognize and harvest DNA, and until they can clone dead cells, there will be no modern dinosaurs. And it will most likely stay that way for a long time.
InGen's park backfired causing the deaths of at least five people, maybe more. After that, the island was destroyed and InGen went into Chapter 11.
Several years later Dr. Malcolm found out that InGen had another island. It was an island that existed with no one having the slightest idea about it. John Hammond, the owner of InGen had created this island without telling anyone so he could do his testing on the animals at a place known as his Site B.
Isla Sorna was known to be the dark side of Jurassic Park, where Dr. Malcolm and several other people soon found out to be a place of new danger and chaos that ended up bringing Lewis Dodgson-the man that gave Dennis Nedry the shaving cream can-and the Biosyn Corporation to the island to steal dinosaur eggs, and create their own Jurassic Park. The plan failed, leaving Dodgson and his men dead as well as the lives of two other people on Dr. Malcolm's team.
Ever since, the Costa Rican government has been trying their best to stop people from traveling to this island in fear of more deaths. Until three weeks ago when several people stumbled onto the island trying to find a lost boy who went parasailing when something went very wrong. That story was told in the words of Eric Kirby-a young boy that went on the trip-Dr. Alan Grant, and several other people involved with the incident.
After that, in late 2001, there several accidents were reported in the Congo region of Zaire, near Bokambu and Irian Jaya, where several pygmies of large animals had been reported seen back in 1992. These incidents were reported as maulings with large numbers of dead found. They were all apparently members of a Bioengineering company called Zinj. Zinj received its name from the lost city called Zinj. Rumors were spread around that the company had been setting up some kind of park facility that they'd planned to open to the public within the next year or so.
However, something terrible went wrong. The Society of Jurassic Park Survivors (SJPS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) caught wind of what was going on with the Zinj Corporation and had sent spies to infiltrate the park that was in the Congo.
These incidents were just more troubling factors that faced the Congo along with the mystery of the Lost City of Zinj that appeared at the time to be inhabited by killer gray gorillas. That mystery came to a close thanks to Dr. Peter Elliot, of the Department of Zoology and Dr. Karen Ross, formally of Earth Resources Technology Services Inc. Those two people were able to discover the plague of these monsters and watched while Mt. Mukenko destroyed the Lost City and hopefully the killer gorillas. That was at least until John Hammond found this area and made Site C for his Jurassic Park.
This new threat from the company Zinj however, was determined to not be caused by Gorilla attacks, but as one local called them "Monsters from another time". The locals of these areas however have known to oveRexagerate from time to time. Could this all be the return of the nightmare that InGen created? The events that occurred in the Congo are still a mystery to the SJPS and the FBI. For no one truly knows what really happened in the dark depths of the Congo.