Back in Biosyn, a dinosaur bellowing echoes out through the valley and is followed by birds chirping.
In the cage within a lab, a gerbil squeaks skittering around as a small feathered dinosaur as big as a house cat called Moros was resting as it turns to the rodent with full interest.
Moros Intrepidus was a small predatory dinosaur around nine feet long and weighing 172 pounds. It's name means Harbinger of Doom, and lived in North America in places like Utah. And is actually one of Wrecksy's smallest relatives as Moros is a small species of Tyrannosaurid.
For over 25 years, feathers have been a mystery in dinosaurs. In China, a small dinosaur called Sinosauropteryx was discovered in 1996, and was found to have a small fuzz-like coat of feathers. Other dinosaurs soon followed afterwards, like Sinornithosaurus, Microraptor, and others. In fact, 60 known species of dinosaurs have been found with feathers.
It was thought that the earliest feathered dinosaurs had them for insulation. But a pigeon-sized dinosaur Epidexipteryx of Mid-Jurassic China was found with four long-stiff tail feathers for display. As some feathered dinosaurs found they can be used for display to attract mates or discourage rivals. But Microraptor eventually found them for another purpose and discovered the power of flight as their feathered arms and legs allow them to glide, and Sinornithosaurus can too. And fossilized feathers under a microscope even revealed traces of pigment, that gives color.
Sinornithosaurus was soon found to have a feathery coat with a color combination of reddish brown, yellow, gray, and black. Perfectly suited for forest live, and Sinosauropteryx was found with a rusty orange coat and a striped tail.
Usually, small dinosaurs were found with feathers, but one discovery showed that a few mid-sized dinosaurs had them as well. One was Yutyrannus, a cousin of T. Rex between 25 to 30 feet long, yet found with a small coat of feathers. Making it the biggest known feathered dinosaur. Though a few are in question, one is Gigantoraptor which is a giant Oviraptorid yet no evidence of it having feathers so far. Along with another giant called Deinocheirus, yet there is some evidence it might have feathers on it's tail.
"So this is our habitat development lab." Ramsay said as he, Alan and Ellie entered. "A lot of exciting discoveries as of late. We've brought back numerous species in their purest form, and I mean complete, untouched genomes, likes Moros Intrepidus."
"What?" Ellie said amazed as they gathered by the cage.
"Yeah." Ramsay said.
"Wow." Ellie gasped amazed by the small dinosaur.
Alan watches as the Moros stalks like a Bird of Prey being totally focused on the gerbil squeaking as it wanders around the pen. As it was a dwarf compared to it's more gigantic tyrant cousin.
"What about splicing DNA?" Ellie asked turning to Ramsay. "Creating new species."
"Oh, no, Dr. Sattler, we don't do that here." Ramsay said shaking his head sounding like the Indominus Rex and Indoraptor incidents were more than enough. "We like to think we're more evolved."
Then the Moros swiftly snatches the gerbil with a growl as Alan jumped a bit and clears his throat a grimace as the mini tyrant crunches on it's meal. And Ellie turns to Ramsay as he checked his watch.
"Okay, looks likes we still have some time left before your ride." Ramsay said and briefly turns to a security camera. "Uh, would you like to tour the facilities yourselves?"
"Oh, uh, I mean, we could." Ellie said.
"Yeah, why not?" Alan said.
"Great." Ramsay said. "I'll meet you guys in the hyperloops, station three in 30 minutes."
Alan checked his watch.
"Elevators are down this hall, not-not those." Ramsay said pointing the hall behind Ellie as she looked back. "Those lead you down to the sublevels. You need special clearance to get down there." He held out his access band on his right wrist.
"Oh, okay." Ellie said.
"30 minutes." Ramsay reminded.
He then turns and walks off as animals were heard chittering and squawking. And once out of sight, seeing the perfect opportunity, Ellie and Alan turned and head down the hall seeing workers getting out of white coveralls.
"Here. Take this." Ellie said handing him Ian's access band. "Okay?"
"Yep." Alan replied ready.
And they headed down the hall.
In a lab, a number of locusts were chittering in their terrarium.
And Maisie who had recently arrived sat at a table as Henry appeared and placed a glass of water next to her.
"I'm really sorry that it had to happen this way." Henry apologized.
"Yep, that's what kidnappers say." Maisie said with an irritated look; yet angry and scared.
Henry sighed knowing this was hard for her to understand, and that he didn't like her predicament as much as she did. "Claire should never have hidden you away. You're way too important, Maisie."
Maisie then double-flips him off.
Then a small shrieking was heard as they looked over and saw Blue's daughter locked in a cage.
"You took her too?" Maisie said and turns back to him.
"Yeah." Henry said. "We needed her to help us understand you."
Maisie then got up and went over to the cage as the young Raptor yelped.
"Hey, Beta." Maisie said and kneels down at the cage. "You okay?"
"Did you say "Beta"?" Henry asked curiously. "Is that her name?"
"I gave it to her." Maisie said turning to him.
"Beta is pretty special." Henry said. "You know, when we made Blue, we used monitor lizard DNA to fill the gaps in her genome." He explained. "Monitor lizards can reproduce without a mate. We used some in Amber's genome, along with eagles, elephants, and big cats. So Beta and Blue are genetically identical, and that's what they have in common with you and..."
"Charlotte." Maisie said turning back to him.
"What do you know about Charlotte?" Henry asked.
"She died." Maisie said standing up. "A long time ago. It broke my grandpa's heart. So he made me."
"No, Maisie, actually, he didn't." Henry said. "Charlotte made you."
Soon, they were by a computer as they watched an old VHS video filmed on May 2, 1986. And it showed Charlotte in a lab, around Maisie's age with a Microceratus, one of the very first dinosaurs successfully brought back from extinction. Which to young Charlotte it was like a turtle with no shell.
"I'm so excited for everyone to see what we've been doing here." Charlotte said as Maisie watch speechless at the identical twin she'd never met. "There's new technology being made, new science, like, every day almost. And it's great to be in the center of... Center of that."
"Charlotte lived on Site B with all of us till the storm." Henry explained the days before 1993 incident in Jurassic Park as the footage showed geneticists working around the lab. "She loved dinosaurs."
"Charlotte, be careful." Henry's voice said.
"Yeah, I will." Charlotte said.
"She grew up around scientists." Henry said. "And eventually..."
He works the computer pulling up a new video showing Charlotte as an adult in a lab coat, late 20's or early 30's, in the lab underneath Lockwood's Estate, on June 26, 2007. A time when Jurassic World is in it's prime.
"She became herself." Henry said.
"A butterfly flew into my office this morning." Charlotte said. "They say tiny things have huge impacts, and I agree wholeheartedly."
"She was brilliant." Henry said thinking back how bright she was back then.
"For all my work with creatures, wings flapping..."
"In ways that I'll never be." Henry said.
"In the metaphysics of identity, can a replica truly be the original?" Charlotte said. "And if its possible, what makes it so?"
Charlotte then looks around her desk and noticed something was missing.
"I've lost my pen." Charlotte said.
She then got up rather sluggish and stood up, and revealing she was seven or eight months pregnant.
"Is that me?" Maisie asked as her eyes lit up from seeing that.
"Yeah." Henry nodded as it was soon-to-be and chuckled. "Just like Blue, Charlotte was able to have a child all by herself. She created you with her own DNA."
"So I do have a mother." Maisie realized.
"Your grandfather didn't want anyone to know the truth." Henry explained as what Mills said must have been a lie that Benjamin told him. "He was protecting her, and you."
"And we're the same?" Maisie said and turns to him.
"You were." Henry said. "When were a baby, Charlotte started to show symptoms of a genetic disorder."
Maisie turns back to the screen as it showed Charlotte with her as an infant just 18 months old on February 10, 2009.
"That's how she died." Henry explained the truth of her real death. "She didn't know she had it until after you were born."
"Do I have it too?" Maisie asked thinking she could be unknowingly sick.
"No." Henry said knowing otherwise she would have been long dead by now. "She changed your DNA. She altered every cell in your body to eradicate this disease."
The video showed Charlotte holding young Maisie as held a syringe and gave her a shot on her leg as she soon cried from the sting.
"No one on Earth has ever known how to do that." Henry said as Charlotte comforted Maisie from the shot.
"She fixed me." Maisie said.
"Charlotte's discovery is a part of you now." Henry said. "Your DNA could change the world. And I have to know how she did it, but I just can't replicate her work." He explained though having all of Charlotte's old records and research. "If I could just study you and Beta, whose DNA was never changed, I could... Fix a terrible mistake that I've made."
"What kind of mistake?" Maisie asked alarmed as she could tell from the pleading tone of his voice that it wasn't good.
After a hesitating moment, Henry looks over as Maisie looked and a bit horrified seeing a partially dissected giant locust.
An elevator opened as Alan and Ellie were in white coveralls and masks.
"Sublevel Six. Restricted."
They looked down the empty hall as Ellie turns to Alan.
"Thanks for coming." She said.
They then head down the hall.
"Which lab did Malcom say?" Alan asked hushly.
"L4." Ellie replied.
Soon, they got to the entrance to a lab labeled "L4".
"This is it." Ellie said.
Alan brought out the access band and placed it over a scanner as the keypad chimed, and the door slides open. They walked into the lab and near the chamber leading to the greenhouse behind the glass.
"Okay. Get in, get the sample and get out." Ellie said. "And move slow. They can swarm at the slightest disturbance."
Alan then placed the band over pad as it chimed, and the chamber doors opened as they entered and the doors closed as they turn to them. And they were then sprayed down as it caused them to jump a bit.
The doors leading to the greenhouse soon opened as they went in carefully as chittering was heard from the locusts and stalks of wheat rustling from their movements.
"Orthoptera." Ellie read heading down. "Two weeks."
They head further down as Ellie found one section. "Fully mature. This one."
Alan went over to her as grab the handle as Ellie exhaled.
"Ready?" Ellie asked. "Easy."
They then carefully pull the container out as the hinges creaked.
"Okay. Go." Ellie said holding a capsule out ready.
Alan turns to her all baffled behind his mask. "What?"
"Go get it." Ellie said.
Alan looks down through the wheat container looking hesitant. "Is that necessary?"
"Wh-What did you think was gonna happen?" Ellie stammered keeping her voice down. "I have to take a sample. We need concrete evidence. This is it." She then pulls her mask down. "Alan, you said there was no time. Can you get it?"
Alan then pulls his mask down. "Of course I can get it."
"Okay. Easy." Ellie said as Alan carefully reaches blindly in the wheat.
A locust then chittered as Alan pulls his arms out holding one.
"Watch its legs." Ellie said.
Alan then brought the locust out from the wheat.
"Ugh. Yech." Alan groaned lightly from the giant insect as it chittered.
"Here we go." Ellie said preparing to get the sample.
Then other locusts were heard chittering rather loudly and a bit alarmed as Alan and Ellie didn't like the sound of it as they looked around.
"They're cell signaling between them." Alan said. "This is not good, Ellie."
"I almost got it." Ellie said.
Alan held the locust as Ellie nears the swab towards it's mouth.
In the lab above them, Lewis and Zach were impatiently in an argument with Henry as Maisie was watching one of the other videos.
"How does she remain an asset, Henry, if you're incriminating both of us by showing her classified things on a computer?" Lewis questioned impatiently.
"I've been working here secretly for two years, and I've worked out problems half as quick as this." Zach said also losing his patience. "Either you think of something, or I'll do my own experiments on her myself."
In the lab, Maisie watched the video as Charlotte held young Maisie in her arms.
"Charlotte Lockwood believed the methods used at Jurassic Park could cure disease." Henry's voice narrated. "She was right. Having filled the gaps in Maisie's genome with altered DNA, she used a pathogen to deliver the repaired sequence to every cell." The video showed a section of altered DNA sent to replaced one section of a strand. And red cells turning green as a red silhouette of a person turned green as well. "If I can repurpose what she did I could change the locusts' DNA, eradicating them in a single generation."
The video then showed one red locust flying to a swarm of green locusts and they soon all turned red.
"Maisie and the baby Raptor will provide the missing data."
Maisie then looked back seeing Henry, Lewis, and Zach arguing still to even noticed her. The windows were sound-proof as she knew well Zach is never to be trusted after all the encounters the Wild Kratts told her about him.
Maisie then saw it was now or never to escape as Beta squawked a shriek and went over to her cage and grabs an access band on the counter and got the cage.
"Hey, do you wanna get out of here?" Maisie asked.
Maisie looked back and then placed the band on the scanner and opens the cage as Beta squeals a shriek. And Lewis, Henry, and Zach looked and saw Maisie rushing off.
"What the..." Lewis exclaimed.
They then hurried as Lewis pushed a button on the wall as an alarm blared.
"Got it." Ellie said finally getting the sample and sighed.
She closed the capsule as Alan lets the locust go flying off as others started crawling out of hiding chittering and buzzing. Alan and Ellie ran for the chamber as they started to swarm and they both screamed and Ellie yelped.
"Go!" Alan yelled.
They frantically shouted as they hit the floor as the locusts flew around and some attacked them.
"Oh, my God!" Ellie screamed.
They continued screaming as Alan got up.
"They're everywhere!" Ellie yelled. "Help me!"
Alan placed the access band on the keypad, and the chamber doors opened as the locusts continued swarming.
"Oh, God! No!" Ellie cried as Alan helped her into the chamber.
They made it into the chamber as several locusts flew in as Ellie screamed as they got to their feet.
"Oh, my God! Oh, my God!" Ellie cried.
The chamber doors closed as several locusts were in with them as they were then hosed down as Ellie screamed and whimpered. And among the chaos, Alan dropped the access band and they banged the on the doors.
In the lab, Henry, Lewis and Zach hurried in as Maisie quickly slips down an area of industrial pipes as the alarm continues blaring.
"Maisie." Henry said.
Maisie quickly climbs down just as Beta rushed through a cart squawking as it was knocked over. Henry, Lewis and Zach turn to her as then leaps onto a table knocking vials over and turns to them with a hissing growl at them.
"Oh, no, no!" Zach yelled and rushed in to get her.
Beta quickly leaped off the table and rushed off to escape.
Maisie meanwhile climbs out of a duct into the restricted level.
"Asset containment breach." An automatic voice announced. "Please remain at your stations."
She then wanders around beginning to look for a way out.
"Asset containment breach. Please remain at your stations."
Maisie looked around the hall, and then Ellie's screaming as heard nearby as she turns to the direction of it.
In the chamber, Alan and Ellie were still trapped inside as the several locusts swarmed around them as the spraying mist made it hard for them to see.
"Oh, my God." Ellie cried. "Oh, God. I can't see!"
"Where's the key?" Alan yelled looking around for it.
Ellie feels the floor blindly and soon grabs the access band and hands it to Alan as he quickly took it, they both pant as Alan placed the band on the keypad. And the doors soon opened as crawled out.
"Oh, God!" Ellie cried.
They quickly got out as Ellie gasped and whimpered as Maisie peeks from a corner seeing them on the floor.
Alan and Ellie panted catching their breath and turn to each other.
"You okay?" Alan asked.
"Yeah." Ellie said. "You?"
Alan nodded. "Yeah."
Maisie then coughed clearing her throat as they turn to her.
"Oh." Alan said.
Alan then got up.
"You're Dr. Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant." Maisie said recognizing them. "You were at Jurassic Park. Wh-What are you doing here?"
"What? What... What are you doing here?" Ellie countered though surprised to see a child here.
"I'm Maisie Lockwood." Maisie said.
Ellie was silent as she got up and looked to have recognized her.
"Uh, hey, we don't, uh... We're not... We don't work for Biosyn." Ellie said.
"I can tell." Maisie said from the sceam she heard earlier.
"We gotta get out of here." Ellie said.
"Yeah, we should go." Maisie said agreeing.
Elsewhere in the halls, Lewis and Zach wandered through the halls all irritated. And Zach indistinctly grumbled as two Zachbots followed.
Alan, Ellie, and Maisie quickly hurried through the hall, but stopped hearing footsteps echoed.
They then hurried back the other direction.
Meanwhile, Kayla's Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar flies over the peaks of the Dolomites only a few miles away from Biosyn.
"Okay. In and out." Kayla said. "We find your girl and go."
"Okay." Chris said.
Kayla then grabs a microphone. "Tower, this is N141." She contacted them. "Request to land freight delivery. Over."
"Uh, N141, negative." An air traffic controller woman responded. "We've been advised you're carrying unauthorized passengers. Over."
Lewis and Zach then appeared.
"Copy that, tower." Kayla responded. "Be advised shipment is perishable. We need immediate clearance. It's an emergency. Over."
"We don't any deliveries expecting for over another hour." Zach said as she turns to them.
"There isn't... no." Lewis said.
"Uh, negative." The woman responded back to Kayla. "Return to point of origin."
"How could they have figured out we're here?" Jimmy wondered softly.
"I don't know." Aviva said.
"Uh, you seem to be breaking up." Kayla said messing with the mic. "Are-Are you hearing me on your side?"
"May need to check systems." Kayla said distorted.
But the air traffic controller wasn't buying it.
"Nice try, Kayla." She said. "They will down your bird."
"Who is this?" Kayla asked recognizing her voice. "Is this Denise?"
"You do not want me to start spilling secrets, Denise." Kayla said as Denise's eyes widen. "You remember Dubrovnik."
Denise gasped and slightly panicked.
"Uh... Something to explain?" Zach asked all confused.
"She's... Different Denise, in accounts." Denise said turning to him and Lewis.
"Uh-huh." Zach frowned.
Lewis then saw his head of security with a Zachbot as he and Zach went over to him.
"Yes?" Zach said.
"Talked to Santos." He reported.
"Okay, and...?" Zach questioned.
"It's the girl's parents." The security head said.
"WHAT?!" Zach exclaimed loudly.
The whole room then turns to them as Zach nervously chuckled and cleared his throat.
"Uh... It's-It's nothing." Zach sheepishly said.
Everyone then shrugged it off and got back to work.
"Let's sh-shut of the ADS." Lewis said.
"You sure?" The security head asked.
"Uh-huh." Lewis replied with a serious look.
Zach then snapped his fingers as the Zachbot then grasp his arm with a claw, and the Zachbot's other arm deployed out the disintegrating gadget.
"Let me be clear of what we're doing." Zach said. "If those two are on that plane, that means the Wild Ratts are with them. Therefore they're coming to save her. Turning off the system and letting those flying things take them out is the best option. Now, do you have another suggestion?"
"N-no." The security head stuttered.
"Good." Zach said. "Now get to it."
He and Lewis then walked off.
The C-119 soars over the snowcapped mountain peaks.
Then an alarm blared with a "WARNING" flashing on the control panel.
"What's happening?" Jimmy asked getting nervous.
"What's that?" Owen asked not liking it.
"Uh, that's the, uh... That's the aerial deterrent system." Kayla said not liking this. "Keeps the airborne life away."
"Why is it blinking?" Claire asked.
"Because dead-ass Denise in the tower just turned it off." Kayla said.
"They made us." Koki said.
"We gotta get out of this airspace right now." Kayla said.
Then a loud shrieking roar was heard as Claire gasped as they froze, and wings were heard flapping.
"What... was that?" Jimmy nervously asked.
"I think we have... company." Martin said.
A shadow then appears looming over them and rhythmic whooshing was heard.
"That's another plane, right?" Owen hopefully asked.
"Not exactly." Kayla said.
A shadow grew over them with whooshing and another roar was heard as they saw a gigantic wing of a pterosaur was seen right above them through a window. It was so big it made a Pteranodon's wingspan look like a sparrow next to an eagle.
"Big... wing." Aviva said tensely.
"Is that a..." Claire said.
"Quetzalcoatlus." Kayla said. "Late Cretaceous, should have stayed there."
"Are you kidding me?" Chris said stunned. "That there, is the biggest animal ever to fly."
"It really is a giant." Martin said. "Must be a 40-foot wingspan."
They remained silent as the Quetzalcoatlus outside lets out a shrieking roar as then everything was quiet for a few moments.
"Okay. Okay." Kayla said breaking the silence relieved. "It's cool. We're good. It's gone."
"Phew, how's that for a wild encounter of the biggest pterosaur?" Martin said relieved.
"That thing was like a dragon almost." Aviva said.
"Yeah, some pterosaurs were big like Quetzalcoatlus." Chris said. "Another Azhdarchid pterosaur close to it's size was Hatzegopteryx in Europe. You don't have those here, do you?" He turned to Kayla.
Then suddenly, the Quetzalcoatlus comes from nowhere and roars soaring in towards the plane like a dragon rushing at it's victim. And the giant pterosaur swoops in like an eagle striking at a rabbit and it's talons grasped the windshield as Claire screamed as they shielded their faces from the bits of glass flying at them.
The Quetzalcoatlus held on with it's left foot, and soon holds on to the C-119's back with all claws and jabs it's six-foot long, spear-like beak at the left engine. And the engine catches fire and goes out as Kayla saw the flaming engine as well as Claire.
"Oh, no, we just lost engine one!" Koki cried.
Kayla strained as she reaches the controls and pulls back the throttle, and the Quetzalcoatlus' right hand slams onto the right engine damaging as it went out catching fire. And then the pterosaur jabs it's beak on the plane's back and drags it tearing through the fuselage's back. And the Quetzalcoatlus roars and then takes off.
And the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar was beginning to descend quickly with both engines out.
"This plane is going down!" Kayla said. "If you're gonna eject, you need to do it now! I only got one chair, and she's in it."
"You got to be kidding me?!" Jimmy said in disbelief.
"You don't have parachutes?" Owen asked incredulously.
"I wasn't expecting company!" Kayla yelled a snap.
"We better think of something because we got less than 15,000 feet!" Koki said.
"Unless we hit a mountainside!" Jimmy cried.
Owen looks ahead as the plane rapidly glides over the peaks.
"We can try to find a flat-enough area?" Chris wondered.
"Even if we could, it's gonna be a challenge at this speed." Aviva said.
Owen looked back as Claire held onto her seatbelts and he climbs over to her.
"Claire!" Owen said. "We gotta get you off this plane."
"What?" Claire gasped.
"He said we gotta-" Jimmy said.
"I HEARD WHAT HE SAID!" Claire shout at the top of her voice.
"Parachute will open automatically." Owen instructed as calmly as he could. "If it doesn't, you pull this lever" He gestured the lever over her head. "Do you understand? Claire!"
Claire gasped turning back to him.
"If it doesn't open automatically, you're gonna pull this lever behind you, okay?" Owen said.
"10,000 feet! Kayla shouted.
"If you're gonna eject, you gotta do it now!" Koki said loudly.
"Hey, you're the one who's gotta go to get to her." Owen said. "You're her mom. You're her only shot."
Claire remained fearfully silent clenching her jaw.
"Go, now!" Koki yelled.
"I'll see you again." Owen said. "I love you."
He then kissed her cheek.
Claire gasped as Owen got back to the co-pilot seat as she got ready.
"If we survive this, we'll catch up as soon as we can!" Chris said.
"Okay, on my mark!" Koki said. "Three, two, one... EJECT!"
The ejection seat then shot out through the plane and soars off as Claire held on tightly screaming. And soon gravity took over as she falls for several seconds and the parachute soon deploys out and whooshes out and slows her descent as she gasps and pants catching her breath.
But then Pteranodons suddenly appeared squawking as they mobbed her flying by and one nearly snatched her. She looked up as one Pteranodon tore the chute with it's claws leaving a large rip section as gravity swiftly took over again as she fell. She then turns to the lever behind and reaches out grunting and grabs it after a struggle. And then she pulls it as the emergency chute deploys out whooshing and slowing her descent just in time as she whimpered as she falls through the forest below and descends through the branches as she screams.
Meanwhile, everyone else in the damaged C-119 continues gliding as a dam was in view with a frozen lake.
"There! Right there!" Aviva said pointing to it. "The ice is flat and long enough to land! Bring it in right there!"
They all then strapped themselves tightly as well as Owen as he held on.
"What's the plan?" He asked turning to Kayla.
"Whatever happens." Kayla yelled. "That's the plan."
"Strap yourselves in, guys!" Chris said. "We're coming in hard! We're a deadstick!"
"Hold on, guys!" Martin yelled. "We're going down!"
Jimmy clings to his seat tightly as Aviva and Koki held on tightly.
"Watch the dam!" Chris yelled.
The C-119's engines sputter as it glides towards the dam.
Everyone held on tightly as the plane quickly descends towards the icy lake behind the dam. And the C-119's right wing catches fire and then snaps off as the 20-ton plane then hits the ice as water gushes through the broken windshield.
Author's Note:
Nearly 3 months worth of apologizes of the delay, caught a little caught up with some things.
Back when I first saw Dominion, I was still surprised that Charlotte lived longer than we thought. I actually thought she died somewhere around Maisie's age or something. And what Mills said about Maisie in Fallen Kingdom, I think may most likely be a lie that Benjamin told him, including the car accident thing.
And I guess I was initially surprised to that Atrociraptor was more closely related to Saurornitholestes from the last chapter. But I guess it still counts as a Raptor for still being in the Dromaeosaur family.
And Atrociraptor being more of a distant cousin to Velociraptor.
And since Jurassic World: Dominion was technically supposed to be a 2021 film, you may notice the Pearl Harbor reference towards the end. I also feel like that whole plane crashing scene was an Indiana Jones reference from Temple of Doom.
I've also seen the news of the waters off Florida have reached 100 degrees a while back, making it feel like a hot tub. And causing the reefs to bleach, and I'm afraid that large sections have already died by now. But that's just the start of what's to come if temperatures continue rising, as 90% of the world's reefs are predicted to disappear by 2050.
As coral only grows 5 feet every 100 years.
And I have heard of the 2 new Basilosaurid whale species found: Perucetus from Peru, and Tutcetus in Egypt. Tutcetus being one of the smallest whales ever found, the size of a dolphin. And Perucetus, a giant that could possibly rival the Blue Whale. But 300+ tons sounds way too heavy in my opinion; I think somewhere between 80 to 110 tons sounds more likely at least.