Many of his other novels, such as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park, also incorporated large quantities of fabricated scientific documents in the form of diagrams, DNA sequences, footnotes and bibliography.

The film was the second highest grossing film in Japan in 1993, second only to the Hollywood film Jurassic Park.

It remains the fourth most-attended monster film in Japan, and the second biggest film in Asia, behind Jurassic Park.

" The Mokèlé-mbèmbé and its associated folklore also appear in several works of fiction and popular culture such as " Jurassic Park III ".

Quaggas have appeared in several books including The Mysterious Island, Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer, Skybreaker by Kenneth Oppel, King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard and the short story " King of the Beasts " by Philip José Farmer.

In the " Return to Jurassic Park " bonus feature of the 2011 Blu-ray release of the Jurassic Park film series, John R. Horner describes Quetzalcoatlus as the pterosaur that most accurately represented and matched the size of the pterosaurs that are featured in the films.

Those Phil Tippett's go motion tests acted as motion models for his first photo-realistic use of computers to depict dinosaurs in Jurassic Park in 1993.

An SGI Crimson system with the fsn three-dimensional file system navigator appeared in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.

Julianne Moore was sent the script while working on The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

Velociraptor ( commonly shortened to ' raptor ') is one of the dinosaur genera most familiar to the general public due to its prominent role in the Jurassic Park motion picture series.

Therefore, while Velociraptor is commonly depicted as a pack hunter, as in Jurassic Park, there is only limited fossil evidence to support this theory for dromaeosaurids in general, and none specific to Velociraptor itself.

Velociraptor are well known for their role as vicious and cunning killers in the 1990 novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and its 1993 film adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg, in which they served as the main antagonists.

The " raptors " portrayed in Jurassic Park were modeled after a larger relative, Deinonychus, which Gregory Paul at the time called Velociraptor antirrhopus.

Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, however, were released before this was known, and its raptors are shown with bare skin.

In Jurassic Park III, the Velociraptor are depicted with quill-like structures along the back of the head and neck, although these do not resemble the down-like feathers known from real-life dromaeosaurids, and the quill knobs on some Velociraptor specimens show they had fully developed feathers akin to those of modern birds.

The Permian through Jurassic stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah that makes up much of the famous prominent rock formations in protected areas such as Capitol Reef National Park and Canyonlands National Park.

In 1993, stop-motion animators working on the realistic dinosaurs of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park were retrained in the use of computer input devices.

The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.

Crucially, the substantially complete fossil identified as WDC DML 001 (" Lori ") is a troodontid from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, close to the time of Archaeopteryx and several troodontid specimens from the Tiaojishan Formation of China ( Anchiornis ) which are even older.

The Deinonychosauria (" fearsome claw lizards ") were a clade of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs from the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Ichthyopterygia (" fish flippers ") was a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840 to designate the Jurassic ichthyosaurs that were known at the time, but the term is now used more often for both true Ichthyosauria and their more primitive early and middle Triassic ancestors.

The Museum was the subject of a book by Lawrence Weschler in 1995 entitled Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, And Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, which describes in detail many of its exhibits.

Other Macy roles of the 1990s and 2000s included Benny & Joon, Above Suspicion, Mr. Holland's Opus, Ghosts of Mississippi, Air Force One, Boogie Nights, Pleasantville, Gus Van Sant's remake of Psycho, Happy, Texas, Mystery Men, Magnolia, Jurassic Park III, Focus, Panic, Welcome to Collinwood, Seabiscuit, The Cooler, and Sahara.

* Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology, Lawrence Weschler, 1996, trade paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 0-679-76489-5 ( see website link above )

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

Even older, Jurassic amber has been found recently in Lebanon as well.

The subsoil of the Andaman islands consists essentially of Late Jurassic to Early Eocene ophiolites and sedimentary rocks ( argillaceous and algal limestones ), deformed by numerous deep faults and thrusts with ultramafic igneous intrusions.

* The dinosaur Diplodocus carnegiei ( Hatcher ) was named for Carnegie after he sponsored the expedition that discovered its remains in the Morrison Formation ( Jurassic ) of Utah.

Posidonia Shale ), Amaltheenton ( Amalthean Clay ), Numismalismergel ( Numismalis Marl ) and Obtususton ( Obtusus Clay, named after Asteroceras obtusum ) succeeding from south to north, all belonging to the Jurassic and being rich in fossils.

The evolution of angiosperm plants between 50 and 200 million years ago resulted in the development of many antioxidant pigments – particularly during the Jurassic period – as chemical defences against reactive oxygen species that are byproducts of photosynthesis.

The fossil record indicates that birds emerged within theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 160 million years ( Ma ) ago.

In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous follows the Jurassic period and is followed by the Paleogene period of the Cenozoic era.

No great extinction or burst of diversity separates the Cretaceous from the Jurassic.

As the Atlantic Ocean widened, the convergent-margin orogenies that had begun during the Jurassic continued in the North American Cordillera, as the Nevadan orogeny was followed by the Sevier and Laramide orogenies.

The Berriasian epoch showed a cooling trend that had been seen in the last epoch of the Jurassic.

There is evidence that snowfalls were common in the higher latitudes and the tropics became wetter than during the Triassic and Jurassic.

The order Squamata, which is represented today by lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians, radiated into various ecological niches during the Jurassic and were successful throughout the Cretaceous.

In 1980 Peter Galton renamed Pterodactylus brancai ( Reck 1931 ), a form from a late Jurassic African formation, into Dsungaripterus brancai, but the identification is now commonly rejected.

# Triassic – Jurassic extinction event ( End Triassic ): 205 Ma at the Triassic-Jurassic transition.

Worldwide, some of the best examples of near-perfect fossilization are the Cambrian Maotianshan shales and Burgess Shale, the Devonian Hunsrück Slates, the Jurassic Solnhofen limestone, and the Carboniferous Mazon Creek localities.

Eroded Jurassic plesiosaur vertebral centrum found in the Lower Cretaceous Faringdon Sponge Gravels in Faringdon, England.

Petrified cone of Araucaria mirabilis from Patagonia, Argentina dating from the Jurassic | Jurassic Period ( approx.

The Permian through Jurassic stratigraphy of the Colorado Plateau area of southeastern Utah is a great example of both Original Horizontality and the Law of Superposition.

The oldest known fossil showing unambiguous imprints of hair is the Callovian ( late middle Jurassic ) Castorocauda, an early mammal.