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Creating dinosaurs: why Jurassic World could never work

  • Written by: The Conversation
imageDinosaurs and people together in Jurassic World.Universal Pictures

When the first Jurassic Park movie hit the silver screens in 1993, I cried. Never before had dinosaurs, those magnificent creatures of bygone days, been brought to life so realistically. It was a palaeontologist’s dream come true.

Jurassic Park and its sequels were huge hits,...

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