Creating Jurassic World’s New Genetically Modified Dinosaur

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I'm Jack Horner, curator of paleontology

at the Museum of the Rockies.

The Alan Grant character from Jurassic Park

One and Three is loosely based on me.

I first got involved with the Jurassic Park movies

when Steven Spielberg called me up one day

and asked me if I'd like to work on a movie.

Most of the dinosaurs that we see in Jurassic World

are dinosaurs we created for the other ones,

except for the new dinosaur, Indominus Rex.

[Woman] We have a new attraction.

Think it'll scare the kids?

This will give the parents nightmares.

He just went and made a new dinosaur?

We started out with a dinosaur called Therizinosaurus

which has big arms and then added a little T-Rex in,

a little velociraptor, plus using cuttlefish,

which is sort of for their camouflage and infrared.

Well the recipe for Indominus Rex,

it's not only a hybrid of different kinds of dinosaurs,

but it's also a transgenic dinosaur,

which means that we could take genetic characteristics

from other kinds of animals and add them.

What's really cool about this is the concept

of making a hybrid dinosaur or a transgenic dinosaur

is actually plausible, we can do that today.

Probably not a good idea.

I mean if you want a really scary one,

I would splice together a T-Rex to give it size

and bulk and power and then give it the bloodthirstiness

of maybe a vampire bat, then all he has to do

is just slash away, slurp up the blood.

Am I gonna do it, am I gonna make myself

a bloodsucking dinosaur?

Well, not likely.

But I was thinking about making a chickenosaurus.

There's lots going on where you have four laboratories

actually working pretty hard on doing some of these

transformations, I think we're moving right along.

Recently, I've been thinking about

what kinds of creatures could we make?

We could probably make a unicorn that glows in the dark.

We already make glow-in-the-dark rabbits

and other kinds of animals using genes from jellyfish.

All we have to do now is figure out a way

to put a horn on a horse and I actually think

there's a pretty easy way to do that.

As weird as it sounds, I think we can do it.

I think you could do it right now.