The Jurassic Park Timeline Explained

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Hold onto your butts as we journey through 65 million years of dinosaur drama! From the original Isla Nublar disaster to dinosaurs roaming our modern world, we're breaking down every prehistoric twist and turn in the Jurassic saga. Our expedition covers all six main films, the Camp Cretaceous series, and essential short films that complete this complex fossil record.

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00:00that life uh finds a way welcome to watch mojo and today we're explaining the jurassic park

00:07timeline you press that button there's no going back for this video we're going to look at the

00:12franchise including the main movies tie-in shorts and the canonical tv show the events of the michael

00:18creighton novels and any video game theme park ride and other extra canonical materials can be

00:23considered extinct be warned as we will be spoiling everything leading up to jurassic world

00:28rebirth what's your favorite jurassic park property let us know in the comments our journey begins as

00:34one might expect during the final days of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago during the cretaceous

00:40period the extended cut of jurassic world dominion revealed a clash of titans with a giganotosaurus

00:51coming into conflict with a tyrannosaurus rex ultimately the t-rex fell victim to the other

00:56theropod as it lay dead a seemingly innocuous mosquito landed on the rex and sucked a bit

01:07of its blood before flying off

01:08let's fast forward to the holocene epic specifically 1993 entrepreneur john hammond and his company

01:21had discovered a way to clone long extinct dinosaurs using dna taken from fossilized mosquitoes

01:27using sophisticated techniques they extract the preserved blood from the mosquito and bingo dino dna

01:36hammond was attempting to open a destination on the island of isla nublar near costa rica where visitors

01:42would get to see real dinosaurs these clones included triceratops velociraptors dilophosaurus and of course a t-rex

01:50after a worker was killed by a raptor a group of experts including alan grant ellie sattler and

01:56ian malcolm were brought in to verify the safety of the park i i don't think you're giving us our due

02:01credit our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before yeah yeah but your scientists were

02:06so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should hammond also

02:10invited his young grandchildren unfortunately corporate espionage breeding dinosaurs and a storm

02:16led to disaster a number of the clones escaped and killed multiple people clever girl

02:23any plans to open the park were abandoned four years later the events of the lost world took place

02:33things were kicked into motion when a young tourist was injured after her family landed their yacht on

02:38isla sorna this second island was where the dinosaurs on isla nublar were bred injen ousted hammond

02:49as ceo after the incident replacing him with his nephew peter ludlow a discredited ian malcolm who told

02:56the truth about nublar was recruited by hammond to lead a scientific expedition to isla sorna don't

03:02what he is i'm not making the same mistakes again no you're making you're making all new ones he

03:07agreed after learning that his girlfriend dr sarah harding was there malcolm's team which included his

03:13daughter and nick van owen attempted to study the dinosaurs in their natural environment meanwhile

03:19the rival injen team sought to capture them for financial gain after more calamity and death the

03:25teams had no choice but to rely on each other to escape the island but injen stole a t-rex and brought

03:31it back to san diego where it caused chaos and destruction the animal is eventually subdued safely

03:41exposing the truth but not before ludlow's death in 2001 jurassic park 3 began with the young eric

03:49kirby parasailing with his mom's boyfriend ben off of isla sorna crash landing on the island we later

03:55learned that ben didn't survive two months later alan grant doing his best to move forward was recruited

04:01by a well-off couple to fly over isla sorna as a guide needing the funding they promised he agreed

04:07and took his sidekick billy on the journey

04:09however the duo eventually told grant that they were actually eric's divorced parents paul and amanda

04:20kirby they were not rich and were leading a rescue mission for their son and ben it was too late to undo

04:27the damage by then since their plane was destroyed by a spinosaurus

04:30plus the mercenaries and pilot who were with them were ultimately killed the group was also chased

04:39across the island by the spinosaurus and a pack of velociraptors though grant thankfully encountered

04:44eric along the way your parents are here they're looking for you together alan and the kirbys made it to

04:51the coast the marines and the navy who were called by ellie sattler were there to save them

04:57just as they had already done for billy wow you have to thank her now she sent the navy and the marines

05:04god bless you ellie unbeknownst to those adventuring on isla sorna there were things in motion on isla

05:13nublar in the intervening decades construction on a new theme park had begun by 2015 when jurassic world

05:20was set it had been open for a while claire deering jurassic world's operations manager

05:25welcomed her nephew zach and gray to the park you're not coming with us oh i i really wish that

05:32i could but um tomorrow i can take you into the control room show you behind the scenes and all

05:38of that that's that's gonna be cool right all the while she readied a new exhibit the genetically

05:44modified indominus rex unsurprisingly things quickly took a turn for the worse

05:50the indominus escaped while zach and gray were in the park so claire and owen grady a raptor trainer

06:03with whom she shared her personal history had to lead a rescue also in the mix was the militaristic

06:08vick hoskins who wanted to use the dinosaur's violence for personal gain in the end people died

06:14and hoskins was eaten i'm on your side

06:17but before the park was closed the indominus was stopped by owen's raptor blue and the t-rex from

06:29the first film in a memorable finale

06:32at the same time that the events of jurassic world were taking place the first season of

06:49jurassic world camp cretaceous played out i can just get around the t-rex i beat the game and

06:54trip to jurassic world i know you've said it like a thousand times a group of dino obsessed

06:59teenagers dream vacation quickly turned into a nightmare after winning a contest they received

07:05a chance to stay at camp cretaceous on isla nublar welcome to isla nublar campers you are the chosen

07:12few the first kids in the entire world to ever experience the awesomeness that is camp cretaceous

07:20with the escaped indominus wreaking havoc the teens had to make their way across an island in chaos

07:25and were ultimately stranded the following seasons followed their attempts to escape and return to

07:31the outside world

07:32after the kids got off the island owen and claire were recruited for a rescue mission in 2018's

07:42jurassic world fallen kingdom you're gonna get them out you're gonna save them no miss dearing

07:48i'm going to save us we could both use a touch of redemption couldn't we the reason was that a

07:55previously unmentioned volcano threatened to erupt and kill the dinosaur population of isla nublar

08:00including blue however owen and claire were betrayed by some of their team who intended to

08:06sell the saved dinosaurs on the black market the animals were transported to an estate where hammond's

08:16old colleague benjamin lockwood and his granddaughter maizey lived the film then became a bit of a slasher

08:22flick with an even further engineered indominus named the indoraptor chasing our heroes

08:27blue saved claire maizey and owen and it was revealed that maizey was actually a clone of the

08:39woman she believed to be her mother lockwood's daughter and with the dinosaurs trapped and about

08:43to die from poison gas maizey set her fellow clones free i had to they're alive like me battle at big

08:54rock was a short film that picked up a year after fallen kingdom with the liberated dinosaurs in their

09:00new environment set in a fictitious national park in northern california a family was enjoying a

09:06pleasant day in nature charred on the outside and juicy on the inside that's my easy recipe

09:12you get back indoors they got bears out here that pleasantness was quickly interrupted as they were

09:18approached by a young nesutoceratops and its mother things intensified further when an allosaurus

09:24attacked the baby dinosaur leading to a clash with the mom

09:27the allosaurus eventually tried to eat the human family who were only saved by a well-placed crossbow bolt

09:38the short concluded with other encounters between dinosaurs and humans indicating that a new age had

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10:07four years after the events of fallen kingdom dinosaurs spread across the world with groups like

10:14biosyn genetics seeking to exploit the ancient animals and their dna lewis dodgson the man behind the

10:20attempted espionage in 1993 had become biosyn's ceo i'm really sorry that it had to happen this way

10:26yep that's what kidnappers say his nefarious plans included kidnapping maisie and unleashing

10:32genetically engineered locusts owen and claire who had been acting as parents to maisie attempted to track her

10:38making their way to a dinosaur black market in malta meanwhile alan grant and ellie sattler reunited

10:44trying to get to the bottom of the giant locust which threatened the world's food supply

10:48both groups converged at a biosyn dinosaur sanctuary where ian malcolm was working from the inside to

10:54take the company down you're racing toward the extinction of our species and you don't care

10:58you know exactly what you're doing but you won't stop the heroes exposed and defeated biosyn

11:04destroying the locust and saved maisie the t-rex finally got its revenge on the giganotosaurus

11:10after millions of years and in the end ellen and ellie finally rekindled their relationship

11:15in the intervening five years many dinosaurs have died out with only ones living in environments

11:21reminiscent of their long-gone age still thriving on the island we're headed to

11:25two dozen species have survived there alone a team of mercenaries travels to injun's forgotten

11:32secret island sansubar to attempt to find three dinosaurs at the research facility left there

11:37they aim to track down three large dinosaurs whose genetic code could save countless lives

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