20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Jurassic Park Franchise
8. Jurassic Park Saved The Dinosaurs
Jurassic Park made its bow in cinemas in June 1993 to a rapturous reception from critics and the moviegoing public. It promptly broke practically every box office record in existence, earning $357 million in the U.S. alone and finishing its run with $914 million worldwide; the highest-grossing movie ever made until Titanic stole its crown. Nevertheless, some of the responses from the scientific community were less than enthusiastic. Jurassic Park received widespread criticism from palaeontologists for omitting the feathers, spines and quills that several species are now known to have sported, not to mention the extreme liberties taken via such details as the Dilophosaurus spitting venom, a T. rexs vision being movement-based and so on. Nevertheless, some experts cite a different legacy; one in which the films enormous success prompted unprecedented levels of interest in the study of dinosaurs. Matthew Carrano, a curator at the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History, believes he owes his job to Jurassic Park as what was once a marginal field of limited interest experienced an immediate and lasting boom:
One result is that every major museum has now renovated their dinosaur exhibits. Another is that theyve all re-hired dinosaur palaeontologists. For many decades, most U.S. museums didnt have any dinosaur palaeontologists on staff, but now they all do."
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