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The only known Spinosaurus individual on Isla Sorna, it was unknown which gender this animal was, and measured 43’9″ long, and 19’7″ at the top of the sail (16′ at the top of the cranium). This Spinosaurus is the individual encountered by the rescue team that was stranded on Isla Sorna when in search for twelve year old Eric Kirby, who was himself stranded on the island eight weeks prior during a paragliding accident. It was apparently very territorial and was attracted to the pheromones found in the urine of other carnivores, as Eric Kirby found out during his stay on Isla Sorna.

After the plane that Paul and Amanda Kirby chartered to Isla Sorna landed on the island’s airstrip, mercenaries Cooper and Nash entered the jungle nearby to create a safe perimeter for the group while they searched for their son. However, the pair encountered the Spinosaurus, and Cooper attacked it with his rifle, but did not harm it. Nash was able to make it back to the plane and start it up, but Cooper fell behind. As the plane made it’s way down the runway to take off, Cooper stumbled out of the jungle and stood on the runway, where he attempted to flag the plane down. While Cooper stood on the runway yelling for the plane to stop, the Spinosaurus burst out of the jungle and snapped Cooper up. This forced Nash to make a premature take-off, which clipped the Spinosaurus‘ thigh. Crashing back into the jungle, the Spinosaurus followed the plane to it’s landing spot in the tree. There, the plane ripped itself in two, the open hulk allowed for the Spinosaurus to fit it’s thin snout into the plane and grab Nash. Nash was then dropped to the ground, where he tried to scramble away before the Spinosaurus pinned and devoured him. The Kirbies, Udesky, Dr. Alan Grant, and Grant’s field assistant, Billy Brennan, scrambled out of the wreckage and began to flee when the Spinosaurus took notice and gave chase. Pursuing the humans through the jungle and across a field, the Spinosaurus was held up when the thick foliage prevented it from proceeding.

The group, believing they were safe, headed a little further, but encountered a male Tyrannosaurus rex, which chased them back to a forest clearing. There, the Spinosaurus had found a way around the blockage of trees and had continued chase, only to find the Tyrannosaurus in it’s territory and the two began to prepare for a fight. After a series of roars and circling to size each other up, a slap across the face to the Tyrannosaurus from the Spinosaurus sparked the battle. The T. rex charged and bit the Spinosaurus‘ neck, slamming it to the ground, only for the Spinosaurus to twist itself out of the smaller theropod’s grip and retaliate. Beating back the male T. rex, the Spinosaurus bit down onto the sub-adult’s neck and twisted it, snapping the neck and killing the Tyrannosaurus. The Spinosaurus than stood over the Tyrannosaurus‘ body, and gave out a victorious bellow.

The Spinosaurus was not encountered again until after Dr. Grant had finally found Eric Kirby. The two had been lured to the site of a gigantic fence near the Isla Sorna Aviary observatory. There, Dr. Grant and Eric met with Billy and Mr. and Mrs. Kirby on the other side of the fence, sans Udesky who had been killed by Velociraptors. What had lured Eric and Dr. Grant to the site was the sound of the ringtone on Paul Kirby’s satellite phone, which mirrored the jingle from Paul Kirby’s hardware store: Kirby Paint and Tile Plus. However, the ringing was actually coming from the gullet of the Spinosaurus, who had swallowed the phone when it ate Nash. Dr. Grant and Eric, noticing the Spinosaurus standing menacingly at the edge of the jungle, ran, only for the Spinosaurus to give chase. The two humans were capable of narrowly escaping through a hole in the bottom of the fencing, and the Spinosaurus appeared to give up, only to turn back and bust through the fence and continue to chase the group all the way to the aviary observatory, where the group locked it out.

The Spinosaurus was not encountered again until later that night when it ambushed the group on a barge that had been accessed after the group took a trip through the aviary, during which Billy Brennan was apparently lost to the mutated Pteranodons that were being kept inside. The Spinosaurus, leaping from the water, attacked the barge, smashing the bridge house and puncturing the gas tank. It then overturned the barge, which sank the cage that the barge was transporting, with Eric and Amanda Kirby inside. Paul Kirby, who saw the animal attacking his family, climbed a partially submerged crane and diverted  the beasts’ attention. The Spinosaurus, now attacking the crane instead of the cage, did not notice it was standing in the pool of gasoline that had leaked from the boat and while knocking the crane with it’s snout in an attempt to get at Paul, Dr. Grant shot it with a flare gun, inadvertently igniting the gasoline as well. The Spinosaurus, stunned, fled the scene in panic and was not seen from again.

The Juvenile Dilophosaurus was one of the specimens found on Isla Nublar, and was contained in the Dilophosaur Paddock. As Dennis Nedry crashed into a root on his way to meet his contact on the East Dock, he attempted to winch his Jeep down the muddy hillside. As he decided on a nearby tree as being sturdy enough, he heard a hoot. Turning, Nedry missed seeing the Juvenile Dilophosaur jumping down from an unseen perch.

As he tried to get the cable fastened to the tree, the Dilophosaur hooted and peeked at him from behind the trunk. Looking, he saw nothing as the Dilophosaur had already switched to the other side. It hooted again at him curiously, but did nothing as Nedry merely laughed at it and walked nervously back to the hillside. However, the Juvenile followed the man, causing him to turn his head again.

The Dilophosaur purred softly, craning itself to full height and turning its head as it sized Nedry up. It did not react to his attempts to dissuade it away by saying he had no food for it. Nedry began to get annoyed and picked up a stick to try and distract the dinosaur, but the Juvenile turned its head once to see where he had thrown it, then returned its attention back to Nedry.

As Nedry tried to get back to the jeep, he slipped on the muddy hill and turned around to see the Juvenile staring at him. After a pause, the Juvenile Dilophosaur unfolded its frill and began spitting at Nedry. The spit landed on Nedry’s jacket, causing him to get up and take it seriously as a threat for the first time since encountering the animal.

Turning back to check to see if it was still spitting at him, Nedry was blinded by the Dilophosaurs spit. Attempting to re-enter the jeep, he fell down back first into the mud. The Juvenile took this opportunity to hop further up the hillside, whereupon it hopped over Nedry’s prone form, and waited on the passenger seat for Nedry to enter.

As Nedry stood back up, he had been blinded so he was not aware that the Juvenile was in the jeep. Closing the door, he took a sigh of relief but then he heard the familiar sound of the Dilophosaur unfolding its frill and spitting. He screamed as the animal lunged at him, the Dilophosaur jumping on him before he was able to exit and mauling him with such violence it caused the jeep to rock.

Later, when Miles Chadwick  and Nima infiltrated the park to attempt to make contact with Nedry, they came across his abandoned jeep. The Dilophosaur was still in the car, and eating Nedry’s corpse. Nima opened the door to the Jeep, and was immediately barreled over by the Dilophosaur which then fled off into the jungle.

This individual was a female Tyrannosaurus rex that was the mate to a Buck and mother to an infant that were both involved in the San Diego Incident in 1997. She also had a role in the Isla Sorna expeditions that preceded the San Diego Incident.

The female is first encountered when either she or her mate kicked one of the Gatherer’s Mercedes SUVs off the cliff that the groups’ modified trailers were parked at the edge of. The female and her mate had come to the spot following the scent of their infant, which the Nick Van Owen and Dr. Sarah Harding had brought to the trailers to mend the broken leg of. The parent T. rex came up on the trailer end, where they found their infant. There, Dr. Harding returned the still partially tranquilized infant to the Buck. The Buck and his mate found a place to hide their infant then returned to the trailers. Turning the back half of the accordion vehicle upside down, the two T. rex then managed in shattering the front windshield and pushing the back half over the cliff the trailers are parked at the edge of before leaving, apparently satisfied with their work. However, they once again returned when Eddie Carr, who had came to the rescue of his friends, was caught by the T. rex pair attempting to pull the the trailers back over the cliff in his own vehicle.

The T. rex pair, hearing the loud noise that Eddie’s Mercedes SUV was making, returned to the site. Finding the vehicle, the Buck bit off the roof to the SUV and then attempted to get to Eddie. While grabbing for his Lindstradt Air rifle, Eddie was grabbed by the Buck T. rex, who was joined by his mate in ripping the man in two at the waist. Finally satisfied with their work, the two T. rex left and the trailer inhabitants were rescued by the InGen team.

The Tyrannosaurus were not seen again until they found their way to the survivor’s final encampment. The Buck, following the scent of the his infant’s blood now stained to the shirt of Dr. Sarah Harding, poked his head into Dr. Harding’s tent. Sniffing around and cuing in on the shirt hanging from a line stretched across the tent interior, the T. rex was startled when Carter woke up and screamed at his presence. Lifting the tent from the ground, and momentarily blinded, the Buck was able to remove the tent from his face by shaking it off. The female then arrived on the scene and chased the hunters along with Nick, Dr. Harding, and Kelly Curtis through a tight ravine. Nick spots a small waterfall recess which he, Sarah, and Kelly can hide in, and jump into it, only to be followed in by paleontologist Dr. Robert Burke. Dr. Burke had alerted the attention of the female when he did so, and so the mother Tyrannosaurus burst her head into the cave looking for human occupants inside. Fortunately, the waterfall’s stream hindered the Tyrannosaurus‘ eyesight and she was incapable of reaching her prey. However, a milk snake startled Dr. Burke, which caused him to run forward, right into the T. rex‘ mouth. The female T. rex pulled Burke out of the cave, and then left the area.

The female is spotted once more with her mate and infant in a field after the Buck and infant had been returned to Isla Sorna post San Diego Incident. 

During the Isla Nublar Incident that occurred on Isla Nublar between June 11th-13th in 1993, there was one Triceratops encountered by Dr. Grant and the group during their tour of Jurassic Park. Not given a nickname by staff and Robert Muldoon, she was simply called ‘the Trike’. Dr. Ellie Sattler and Dr. Gerry Harding inspected the animal together, and discovered that the pupils were dilated when shown under light; a pharmacological effect from local plant life. Upon inspecting the observing the area, Dr. Sattler found West Indian Lilac; a poisonous plant species which was said by Dr. Harding that the animals do not eat them. Not believing it, Dr. Sattler checked the Triceratops’ droppings, however found zero trace of Lilac berries. Instead, Dr. Sattler found traces of the berries in a mound of gizzard stones underneath a West Indian Lilac bush. Dr. Sattler then hypothesized that the Triceratops had accidentally ingested the toxic plant while gathering stones for her gizzard. The plant remained in the animal’s gizzard until the herbivore regurgitated it along with the gizzard stones when the stones became too worn to be of use to the animal. It is unknown if the Triceratops ever recovered before the napalm bombing destroyed the island.

The Infant Tyrannosaurus was the male on only known offspring of a female Tyrannosaurus and a Male Tyrannosaurus that was involved in events that transpired on Isla Sorna and San Diego, California in 1997. Up to the point that the Hunter’s Expedition came to Isla Sorna, the animal often stayed in the Rex Nest, where his parents would bring him carcasses as he was too young to hunt for himself. Roland Tembo and Ajay Sidhu discovered the nest after rounding up the animals on the Game Trail, and captured the infant for use as bait to attempt to lure the parents into a trap.

The Hunters apparently sedated  the animal, and tied it to the ground via a stake. Peter Ludlow stumbled upon the animal while drunk, an seeing what he thought was an animal in the underbrush, fired and stumbled. He landed on the infant T. rex leg, fracturing it, for which Roland was furious about. Ajay and Roland continued to watch the infant from the safety of their tree blind as the animal moaned for his parents.

As the Hunters panicked in the chaos caused by Nick Van Owen and Dr. Sarah Harding freeing the animals, Sarah Harding and Nick took the opportunity to free the infant. Eddie Carr transported the infant from near the Hunter’s campsite to the Mobile Trailers in the Mercedes, despite his confusion and reluctance. They brought the infant onto the trailer, in which they sedated him and set him down on a table at the far end of the second trailer.

As Nick Van Owen and Dr. Harding tried to heal the injured leg of the infant, Kelly Curtis and Dr. Ian Malcolm went to the safety of the high hide along with Eddie Carr. Nick used his belt to muzzle the infant’s jaw to keep him from biting. They used the trailer’s computers to scan the leg, and form a splint so that the leg would have the opportunity to heal from the injury that Ludlow had caused.

However, the cries of the infant had drawn the parents to the site of the trailers, and they signaled their presence by kicking one of the Mercedes off of the cliff. Frightened, Ian, Nick and Sarah attempted to appease the parents by delivering them their infant, now that he was able to walk again thanks to his leg being put in the cast. However, the parents left only for a short while, and when they returned they began to knock the trailers off the cliff in a territorial display.

After the conclusion of the Hunter’s expedition when Roland subdued the male Tyrannosaurus, the surviving members of the expedition went back to the nest and re-captured the infant. The infant was then taken to San Diego via Ludlow’s private jet. where he was placed in the infirmary of Jurassic Park: San Diego. The young male was contained in a small cage that was barely long enough to house his body and no room for him to stand up at all, only for him to lie down.

After the male Tyrannosaurus broke out of his containment in the S.S. Venture and began to rampage around San Diego, Ian Malcolm realized the only way to lure him back to the ship would be by using the infant. Convincing Ludlow to tell them where the infant was held with Sarah’s help, Ian and Sarah drove to the unfinished Park and defied the armed guards to place the infant in the back of their car. Following the screams of the terrified people, Ian and Sarah quickly located where the male Tyrannosaurus was. Sarah woke the infant up, causing him to moan in anguish. The moan drew the male’s attention, and he pursued the car as Ian and Sarah quickly drove back to the S.S. Venture. They quickly placed the infant in the cargo hold and then jumped overboard before the male Tyrannosaurus could follow.

Seeing Ian and Sarah back, Ludlow guessed that they had returned the infant and ventured into the cargo hold where he found him huddled behind a grate. Ludlow thought that he had the infant trapped and so began trying to recapture the animal by himself, although the young male eluded his grasp. He was so fixated on trying to catch the infant that he was completely unaware of the adult Tyrannosaurus coming down the stairs behind him.

Realizing that he had been trapped, Ludlow attempted to run up the stairs. However, the adult grabbed him and threw him roughly onto the ground. It then proceeded to break  his legs as he tried to run. The infant began stalking Ludlow, and jumped on him as he screamed. Peter Ludlow was then killed by the infant, becoming the first prey in the infant’s first hunt.

After the adult T. rex was subdued, so was the infant, and the S.S. Venture transported both of the animals to Isla Sorna. This time however, the ship was accompanied by a military escort of ships so as to prevent a repeat of the San Diego Incident. They were then spotted on the plains of Isla Sorna, the entire family group seen out for the first time in their natural ecosystem.

On Isla Sorna there existed a pack of Velociraptor ’Nublarensis’ that inhabited the remains of the Worker Village and the adjacent long grass. The Long Grass served as either the hunting grounds or the nesting site for the pack of velociraptors. The Long grass was used as their hunting grounds, to ambush any prey that may have been foolish enough to wander in. Their hunting formation in the long grass worked by first allowing their victims to entrench themselves some distance from the treeline before they showed themselves. It is known there were about 7 number of animals in this Long Grass, not including the 3 raptors seen in the Worker Village.

Velociraptor ambushing hunters in Diagonal lines to prey.

This strategy was showcased when the Hunters Expedition ran into the Long Grass after being running there in a panic from the Tyrannosaurus pair. The Velociraptors stalked Their prey in direct parallel diagonal lines from the Hunter’s formation, so that they would be unaware. The also maintained their position hidden in the grass, only leaping up to attack when it was too late for the prey to react. They managed to decimate the remainder of the hunters this way, including Ajay Sidhu of whose remains only his backpack was found.

Ian Malcolm, Kelly Curtis, Sarah Harding, and Nick Van Owen only escaped the slaughter

The Raptor Nest

after finding Ajay’s backpack which alerted Ian to the need to escape from the situation quickly. They stumbled upon the pack’s nest after sliding down the hill. The nest was   littered with the carcasses of many dinosaurs, including an Apatosaurus skeleton. It was empty as the rest of the animals were all in the long grass slaughtering the hunters. This served as the midway point from which the group was able to access the Worker Village.

The First Male raptor before it ambushes Sarah Harding

As the group made their way into the Worker Village,  a Male Velociraptor jumped on top of a car and attacked Sarah Harding in an ambush. However, she was able to escape from it by sliding out of her ‘Lucky Pack’ and running away as the animal tore the backpack apart. As Sarah and Kelly ran away, Malcolm distracted the Male by drawing its attention away and running.

The first Male breaking through the glass of the gas station.

Malcolm ran into a gas station to try and elude the male raptor, and closes the door behind him. However it crashes through the glass, leading him to rip the door off of its hinges as a barrier. The Male then charges the door which Malcolm pushes on it, While the raptor is preoccupied, Malcolm runs into a truck and slams the door. Undaunted, the raptor chases after him and began to attempt to break the window open with its jaw.

As Malcolm distracted the first male, Sarah and Kelly ran into the Kiln house, where they  were followed by a second male and a female Velociraptor. The female raptor attempted to dig under the door the two humans had ran through. Sarah attempted to try and dig her way out of an opposing door, and the male raptor allowed them to dig at the opposing door until the humans made their attempt at actually exiting. It was smart enough to stay out of sight when Sarah checked first to see if it was clear, only attacking when Kelly attempted to leave. The raptors then climbed through the hole in the door as the women sought higher ground in the Kiln House.

Malcolm being Cornered by a Raptor

As Malcolm was trapped inside the truck, he turned to see the raptors attempting to get into the Kiln House. Meanwhile the first male broke through the glass and snarled at him, and Malcolm fled through the opposite door and into the Kiln House. Entering, he was greeted by Sarah and Kelly yelling at him to get to the second floor which he attempted to do as the raptors climbed through the hole in the door. However, the second male velociraptor jumped on the catwalk and was about to lunge at Malcolm.

Kelly Malcolm  jumped on a beam against the protests of Sarah though and began doing a

The second male raptor impaled after falling though the window.

gymnastics routine. The second male turned away from Malcolm, confused and perplex at the actions of the human. However, as it was distracted, Kelly finished her routine and kicked the raptor out of the grated window where it was impaled upon landing. Sarah then distracted the first male and the female by yelling, which allowed Malcolm and Kelly to escape through the Kiln doors.

The Female Raptor as it followed Sarah onto the roof.

Sarah escaped through the Kiln roof and the female followed her. She attempted to jump to the opposite roof but only managed to catch the gutter. The Female raptor made the leap effortlessly after her though. The first male watched from below, snapping at her and trying to attack. Sarah began to toss roof tiles at the male raptor, one of which actually struck the animal, and it was enough to keep it from a second attempt at lunging.

The female raptor falling from the roof onto the male

The female raptor on the roof attempted to reach her, and so Sarah began sliding tiles further, trying to cause a chain reaction on the roof. It succeeded in stalling the attacks of the male raptor, but the female only moved to the side. As it seemed she was losing her grip, she finally managed to cause a chain reaction, causing an entire section of the roof to slide, sending the female raptor falling on top of the male.

The Male and the female raptors fighting

The two velociraptors began fighting, the Male lunging on top of the female. They snapped and bit as they rolled over, causing Sarah to move out of the way. As Sarah crashed through the hole to make her escape, the female raptor is seen snapping at the male raptors neck, leaving a superficial wound.

The Sub-adult Tyrannosaurus rex was a not yet fully mature male individual that was encountered by Dr. Alan Grant, his field assistant Billy Brennan, booking agent Udesky, and Paul and Amanda Kirby on Isla Sorna in 2001. The group had found themselves stranded on the island while in search for the Kirby’s son, Eric, who had been stranded on InGen‘s second island for 8 weeks after a paragliding trip went awry. The Tyrannosaurus was killed in a fight with a Spinosaurus. This animal is believed to be a sub-adult individual due to measuring only 14.5 ft in height and 37ft long. The coloration was also brighter the coloration seen an individual that was known to have been a fully mature male.

This Tyrannosaurus was encountered while the aforementioned group was fleeing a Spinosaurus. After running through a small clearing and into another patch of jungle, Grant and Co. encountered the sub-adult male feeding on a Parasaurolophus carcass that was hidden behind a patch of long grass. Although Dr. Grant warned his companions not to move, a roar from the carnivore frightened the group enough that they fled. The Tyrannosaurus gave chase, and the group soon found that the Spinosaurus had followed them into the jungle. The two theropods noticed each other and began to prepare for a fight. After a series of roars and circling to size each other up, a slap across the face to the Tyrannosaurus from the Spinosaurus sparked the battle. The T. rex charged and bit the Spinosaurus‘ neck, slamming it to the ground, only for the Spinosaurus to twist itself out of the smaller theropod’s grip and retaliate. Beating back the male T. rex, the Spinosaurus bit down onto the sub-adult’s neck and twisted it, snapping the neck and killing the Tyrannosaurus. The Spinosaurus than stood over the Tyrannosaurus‘ body, and gave out a victorious bellow.

Elvis was an adult male Parasaurolophus that was captured by the InGen Harvest team on an Isla Sorna game trail in 1997. Elvis received his nick-named from Roland Tembo, who found himself incapable of pronouncing “Parasaurolophus” . Tembo also mistook Elvis for a Corythosaurus due to the wind whipping the pages rapidly in Roland’s specimen packet. Near the end of the Game Trail harvest, Dieter Stark and Carter chased down Elvis in their modified Jeep. Dieter moved out into the Jeep’s outrigger, which was the extendable seat in the vehicle, and tranquilized the Parasaurolophus with a Dan-Inject JM Standard. As Elvis slowed down, the rest of the harvesters crowded him with snare poles where they successfully brought Elvis down after little resistance. Elvis is later seen fleeing the InGen Harvester encampment in the midst of the chaos after Nick Van Owen and Dr. Sarah Harding released him from his containment unit.

Friar Tuck was the Pachycephalosaurus that was captured by the InGen Harvest team on an Isla Sorna game trail in 1997. This particular Pachycephalosaurus was named by Roland Tembo who came up with the nick-name out of his inability to pronounce “Pachycephalosaurus“. After being cornered by a group of harvesters, Friar Tuck managed to charge through his attempted captors and ram one of the harvesters’ Jeeps, sending one of the harvesters through the vehicle. After chasing Friar Tuck back down, the harvesters used their Snagger vehicle to pin the Pachycephalosaurus down while the rest of the harvesters subdued the animal with snare poles.

The Big One and her subordinates are a trio of Velociraptors that formed a Pack from the remnants of the eight original Raptors that were introduced to the Park on Isla Nublar. Due to the physical appearance of the three Raptors being identical, we at Jurassic Park Legacy are unsure precisely which Raptor is the individual that Park Warden Robert Muldoon refers to as “The Big One”.

Originally InGen bred eight Raptors for Jurassic Park: Isla Nublar. However, after The Big One’s introduction to the Velociraptor Paddock, this particular Raptor either herself killed or had killed, all but two of the other Raptors. After taking charge, The Big One would repeatedly have her subordinates attacking the Paddock fences when the feeders came along side their systematic testing of the paddock fencing in search of a weak spot. The led to the Raptors having to be relocated to their own special containment pen. In the early summer of 1993, a Raptor was introduced to the Raptor Pen. During her introduction, the Raptor mauled and killed a worker during an attempted escape. The details surrounding this particular Raptor are unknown. It is unknown if this particular Raptor was The Big One, one of her subordinates, or a new Raptor. It is also unknown whether this Raptor survived her mauling or whether she was killed.

Due to the aforementioned Raptor’s attack and killing of the worker, Jophery, John Hammond‘s investors represented by Donald Genarro, shut down a majority of construction on the Park and demanded that an inspection crew be allowed to give their endorsement. The investors threatened to pull their funding if Hammond did not comply. Putting together a team of endorsers comprising of himself and Chaotician Dr. Ian Malcolm, investors also requested vertebrate paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant due to feelings of Dr. Malcolm being “too trendy” as Genarro puts it. Hammond, who had been funding Dr. Grant’s work, personally recruited Dr. Grant himself, who was accompanied by his colleague and paleobotanist, Dr. Ellie Sattler.

After the endorsement team made a quick tour of the Isla Nublar Visitor Center, the hatching of a baby Raptor led Dr. Grant to request to see the adult Raptors. Unfortunately for Hammond, however, the group’s encounter with the predators coincided with one of their feeding times. Much to Hammond’s chagrin, the group watched with a mixture of interest and disgust as The Big One and her subordinates tore apart a cow, leaving nothing left but a shredded and blood splattered harness. At this point, Robert Muldoon took the moment to briefly tell the group a short history of the trio, though neglected to mention the escape attempt that was the cause for the group’s presence.

While the group was on tour, accompanied by John Hammond’s two grand children: Lex and Tim Murphy, computer programmer turned corporate spy Dennis Nedry sabotaged the Jurassic Park computer system, which led to the Isla Nublar Incident. During the shutdown, John Hammond had Ray Arnold immediately  check to ensure the Raptor Paddock was still electrified, which it was. Muldoon later remarked that not even Nedry was foolish enough to have shut off the Raptor fences. Unfortunately, even though working through the night, Arnold was unable to find and remove the White Rabbit Object command that Nedry used to disable the Park systems. In an attempt to remove the bug in it’s entirety, Hammond had Arnold shut down the entire Jurassic Park system. Unfortunately, the shut down also turned off the Raptor Pen fencing, which allowed the The Big One and her subordinates to escape.

After Ray Arnold did not return from the Maintenance Shed, Ellie Sattler accompanied by Robert Muldoon, decided to go to the shed themselves. On their way, the duo discovered that the Raptors used the shut down to break out of the Raptor pen and roam freely. Knowing the Raptors danger, Muldoon had Sattler make a break for the Maintenance Shed as he attempted to take down the Raptors. Spotting one Raptor in the distance, Muldoon closed in on her and quietly readied his gun. However, as he took aim, a second Raptor ambushed Muldoon and attacked the seasoned hunter just after the man uttered his famous last words: “clever girl”. As Muldoon was mauled, the Raptor being aimed for watched from a distance as a small boa constrictor slithered along the branch in front of her.

Meanwhile, Ellie Sattler had entered the Maintenance Shed and restored power to the Park, only to be ambushed by the third Raptor of the trio. Scrambling back in fright, Sattler bumped into a machine which caused Ray Arnold’s severed arm to fall on her. Discovering that the Raptor must have killed and partially consumed Arnold, Sattler was once again ambushed by the Raptor as Ellie made her escape from the building in a frenzied panic.

As Grant, Sattler, Malcolm, and Hammond regrouped back in the Emergency Bunker, Lex and Tim feasted out on a buffet that assumingly had been cooked up by Chef Alejandro. However, the two Raptors that had killed Muldoon have found their way into the Visitor’s Center. The two children took shelter in the Visitor Center kitchen, only for one of the Raptors to follow them in. Calling to her partner, the second Raptor appeared and the two animals began to stalk the children. After a short engagement, Tim and Lex managed to lock one of the Raptors in a large walk-in freezer, while the other watched the children flee from the room.

Outside the kitchen, the children encountered Grant and Sattler, who took them to the Park Control Room so the Park system could be rebooted. As they entered, however, the second Raptor from the Kitchen followed the group, where she attempted to force her way into the the room. Tim Murphy, who stood in shock, was told by Alan Grant to get away from the door, and so joined his sister by Dennis Nedry’s computer station. Lex, who was familiar with computers, was able to figure out the system and reboot the door locks, security systems, and phones. With the Raptor locked out, Grant used the moment of calm to call Hammond and request that a helicopter be sent out to pick them up. However, the conversation was cut short when Sattler noticed that the Raptor was planning on breaking through the glass wall from the Mr. DNA ride. As the Raptor busted through the glass, Grant tried shooting the animal thrice before the gun jammed. Abandoning the weapon, Grant instead had the group escape the room through the air ducts. Kicking the ladder away from the gap in the drop-ceiling tiles in hopes that it would dissuade the Raptor from following them, the Raptor instead dismounted from the computer desks she was standing on and jumped through the ceiling tiles where she hung herself from the support beam. Unfortunately, Lex was on the ceiling tile the Raptor had jumped through, and Grant had to kick the Raptor in the face in an effort to get the Raptor to let go. Letting go of her support, the Raptor fell, bringing Lex with her. Lex was able to be hoisted back up just before the Raptor bit her leg.

Following the ducts to the Rotunda, the group found that the Raptor had pursued them there from the Control Room. Seeing only one way of escape, the group jumped onto the mounted skeletons, only for the Raptor to follow. The mounts, unable to support the weight, quickly began to break apart, and tumbled to the floor, sending the four human and one archosaurian riders along with. As the group recovered from their falls, Ellie Sattler looked up to find the Raptor that she had encountered in the Maintenance Shed sneaking underneath a plastic tarp that was being used to cover a hole in the uncompleted Visitor Center wall. As the two Raptors closed in on the humans, the group was saved just in the nick of time as the second Raptor was about to pounce on her human prey. The Tyrannosaurus rex had come through the hole in the wall, and grabbed the Raptor from mid-air, and crushed it in her jaws. Using the distraction the T. rex provided, the humans fled. Meanwhile, the Raptor that had pursued the group through the Visitor Center foolishly attacked the larger theropod.  The T. rex snapped at her, but could not reach her. Rolling her head, the Raptor fell into the T. rex’ mouth where she was killed and than thrown against the Tyrannosaurus skeleton and the T. rex let out a mighty bellow.

The remains of one of these two Velociraptors were later found by corprorate spy Nima Cruz, Jurassic Park veterinarian Dr. Gerry Harding, and Gerry Harding’s daughter, Jess Harding, when the three had returned to the Visitor’s Center the following morning.

The Tyrannosaurus Buck is the male Tyrannosaurus rex that is encountered by both InGen teams on Isla Sorna in 1997 and is the individual that hunter Roland Tembo seeks to hunt during his trip to Isla Sorna while accompanying the InGen Harvest team. This T. rex is later tranquilized by Roland and taken to San Diego where the animal escapes and rampages before he is able to be rounded back and brought back to Isla Sorna. This male is 16ft at the hip, and 40ft long from premaxilla to the tip of the caudials. The face of the Buck is adorned with many facial scars and some of the teeth in his mouth are broken or missing. This is indicative towards the animal participating in fights for mating rights or dominance. Besides being smaller and having a different color pattern, the male is distinguished from the female with a more ornamented face, which  has more solid features than the female. The exact age of this male is unknown, but he is of breeding age and is fully matured as evidenced by coloration, sub-adult males having a lighter variation of color pattern.

Isla Sorna

The first instance the Buck was mentioned was by Roland Tembo when he told Peter Ludlow that the only reason for his inclusion on Ludlow’s trip was his being allowed to hunt the male Tyrannosaurus. Later Roland and his best friend, Ajay Sidhu, found the T. rex nest in hopes of finding the Buck. Only finding the infant Tyrannosaurus that the Buck and his mate had left behind to feed on a carcass while away for a short while, Roland then devised a plan to lure the Buck by kidnapping the infant Tyrannosaurus. However, Roland’s plan was never fulfilled. In a drunken stupor, Ludlow went to converse with Roland at his trap, but tripped and fell onto the infant T. rex, breaking the infant’s leg. When Nick Van Owen and Dr. Sarah Harding snuck into the InGen Encampment to sabotage the equipment, Nick found the injured baby T. rex and brought him to the Mobile Lab trailers with Dr. Harding where they set a cast around the broken leg.

However, in their plan, they had failed to realize that the parents would follow the scent of their infant. The parent T. rex came up on the trailer end, where they found their infant. There, Dr. Harding returned the still partially tranquilized infant to the Buck. The Buck and his mate found a place to hide their infant then returned to the trailers. Turning the back half of the accordion vehicle upside down, the two T. rex then managed in shattering the front windshield and pushing the back half over the cliff the trailers are parked at the edge of before leaving, apparently satisfied with their work. However, they once again returned when Eddie Carr, who had came to the rescue of his friends, was caught by the T. rex pair attempting to pull the the trailers back over the cliff in his own vehicle.

The T. rex pair, hearing the loud noise that Eddie’s Mercedes SUV was making, returned to the site. Finding the vehicle, the Buck bit off the roof to the SUV and then attempted to get to Eddie. While grabbing for his Lindstradt Air rifle, Eddie was grabbed by the Buck T. rex, who was joined by his mate in ripping the man in two at the waist. Finally satisfied with their work, the two T. rex left and the trailer inhabitants were rescued by the InGen team.

The Tyrannosaurus were not seen again until they found their way to the survivor’s final encampment. The Buck, following the scent of the his infant’s blood now stained to the shirt of Dr. Sarah Harding, poked his head into Dr. Harding’s tent. Sniffing around and cuing in on the shirt hanging from a line stretched across the tent interior, the T. rex was startled when Carter woke up and screamed at his presence. Lifting the tent from the ground, and momentarily blinded, the Buck was able to remove the tent from his face by shaking it off. His mate arriving on the scene, scared the hunters into a tight ravine where the female pursued them, leaving the Buck behind to scavenge through any remains. While doing so, Roland took the chance to shoot the T. rex with his double barreled rifle, only to find that Nick Van Owen had sabotaged his weapon. He then proceeded to shoot the Buck with an over dosage of concentrated carfentanil. Unfortunately for Roland, Ludlow came across the still alive T. rex and ordered the sedated animal to be secured for transport to San Diego where Ludlow hoped to display the animal, along with his infant, in Jurassic Park: San Diego being refurbished there to replace the Park at the now destroyed Isla Nublar.

San Diego Incident

Unfortunately, sometime during the trip, the T. rex stopped breathing and entered a comatose state. In an effort to save the animal, he was administered naltrexone to counter the large dosage of tranquilizer given to him when Roland shot him. The T. rex, now in a berserk state, broke out of his containment unit and attacked those serving on board the S.S. Venture. Somehow the T. rex was lured into the cargo hold, where he stayed until Ludlow foolishly ordered the area checked once the ship docked at the InGen Docks at San Diego. The T. rex, now free, broke through the dock check point and wandered into San Diego. Sarah Harding and Ian Malcolm then devised a plan to lure the raging animal back to the ship by using the infant to bring him. While they went to the San Diego: Jurassic Park to retrieve the infant, the male T. rex wandered into a neighborhood. Finding a house with a backyard pool, the Buck broke through the brick wall lining the yard and into the pool area where he began drinking. The family dog, unphased by the intrusion, began to bark at the much larger predator only to be quickly silenced by a growl from the beast. The noise awoke Benjamin, a child, who then dragged his parents into his bedroom to show them the dinosaur. When they arrived, they found that their dog had been eaten by the T. rex, who growled at the family before returning to the city. Rampaging through downtown, the Tyrannosaurus scared everyone he encountered. The T. rex tested his surroundings in various ways including biting traffic lights and smashing a bus into a Blockbuster Video Store. Malcolm and Harding, who had recovered the infant by this time, came upon the scene and then led the T. rex back to the docks.
Returning the animal to the ship, Malcolm and Harding found that Ludlow, who had given the police orders to kill the Buck and leave the infant alive, had followed them in an effort to recover the infant T. rex. Hearing the infant’s call from the cargo hold of the ship, Ludlow entered only to, unbeknownst to Ludlow, be followed in by the adult male. Attempting to capture the growling infant bare handed, Ludlow realized only too late that he had been trapped.

Attempting to scurry up the stairs back up to the main deck, Ludlow was grabbed in the Buck’s jaws, who brought Ludlow back to the cargo hold floor where he dropped him. Attempting to stand back up, the male T. rex pushed Ludlow back to the floor where he proudly watched his son pounce the hapless executive. However, this victory was short lived as police helicopters surrounded the gaping cargo hold doors. Their guns aimed to fire, it was only in the nick of time that Dr. Ian Malcolm was able to get the doors closed and the Buck tranquilized by Dr. Sarah Harding. The Buck and his infant were then shipped back to Isla Sorna where they were spotted with the Buck’s mate.