Isla Nublar was staffed with as few people as possible, due to John Hammond‘s desire to cut costs by limiting…
The perception of Reptiles was first established from the beginnings of modern day science. Carl Linneaus described Reptiles as being…
After the power was restored and the immediate threat posed by the Velociraptors was gone for the time being, John…
Smuggling is the illegal transportation of goods—including human beings—into places where such goods or the transport of them are in…
It is a common theory among cryptozoologists that some unidentified creatures may belong to a fossil species. Such discoveries have…
As part of Jurassic Park’s security measures, a very large number of motion-sensitive security cameras were placed throughout Isla Nublar…
While Marty Guitierrez was talking with Richard Levine, Marty lamented that science had changed during his lifetime. Scientists no longer…
Weather forecasting is the application of science to predict the state of the Earth’s atmosphere for any given location. Mankind…
Defense wounds is an injury received by the victim of an attack while trying to defend against the assailant. Defensive wounds are…
A computer object is a block of code that could be moved around and used, the way one might move…
Disambiguation Links – Nedry’s Backdoor (S/F) A backdoor in a computer system is a covert method of bypassing a computer’s security measures…
Named after Dr. Ian Malcolm, the Malcolm Effect is believed to be a subset of Chaos Theory. Ian Malcolm used…
Population density is population divided by total land area or water volume, as appropriate. Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and lead…
Sensory modalities include the five senses found in humans, vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell. However, in other animals there…
During the same time that aberrant forms began showing up along the coast of Costa Rica, state Epidemiologists tracked an…
Recombinant DNA molecules are DNA sequences that are the result of laboratory methods (e.g., molecular cloning) in order to bring…
Migration is the ubiquitous phenomenon of long-distance movement of animals, usually on a seasonal basis. All major animal groups exhibit…
Superstition is a pejorative term for a belief in supernatural occurrences, that an event can or will lead to the…
Intuition is the ability to acquire knowledge instinctively without inference or the use of conscious reasoning. The word comes from…
The Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus, or Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE), is a mosquito-borne pathogen which causes encephalomyelitis and can affect…
