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Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on

Jurassic Park: why we’re still struggling to realise it 30 years on: Rattana/Shutterstock Jurassic Park is arguably the ultimate Hollywood blockbuster. Aside from the appeal of human-chomping dinosaurs, tense action sequences and ground-breaking cinematography, its release in 1993 was a movies-meet-science milestone. As global audiences were soaking up the gory action, the premise of the …

Jurassic Park yn 30 a’r chwyldro effeithiau arbennig ddigwyddodd yn sgil y ffilm

Jurassic Park yn 30 a’r chwyldro effeithiau arbennig ddigwyddodd yn sgil y ffilm: Mae’r mis hwn yn nodi 30 mlynedd ers ffilm a newidiodd y sinema am byth. Defnyddiodd Jurassic Park 1993 ddelweddau a gynhyrchwyd gan gyfrifiadur (CGI) arloesol i ddod â deinosoriaid yn fyw yn addasiad Steven Spielberg o’r nofel o’r un enw. Daeth …

Jurassic Park at 30: how its CGI revolutionised the film industry

Jurassic Park at 30: how its CGI revolutionised the film industry: This month marks the 30th anniversary of a film that changed cinema forever. 1993’s Jurassic Park used pioneering computer-generated imagery (CGI) to bring dinosaurs to life in Steven Spielberg’s adaption of the novel of the same name. The film quickly became a must-see event …

Jurassic World Dominion: a palaeontologist on what the film gets wrong about dinosaurs

Jurassic World Dominion: a palaeontologist on what the film gets wrong about dinosaurs: The T-Rex is a popular Jurassic World character Alamy Almost 30 years after Jurassic Park first screened, the beloved franchise is back with its latest film Jurassic World Dominion, released in the UK on Friday. Our favourite characters, such as the Tyrannosaurus-rex …

Plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, hybodonts: looking back at three prehistoric predators of the Jurassic seas

Plesiosaurs, pliosaurs, hybodonts: looking back at three prehistoric predators of the Jurassic seas: The Liopleurodon was a pliosaur of the Jurassic period. SciePro/Shutterstock The fossilised remains of a gigantic ichthyosaur, colloquially known as a “sea dragon”, were recently uncovered at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve in the UK. Measuring at least ten metres in length …