--- title: New Dinosaur in 'Jurassic World'is 'Scientifically More Plausible' Than Previous Dinosaurs description: The 'Jurassic Park' sequel, which is released on June 12, features a genetically-modifed dinosaur canonical: https://time.com/3910414/jurassic-world-dinosaur/ author: Tara John article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-05T10:43:12.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:56:42.038Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: New Dinosaur in 'Jurassic World' is 'Scientifically More Plausible' Than Previous Dinosaurs og:description: The 'Jurassic Park' sequel, released on June 12, features a genetically-modifed dinosaur og:url: https://time.com/3910414/jurassic-world-dinosaur/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt329ec8aa6768d935/6987ebde428a9e3c43ccafec/jurassic-world.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: jurassic-world og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Dinosaur in 'Jurassic World' is 'Scientifically More Plausible' Than Previous Dinosaurs twitter:description: The 'Jurassic Park' sequel, released on June 12, features a genetically-modifed dinosaur twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt329ec8aa6768d935/6987ebde428a9e3c43ccafec/jurassic-world.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Dinosaur in _Jurassic World_ is 'Scientifically More Plausible' Than Previous Dinosaurs by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jun 5, 2015 10:43 AM CUT  Universal Pictures by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Jun 5, 2015 10:43 AM CUT The genetically modified, hybrid dinosaur in _Jurassic World_ is “scientifically more plausible” than the dinosaurs in former films, according to palaeontologist Jack Horner in an interview with the [BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02syr3m "undefined") on Friday. Horner, who has advised on all four Jurassic Park films, believes that creating a transgenetic animal like the one found in the upcoming film is more of a reality than the retrieval of dinosaur DNA, which we don’t have. “The cool thing about making a hybrid is that we can take a whole bunch of genes from other animals and mix them together to make a new animal, which is actually more plausible than bringing them back,” said Horner. The _Jurassic World_ palaeontologist is currently trying to recreate a small dinosaur by using chicken DNA. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3910414/jurassic-world-dinosaur/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3910414/jurassic-world-dinosaur/"},"headline":"New Dinosaur in Jurassic World is 'Scientifically More Plausible' Than Previous Dinosaurs","datePublished":"2015-06-05T10:43:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:56:42.038Z","description":"The Jurassic Park sequel, released on June 12, features a genetically-modifed dinosaur","url":"https://time.com/3910414/jurassic-world-dinosaur/","keywords":["movies","Jurassic World"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt329ec8aa6768d935/6987ebde428a9e3c43ccafec/jurassic-world.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt329ec8aa6768d935/6987ebde428a9e3c43ccafec/jurassic-world.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jurassic-world","caption":"","creditText":"Universal Pictures","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3910414/jurassic-world-dinosaur/","name":"New Dinosaur in Jurassic World is 'Scientifically More Plausible' Than Previous Dinosaurs"}}]}] ```