Isla Nublar's Dinosaurs

Soon we reach a door with a sign on it saying: EXTRACTIONS. Regis used his security card to enter that door. It was a very small room. Inside the room, there were microscopes and shelves full of yellow stones. There was a chief geneticist, Henry Wu and he knows all about the genetic engineering they do there. He said that he got the DNA from the amber. “Many millions of years ago, the sap from trees hardened and become fossilized. This hard substance is called amber” said Wu. So, the process of making dinosaur DNA is from that room. Wu was helped by Cray XMP supercomputers that match the DNA of dinosaurs. There were about three billion pieces in a whole DNA chain and it would take years for scientist to find all the pieces, but these computers only take several minutes to do this work and they remember lots of different types of DNA.


After that, Wu took us to a room with a sign on it saying: FERTILIZATION. Then he told them how the dinosaur embryos were put into special eggs and the temperature of the room. Wu said that he had to inject poison into the eggs and kill the animal if something goes wrong.


Then, he took us to a room with a sign on it saying: HATCHERY. The room was hot and there were rows and rows of lying eggs on shelves. Wu said that this place where the eggs hatch and become living dinosaurs.

Finally, he took us to nursery. The Nursery was a white room and there were lots of glass incubators. They looked like the incubators used for small babies in hospitals. There was a little animal. It was like a lizard, about 30 cm tall. Its skin was dark yellow with brown stripes. It had strong legs with a thick tail to stand up. I realized it was a young velociraptor, very friendly if it's a baby, but very deadly and aggressive if it's an adult.