Jurassic World

Trivia: When the pterosaur flies into the restaurant, a man in a blue denim shirt wearing a safari-brim tan fedora and a red handkerchief tied around his neck can be seen jumping away from the creature. It is not Alan Grant, but this extra was dressed in the same outfit Dr. Grant wore in the original Jurassic Park.

Phixius

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Trivia: Jimmy Buffet can be seen running back to get his margarita during the winged dinosaur attack on park visitors. (01:18:50)

Trivia: When the pterosaurs are attacking the main crowd of people, the movie playing at the IMAX is "Pterosaurs." (01:22:10)

Bishop73

Trivia: For Zara's death scene, Katie McGrath did all of her own stunts.

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Trivia: Partly filmed in abandoned six flags park, Six Flags New Orleans. The park was destroyed by hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Trivia: While the kids are on the train, the girl behind them is reading Dr. Ian Malcolm's book.

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Trivia: The voice of the Monorail Announcer is that of the American film director Brad Bird.

Trivia: Director Colin Trevorrow provided the voice of the cartoon character Mr. DNA.

Trivia: Prior to the film's release, there was controversy over who actually wrote the film. According to director Colin Trevorrow and writer Derek Connolly, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, who were credited for the screenplay and story, wrote a script that was completely different from the finished product, with only the element of dinosaurs being used in military practices being taken from Jaffa and Silver's script. They launched an appeal with the Writer's Guild of America, but the WGA held their stance and Jaffa and Silver were credited.

Trivia: The boy with the blue cap in the kids' area is actually Bryce Dallas Howard's son.

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Trivia: This is the only film in the franchise to feature an onscreen death of a female character.

Phaneron

Trivia: Vivien's line, "I have a boyfriend", was ad-libbed was Lauren Lapkus. Director Colin Trevorrow was so impressed with the line that he decided to keep it in the final print.

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Other mistake: When all of the raptors look at Owen from the perspective of their head mounted cameras, they are all looking at him from roughly the same angle, despite being a distance from each other. (01:34:05)

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Question: If all of the base DNA for the dinosaurs in the park was obtained from dino-blood inside mosquitoes, where did they get the DNA for the Mosasaurus from? A flying blood-sucking insect would not come into contact with a sea dwelling dinosaur, and there are no amber-equivalents in the ocean to trap any sea based blood suckers.

iRoN-RoK

Answer: And what about just digging for bones for the Mosasaurus? I think this was said somewhere-although I can't remember where so apologies if I'm wrong-but I think Dr. Wu mentioned something about it, so I'm sure they could've gotten DNA WITHOUT getting the blood from a mosquito. It sounds possible in my opinion.

Chosen answer: The scientific inaccuracy of the mosquitoes/DNA notwithstanding, at the end of the film the Mosasaurus surfaces at the edge of its pool in order to drag in the Indominus Rex. Assuming the Mosasaurus did the same thing to catch prey in its own time period, it's feasible a mosquito could have landed on its body and extracted some blood in that short amount of time, especially if the prey was putting up resistance.

Phaneron

And a mosquito would always be in that area and be keen on getting blood from that particular dinosaur? Plus, it didn't take much for the Indominus to be taken down since the Mosasaurus is kind of a big creature, so how hard would it be for other animals to be taken down as well? Added, the Mosasaurus was being fed a shark when we first meet it; it's not like it was hunting on its own in an enclosed area.

Mosquitoes are everywhere, so it's not a matter of convenience that one would be in the same area and being keen on going after that particular animal. Plus, I just pulled up the scene on YouTube and it takes close to 10 seconds for the Mosasaurus to drag the Indominous Rex to its doom, which is plenty of time for a mosquito to land on it and extract blood. And as I stated in the answer, the explanation of DNA being harvested from preserved mosquitoes is scientifically inaccurate anyway, so even a tenuous explanation of how a mosquito would get that animal's blood is no more tenuous than dinosaurs being brought back to life in the first place.

Phaneron

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