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Ah, apparently the BBC forgot about the scene in the first movie Jurassic Park!

• frik 12y ago
  Why was it downvoted? It is in some way relevant. I remember in Jurassic Park 1 the premise was that the dinos reprocuded themselves because the contained parts of an African frog DNA, a species that needs only females to reproduce.
  • graycat 12y ago
    Right. As in the script of Jurassic Park at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/quotes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/quotes early in the movie we have a discussion saying that the animals can't breed in the wild due to them all being female: "John Hammond: [as they gather around a baby dinosaur hatching from its egg] I've been present for the birth of every little creature on this island. Dr. Ian Malcolm: Surely not the ones that are bred in the wild? Henry Wu: Actually they can't breed in the wild. Population control is one of our security precautions. There's no unauthorized breeding in Jurassic Park. Dr. Ian Malcolm: How do you know they can't breed? Henry Wu: Well, because all the animals in Jurassic Park are female. We've engineered them that way." and later with three of the characters wandering in the park we have "Dr. Alan Grant: [finding egg shells] Oh my God. Do you know what this is? This is a dinosaur egg. The dinosaurs are breeding. Tim: But Grandpa said all the dinosaurs were girls. Dr. Alan Grant: Amphibian DNA. Lex: What's that? Dr. Alan Grant: Well, on the tour, the film said they used frog DNA to fill in the gene sequence gaps. They mutated the dinosaur genetic code and blended it with that of a frog's. Now, some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single sex environment. Malcolm was right. Look..." So, yes, the movie anticipated the OP from the BBC.