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Extinct Kangaroo Had Feeding Habits Similar to Giant Panda

Friday, September 13, 2019

Simosthenurus occidentalis. Image credit: Nobu Tamura, spinops.blogspot.com / CC BY 3.0.

An analysis of the skull biomechanics of Simosthenurus occidentalis, a species of giant short-faced kangaroo that persisted until about 42,000 years ago, indicates that the extinct animal had a capacity for high-performance crushing of foods, suggesting feeding behaviors more similar to the modern-day giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) than modern-day kangaroos.

“The skull of the extinct kangaroo studied here differs from those of today’s kangaroos in many of the ways a giant panda’s skull differs from other bears,” said Dr. Rex Mitchell, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arkansas and the University of New England.

“So, it seems that the strange skull of this kangaroo was, in a functional sense, less like a modern-day kangaroo’s and more like a giant panda’s.”

Dr. Mitchell used computed tomography scans to create 3D models of the skull of Simosthenurus occidentalis.

Working with the models, he performed bite simulations to examine biomechanical performance.

The resulting forces at the jaw joints and biting teeth were measured, as well as stress experienced across the skull during biting.

The researcher compared the findings from the short-faced kangaroo to those obtained from models of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), a species alive today with the most similar skull shape.

These comparisons demonstrated the importance of Simosthenurus occidentalis’ bony, heavily reinforced skull features in producing and withstanding strong forces during biting, which likely helped the animal crush thick, resistant vegetation such as the older leaves, woody twigs and branches of trees and shrubs.

This would be quite different than the feeding habits of modern Australian kangaroos, which tend to feed mostly on grasses, and would instead be more similar to how giant pandas crush bamboo.

“The short face, large teeth, and broad attachment sites for biting muscles found in the skulls of the short-faced kangaroo and the giant panda are an example of convergent evolution, meaning these features probably evolved in both animals for the purpose of performing similar feeding tasks,” Dr. Mitchell said.

The findings appear in the journal PLoS ONE.

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D.R. Mitchell. 2019. The anatomy of a crushing bite: The specialised cranial mechanics of a giant extinct kangaroo. PLoS ONE 14 (9): e0221287; doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221287

Source: www.sci-news.com

Dinosaur Killer More Powerful Than 10 Billion WWII Nukes

Friday, September 13, 2019

The scientists estimated that at least 325 billion metric tons would have been released in the atmosphere by the impact of the asteroid. This would have reflected the sunlight away from the planet and caused global cooling. Courtesy NASA.

Researchers say the impact of the giant asteroid had triggered massive tsunamis and led to wildfires that were thousands of miles away.

The asteroid that wiped away dinosaurs from the Earth is estimated to have been equivalent to 10 billion atomic bombs that were used in World War II. The impact of the giant asteroid had triggered massive tsunamis and led to wildfires that were thousands of miles away, according to research led by The University of Texas at Austin.

According to the findings of the research, the asteroid blasted so much sulphur into the Earth’s atmosphere that it led to blocking of the sun rays which ultimately caused global cooling that led to the extinction of dinosaurs, The Indian Express reported.

Scientists have found hard evidence in the hundreds of feet of rocks that filled the impact crater within the first 24 hours after impact, according to the research which got published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The evidence includes bits of charcoal, jumbles of rock brought in by the tsunami’s backflow and noticeably absent sulphur. All of these are a part of the rock record which provides the most details into the catastrophic aftermath that ended the dinosaurs, according to Sean Gulick, a research professor at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) at Jackson School of Geosciences.

Gulick had led the study and co-led the 2016 International Ocean Discovery Program scientific drilling mission which retrieved the rocks from the impact site offshore of the Yucatan Peninsula, the report said.

The research is built on the previous work that was co-led and led by the Jackson School which described how the crater had formed and how the life recovered quickly at the site of the impact. Over two dozen international scientists contributed to the study.

Most of the material which filled the crater within a few hours of the impact was there at the site of the impact or got swept in by seawater pouring into the crater from the nearby Gulf of Mexico. According to the researchers, 425 feet of material was deposited in a day, which is the highest ever found in the geographical record.

Gulick explained it as a short-lived inferno at a regional level, followed by a long period of global cooling. “We fried them and then we froze them,” Gulick said in a statement. “Not all the dinosaurs died that day, but many dinosaurs did.”

The researchers found charcoal and a chemical biomarker associated with soil fungi just above layers of sand that showed signs of being deposited by resurging waters, the report said.

According to the researchers, the area surrounding the impact crater is full of sulfur-rich rocks. However, there was no sulfur in the core. This, according to the researchers, supports a theory that the asteroid impact had vaporized the sulphur-bearing minerals which were present at the impact site and released it into the planet’s atmosphere.

The scientists estimated that at least 325 billion metric tons would have been released in the atmosphere by the impact of the asteroid. This would have reflected the sunlight away from the planet and caused global cooling.

Scientists concluded that though the impact of the asteroid created mass destruction at the regional level, it was the global change of climate which led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs and most other living species on Earth during that time.

“The real killer has got to be atmospheric,” Gulick said in the statement. “The only way you get a global mass extinction like this is an atmospheric effect.”

Source: www.asiatimes.com

Meet Mystriosaurus laurillardi, Marine Crocodile from Jurassic Period

Saturday, September 14, 2019

Life reconstruction of Mystriosaurus laurillardi. Image credit: Julia Beier.

An incomplete crocodile skull found near the city of Altdorf in Bavaria, southern Germany, in the 1770s has been recognized as Mystriosaurus laurillardi, which lived in tropical waters during the Jurassic period.

Mystriosaurus laurillardi is one of the first marine crocodile fossils ever to be described,” said lead author Dr. Sven Sachs, a paleontologist at the Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld.

“While it received its generic name in 1834, the 3D preserved skull was mentioned in the literature as early as 1776.”

“The fossil that would later be named Mystriosaurus laurillardi was found in a quarry in Altdorf near Nuremberg in southern Germany by Johann Friedrich Bauder.”

Mystriosaurus laurillardi was more than 13 feet (4 m) in length, had a long snout and pointed teeth, and preyed on fish.

The prehistoric predator lived around 180 million years ago in warm Jurassic seas alongside other animals including ammonites and ichthyosaurs.

Mystriosaurus laurillardi looked like a gharial but it had a shorter snout with its nasal opening facing forwards, whereas in nearly all other fossil and living crocodiles the nasal opening is placed on top of the snout,” Dr. Sachs noted.

A Jurassic crocodile that lived around 180 million years ago has been identified by scientists (SWNS)

For the past 60 years, it was thought the animal was part of a similar species, known as Steneosaurus bollensis, which existed around the same time.

Mystriosaurus laurillardi has been broadly accepted as a valid genus in numerous publications during the 19th and early 20th centuries,” Dr. Sachs explained.

“However, in the 1960s, Tübingen paleontologist Frank Westphal published two revisions of Early Jurassic teleosauroids and concluded that Mystriosaurus laurillardi was in fact a subjective junior synonym of Steneosaurus bollensis.”

Dr. Sachs and his team analyzed the new fossils unearthed in the UK and Germany and concluded that Mystriosaurus laurillardi is in fact a distinct species.

They also revealed that another skull, discovered in Yorkshire in the 1800s, belongs to Mystriosaurus laurillardi.

“The discovery of fossils in present-day Germany and the UK shows that the species could easily swim between islands, much like modern saltwater crocodiles,” they said.

“Unraveling the complex history and anatomy of fossils like Mystriosaurus laurillardi is necessary if we are to understand the diversification of crocodiles during the Jurassic,” said co-author Dr. Mark Young, a researcher in the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.

“Their rapid increase in biodiversity between 200 and 180 million years ago is still poorly understood.”

The study was published in the journal Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

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Sven Sachs et al. 2019. The mystery of Mystriosaurus: Redescribing the poorly known Early Jurassic teleosauroid thalattosuchians Mystriosaurus laurillardi and Steneosaurus breviorActa Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (3): 565-579; doi: 10.4202/app.00557.2018

Source: www.sci-news.com

Battle at Big Rock Is a Bridge Between Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Andre Holland and Natalie Martinez in the Jurassic World short film Battle at Big Rock. Photo: Universal

Dinosaurs are just running around America now. That’s what happens at the end of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and, before we see how that plays out in Jurassic World 3 in 2021, the first hint alredy is online.

The surprising news broke that director Colin Trevorrow had made a Jurassic World short film called Battle at Big Rock which eared on FX.

Collider spoke with Trevorrow, who explained exactly what the movie is, how it came about, and more.

Battle At Big Rock is a short film that takes place one year after the events of Fallen Kingdom. It’s about a family on a camping trip to Big Rock National Park, about 20 miles from where the last film ended. There have been a few sightings, but this is the first major confrontation between dinosaurs and humans.

So the eight-minute short shows the immediate aftermath of Fallen Kingdom. Trevorrow co-wrote the film with Emily Carmichael, who he’s co-writing Jurassic World 3 with, and shot the film in Ireland over five days last year on a shoestring budget. It features two new dinosaurs: a Nasutoceratops and an Allosaurus.

“It felt like a first step into a larger world after the last film,” Trevorrow added. “You have these animals loose in an unfamiliar environment, they’re disoriented, struggling to adapt. The first people they run into are bound to be camping. I wanted to see that.”

I have to say, I’m intrigued. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom felt like a huge misfire to me when it was released but the potential story it set up was undeniably cool. This feels like a fun table-setter of what’s to come.

“This is the movie I’ve been wanting to make since we started,” Trevorrow said. “It’s a celebration of everything we love about the franchise and I’m thrilled to be a part of it. You’ll hear more about it soon.”

Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com

Kwanasaurus williamparkeri: New Proto-Dinosaur Found in Colorado

Thursday, September 5, 2019

A restoration of Kwanasaurus. Credit: Martz and Small 2019

Films such as those in the “Jurassic World” series feature a range of large prehistoric creatures, but Kwanasaurus has been absent from their plots. That’s because the significantly smaller reptilian herbivore was only recently discovered by researchers Bryan Small of Colorado and Dr. Jeffrey Martz, Assistant Professor of Natural Science at the University of Houston-Downtown.

Their discovery, named Kwanasaurus williamparkeri, is a small “dinosauromorph” that existed in Colorado over 200 million years ago. It is the oldest known dinosaur relative to have lived in Colorado.

The article was released on Sept. 3 in the online journal PeerJ.

“The findings are from the Triassic Period, which is the beginning of the age of dinosaurs and a critical period in vertebrate evolution,” Martz said.

The species was named using the Ute Indian word for ‘eagle’ and for paleontologist William Parker of Petrified Forest National Park. Its fossils were found at Eagle Basin near the towns of Eagle and Gypsum in northern Colorado, west of Denver.

According to Martz, the Kwanasaurus belongs to a group of animals called silesaurids, which had teeth perfect for eating vegetation.

“Most early dinosaurs and dinosaur relatives had teeth appropriate for eating meat,” he said. “These animals are interesting because they are a very early dinosaur relative with teeth used for consuming plants. Their teeth are very similar to plant-eating reptiles of today, including iguanas… The discovery of these species suggests that their parallel evolution was occurring in the Triassic Period. Their teeth and jaws have similarities to plant-eating dinosaurs.”

The largest individuals of Kwanasaurus, Martz said, was approximately the size of a medium sized dog … about four or five feet in length, half of which was a long tail. In addition to its distinctive teeth, its jaws were particularly powerful to consume fibrous plant life. It also has a beak at the end of its snout.

The discovery was made during Small’s excavations in the Eagle Basin. Fossils have been collected over a 20-year period and were carefully stored and preserved for study.

“The material from this site is very fragile,” Martz said. “Extracting these bones from the rock is a delicate process, which is why the discovery of the Kwanasaurus has taken two decades.”

Small is a Research Associate in Paleontology at the Museum of Texas Tech University and previously served at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. He and Martz have collaborated on previous articles documenting the discovery of other prehistoric reptiles of the same age, including Stenomyti (an armored reptile that looked like a cross between a crocodile and an armadillo).

During the summer months, Martz leads digs in Utah and Arizona. For the several years, he has been retrieving fossils form an Arizona bone quarry and studying them at the University.

Source: https://news.uhd.edu

Cryodrakon boreas: Meet the ‘Cold Dragon of the North Winds,' a Gigantic Canadian Pterosaur

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Cryodrakon boreas. Image credit: David Maas.

Cretaceous pterosaur remains discovered in the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta have been identified as a new genus and species, Cryodrakon boreas.

Cryodrakon boreas lived about 77 million years ago and had a wingspan of 33 feet (10 m).

The flying reptile belongs to Azhdarchidae, a family of pterosaurs known primarily from the Late Cretaceous period.

Its fossilized remains — consisting of a skeleton that has part of the wings, legs, neck and a rib — were discovered three decades ago, but paleontologists had assumed they belonged to Quetzalcoatlus, an already known species of pterosaur discovered in Texas.

“This is a cool discovery, we knew this animal was here but now we can show it is different to other azhdarchids and so it gets a name,” said lead author Dr. David Hone, from the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at Queen Mary University of London.

“This type of pterosaur (azhdarchids) is quite rare, and most specimens are just a single bone. Our new species is represented by a partial skeleton. This tells us a great deal about the anatomy of these large flyers, how they flew, and how they lived,” said Dr. Michael Habib, from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the Dinosaur Institute of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Cryodrakon boreas. Image credit: David Maas.

Like other azhdarchids, Cryodrakon boreas was carnivorous and predominantly predated on small animals which would likely include lizards, mammals and even baby dinosaurs.

“It is great that we can identify Cryodrakon boreas as being distinct to Quetzalcoatlus as it means we have a better picture of the diversity and evolution of predatory pterosaurs in North America,” Dr. Hone said.

“This particular group of pterosaurs includes the largest flying animals of all time. Their anatomy holds important clues about the limits of animal flight and may be important in the future for biologically inspired mechanical design for flight,” Dr. Habib added.

“Unlike most pterosaur groups, azhdarchids are known primarily from terrestrial settings and, despite their likely capacity to cross oceanic distances in flight, they are broadly considered to be animals that were adapted for, and lived in, inland environments,” the researchers said.

“Despite their large size and a distribution across North and South America, Asia, Africa and Europe, few azhdarchids are known from more than fragmentary remains.”

“This makes Cryodrakon boreas an important animal since it has very well preserved bones and includes multiple individuals of different sizes.”

The discovery is reported in a paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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David W.E. Hone et alCryodrakon boreas, gen. et sp. nov., a Late Cretaceous Canadian azhdarchid pterosaur. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, published online September 9, 2019; doi: 10.1080/02724634.2019.1649681

Source: www.sci-news.com

Scientists Find Direct Evidence of 'Day One' of Dinosaurs' Extinction

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

GETTY IMAGES/PUCHAN

The apocalyptic 24 hours after a huge asteroid struck Earth is written into the center of an underwater impact crater.

It was a normal day in the age of dinosaurs, until it suddenly and vehemently wasn’t. A giant asteroid traveling at about 15 miles per second slammed into Earth, producing an explosion equivalent to more than one billion atom bombs.

Most creatures were doomed even if they survived the initial blast. Clouds blotted out the Sun’s light, eventually killing 75 percent of plant and animal life on the planet. Now, 66 million years after that apocalyptic split-second, scientists have obtained and examined core samples of the debris deposited within the first 24 hours of this major mass extinction.

Led by Sean Gulick, a research professor at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, the team used the ancient rocks to reconstruct “the first day of the Cenozoic,” referring to the modern geological period that follows the Mesozoic era of dinosaurs. The team’s study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This precious record of the fallout is preserved inside the Chicxulub impact crater, a 100-mile-wide hole underneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. While parts of this formation have been sampled before, Gulick and his colleagues are the first to drill into the “peak ring,” which is an elevated plateau in the middle of the crater.

The team suspected that the peak ring would not have been significantly eroded by post-impact earthquake aftershocks, making it a potentially intact archive of geological events that unfolded over the short-term.

"It's an expanded record of events that we were able to recover from within ground zero," said Gulick in a statement. "It tells us about impact processes from an eyewitness location."

In 2016, Gulick co-led the scientific drilling mission to the peak ring, which is submerged 450 meters below the Gulf of Mexico’s waters. The team extracted samples buried as deep as 1,300 meters into the seafloor while aboard a vessel called Liftboat Myrtle.

The cores revealed that the impact caused wildfires thousands of miles away, and produced a colossal tsunami that swept the remains of incinerated ecosystems back into the crater. The peak ring, which rose to an elevation of 425 feet in 24 hours, was partly built from the ashes of these scorched habitats.

“Within a day, a tsunami deposited material from distant shorelines, including charcoal,” the team writes in the study. “Charcoal likely originated from impact-related combustion of forested landscapes surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, as the impact site was entirely marine.”

If you were a dinosaur hanging around the nearby shoreline, you might have been set on fire by the impact, then had your earthly remains flow hundreds of miles into the blast zone to be deposited on the seafloor.

While it sounds like a surreal way to die, this may have been one of the cleanest possible exits from the Cenozoic. At least the first round of fiery deaths avoided the darkening of the skies and cooling of the climate, likely caused by the release of huge quantities of sulfate aerosols.

To that point, Gulick’s team found hardly any sulfur-rich deposits at the impact site, which supports a theory that sulfuric material simply vaporized into the atmosphere when the asteroid hit. Countless lifeforms survived the deluges of water and fire, only to slowly perish in this punishing new global climate.

Gulick called the cooling phase “the real killer” in a statement. "The only way you get a global mass extinction like this is an atmospheric effect," he said.

In other words, the first day of the Cenozoic Era was also the worst day for its lifeforms, even if they weren’t snuffed out right away. The silver lining is that a play-by-play of that utterly ruinous 24 hours, and the hard times that followed it, survive on in the geological record.

Source: www.vice.com

First Evidence That Dinosaurs Nested In Colonies: 15 Nests And 50 Eggs Discovered

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Artistic reconstruction of colonial nesting site of therizinosaur dinosaurs from Mongolia by Masato Hattori

A new fossil discovery in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia shows that some dinosaurs nested in colonies. 15 nests and 50 eggs, all similar in size and shape and unusually well-preserved, were found coated in the same distinct sediment layer, meaning they could be attributed to a single nesting season.

Paleontologists have suspected colonial nesting behavior in dinosaurs for some time but were unable to find definitive support for the hypothesis until the site’s unique geology provided the evidence they needed. Even when numerous dinosaur nests have been discovered within one rock formation, it could not be concluded that the nests were laid in the same breeding season but only that it could have been a common nesting ground which the dinosaurs visited year after year. A geologic unit, one layer of rock, can represent hundreds to millions of years and can only constrain a fossil’s age within several orders of magnitude of time. Even carbon dating, isotopic dating and the like can have a range of error of thousands to millions of years. Dating techniques that reach into geologic time are often best-estimates, even though much tedious laboratory work and interpretation go into the measurements and conclusions of the results. Because of the inherent uncertainty in these data, it is not uncommon in Paleontology and Geology for fossils and geologic formations to be re-examined, reclassified and reorganized according to new data and findings, where the dates, lineages and sequences can change. This site, with the juxtaposition of the eggs, nests, and a unique sediment layer tying them all together, provides the most definitive evidence to date for colonial nesting in these prehistoric animals.

A dinosaur nest and egg clutch is fossilized in the Javkhlant Formation in Mongolia. The thin dark red sediment bed connects 15 nests.KOHEI TANAKA, TANAKA ET AL. (2019), UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA

Scientists from the University of Tsukuba in Tsukuba, Japan published their findings in Geology on July 5, 2019, describing the undisturbed nesting site and the Upper Cretaceous aged Javkhlant Formation. A single marker bed, consisting of red-colored fine-grained sediment, conformably overlies the older tan-colored bed beneath it. The thicker, more continuous tan bed contained the nests and eggs. The red bed, a few inches thick, coated and connected the nests and eggs therein, providing the evidence needed to conclude that the nests and clutches of eggs were laid in the same season. This marker is interpreted to have been the result of a small local flood, which also would then indicate that the nesting site was built near flowing water. The similar morphology of the nests and eggs supports the idea that these were constructed and laid by the same species of dinosaur. The paleontologists hypothesized that the hatching success rate of these non-avian theropod dinosaurs is similar to other species that protect their eggs, like modern crocodiles and many types of birds. The numbers they calculated, hatched versus un-hatched eggs in each nest, indicate the additional complex nesting behavior of protecting the nest. Not only did they nest in colonies, but they also stayed and protected the eggs through hatching. The assumption made here is that the eggs that were found broken or opened were that way because they had hatched and not been victims of predation, which is an alternative explanation.

This is not the only indication that dinosaurs led social and cooperative lives. Other fossils from the same area have revealed three adolescent dinosaurs roosting together at the time of their death. The fossil shows three dinosaurs in a unique position, much like that of a sleeping goose or emu, with their abdomen on the ground atop folded legs with their long necks and heads folded back on their bodies. It seems that the dinosaurs were all sleeping closely huddled together. Bats, crows, and other organisms roost together in groups for both protection and thermoregulation, but this is a new concept in Cretaceous dinosaur paleoecology. The species of dinosaur for either of these discoveries has not yet been identified, but both are suspected to be theropods. 

These exciting revelations support a theory of complex social and reproductive behavior of theropod dinosaurs, which helps reconstruct the paleoecology and lifecycles of organisms living on Earth over 65 million years ago.

Source: www.forbes.com

Scientists Discover More Evidence that Dinosaurs Were Killed by a Gigantic Asteroid

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Illustration of a major asteroid impact. WIKIPEDIA

Researchers help confirm what has always been hypothesized by examining an impact crater off the Gulf of Mexico.

Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have found "hard evidence" of the asteroid that killed off dinosaurs. The research, published Monday and reported earlier by The Wall Street Journal, shows the asteroid caused wildfires and tsunamis after hitting with the impact of 10 billion WWII-era atomic bombs.

Inside an impact crater off the Gulf of Mexico scientists discovered charcoal and soil, swept inside by the backflow of a tsunami within the first 24 hours of the asteroid impact, research said. This showed how the blast ignited trees and plants thousands of miles away from the impact zone, and triggered a far-reaching inland tsunami across the Americas.

But no sulfur was found in the core of the impact crater -- meaning around 325 billion metric tons of sulfur was released into the atmosphere that day. This destroyed Earth's existing climate, blocking out the sun and causing a global cooling period that caused the "mass extinction" of the dinosaurs.

So the dinosaurs were first fried and then frozen, said Sean Gulick, a University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) research professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences.

"The real killer has got to be atmospheric," Gulick said. "The only way you get a global mass extinction like this is an atmospheric effect."

Source: www.cnet.com

Sam Neill Might Be Teasing A Potential Jurassic World 3 Role

Saturday, September 7, 2019

Jurassic World 3 is set to bring the latest trilogy of dino-sized blockbusters to a close, which has led to a widespread belief that the threequel will bring back some familiar faces from the original Park films alongside Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Chief among them is Sam Neill, who played Dr. Alan Grant in both the 1993 franchise-starter and Jurassic Park 3. But is he returning for the last installment? Well, that’s still unclear, but his reaction when asked about it may speak louder than words.

IMDb spoke with Neill at the Toronto International Film Festival and the question of his Jurassic World 3 involvement naturally came up. The interviewer pointed out that he’d just spoken to Howard who had, in his words, “clammed up” when the conversation turned to Neill possibly appearing in the movie.

So, what did Neill have to say about this? He decided to follow suit as after a pause, he joked: “I’m clamming up now.”

I think we can all agree that both of these responses are very telling. And this comes just a month after director Colin Trevorrow teased that the conclusion of the trilogy would act as a “celebration of the entire franchise” as well as admitting that he would love to work with some of the old stars on it.

B.D. Wong was the first actor to reprise his Jurassic Park role in the World movies, appearing as Henry Wu in both the 2015 film and 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen KingdomSpeaking of the sequel, Jeff Goldblum made a cameo as Ian Malcolm for the first time since The Lost World. It wouldn’t be too surprising, then, if Neill showed up in the next outing as Alan Grant. And if Laura Dern could drop by as Ellie Sattler, too, that’d complete the set.

Source: https://wegotthiscovered.com/

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