The science of Jurassic world. The dinosaurs facts behind the films / Наука о мире юрского периода. Факты о динозаврах, стоящие за фильмами

Jurassic Park was not the first science fiction to influence science, of course. To name but a few early influences: The submarine was invented in the imagination of Jules Verne’s 1870 book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The atomic bomb was conjured up by H. G. Wells in his 1914 novel The World Set Free. And NASA stole the 10-9-8-7-6 idea of the rocket countdown from Fritz Lang’s 1929 sci-fi film Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon). Over the years there have been many, many more.
But here’s the unique thing about the science fiction of Jurassic Park: It influenced the way in which science looks at the past, rather than the future. The evolution of the field of dinosaur science, how it has blossomed by bounds and branched out in recent years, has been thanks in no small part to Steven Spielberg’s iconic movie.<...>