Jurassic World Dominion's Real Science Explained: How Accurate Is It?

screenrant.com:

This article contains spoilers for Jurassic World Dominion.

Jurassic World Dominion's pseudo-science has a lot of flaws that depart from realism or accuracy. The Jurassic Park franchise has never exactly been praised for its scientific accuracy. Even its core concept — the idea dinosaur DNA could be preserved in amber in the first place — is something of a stretch; the preserving properties of amber have limits, and any DNA contained within amber for 65 million years would have inevitably degraded.

To be fair, this kind of scientific inaccuracy is perfectly understandable; these are films, not scientific treatises. The films have always tried to get around these problems as much as possible, hand-waving them away with an element of pseudoscience; so, for example, in Jurassic Park scientists filled in gaps in dinosaur DNA with DNA from modern animals, such as frogs, unwittingly introducing an element of asexual reproduction to the creatures. There's a sense in which the dinosaurs of Jurassic World are actually entirely new species, then, different to anything that lived 65 million years ago.

Related: Jurassic World Dominion Confirms Lost World & Jurassic Park 3 Are Canon

But Jurassic World Dominion takes the pseudoscience in a totally new direction, exploring themes such as human cloning and further advancements in genetic engineering. Some of these elements are rather surprising; viewers would never have have predicted a locust infestation. But many elements of Jurassic World Dominion move even further away from the scientific base.

Trailers for Jurassic World Dominion teased the first major change, and it's actually one with an actual scientific basis. For the first time, some of the dinosaurs in Jurassic World Dominion