Jurassic World Is Still Ignoring The Most Annoying Plot-Hole Mystery

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The upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion has the opportunity to close out the current franchise storylines, but looks like it won't bother clearing up a plot-hole involving a particularly large dinosaur. Every movie in the Jurassic Park and World franchise has introduced audiences to new kinds of dinosaurs that didn't feature in prior entries. Sometimes these are species that existed in real-life, such as the Spinosaurus. Other times, the new dinosaur types are fictional concoctions, such as the hybrid Indominus Rex.

Perhaps the coolest new dinosaur addition that 2015's Jurassic World brought into the franchise was the Mosasaurus, an absolutely massive aquatic creature that makes the great white shark in Jaws look like a goldfish. The Mosasaurus is indeed based on a real animal that lived on Earth between 82 and 66 million years ago. As seen in Jurassic World though, the titular park has turned the Mosasaurus into an attraction akin to Sea World mascot Shamu, having it leap upward out of the water to retrieve food.

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At the end of Jurassic World, the Mosasaurus assists in taking down the Indominus Rex, and the opening of 2018 sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom makes clear that the giant dinosaur remained locked inside its holding tank between movies. The problem with that turn of events is that the enormous creature should've logically starved to death before the mercenary team arrived at the beginning of Fallen Kingdom. This creates a huge plot hole, one which it seems no one involved is interested in solving. Jurassic World: Dominion suggests it could solve this — as the trailer reveals the beast — but this moment currently only serves to remind audiences that