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Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them." LINNAEUS, 1797

You cannot recall a new form of life." ERWIN CHARGAFF, 1972

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Tina consulted the pictures in the guidebook. "I don't think it was a squirrel monkey," she said. "I think it was just another howler." They had seen several howler monkeys already on their trip, "Hey," she said, more brightly. "According to this book, 'the beaches of Cabo Blanco are frequented by a variety of wildlife, including howler and white-faced monkeys, three-toed sloths, and coatimundis.' You think we'll see a three-toed sloth, Dad?

Lost World of the Dinosaurs

Tim said, "I have his book." "Lost World of the Dinosaurs," Tim said. Alexis snickered. "Daddy says Tim has dinosaurs on the brain,

Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine: Diseases of Dinosauria

Harding had an academic bent, and the prospect of writing the first Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine: Diseases of Dinosauria was compelling.

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Travels

Michael Crichton’s novels include The Andromeda Strain, The Great Train Robbery, Congo, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun, Disclosure, and The Lost World.

Travels

Travels Books by Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain The Terminal Man The Great Train Robbery Eaters of the Dead Congo Sphere Travels Jurassic Park Rising Sun The Lost World Disclosure Airframe Timeline

State of Fear

His novels include The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Prey.

State of Fear

SphereJurassic ParkRising Sun

Pirate Latitudes

M ICHAEL C RICHTON’s novels include Next , State of Fear , Prey , Timeline , Jurassic Park , and The Andromeda Strain .

Pirate Latitudes

Congo Sphere Jurassic Park Rising Sun

Places Referenced

Bergvlei, South Africa
"PO Box 337, Bergvlei 2012South Africa"
Alfred St, Sydney
"20 Alfred St, Milsons Point, Sydney, NSW 2061Australia"
Glenfield, Auckland
"PO Box 40-086, Glenfield, Auckland 10New Zealand"
Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London
"20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd,London SWIV 2SA"
Great Britain, United Kingdom
"First published in Great Britain in 1991 by theRandom Century Group20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd,London SWIV 2SA"
St Ives, England
"Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc"
Central America, North America
"… InGen's research was conducted in secret; the actual incident occurred in the most remote region of Central America; and fewer than twenty people were there to witness it."
Palo Alto, California
"… it is probably inevitable that a company as ambitious as International Genetic Technologies, Inc., of Palo Alto, would arise."
San Francisco, California
"Even at the end, when International Genetic Technologies filed for Chapter 11 protection in San Francisco Superior Court on October 5, 1989, the proceedings drew little press attention."
Costa Rica, Central America
"… the rather unusual petition of the vice consul of Costa Rica was heard behind closed doors."
Costa Rica, Central America
"… many of the principal figures in the 'InGen incident' are not signatories, and were willing to discuss the remarkable events leading up to those final two days in August 1989 on a remote island off the west coast of Costa Rica."
Bahía Anasco, Costa Rica
"…when she had come to the fishing village of Bahía Anasco, on the west coast of Costa Rica, to spend two months as a visiting physician."
Chicago, Illinois
"…after two grueling years of residency in emergency medicine at Michael Reese in Chicago."
San José, Costa Rica
"“Then you better take him to San José,” she said. San José was the capital, just twenty minutes away by air."
Cabo Blanco Biological Reserve, Costa Rica
"Mike Bowman whistled cheerfully as he drove the Land Rover through the Cabo Blanco Biological Reserve, on the west coast of Costa Rica."
Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica
"According to this book, 'the beaches of Cabo Blanco are frequented by a variety of wildlife, including howler and white-faced monkeys, three-toed sloths, and coatimundis."
San José, Costa Rica
"Then, when they arrived, it turned out Ellen had an appointment to see a plastic surgeon in San José."
Dallas, Texas
"Mike Bowman, a thirty-six-year-old real estate developer from Dallas, had come to Costa Rica with his wife and daughter for a two-week holiday."
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
"Puntarenas    "I think she is quite comfortable now," Dr. Cruz said, lowering the plastic flap of the oxygen tent around Tina as she slept."
Clínica Santa María, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
"the Clínica Santa María, the modern hospital in Puntarenas, was spotless and efficient."
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
"Mike thought Dr. Cruz was probably pretty capable; he spoke excellent English, the result of training at medical centers In London and Baltimore."
Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica
"Isn't there someone from Cabo Blanco?' Bowman asked."
Reserva Biológica de Carara, Costa Rica
"I've asked for Dr. Guitierrez to visit us here. He is a senior researcher at the Reserva Biológica de Carara, which is across the bay."
San José, Costa Rica
"I have washed her arm to collect some samples of the sticky saliva—one for analysis here, a second to send to the labs in San José, and the third we will keep frozen in case it is needed."
Amaloya, Costa Rica
"And just the other day I heard that a lizard had bitten an infant in her Crib in Amaloya, about sixty miles from where you were."
Honduras
"I am sure this lizard was a Basiliscus amoratus, a striped basilisk lizard, found here in Costa Rica and also in Honduras."
Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica
"…and its rays reached beneath the palm trees, to where he sat among the mangroves, on the beach of Cabo Blanco."
Carara station, Costa Rica
"When he got back to the Carara station, he had checked the small research library there, but found no reference to basilisk lizard bites."
Amaloya, Costa Rica
"He then called the medical officer in Amaloya, who confirmed that a nine‐day‐old infant, sleeping in its crib, had been bitten on the foot by an animal the grandmother—the only person actually to see it—claimed was a lizard."
Vásquez, Costa Rica
"A child in Vásquez, the next village up the coast, had been bitten while sleeping."
Puerta Sotrero, Costa Rica
"And another in Puerta Sotrero."
Maine, United States
"Only seventy‐five miles wide at its narrowest point, the country was smaller than the state of Maine."
America, United States
"Next he checked International BioSciences Services, a computer database in America, But he found no references to basilisk bites, or hospitalization for lizard bites."
New York, New York
"New York Dr. Richard Stone, head of the Tropical Diseases Laboratory of Columbia University Medical Center, often remarked that the name conjured up a grander place than it actually was."
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
"Dr. Richard Stone, head of the Tropical Diseases Laboratory of Columbia University Medical Center, often remarked that the name conjured up a grander place than it actually was."
Nairobi, Kenya
"But medical successes—and research laboratories in Nairobi and São Paulo—had left the TDL a much less important place than it once was."
São Paulo, Brazil
"But medical successes—and research laboratories in Nairobi and São Paulo—had left the TDL a much less important place than it once was."
Borneo, Southeast Asia
"Simpson's on a field trip in Borneo for the summer, and because there's a question of communicable disease with this lizard, she asked our lab to take a took at it."
Ismaloya, Costa Rica
"These lizard bites were sporadically reported in coastal villages from Ismaloya to Puntarenas."
Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
"To whom should he send it? The acknowledged expert was Edward H. Simpson, emeritus professor of zoology at Columbia University, in New York."
Costa Rica, Central America
"I am sure this lizard was a Basiliscus amoratus, a striped basilisk lizard, found here in Costa Rica and also in Honduras."
Bahía Anasco, Costa Rica
"The tropical rain fell in great drenching sheets, hammering the corrugated roof of the clinic in Bahía Anasco."
Costa Rica, Central America
"Costa Ricans said that when a bird came to visit a newborn child, it brought good luck."
San José, Costa Rica
"so she told the mother that the baby had asphyxiated, and she reported the death on the forms she sent to San José as SIDS: sudden infant death syndrome."
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
"technicians assumed it was a lab contaminant and did not report it when they called Dr, Cruz, the referring physician in Puntarenas."
Columbia University, New York City, New York, United States
"The lizard fragment rested in the freezer at Columbia University, awaiting the return of Dr. Simpson, who was not expected for at least a month."
Costa Rica, Central America
"This is a lizard," Stone said. "From Costa Rica. Some girl down there drew a picture of it."
Borneo, Southeast Asia
"And whatever it is, it can wait until Dr. Simpson gets back from Borneo to identify it."
Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, United States
"Well, take it to the Museum of Natural History or something," Alice Levin said."
Snakewater, Montana
"He was crouched on an eroded hillside in the badlands outside Snakewater, Montana."
Rocky Mountains, United States
"This inland sea was a thousand miles wide, extending all the way from the newly upthrust Rocky Mountains to the sharp, craggy peaks of the Appalachians."
Appalachian Mountains, United States
"This inland sea was a thousand miles wide, extending all the way from the newly upthrust Rocky Mountains to the sharp, craggy peaks of the Appalachians."
San Francisco, California
"“Bob Morris, EPA,” he said, extending his hand. “I'm with the San Francisco office.”"
Farallon Road, Palo Alto, California
"Morris passed a sheet of paper to Grant. It was the Xerox of a check issued in March 1984 from InGen Inc., Farallon Road, Palo Alto, California."
Salt Lake City, Utah
"‘Which lab is that?’ Morris asked. ‘Medical Biologic Services in Salt Lake,’ Grant explained."
Isla Nublar, Costa Rica
"‘What about his island in Costa Rica?’ … Ten years ago, the Hammond Foundation leased an island from the government of Costa Rica. They used to call it Cloud Island. Isla Nublar."
Alberta, Canada
"‘I know they support Bob Kerry out of the Tyrrell in Alberta, and John Weller in Alaska,’ Morris said."
Alaska, United States
"‘I know they support Bob Kerry out of the Tyrrell in Alberta, and John Weller in Alaska,’ Morris said."
Canada
"‘These are the digs the foundation financed last year. Notice anything odd about them? Montana, Alaska, Canada, Sweden…’"
Cupertino, California
"In 1986, Genetic Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino tested a bioengineered rabies vaccine on a farm in Chile."
University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
"Grant was a professor of paleontology at the University of Denver, and one of the foremost researchers in his field."
Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica
"Specimen acquired on the beach of Cabo Blanco, July 16. . . . Apparently a howler monkey was eating the animal, and this was all that was recovered. Oh . . . and it says the lizard attacked a little girl."
Choteau, Montana
"I'm sending the corporate jet to pick you up at that private airfield cast of Choteau. You know the one I mean? It's only about two hours' drive from where you are. You be there at five p.m. tomorrow."
Central America, North America
"It's a biological specimen, a partial fragment of an animal collected from Central America."
San Francisco, California
"Midday sun streamed into the San Francisco law offices of Cowan, Swain and Ross, giving the room a cheerfulness that Donald Gennaro did not feel."
San José, Costa Rica
"I got a report last week from Hamachi's representative in San José, the capital of Costa Rica."
New York, New York
"I've only seen an X-ray. The specimen is in New York. A woman from Columbia University called me."
Palo Alto, California
"CLIENT InGen Inc., Palo Alto, Calif."
New York, New York
"ARCHITECTS Dunning, Murphy & Associates, NewYork. Richard Murphy, design partner;Theodore Chen, senior designer;Sheldon James, administrative partner."
Boston, Massachusetts
"ENGINEERS Harlow, Whitney & Fields, Boston,structural; A.T.Misikawa, Osaka, mechanical."
Osaka, Japan
"A.T.Misikawa, Osaka, mechanical."
Kanazawa, Japan
"LANDSCAPING Shepperton Rogers, London; A.Ashikiga, H. Ieyasu, Kanazawa."
Tokyo, Japan
"ELECTRICAL N. V. Kobayashi, Tokyo. A. R Makasawa, senior consultant."
Choteau, Montana
"We've got to go," Ellie said, "if we're going to get to Choteau by five."
Rocky Mountains, United States
"He leaned back in the padded leather chair of the Gulfstream II jet as it flew east, toward the Rocky Mountains."
Costa Rica, Central America
"“Wonderful, wonderful. Children are such a delight. She'd get a kick out of our new park in Costa Rica.”"
Coney Island, New York City
"“Everybody has rides. Coney Island has rides. And these days everybody has animatronic environments.”"
Choteau, Montana
"“Seat belts, please. We're landing in Choteau.”"
Choteau, Montana
"Choteau Dry plains stretched away toward distant black buttes."
Dallas, Texas
"The pilot announced four hours' flying time to Dallas, where they would refuel, and then go on to Costa Rica, arriving the following morning."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"COMPUTER C/C Integrated Computer Systems, Inc.,Cambridge, Mass. Dennis Nedry,project supervisor."
Chile, South America
"In 1986, Genetic Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino tested a bioengineered rabies vaccine on a farm in Chile."
Sweden, Europe
"‘These are the digs the foundation financed last year. Notice anything odd about them? Montana, Alaska, Canada, Sweden…’"
Costa Rica, Central America
"The pilot announced four hours' flying time to Dallas, where they would refuel, and then go on to Costa Rica, arriving the following morning."
Cupertino, California
"The Biosyn Corporation of Cupertino, California, had never called an emergency meeting of its board of directors."
San Diego, California
"Ron Meyer's office had said he was coming up on the six o'clock plane from San Diego."
Isla Nublar, Costa Rica
"The purchase of Isla Nublar in Costa Rica."
Rantbapur Wildlife Park, India
"The unusual donations to zoos around the world, from the New York Zoological Society to the Rantbapur Wildlife Park in India."
Idaho, United States
"Biosyn had already achieved some success, engineering a new, pale trout under contract to the Department of Fish and Game of the State of Idaho."
Nashville, Tennessee
"Then, in 1987, InGen bought an obscure company called Millipore Plastic Products in Nashville, Tennessee."
San Francisco airport, San Francisco, California
"Airport Lewis Dodgson entered the coffee shop in the departure building of the San Francisco airport and looked around quickly."
Silicon Valley, California
"Dodgson kept up the contact, meeting the man monthly at Carlos and Charlie's in Silicon Valley, helping him in small ways."
San José airport, San José, California
"‘Just relax, and get the money ready. I want it all Sunday morning, in San José airport, in cash.’"
California, United States
"Also,' Dodgson said, 'we think the island maintains constant radio contact with InGen corporate headquarters in California, so—"
Dallas, Texas
"Shortly before midnight, be stepped on the plane at the Dallas airport, a tall, thin, balding man of thirty-five, dressed entirely in black: black shirt, black trousers, black socks, black sneakers."
Peking, China
"The shorthand is the 'butterfly effect.' A butterfly flaps its wings in Peking, and weather in New York is different."
New York, New York
"The shorthand is the 'butterfly effect.' A butterfly flaps its wings in Peking, and weather in New York is different."
San José, Costa Rica
"With a whine, the rotors began to swing in circles overhead, casting shadows on the runway of San José airport. Grant listened to the crackle in his earphones as the pilot talked to the tower."
Central America, North America
"Costa Rica," Hammond said, "has better population control than other countries in Central America."
Cabo Blanco, Costa Rica
"He pointed north. "Up the coast there, you see the Cabo Blanco preserve. They have beautiful beaches."
Pacific Northwest, United States
"It looked, he thought, rather like the Pacific Northwest, the Olympic Peninsula."
Olympic Peninsula, Washington, United States
"It looked, he thought, rather like the Pacific Northwest, the Olympic Peninsula."
Alcatraz, San Francisco, California, United States
"Christ, it looks like Alcatraz," Malcolm said."
Montana, United States
"Commonly called "brontosaurs." First discovered by E. D. Cope in Montana in 1876."
Colorado, United States
"Specimens associated with Morrison formation strata in Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma."
Utah, United States
"Specimens associated with Morrison formation strata in Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma."
Oklahoma, United States
"Specimens associated with Morrison formation strata in Colorado, Utah, and Oklahoma."
Arctic Circle, Earth
"They found dinosaur remains above the Arctic Circle, in a frigid environment unimaginable for a reptile."
Yale, New Haven, Connecticut
"Eventually a handful of researchers—led chiefly by John Ostrom and Robert Bakker at Yale—began to suspect that the concept of sluggish, cold-blooded dinosaurs was inadequate to explain the fossil record."
Berkeley, California
"Grant was aware of serious speculation in laboratories in Berkeley, Tokyo, and London that it might eventually be possible to clone an extinct animal such as a dinosaur—if you could get some dinosaur DNA to work with."
Tokyo, Japan
"Grant was aware of serious speculation in laboratories in Berkeley, Tokyo, and London that it might eventually be possible to clone an extinct animal such as a dinosaur—if you could get some dinosaur DNA to work with."
Brazil, South America
"Yes, it was just as he said: Serenna veriformans, a plant found abundantly in fossils more than two hundred million years old, now common only in the wetlands of Brazil and Colombia."
Colombia, South America
"Yes, it was just as he said: Serenna veriformans, a plant found abundantly in fossils more than two hundred million years old, now common only in the wetlands of Brazil and Colombia."
Costa Rican mainland, Costa Rica
"First of all, there is Dr. Grant's identification of a previously unknown dinosaur on the Costa Rican mainland. This dinosaur is known only from a partial fragment."
Costa Rica, Central America
"Meanwhile, there is a second piece of evidence. Costa Rica has an excellent medical service, and it tracks all kinds of data."
San José, Costa Rica
"However, I have this graph from the Public Health Service in San José of infant mortality in the towns of the west coast earlier this year."
Europe
"For 150 years, ever since the discovery of gigantic animal bones in Europe, the study of dinosaurs had been an exercise in scientific deduction."
Chile, South America
"Hired by Biosyn, he had conducted the controversial rabies vaccine test in Chile."
Japan, Asia
"And the Japanese love zoos—there are fifty zoos in Japan, and more being built."
Costa Rica, Central America
"Costa Rica," Hammond said, "has better population control than other countries in Central America. But, even so, the land is badly deforested. Most of this is within the last ten years."
San José, Costa Rica
"‘Enough for thirty-six hours. The embryos have to be back in San José by then.’"
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
"These lizard bites were sporadically reported in coastal villages from Ismaloya to Puntarenas."
Aswan Dam, Aswan
"We build the Aswan Dam and claim it is going to revitalize the country."
Nile Delta, Egypt
"Instead, it destroys the fertile Nile Delta, produces parasitic infestation, and wrecks the Egyptian economy."
Nairobi, Kenya
"…and next to him, our park warden, Mr. Robert Muldoon, the famous white bunter from Nairobi."
M.I.T. campus, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Puzzled, Nedry had gone to see Barney Fellows over at Symbolics, near the M.I.T. campus in Cambridge."
Tokyo, Japan
"Just to coordinate with the PR firms in San Francisco and London, and the agencies in New York and Tokyo, was a full-time job — especially since the agencies couldn't yet be told what the resort's real attraction was."
Africa
"You probably know that in Africa there is a specific insect, the dung beetle, which eats elephant feces. Many other large species have associated creatures that have evolved to eat their excrement."
China, Asia
"From the location of the amber, it it is from China."
New Guinea, Papua New Guinea
"In fact, the velociraptor conveyed precisely the same impression of deadly, swift menace Grant had seen in the cassowary, the clawed ostrich-like bird of New Guinea."
Stanford, California
"Especially when he had first recruited him, back in the days when Henry Wu was a twenty-eight-year-old graduate student getting his doctorate at Stanford in Norman Atherton's tab."
Osaka, Japan
"In keeping with the nonpolluting policies of Jurassic Park, these lightweight electric Land Cruisers have been specially built for us by Toyota in Osaka. Eventually we hope to drive among the animals—just as they do in African game parks—but, for now, sit back and enjoy the self-guided tour."
Disney World, Orlando, Florida
"Arnold helped build Disney World in Orlando, and had gone on to implement major Parks at Magic Mountain in California, Old Country in Virginia, and Astroworld in Houston."
Old Country, Virginia
"Arnold helped build Disney World in Orlando, and had gone on to implement major Parks at Magic Mountain in California, Old Country in Virginia, and Astroworld in Houston."
Astroworld, Houston, Texas
"Arnold helped build Disney World in Orlando, and had gone on to implement major Parks at Magic Mountain in California, Old Country in Virginia, and Astroworld in Houston."
Paris, France
"Paris is a theme park,' he once announced, after a vacation, 'although it's too expensive, and the park employees are unpleasant and sullen."
Le Beaumanière, France
"Chef Alain Richard hails from the world-famous Le Beaumanière in France. Make your reservations by dialing four from your hotel rooms."
Kenya, Africa
"Raised in Kenya, he had spent most of his life as a guide for African big-game hunters, as had his father before him."
San Francisco, California
"In 1986, he had done some work for a San Francisco company that was building a private wildlife park on an island in North America."
North America, Earth
"In 1986, he had done some work for a San Francisco company that was building a private wildlife park on an island in North America."
southern Kashmir, India
"He had been more interested in an Indian park called TigerWorld in southern Kashmir."
San José, Costa Rica
"But he can try and frighten the Japanese investors, and get them to withdraw funds. Or he can make a stink with the San José government. He can make trouble."
Montana, United States
"Well, I've dug out two eggs with patterns like that at my site in Montana."
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
"Up ahead, they saw the kids in the car, pointing toward the ocean. Offshore, beneath lowering clouds, Grant saw the dark outline of the supply ship making its way back toward Puntarenas."
San Francisco airport, San Francisco, California
"Nedry'd been damned careful, even to the point of making Dodgson meet him in the San Francisco airport at the last minute with an excuse about wanting to see the money"
Azores, Portugal
"We have already leased a large tract in the Azores, for Jurassic Park Europe."
Guam, United States
"And you know we long ago obtained an island near Guam, for Jurassic Park Japan."
Costa Rica, Central America
"Face the damn facts, Henry," Hammond said irritably. "This isn't America. This isn't even Costa Rica. This is my island. I own it."
Montana, United States
"This was the animal they had seen in the fax, back in Montana."
Haiti, Caribbean
"She's not from here, you know," he said. "She's Haitian. Her mother is French."
France, Europe
"She's not from here, you know," he said. "She's Haitian. Her mother is French."
Montana, United States
"At Grant's dig in Montana, Ellie was the one who operated the radiophone."
United States
"Face the damn facts, Henry," Hammond said irritably. "This isn't America. This isn't even Costa Rica. This is my island. I own it."
San Francisco, California
"Just to coordinate with the PR firms in San Francisco and London, and the agencies in New York and Tokyo, was a full-time job — especially since the agencies couldn't yet be told what the resort's real attraction was."
Africa
"Then, a year ago, he was offered a job as game warden of Jurassic Park. It coincided with a desire to leave Africa; the salary was excellent; Muldoon had taken it on for a year."
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Now he was calling his office in Cambridge, telling his staff programmers they were going to have to cancel their weekend plans and work overtime until Monday."
Magic Mountain, Valencia, California
"Arnold helped build Disney World in Orlando, and had gone on to implement major Parks at Magic Mountain in California, Old Country in Virginia, and Astroworld in Houston."
Africa
"He explained that, during his years in Africa, he had visited the scenes of a half-dozen animal attacks on humans in the bush."
Amboseli, Kenya
"Then one buffalo attack in Amboseli; two lion attacks; one croc attack in the north, near Meru."
Meru, Kenya
"Then one buffalo attack in Amboseli; two lion attacks; one croc attack in the north, near Meru."
Mill Valley, California
"My dad moved out last month. He has his own place in Mill Valley now."
Chicago, Illinois
"No, she's marrying a nice doctor in Chicago sometime next year."
San Diego Zoo, San Diego, California
"Before coming to the park, Harding had been the chief of veterinary medicine at the San Diego Zoo, and the world's leading expert on avian care."
Japan, Asia
"He flew all over the world, consulting with zoos in Europe, India, and Japan on the care of exotic birds."
Montana, United States
"The reason Grant was astonished was that he had a proprietary feeling about this animal: it was probably a maiasaur, from the late Cretaceous in Montana."
Lascaux, France
"Not really. Thirty thousand years ago, when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week. Thirty thousand years ago."
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
"Video images came up on monitors around the room. One showed the bow of the supply ship, and the ocean ahead. In the distance, Tim saw land—buildings along a shore, and a harbor. He recognized the harbor because he had flown over it in the helicopter the day before. It was Puntarenas. The ship seemed to be just minutes from landing."
Puntarenas, Costa Rica
"On the video monitors, he could see the boat moving closer to Puntarenas. It was now only about two hundred yards from the dock."
Himalayan mountain range, Asia
"Even today, the greatest geographical feature on the planet comes from two great continents colliding, buckling to make the Himalayan mountain range over millions of years."
Arctic, Earth
"Life would survive somewhere—under the soil, or perhaps frozen in Arctic ice."
Venus, Solar System
"A planet like Venus has less than one percent oxygen."
San José, Costa Rica
"They had called authorities in San José for help. The Costa Rican National Guard was on its way, as well as an air ambulance to carry Malcolm to a hospital."
Washington, D.C., United States
"But over the telephone, the Costa Rican guard had been distinctly cautious— undoubtedly calls would go back and forth between San José and Washington before help was finally sent to the island."
Palo Alto, California
"Hammond knew that in two separate vaults at InGen headquarters in Palo Alto were dozens of frozen embryos."
Costa Rica, Central America
"To tell the truth, the choice of this island off Costa Rica had also been unwise."
Pacific Ocean, Earth
"Grant suddenly burst out through a cavernous opening, and found himself standing on the beach, looking at the Pacific Ocean."
San José, Costa Rica
"Epilogue: San José         Days went by. The government was polite, and put them up in a nice hotel in San José."
Carara station, Costa Rica
"“My name is Marty Guitierrez. I'm a researcher here, at the Carara station.”"
Montana, United States
"“I have only a few days left to dig before the winter sets in. In Montana, you know, the first snow usually comes in August.”"
New York, New York
"“How Grant had received the fax from New York.”"
Berkeley, California
"Certain ideas presented here about paleo-DNA, the genetic material of extinct animals, were first articulated by George O. Poinar, Jr., and Roberta Hess, who formed the Extinct DNA Study Group at Berkeley."
India, South Asia
"He flew all over the world, consulting with zoos in Europe, India, and Japan on the care of exotic birds."
Costa Rica, Central America
"But the plain fact was that many people had died in a territorial possession of Costa Rica. The government of Costa Rica felt it had been misled and deceived by John Hammond and his plans for the island."
New York, New York
"I've asked for the original fragment, which is in a lab in New York, to be flown here so that we can inspect it directly."
New York, New York
"Just to coordinate with the PR firms in San Francisco and London, and the agencies in New York and Tokyo, was a full-time job — especially since the agencies couldn't yet be told what the resort's real attraction was."
London, England
"LANDSCAPING Shepperton Rogers, London; A.Ashikiga, H. Ieyasu, Kanazawa."
Europe
"He flew all over the world, consulting with zoos in Europe, India, and Japan on the care of exotic birds."
London, England
"Mike thought Dr. Cruz was probably pretty capable; he spoke excellent English, the result of training at medical centers In London and Baltimore."
London, England
"Grant was aware of serious speculation in laboratories in Berkeley, Tokyo, and London that it might eventually be possible to clone an extinct animal such as a dinosaur—if you could get some dinosaur DNA to work with."
London, England
"Just to coordinate with the PR firms in San Francisco and London, and the agencies in New York and Tokyo, was a full-time job — especially since the agencies couldn't yet be told what the resort's real attraction was."
Costa Rica, Central America
"Only seventy‐five miles wide at its narrowest point, the country was smaller than the state of Maine. Yet, within its limited space, Costa Rica had a remarkable diversity of biological habitats: seacoasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific; four separate mountain ranges, including twelve‐thousand‐foot peaks and active volcanoes; rain forests, cloud forests, temperate zones, swampy marshes, and arid deserts."
British Museum, London, United Kingdom
"More recently, the distinguished astronomer Fred Hoyle had claimed that a fossil winged dinosaur, Archaeopteryx, on display in the British Museum, was a fraud. (It was later shown to be genuine.)"