Jurassic Park III - Amalgam Testing I

Fan-fiction inspired by online discussion regarding the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park III and head-canons coming from that. This will be the first of several instalments. Hope you all like! ^^

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SUBJECT: AMALGAM TESTING - DAY 01
ISLA SORNA
OCTOBER, 1997

DR. KAJAL DUA: Okay, so we successfully finished sequencing the Corythosaur...and the Ankylosaurs and Ceratosaur are in the can, so to speak. I would ask if we can finish and get out of here before we break the Gene Guard Act anymore, but...those new papers say different, don't they...

DR. HENRY WU: Here's what we're going to do next...I'm going to call this 'Amalgam Testing'. No matter what happens, I want this 'testing' to be recorded as a 'failure'.

DUA: Why, what...Wait, 'Spinosaurus'? There isn't even enough bones in the world, let alone...

WU: I know; we have next to nothing...Only enough material to sequence a third of what we need. But if we introduce other specimens...

DUA: Hence 'Amalgam'. This is going to turn it into a hybrid.

WU: Yes. Technically all of our clones are 'hybrids' with frogs, but our Dilophosaurus proved that more - experimental - hybridisation was possible.

DUA: So what, do the same with the Spino?

WU: Not exactly...We know next to nothing, but what we do know is that it's related to two other animals we do have material for; Baryonyx and Suchomimus.

DUA: Three dinosaurs in one!

WU: Exactly. It will be a challenge, but Masrani intends to honour Hammond's wish of a fully functioning theme park and we need to be prepared for every kind of project he may throw at us.

DUA: 'Challenge' is an understatement; with the combined DNA, we'll have no guarantee of size, of metabolism...we can't even be sure that we can keep the female chromosome!

WU: That won't matter; we're only going to breed one specimen.

DUA: Yeah...One...


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