Before Jurassic Park was even published, Crichton demanded a non-negotiable fee of $1.5 million for the film rights from Universal.

Wealthy businessman John Hammond has created a theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs and prehistoric plants.

The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America's Pacific Coast near Costa Rica.

While a raptor is being transferred to a holding pen, she manages to pull an unfortunate worker inside, despite the other guards' efforts to subdue her with their shock prods.

Hammond reveals that the dinosaurs were created by a team of genetic scientists through cloning, a process that uses preserved ancient DNA from mosquitoes that are found inside amber, with DNA from frogs being used to fill in missing genomes.

According to Chaos Theory, small differences in initial conditions, such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation, can yield widely diverging outcomes for dynamic systems, rendering long-term prediction of their behavior impossible.

Dr. Henry Wu insists that breeding is impossible since all dinosaurs have been genetically engineered as females, but Malcolm theorizes that nature will overcome this obstacle somehow.

Hammond arranges for the group, joined by his grandchildren Tim and Lex, to take a tour of the island in electric vehicles, while he oversees the tour from the control room.

Paleobotanist Ellie Sattler believes the West Indian Lilac berries found nearby may be responsible for the sick Triceratops.

When a tropical storm approaches the island, everyone heads back to the visitor center, but Ellie stays behind with the park's veterinarian to study the Triceratops.