When the group arrives on the island, they discover John Hammond has funded genetically manufactured dinosaurs using DNA from mosquitoes fossilized in amber. No one on board, aside from John Hammond, has physically seen Isla Nublar. John Hammond’s lawyer, Don Gennaro, is already on board the plane and has asked the experts to come to the island to judge its safety. Alan initially declines, but John talks him into coming, along with Ellie Sattler.Īlong with Alan and Ellie, John Hammond picks up mathematician Ian Malcolm and computer systems engineer Dennis Nedry before heading to Isla Nublar in Costa Rica. After the agent leaves, Alan gets a call from John Hammond inviting him to visit his island the next day. The EPA agent believes John Hammond is “up to something” and tells Alan Grant about a mysterious island John Hammond has purchased, along with stockpiles of amber. A man from the Environmental Protection Agency visits Alan Grant and asks him a lot of questions about his biggest benefactor, John Hammond. They are puzzled by the X-ray, which precisely resembles the body of a dinosaur named procompsognathid.
A technician named Alice Levin believes the carcass to be that of a dinosaur and faxes an X-ray of the lizard to famous paleontologist Alan Grant to be analyzed.Īlan Grant, along with his graduate student Ellie Sattler, is busy excavating dinosaur nesting grounds in Snakewater, Montana, when they receive the fax.
Marty Guitierrez to find the carcass of a lizard he cannot identify and sends it to experts in New York to be analyzed. When an American girl named Tina Bowman is attacked, she draws a sketch of the lizard. As the book opens, a previously undocumented breed of lizard is attacking children in Costa Rica.