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"Infant’s probably only a few weeks old. Never left the nest. Offspring that young, parents won’t leave it alone for too long."
Roland Tembo(src)


Junior is the offspring of and the youngest of the three Tyrannosaurus featured in the film The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Junior gets his name from his toy in Kenner's The Lost World Series 1 who has the codename of "Junior". Junior is classified as a Tyrannosaur Fawn since the adult male is a Buck and the adult female is a Doe.

Behavioral[]

As an infant, Junior displayed the natural behavior of consuming food left by his parents at the nest during their brief absences for hunting. However, this made him vulnerable to capture by hunters, who restrained him while he called out for his parents. In his distress and fear, Junior instinctually tried to defend himself by attempting to bite the human providing treatment for his injured leg.

When faced with a single human, Junior experienced fear and attempted to flee, seeking safety. His father, recognizing the danger, intervened and incapacitated the human by breaking his leg. With his father's encouragement, Junior mustered the confidence to engage in his first hunting attempt, pouncing on the wounded prey and successfully killing it.

From a young age, Junior demonstrated a strong reliance on his parents for guidance and protection. He depended on them for essential survival skills and sought their presence for safety and reassurance.

Story[]

Birth[]

The infant T. rex (Tyrannosaur Fawn) was born on Isla Sorna to two individuals who were Tyrannosaurus rex clones that had went wild after Hurricane Clarissa struck the island.[1]

He,[2] like all cloned Tyrannosaurus juveniles, spent his early life in a nest with his parents providing him food in his nest.[1]

Isla Sorna Incident and Capture[]

When he was only a few weeks old, InGen, who brought his and his parents' species back to life, sent a team of hunters to capture Isla Sorna's wild dinosaurs for newly appointed CEO Peter Ludlow's Jurassic Park: San Diego. The hunters' leader, Roland Tembo, was interested in hunting the juvenile's father. When he found the nest the young Tyrannosaurus was living in, he and fellow InGen Hunter Ajay Sidhu captured the juvenile with the intentions of using him as bait to lure his parents to their camp.

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Junior just as Dr. Harding prepared to fix his broken leg.

While being used as bait, Peter Ludlow, who wandered away from the hunters' camp in a drunken stupor, accidentally broke his leg.[3] Then during the fiasco at the camp, caused by gatherers Nick Van Owen and Sarah Harding releasing the captured dinosaurs, Nick found the injured baby and took him back to the Fleetwood RV Mobile Lab, where Sarah applied first aid to his broken leg. Knowing that his cry can be heard and answered, Kelly begged her father, Ian Malcolm, to take her to the High Hide for safety. Eventually, the baby's cry is answered by his mother and father, and Nick, Sarah, and Ian were able to finish fixing his broken leg and he was soon released back into the wild with his parents. However, despite having their son returned to them, both parents pushed the mobile lab off the cliff it was on deciding that it was a threat.

The infant was then later recaptured by the Hunters at the conclusion of the Isla Sorna Incident of 1997, and was shipped to the new Jurassic Park in San Diego, California via Peter Ludlow's jet. Ian and Sarah later arrived at the facility to find and retrieve him during his father's rampage. They used the infant to lure the Tyrannosaur Buck once again to stop the angry father from causing more damage to San Deigo and to take them both back to their home on Isla Sorna. The plan works, and in the Buck's attempt to retrieve his son, Ludlow gets wounded by the adult when he bites him in the legs presumably breaking them. The Infant Tyrannosaur's father decided to let him finish off Peter so he could teach him how to hunt on his own for later life. After killing Peter Ludlow, Sarah then tranquilized the adult male in the nick of time before the order to kill it can be done.

The two Tyrannosaurs were later transported back to Isla Sorna after the San Diego Incident and became reunited with the female. The last sighting of the infant was of him and his family on a plain next to the Stegosaurus herd and a flock of Pteranodon.[1]

While both of his parents ended up in the Biosyn Sanctuary, the fate of Junior is unknown.

Gallery[]

Behind the scenes[]

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An early maquette of Junior. Note that he has brown skin like his mother, unlike the final film.

Originally, Junior was supposed to be brown as seen on one of his maquettes and in concept art, meaning that he might have originally been planned to be female instead of male.[4] Furthermore, he is brown skinned in The Lost World Series 1 toy line, the arcade game, and in the video game LEGO Jurassic World.

It is fan speculation that the adult male Tyrannosaurus rex that was killed by the Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park III is Junior himself. However, this is mere speculation, as Junior has a different skin color. When asked if Junior was the Tyrannosaur killed by the Spinosaurus during Stan Winston School's "Jurassic Party" Matt Winston jokingly said: "Yes! We’re just making stuff up."[5][6]

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Concept art. Note that he has brown skin like his mother, unlike the final film.

Due to some specimens recently found of juvenile T. rex, it is possible that baby T. rex actually had longer skulls, therefore making the infant unrealistic. However, it is possible, though considered unlikely by most paleontologists, that the specimens in question represent a different genus, known as Nanotyrannus. New studies show that the arms of Nanotyrannus are a half longer than T. rex's arms, while a young T-rex's arm are similar to the adults but only smaller. However, it has also been proposed that the sparse "Nanotyrannus" specimens are life stages of Tyrannosaurus and the small differences can be chalked up to individual variation. More evidences show that the brain case of Nanotyrannus is dipped down substantially while T-rex's brain is parallel close to the ground.

Art impression of a baby Tyrannosaur

In the film it was mentioned the juvenile was a couple of weeks old; it would have been too long for it to be that old, although it is implied that InGen accelerated the growth of their dinosaurs, which could account for this issue.

The dependence of young Tyrannosaurus on their parents is very apparent with this baby dinosaur. When it is injured and taken away from its parents, it barely ever stops howling for them, indicating that it is not yet capable of surviving on its own and requires its parents to come to its rescue.

The full-sized animatronic for Junior was 4 feet tall and 8 feet long.[7]

Trivia[]

  • Junior is the only member of his family who doesn't return in Jurassic World: Dominion, either Biosyn weren't able to capture him and he still resides on Isla Sorna or he died on Sorna or he was captured and transported alongside his parents, though it's also possible that Biosyn did capture him and he doesn't live and hunt with his parents anymore. Junior would be a full-grown Tyrannosaurus by then.
  • He is the first male Tyranosaurus rex who appeared on screen.
  • He is often mistaken for the Bull Tyrannosaurus that appeared in Jurassic Park III, This is not true due to the fact that the Bull T.rex was on the different part of the island, far away from Junior's Parents. Junior also has an identical coloration to his father, different than the Bull from the following film.

Family[]

Tyrannosaur Buck
 
Tyrannosaur Doe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Junior
 

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  2. The animatronic of the Infant T. rex has green skin. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park it was revealed that male Tyrannosaurus rex have green colored skin, indicating that the juvenile's gender was male and not female.
  3. This is taken from a deleted scene that didn't make it to the film. There is a still of this scene.
  4. Making the 'Lost World'
  5. Jurassicworld.org - 'We're in the Hands of Engineers!' A Jurassic Party Experience... (July 1, 2015) Retrieved from http://www.jurassicworld.org/?id=332#comments
  6. Jurassic Party Part 3: Jurassic Park III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7o84mPcbO4
  7. https://i.imgur.com/kPlOAh9.jpeg The Making of The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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