Hello community! I hope you are all well
Folks, I have noticed that many are disappointed by the absence of Microceratus in the new Dominion Malta expansion. Please...be patient, every update is the same thing, people complain, okay I understand the disappointment, but I am sure that Microceratus will be added at some point. This new expansion is very cool and let's enjoy the new content please. Frontier surely knows that we want the Microceratus in the game, and I am sure that in the near future it will be added, stay calm my friends
For example...I'm waiting for a long time for them to add breeding and nesting to the game, judging by the circumstances, they will not add it so soon, I'm sad about that, but the game has a lot of cool content to enjoy, even if we don't have certain features or species now, let's be grateful for what we have and enjoy the new expansion that is coming!
I am very grateful for this spectacular new expansion! May we be more grateful and have more patience!
I think, with next year being Jurassic Park's 30th anniversary, that Microceratus is being saved for another Expansion, e.g. Lockwood's Early Days or Site B: Isla Sorna prologue.
I hope you two guys are right.
Apart from Microceratus, it still remains a question whether the other novel-exclusive species: Hadrosaurus, Hypsilophodon, and Mussaurus will be added to this game.
May I remind you that the Jurassic Park franchise starts off as a novel written by Michael Crichton. The novel's popularity results in the movie adaptation in 1993 and Crichton writing the sequel
The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Later on, various games are made.
Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis and the
Jurassic World: Evolution games share the element that comes from the original novel.
"Wu said, 'there are two possible sources. Using the Loy antibody extraction technique, we can sometimes get DNA directly from dinosaur bones.'
'What kind of a yield?' Grant asked.
'Well, most soluble protein is leached out during fossilization, but twenty percent of the proteins are still recoverable by grinding up the bones and using Loy’s procedure. Dr. Loy himself has used it to obtain proteins from extinct Australian marsupials, as well as blood cells from ancient human remains. His technique is so refined it can work with a mere fifty nanograms of material. That’s fifty-billionths of a gram.'
'And you’ve adapted his technique here?' Grant asked.
'Only as a backup,' Wu said. 'As you can imagine, a twenty percent yield is insufficient for our work. We need the entire dinosaur DNA strand in order to clone. And we get it here.' He held up one of the yellow stones. 'From amber—the fossilized resin of prehistoric tree sap.'
Grant looked at Ellie, then at Malcolm.
'That’s really quite clever,' Malcolm said, nodding.
'I still don’t understand,' Grant admitted.
'Tree sap,' Wu explained, 'often flows over insects and traps them. The insects are then perfectly preserved within the fossil. One finds all kinds of insects in amber—including biting insects that have sucked blood from larger animals.'
'Sucked the blood,' Grant repeated. His mouth fell open. 'You mean sucked the blood of dinosaurs …'
'Hopefully, yes.'
'And then the insects are preserved in amber.…' Grant shook his head. 'l’ll be damned—that just might work.'
'I assure you, it does work,' Wu said. He moved to one of the microscopes, where a technician positioned a piece of amber containing a fly under the microscope. On the video monitor, they watched as he inserted a long needle through the amber, into the thorax of the prehistoric fly. 'If this insect has any foreign blood cells, we may be able to extract them, and obtain paleo-DNA, the DNA of an extinct creature. We won’t know for sure, of course, until we extract whatever is in there, replicate it, and test it. That is what we have been doing for five years now. It has been a long, slow process—but it has paid off ...'" (Crichton, 226 - 228)
Before
Jurassic World: Evolution 1, Hammond Foundation was first mentioned in the original novel.
"Morris opened his briefcase, rummaged through his papers, and glanced back at Ellie, who was lifting bones with tweezers from the acid bath at the other end of the trailer, paying no attention to them. 'You’re probably wondering why I’m here.'
Grant nodded. 'It’s a long way to come, Mr. Morris.'
'Well,' Morris said, 'to get right to the point, the EPA is concerned about the activities of the Hammond Foundation. You receive some funding from them.'
'Thirty thousand dollars a year,' Grant said, nodding. 'For the last five years.'
'What do you know about the foundation?' Morris said.
Grant shrugged. 'The Hammond Foundation is a respected source of academic grants. They fund research all over the world, including several dinosaur researchers. I know they support Bob Kerry out of the Tyrrell in Alberta, and John Weller in Alaska. Probably more.'
'Do you know why the Hammond Foundation supports so much dinosaur research?' Morris asked.
'Of course. It’s because old John Hammond is a dinosaur nut.'
'You’ve met Hammond?'
Grant shrugged. 'Once or twice. He comes here for brief visits. He’s quite elderly, you know. And eccentric, the way rich people sometimes are. But always very enthusiastic. Why?'
'Well,' Morris said, 'the Hammond Foundation is actually a rather mysterious organization.' He pulled out a Xeroxed world map, marked with red dots, and passed it to Grant. 'These are the digs the foundation financed last year. Notice anything odd about them? Montana, Alaska, Canada, Sweden … They’re all sites in the north. There’s nothing below the forty-fifth parallel.' Morris pulled out more maps. 'It’s the same, year after year. Dinosaur projects to the south, in Utah or Colorado or Mexico, never get funded. The Hammond Foundation only supports cold-weather digs. We’d like to know why.'" (Crichton, 93 - 94)
Crichton, Michael.
Jurassic Park. Random House, (1990)
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