A Map of Isla Sorna

Isla Sorna (Sarcasm Island in English), also known as Site B, is the second island containing dinosaurs owned by InGen, featured in the novel and film The Lost World and in the movie Jurassic Park III. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3100x2497, 398 KB) A map of Isla Sorna from JPlegacy. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (3100x2497, 398 KB) A map of Isla Sorna from JPlegacy. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... InGen (International Genetic Technologies) is a fictional genetic engineering company appearing in the Jurassic Park series of novels and films. ... The Lost World is a novel by Michael Crichton, published in 1995 by Ballantine Books. ... Jurassic Park III is a 2001 film that is the third film as part of the Jurassic Park franchise. ...

Film

Isla Sorna is part of the island chain known as The Five Deaths (Las Cinco Muertes), and is located approximately 207 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, in the Pacific Ocean. It is eighty-seven miles from Isla Nublar, the island of the Jurassic Park theme park. Locations of the Five Deaths The Five Deaths (Las Cinco Muertes in Spanish) are a group of five fictional islands from the Jurassic Park series of films. ... // Isla Nublar is the fictional island on which dinosaurs were held in Jurassic Park. ... Jurassic Park is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton that was published in 1990. ... Theme Park is a simulation computer game designed by Bullfrog Productions, released in 1994, in which the player designs and operates an amusement park. ...

When John Hammond planned for Jurassic Park in San Diego, he created Site B as the main factory in which to produce the animals. Any small attempt would have been impossible as yields would have been too low (less than 1%), so a large scale facility had to be made. The following is a list of characters from Michael Crichtons novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World. ...

When plans changed, the now matured animals were transferred to Isla Nublar, rather than the San Diego facility which was now abandoned. The animals were cloned and raised until a certain age/size when they were to be transferred into the park. It was not intended as a tourist destination, but as a research facility. Cloning is the process of creating an identical copy of something. ... A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ...

However, as John Hammond explains in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, less than a year after the incident at Isla Nublar, Hurricane Clarissa wiped out the facilities on the island--which had been evacuated. The animals were then left to mature on their own. The island, and dream, were fully abandoned until nearly four years later, Peter Ludlow finally took the company from John Hammond and made an expedition to the island (one that had been in the works but had been thwarted by John Hammond, for years). The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 movie which is a sequel to the blockbuster Jurassic Park. ...

In the film version of The Lost World, John Hammond tells Ian Malcolm about Site B; he asks him to document the island before it is "found and pillaged". As Malcolm arrives, so does InGen, now under the guidance of Hammond's nephew, seeking to steal the animals for research and a new park. The DX disease is not mentioned in the film version, although the letters 'DX' are featured on much of the movie's merchandise. Fortunately for the inhabitants, the island was turned into a dinosaur preserve, thus making it illegal to disturb the island itself or the prehistoric wildlife. The term disease refers to an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. ... In marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a market that might satisfy a want or need. ...

However, it is shown that not all people obeyed this new law. In Jurassic Park III, Alan Grant is tricked into going to Site B to help two estranged parents find their son, who had been lost during a parasailing accident run by an illegal organization. The couple believe that Grant has visited the island previously; Grant explains to them he had been on Isla Nublar, not Isla Sorna. Eventually he managed to find their son and lead the surviving group out to the coast, where the U.S. Navy and Marines arrived to rescue them. Alan Grant is a fictional character from the Jurassic Park series. ...

Novel

Isla Sorna in the novel is quite different than the film. The island is much smaller (possiblily, 50 or 55 square kilometers in size) and is said to have been originally a large volcano that blew its top. Access to the island was restricted to only a few tunnels that the water had bored into the sides of the large mountain sides that protected the island.

The island was originally owned by a German mining company and was then developed by InGen. The company took the island and created facilities on it in which to experiment and create the animals for their parks.

However, due to an unknown prion called DX (similar to mad cow disease, though DX was transferred through sheep extracts fed to the carnivores) the animal production was reduced severely; newborns died in a matter of days. Sarah Harding mentions in the novel how surprised she is to find out that InGen fed its carnivores with this material as it is commonly known throughout the naturalist community that no carnivore should be fed this in captivity. A prion (IPA: [1] ) — short for proteinaceous infectious particle (-on by analogy to virion) — is a type of infectious agent composed only of protein. ... Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or commonly mad cow disease) is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which infects by a mechanism that shocked biologists on its discovery in late 20th century and appears transmissible to humans. ...

The disease would act as any prion based disease and would build a large chemical chain within the brain fluid. This chain would become so large, that it would eventually burrow through the brain material, causing insanity in most cases--hence the name mad cow disease.

This disease would prove devastating to any genetics company as any bio-engineered animal already has very little chance of surviving to adulthood. A large batch must be made in order to preserve even a 1% yield rate. A disease such as this could wipe out the entire population within a matter of weeks.

In order to overcome the possibility that diseases were being transmitted through workers at the plant, they tagged the animals with radio transmitters and released them to the habitat. Following the collapse of Isla Nublar, several accidents on Isla Sorna forced InGen to evacuate Site B and leave the animals to fend for themselves. Forgotten, dinosaurs take over the island and turn it into a real Jurassic Park. Some animals go extinct while others begins to exhibit strange behaviors. It is later discovered that the island has reached its equilibrium but because of an explosion in the raptor population, the animals are under increasing stress.

In the novel of The Lost World, Ian Malcolm learns of this island from palaeontologist Richard Levine, and he sets off to investigate the newfound "Lost World." However, Lewis Dodgson of the Biosyn corporation also learns of Isla Sorna and seeks to steal dinosaur eggs for genetic research. However, Dodgson and his team are killed and Malcolm and most of his team escape the island. A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Lewis Dodgson is a character in Michael Crichtons best selling novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World. ... Biosyn is a fictional genetics company from the novels Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World. ... In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. ...

Surprisingly, Sorna, which ran on geo-thermal energy, had many still functioning systems including the mainframe and surveillance. The trailers used in the novel--similar to the film versions--connected to the mainframe and were able to use the mostly functioning mainframe to its advantage--that is until the Tyrannosaurus attack severely damaged the trailers.

Dinosaurs and other Reptiles Featured

Film

These are dinosaurs and other reptiles confirmed to be on Isla Sorna in the films.

• Apatosaurus (The Lost World: Jurassic Park Official Souvenir Magazine identified the bones in the town as belonging to an Apatosaurus)
• Ankylosaurus
• Brachiosaurus
• Ceratosaurus
• Compsognathus
• Corythosaurus
• Dilophosaurus (seen on the mobile lab computer screens. Also, a picture of it is painted on the wall.)
• Gallimimus
• Hadrosaurus (This is according to what would be identified as a Jurassic Park III prop)
• Leptoceratops (A logo on various promotional material points to this dinosaur)
• Maiasaura (This is according to the Jurassic Park III Trading Cards Made by Inkworks)
• Mamenchisaurus
• Muttaburrasaurus (This is according to the Jurassic Park III Trading Cards Made by Inkworks)
• Pachycephalosaurus
• Parasaurolophus
• Pteranodon
• Spinosaurus (was not made to be transported to Isla Nublar. Its creation was apparently a secret venture or an accident.)
• Stegosaurus
• Triceratops
• Tyrannosaurus
• Velociraptor

It's believed that Isla Sorna may have most of Isla Nublar's animals still like Metriacanthosaurus, Proceratosaurus, Baryonyx, and Segisaurus. The reason for this claim is that Isla Sorna was the factory floor for the entire Jurassic Park project according to John Hammond in the beginning of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Species Apatosaurus ajax Apatosaurus excelsus Apatosaurus louisae Apatosaurus (pronounced ) meaning deceptive lizard, because its chevron bones were like those of Mosasaurus (Greek apatelos or apatelios = deceptive + sauros = lizard), often mistakenly referred to as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic... Species Apatosaurus ajax Apatosaurus excelsus Apatosaurus louisae Apatosaurus (pronounced ) meaning deceptive lizard, because its chevron bones were like those of Mosasaurus (Greek apatelos or apatelios = deceptive + sauros = lizard), often mistakenly referred to as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic... Binomial name Ankylosaurus magniventris Brown, 1908 Ankylosaurus (pronounced or , meaning stiffened lizard) is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur, containing one species, . Fossils of Ankylosaurus are found in geologic formations dating to the very end of the Cretaceous Period in western North America. ... Species (type) ?B. (Giraffatitan) brancai Brachiosaurus (IPA: ) meaning Arm Lizard, from the Greek brachion/βραχιων meaning arm and sauros/σαυρος meaning lizard, was a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Jurassic Period. ... Species (type) Marsh, 1884 (Janensch, 1920) Madsen & Wells, 2000 Madsen & Wells, 2000 Ceratosaurus (IPA: ) meaning horned lizard, in reference to the horn on its nose (Greek keras/keratos meaning horn and sauros meaning lizard), was a large predatory dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, found in the Morrison Formation of... Binomial name Compsognathus longipes Wagner, 1859 Compsognathus // meaning elegant jaw (Greek kompsos/κομψος meaning elegant, refined or dainty and gnathos/γναθος meaning jaw) was a small bipedal carnivorous theropod dinosaur, the size of a chicken that lived in the late Jurassic Period of what is now Europe, with fossil finds from Germany... Binomial name Corythosaurus casuarius Brown, 1914 Corythosaurus // meaning helmet lizard because of the shape of its crest (Greek korythos meaning helmet and sauros meaning lizard) was a duck-billed dinosaur genus from the Upper Cretaceous Period, about 80 million years ago. ... Species  ? Dilophosaurus was a theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Period. ... Species (type) Gallimimus (gal-ih-MY-mus) meaning rooster mimic, because its fossils resembled that of a very large rooster (Latin gallus = rooster + mimus = mimic), was an ornithomimosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. ... Species H. foulkii Leidy, 1858 (type) Hadrosaurus (Greek: ἁδρος, hadros + σαυρος, sauros = sturdy lizard) is a dubious genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. ... Leptoceratops was a primitive ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Western North American. ... Binomial name Maiasaura peeblesorum Horner & Makela, 1979 Maiasaura (good mother lizard) is a large duck-billed dinosaur species that lived in Montana in the Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian), about 74 million years ago. ... Species (holotype) Mamenchisaurus (pronounced ma-MENCH-ih-SAW-rus) was first discovered in China by C. C. Young. ... Species Muttaburrasaurus was a large four-legged ornithopod herbivorous dinosaur genus that was capable of rearing onto two legs. ... Binomial name Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis (Gilmore, 1931) Pachycephalosaurus (the thick headed lizard, from the Greek pachy-/παχυ- meaning thick, cephale/κεφαλη meaning head and saurus/σαυρος meaning lizard) was a dinosaur of the family Pachycephalosauridae, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. ... Species (type) Wiman, 1931 Ostrom, 1961 Parasaurolophus was a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period (about 76-65 million years ago) of what is now North America. ... Species (type) Pteranodon (from Greek πτερ- wing and αν-οδων toothless), from the Late Cretaceous (santonian-campanian, 85-82 million years ago) of North America (Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota) was one of the largest pterosaur genera, with a wingspan of up to 9 m (30 feet). ... Species (type) ? Russell, 1996 Spinosaurus (meaning spine lizard) was a genus of theropod dinosaur that lived in what is now North Africa, from the Albian to early Cenomanian stages of the Cretaceous Period, about 95 to 93 million years ago. ... Species Marsh, 1877 (type) Marsh, 1887 Gilmore, 1914 Stegosaurus (IPA: ) is a genus of stegosaurid armoured dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian) in what is now western North America. ... Species (type) Marsh, 1890 Triceratops (IPA: ) was a herbivorous genus of ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago (mya) in what is now North America. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 Synonyms Manospondylus Cope, 1892 Dynamosaurus Osborn, 1905 Nanotyrannus? Bakker, Williams & Currie, 1988 Stygivenator Olshevsky, 1995 Dinotyrannus Olshevsky, 1995 Tyrannosaurus (IPA pronunciation or ; from the Greek τυραννόσαυρος, meaning tyrant lizard) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur. ... Species V. mongoliensis Osborn, 1924 Velociraptor (IPA: RP , GA ; meaning swift thief) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 Ma (million years ago) during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. ... Binomial name von Huene, 1923 Metriacanthosaurus (meaning moderate-spined lizard) was a genus of sinraptorid dinosaur from Jurassic England. ... Proceratosaurus (before horned lizard) was a medium-sized coelurosaur meat-eating dinosaur from middle Jurassic North America. ... Binomial name Baryonyx walkeri Charig & Milner, 1986 Baryonyx // meaning heavy claw, referring to its large claw (Greek barus meaning heavy and onyx meaning claw or nail) was a carnivorous dinosaur discovered in clay pits just south of Dorking, England, and northern Spain. ... Species Segisaurus was a small (approximately 1 metre long) theropod dinosaur. ...

Novel

Dinosaurs featured in the novel

• Apatosaurus
• Carnotaurus
• Gallimimus
• Hypsilophodon
• Maiasaura
• Mussaurus
• Pachycephalosaurus
• Parasaurolophus
• Procompsognathus
• Stegosaurus
• Triceratops
• Tyrannosaurus
• Velociraptor antirrhopus
• Unknown Tree Herbivore: Possibly Othnielia or Microceratops
• Levine examined a beached specimen, his best guess was a Ornitholestes. He was not able to make a precise identification, but the lab discovered chromatophores in the tissue sample he sent to Malcolm, possibly suggesting the Carnotaurus.

Species Apatosaurus ajax Apatosaurus excelsus Apatosaurus louisae Apatosaurus (pronounced ) meaning deceptive lizard, because its chevron bones were like those of Mosasaurus (Greek apatelos or apatelios = deceptive + sauros = lizard), often mistakenly referred to as Brontosaurus, is a genus of sauropod dinosaurs that lived about 140 million years ago, during the Jurassic... Species C. sastrei Bonaparte, 1985 (type) Carnotaurus (kahrn-oh-TAWR-us) meaning meat-eating bull, referring to its distinct bull-like horns (Latin carn = flesh + taurus = bull) was a large predatory dinosaur, with horns vaguely resembling a bulls. ... Species (type) Gallimimus (gal-ih-MY-mus) meaning rooster mimic, because its fossils resembled that of a very large rooster (Latin gallus = rooster + mimus = mimic), was an ornithomimosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. ... Discovery The first remains of Hysilophodon (high-ridged tooth) were recovered in the early days of paleontology, in 1849. ... Binomial name Maiasaura peeblesorum Horner & Makela, 1979 Maiasaura (good mother lizard) is a large duck-billed dinosaur species that lived in Montana in the Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian), about 74 million years ago. ... Binomial name Mussaurus patagonicus Bonaparte & Vince, 1979 Mussaurus (meaning mouse lizard) was a genus of plant-eating dinosaur known from 18 to 37 cm-long (9 to 16 in) fossilized juvenile and infant skeletons, which are the smallest dinosaur skeletons known. ... Binomial name Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis (Gilmore, 1931) Pachycephalosaurus (the thick headed lizard, from the Greek pachy-/παχυ- meaning thick, cephale/κεφαλη meaning head and saurus/σαυρος meaning lizard) was a dinosaur of the family Pachycephalosauridae, from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America. ... Species (type) Wiman, 1931 Ostrom, 1961 Parasaurolophus was a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period (about 76-65 million years ago) of what is now North America. ... Binomial name Procompsognathus triassicus Fraas, 1913 Paleo Template Project Life-sized model of Procompsognathus Triassicus Procompsognathus was once thought to be a small, speedy theropod dinosaur. ... Species Marsh, 1877 (type) Marsh, 1887 Gilmore, 1914 Stegosaurus (IPA: ) is a genus of stegosaurid armoured dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian) in what is now western North America. ... Species (type) Marsh, 1890 Triceratops (IPA: ) was a herbivorous genus of ceratopsid dinosaur that lived during the late Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, around 68 to 65 million years ago (mya) in what is now North America. ... Binomial name Tyrannosaurus rex Osborn, 1905 Synonyms Manospondylus Cope, 1892 Dynamosaurus Osborn, 1905 Nanotyrannus? Bakker, Williams & Currie, 1988 Stygivenator Olshevsky, 1995 Dinotyrannus Olshevsky, 1995 Tyrannosaurus (IPA pronunciation or ; from the Greek τυραννόσαυρος, meaning tyrant lizard) is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur. ... Species V. mongoliensis Osborn, 1924 Velociraptor (IPA: RP , GA ; meaning swift thief) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 Ma (million years ago) during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. ... Binomial name Deinonychus antirrhopus Ostrom, 1969 Deinonychus (IPA ) meaning terrible claw (Greek δεινος meaning terrible and ονυξ/ονυχος meaning claw) was a jaguar-sized, carnivorous dromaeosaurid dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous Period. ... Othnielia is a hypsilophodont dinosaur, named after its discoverer Professor Othniel Marsh, an American fossil hunter of the 19th century. ... Microceratops (meaning small-horned face) was a small ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous period in Asia. ... Binomial name Ornitholestes hermanii Osborn, 1903 Paleo Template Project Ornitholestes hermanii (bird robber) was a small theropod dinosaur of the late Jurassic of North America. ...

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