Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26237273-20150617140442/@comment-17754282-20150715205832

D9 fan wrote: As for the last carnivore spot, I would say that Elaphrosaurus would be there because if they had Spinosaurus, why not sick it on the I-Rex, especially since I'm sure after the events of JP III that Grant and Erik told stories about how the Spinosaurus beat the T-Rex, therefore it would have made more sense to bring the Spinosaurus in the fight against the I-Rex, but rather I think it was being bred as a future attraction in the Restricted Area or after JP III, they decided to put a hologram of Spinosaurus in the Holoscope because it was likely a popular dinosaur after what was found out that it killed a T-Rex. There are two issues there - the first is that if Spinosaurus was somewhere within the Jurassic World Park, we have no idea where. If you look at the map of the park, the T-Rex Kingdom paddock is located right near Main Street, just like the Mosasaur Tank and the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo. The other three large carnivores (Baryonyx, Suchomimus and Metriacanthosaurus) all live in paddocks located near to the Cretaceous Cruise ride, on the other side of the island. If Spinosaurus was in Jurassic World then it would likely be located near to its two cousin species and therefore too far away to have it take on Indominus.

Second, there is no reason to assume that every dinosaur that ever lived in the Jurassic World Park still does. Don't forget, these a genetically recreated animals made from incomplete DNA. The novel version of Jurassic Park points out that many of their dinosaurs seem fine but then grow older, even as far as the adult stage before the scientists realise that there is something wrong with the animal like a genetic defect that forces the scientists to go back to the drawing board with that animal. Maybe after learning how ferocious the Spinosaurus on Isla Sorna was, Wu's team decided to just make a new one from scratch with a less vicious temperament. Then, when that animal grew up there was something wrong and they had to put the animal down and start again. Who knows, maybe that's where the Spinosaurus skeleton came from!