Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26237273-20150617140442/@comment-13531781-20150715225109

Sprinter1988 wrote: 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!

You have a good point but that's why I'd think it's in the restricted zone, as it was growing so that way they can make sure there's nothing wrong with its genes. As for every dinosaur living in Jurassic World, I would assume that all of them still do. I mean besides the T-Rex there appears to be multiple dinosaurs of the same species in several exhibits. Plus like Grey said, there's 8 carnivores and 14 herbivores presumably in the park and alive. And the map and website seems to have left out where Dilophosaurus and Brachiosaurus are in the park, which most of the JP community agrees that they do live in the park somewhere. And various incarnations of the Jurassic Park maps from the original park have left many people trying to decide where the placement of their paddocks really were. Plus the map didn't have the I-Rex's paddock on it and it was definitely an attraction.