Alright so I do feel like I’m going to talk about this, because it’s getting on my nerves. So I keep hearing that all dinosaurs realistically will be captured by 2022. Well the truth is my friend, you are right, if your talking about real life dinosaurs, not the clones. The main problem with this argument is that their missing why invasive species are so hard to catch. They mature very fast, this is overlooked. More on that later. life dinosaurs reach maturity at different ages. We will look at large dinosaurs for the example. Let’s take for example, a sauropod, to be specific Apatosaurus.
As you can see it takes around 15 years to reach adulthood, however it can be inaccurate and it might take longer. How about another?
Not the best, but you can see how long does it take to grow to adult. A real life Rex takes around 18-20 years to reach adulthood, around the same time humans also reach adulthood. Now this is only large dinosaurs. Smaller dinosaurs likely matured faster. But we aren’t going further in depth for later. Let’s take a look at Ingen clones.
So it’s confirmed Ingen clones grow very fast and reach adulthood very quickly, in order to be attractions in the park. Take for example Rexy:
Rexy was born in 1988 and was already fully grown in 1993. She was 5 years old. Rexy reaches maturity around 4 times faster than a real life Rex. Well of course there’s one Rex so it would be easier to catch. Let’s look at a better example.
JW Ankylosaurus, to be specific Bumpy. Bumpy literally grew in size very fast likely in a matter of days. Bumpy is likely going to reach sub adult by season 2, which will likely take place probably days to even a week after season 1, or at least I estimate.
You can say the same thing for sauropods as well, they don’t take 15 years to reach adulthood like their real life counterparts or at least for Apatosaurus. Now let’s go to real world and see why invasive species are so hard to get out of the ecosystem. Burmese Python is a good example:
Burmese Pythons are common for one reason, breeding. They reach sexual maturity at age 3-4 yes that quick. However I heard one source say 18 months, however could be inaccurate. And they lay a lot of eggs. Now, most won’t reach fully grown but till this day, they are widespread, it took a little bit. However, we really have no idea how much were released when they first escaped. So it’s a bit challenging. But let’s take for example, an elephant, the reason why we will be able to capture them all before they can reach a population of a hundred depending how many, is because they mature at a slower rate and they have very long pregnancies, we are talking about 22 months for African Bush Elephants.
Dinosaurs likely didn’t have gestation periods that long, well at least Ingen. Real life dinosaurs take around 3-6 months to hatch from their eggs, which is long. Ingen clones likely took a much shorter time to hatch from eggs. If you don’t believe me then we can look at Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar. That’s why their are so many dinosaurs, because of their fast maturity and because they were probably enough for both genders, and no competition. We don’t know if there are enough males and females, but it’s likely yes their is enough. As you can see, there’s already more dinosaurs than before, or something like that. If we are talking about real life dinosaurs, there wouldn’t be really any change of number of adult theropods.
For example, Allosaurus. Those juvenile clones were likely born after the fall of Jurassic World, possibly like months or even a year before FK took place. And they reached maturity by 2019. If one juvenile Allosaurus reached maturity, then you can expect all the juveniles we’ve seen to reach adulthood as well. Isla Sorna for example. We don’t know how many Corythosaurus were clones, but as we know there’s a lot. This can be due to the same thing. And this is course excluding dinosaurs breeding early, it’s very likely rare too.
Now, this is only including the large dinosaurs. Since smaller dinosaurs likely had shorter lifespans, they would mature much faster. Of course there’s more I want to add, but I’ll add them later.