Lysine Dependent

Chapter Four: Illusions

OCEAN NEAR COSTA RICA: 24 miles from Costa Rica

TIME: 4:30 p.m.

Although Malcolm was in awe from the sight of living dinosaurs, he also realized that bringing an animal that had been extinct for billions of years back to the earth was impossible, and although Hammond insisted that they were, in fact, real dinosaurs, Malcolm could see through the lies. He knew this because they weren't real dinosaurs. Although they were real animals, the scientists at Jurassic Park did not have access to the complete DNA strand of a dinosaur. Instead, they used various types of animal DNA that was used to "complete" the strand. But the scientists didn't stop there. They not only tried to create living dinosaurs, they also engineered them to be what the public wanted to see. That prevented them from being real dinosaurs. These creatures were aliens to earth. Malcolm even felt bad for Dr. Grant when he thought he was seeing real dinosaurs. He thought that he would notice that if they were really dinosaurs they would have been much smaller, and most likely feathered. They wouldn't have been at all what they were seeing.

He was even more shocked when Ellie Sattler believed she was looking at an actual species of extinct plant life. He would have thought that such an accomplished Paleobotanist would have realized that you cannot extract plant DNA from a mosquito. Plants, after all, are not bitten by mosquitoes. He thought it was all absolutely appalling. But he didn't bring it up. He wasn't the kind of person to ruin an illusion for others, even if it all seemed to be to far from the truth.

"Because people don't like to realize what their doing wrong." Malcolm thought. "What was that doctor?" Maserani yelled from the cockpit. To which Ian replied, "Oh, uh, sorry. It was, uh, n-nothing."