Now that Jurassic World Rebirth has finally explained how the franchise’s dinosaurs can survive and what kills them off, the series can never really live up to the Jurassic World franchise’s title. All the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies have, inevitably, needed to alter the lore around the franchise’s reincarnated dinosaurs at least a little.
From 1993’s original blockbuster all the way to 2025’s second series reboot Jurassic World Rebirth, the series has taken a leaf from InGen’s amoral scientists and tinkered with the DNA of its dinosaurs to make sense of their continued survival. This allows the movies to depict dinosaurs living in certain environments and not others, thus containing their inherent threat.
There Can Never Be A True Jurassic World Of Dinosaurs After Rebirth
Jurassic World: Rebirth’s Lore Ensures The Franchise’s Title Promise Can’t Be Fulfilled
The series changed this in 2018 with the infamous ending of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, wherein the protagonists unleashed a group of dinosaurs into the wild, and a closing sequence confirmed that they were now co-existing with humans and animals throughout the modern world. It was a bold, audacious move for the series.
Sadly, it was also one that the franchise never followed through on. Jurassic World: Dominion largely ignored the previous movie’s explosive revelation that dinosaurs now roamed free all over the Earth, focusing most of its storyline instead on corporate intrigue between BioSyn and InGen. Similarly, Jurassic World Rebirth’s self-contained story further hemmed in the franchise’s potential.
Unless they live in a very specific terrain, the dinosaurs cannot survive because of how much the Earth has changed.
Early on in the reboot, viewers learn that most of the world’s dinosaurs are dead or dying by the time Jurassic World Rebirth takes place. Unless they live in a very specific terrain, the dinosaurs cannot survive because of how much the Earth has changed. As such, there is no way for these conditions to be naturally reversed.
Dinosaurs in Jurassic World Rebirth
Titanosaurus
Quetzalcoatlus
Velociraptor
Mutadon
Distortus Rex
Dilophosaurus
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Spinosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Aquilops
Thus, there is no clear path for the franchise to ever fulfill its title promise. The Jurassic World movies seemingly promised a world overrun with dinosaurs, both in the franchise’s new name and in the ending of Fallen Kingdom. However, the dinosaurs of Jurassic World Rebirth have to remain contained in the movie’s lone location to survive.
As such, it is sadly clear that viewers will never see this vision come to life. While the ending of Fallen Kingdom and promotional materials for Jurassic World: Dominion teased this prospect but never fully delivered on it, the lore revelations from Jurassic World Rebirth effectively shut the door to any further Jurassic World sequels exploring this twist again.
