In Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which dinosaur reaches San Diego?

In Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a Tyrannosaurus rex reaches San Diego.

The sequel begins on Isla Sorna, where dinosaurs were cloned and raised before being transported to the original Jurassic Park. After the tyrannosaur is captured and taken aboard a ship, it escapes after the vessel arrives in San Diego. The animal then moves through the city, creating the film’s major urban set piece.

The movie is based on Michael Crichton’s 1995 novel The Lost World. Spielberg’s 1997 adaptation expands the San Diego material into a large-scale sequence involving streets, residential areas, a video store, and the city’s zoo. The sequence contrasts the first film’s isolated island setting with dinosaurs appearing in a populated modern city.

Viewers sometimes confuse this dinosaur with the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park III, which was released later and features a different central predator. The San Diego animal in Spielberg’s sequel is the Tyrannosaurus rex, often shortened to T. rex.