Few franchises have captured our imaginations the way Jurassic Park did. The first movie, released in 1993, blew fans out of ...

Michael Crichton wrote "Jurassic Park" with it in mind ... for the first time on a French map of the Americas, labeled as Ile de Coques (literally "Nutshell Island" or simply "Shell Island").

He then returns in the sequel, 1997’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which opens with a pack of Compsognathus attacking a young girl on Isla Sorna, a sister island 87 miles southeast of Nublar.