He’d been inspired by scientists, who were digging deep into the past in search of clues about life on Earth before the rise of Homo sapiens. But Crichton didn’t pull the idea of out thin air. Thanks to Crichton’s reputation as a popular author, and a visceral story pitting the ingenuity of human scientists against their Frankenstein-like creations, the book had so much hype that studios were jockeying for rights to a film adaptation before it was even published in 1990. The original source for the Spielberg thriller was a book by Michael Crichton, also called Jurassic Park. While Jurassic Park may not have existed without prior scientific hypotheses, it also pushed that nascent science into the spotlight before it had withstood the necessary scrutiny by the rest of the scientific community. It was a prime example of how science and science fiction can collide in the real world-each can boost the other, and one realm can often nudge another in a different direction. Something that people had never heard of suddenly became extremely popular.” “It boosted ancient DNA as an early science. “The effect was really important,” says science historian Elizabeth Jones, who is currently at work on a book on the story of Jurassic Park and ancient DNA.
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(Whether the study’s release was a coincidence, or Nature timed the article to the movie is unclear, but it certainly seemed intentional to the public and the scientific community.) The publicity came not from his studio’s $ 65 million promotional plan, but from real, legitimate scientists. It seemed like the perfect stroke of luck for famed director Steven Spielberg. The prestigious science journal Nature published this breathtaking new discovery in June 1993, a single day before another momentous occasion: the release of Jurassic Park. This was, they believed, the oldest DNA ever recovered. But what mattered most to researchers who found it in the present day were the short, fragmentary strands of DNA they had managed to extract from the insect. That weevil lived alongside the dinosaurs its death may even have occurred in the presence of brachiosaurus, which once ambled around the same forestland. Around 130 million years ago, a weevil gorged itself on wood pulp and died a sticky death in the relentless grasp of slow-moving resin.
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