Just for fun, I decided to create a list of extant species seen in the Jurassic Park film series. For eagle-eyed (and -eared) naturalists, some of these can be hard to miss! For the record, I'm only including things in the movies--the franchise is far too expansive to possibly include anything else. Feel free to send me a message about any I'm missing, it's admittedly been a while since I've seen any of these films.
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Distinctive croak heard a couple times in the first film (most notably during the Mr. DNA sequence)
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Not technically in any of the films to my knowledge, but one crawled in front of the projection during a screening of the first film I watched so I'm mentioning it here.
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This or another Boa species slithers in front of a "Velociraptor" in the first film.
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An Ostrich egg appears in the first film, being used as an eggshell by the cloned "dinosaurs."
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Background audio species in the fourth film (on a Costa Rican island...).
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Caged chickens appear in one scene at the beginning of the first film.
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Background species, heard in the Dominican Republic of all places
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Heard in the background of the "Dodgson! We got Dodgson here!" scene in the first film a couple of times
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Appears flying over the ocean in the conclusion of the first film.
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Three are standing outside the visitor center in the first film.
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Heard croaking during the infamous "clever girl" scene in the first film.
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Appears in a "fake-out" sequence in the introduction of the fourth film.
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Song briefly heard (I think) in the background during the introduction to the second film.
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Seen in the end montage of the sixth film (most likely this species, given habitat in which it appears)
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Many individuals of this species occur as characters throughout the series
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Fed to a "Velociraptor" named Blue in the fourth film.
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Seen in the fourth film in a "Velociraptor" training scene.
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Appears as a background pet in one scene in the original film
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Possibly in this genus. A school of "bonitos" are briefly seen in the third film just before a Spinosaurus attack.
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"Chilean sea bass" is eaten by several characters in the first film.
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Fed to a mosasaur for dramatic effect in the fourth film
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Though it's likely not possible to ID it to species, or potentially even genus, a haul of Alaskan king crabs is seen briefly in the sixth film, though it and the boat catching it are swiftly attack... More
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I *think* this species occurs in the end montage of the sixth film, though I could be wrong. It is being fed on by a sauropod.
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Presumably some sort of sagebrush occurs in the background of the Montana sequence in the first film.
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In the first film, a Triceratops becomes sick from eating the berries of this plant.
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Tomatoes appear on the "chilean sea bass" plate in the first film.
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Appears on the "Chilean Sea Bass" plate in the first film.
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A few are seen on the pond in front of the visitor center in the first film.
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Possibly this species occurs in the background shots in the first film.
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