It lived during the middle to late Jurassic era in China's Liaoning province where many early birds and feathered dinosaurs roamed.

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As we have watched digital technology emerge from their Jurassic era to life in science fiction, it is hard to imagine what comes next.

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Who'da thunk it a few years back: a once seemingly Jurassic-era occupation commanding a high salary?

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Craig Venter, who mapped the genome back in 1995, talked about his latest project: ushering in the "Jurassic Park" era of combinatorial genomics, where scientists will create life by typing out DNA. He predicts his team will be able to produce a single-cell eurkaryote--and eventually gasoline--in the lab from cellular building blocks within ten years.

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Movie stars still had their place in the new blockbuster era, at least for a period of time, but Jurassic Park cemented the idea that you could have a massively successful movie without any actual movie stars.

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