Benton and Curtis wake up and manage to gain access to the old InGen network, allowing them to view the island by in-built cameras. They also eventually find Levine, who is overjoyed at the trove of information he can glean from this 'lost world' and is ungrateful for being rescued. They find and explore a geothermal-powered complex of abandoned InGen buildings, including a worker village and a laboratory. The group arrives on the island with weapons and a conjoined pair of heavily modified, specially equipped RV trailers that serve as a mobile laboratory. Though she is initially unsure, she ultimately decides to meet them there. Sarah Harding, an animal behaviorist and former lover of Malcolm's, is also approached to join the expedition. 'Arby' Benton and Kelly Curtis, who were working as Levine's research assistants.

Malcolm then goes to the island with a rescue team consisting of Jack 'Doc' Thorne, an engineer and retired university professor Eddie Carr, Thorne's assistant and two stowaway children, R. Eventually, Malcolm learns that Levine has gone missing there. He arrives with a Costa Rican guide named Diego, but shortly after arriving, the two are attacked by mysterious creatures later identified as a pair of Carnotaurus who kill Diego. They learn of Site B on Isla Sorna, the 'production facility' where the now-defunct company InGen hatched and grew the dinosaurs for their Jurassic Park theme park on nearby Isla Nublar.Įighteen months later, afraid that the Costa Rican government will find Isla Sorna and destroy the dinosaurs, Levine hastily embarks on an expedition to the island without Malcolm. The two men attempt to search for a 'lost world' of dinosaurs following rumors of strange animal corpses washing up on the shores of Costa Rica. In August 1993, four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm-who is revealed to have survived the events of the previous novel-encounters and reluctantly agrees to team up with wealthy paleontologist Richard Levine.

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