A mᴀssive Rancor-like monster can be seen in the Jurᴀssic World Rebirth trailer, prompting viewers to wonder what kind of dinosaur it is and how it came to be. 2025’s Jurᴀssic World Rebirth sees Godzilla director Gareth Edwards and original Jurᴀssic Park screenwriter David Koepp revisit the franchise for the first time since 2022’s Jurᴀssic World Dominion. Although Jurᴀssic World Dominion’s ending didn’t leave much room for a follow-up, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth promises to expand on the world of the series without outright retconning the previous movies.
Koepp and Edwards promise Jurᴀssic World Rebirth will be a return to the franchise’s original strengths, and its synopsis seems to affirm this. Scarlett Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, a special operative sent to a remote tropical location where dinosaurs still survive. The rest of the world has proven inhospitable to them, but the DNA of the few surviving dinosaurs may contain the key to manufacturing a life-saving drug. Bennett’s operation grows complicated when she comes across a civilian family whose boating holiday has gone horribly awry. The unlikely band must stick together to survive the wilds.
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The first full-length trailer for Jurᴀssic World Rebirth was released on February 5, and viewers immediately noticed that a strange new dinosaur can be seen stalking Mahershala Ali’s character Duncan Kincaid. Although the audience only gets a glimpse of the dinosaur, it doesn’t look like an existing species seen in earlier Jurᴀssic World movies. This might be because the giant dinosaur seen in Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s trailer could be a horrific hybrid created by mistake, judging by comments that producer Frank Marshall made to VanityFair.
Marshall told the magazine that some of the monsters seen in the trailer weren’t traditional dinosaurs, but rather “Mistakes” caused by genetic engineering. Per the producer, ”These are the dinosaurs that didn’t work. There’s some mutations in there.” The monster seen in the trailer certainly seems to be a mutation of some kind, merging the Rancor, the Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, and actual real-life dinosaurs in its creature design.
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Although the Jurᴀssic World franchise’s new dinosaurs were divisive, it is hard to deny that this monster is uniquely threatening and its status as a genetic anomaly makes it all the more unpredictable. Early on in the Jurᴀssic World Rebirth trailer, the monster can be seen in a glᴀss tube and resembles a T. rex crossed with a Xenomorph. However, when seen later in the trailer, staring down a terrified Duncan at night, the monster looks more like the Rancor seen in Return of the Jedi.
Since Jurᴀssic World introduced the Indominus Rex as its new, uniquely threatening dinosaur and its sequel Jurᴀssic World Fallen Kingdom followed this up with the Indoraptor hybrid, it is not surprising that Jurᴀssic World Rebirth features another new dinosaur hybrid. Although Koepp teased that Jurᴀssic World Rebirth will revisit Jurᴀssic Park’s story in some pivotal scenes, this doesn’t mean that the presence of hybrid dinosaurs is a mistake. In fact, this arguably strengthens the franchise’s prevailing theme.
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The Jurᴀssic World movies, like the Jurᴀssic Park trilogy before them, constantly return to the recurring theme of human scientists playing god despite the potentially legal consequences of this folly. In this regard, the dinosaur seen in Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s trailer represents a step forward for the franchise. It is huge, looks truly monstrous, and is obviously incredibly dangerous but, as Marshall notes, it wouldn’t exist if scientists hadn’t continued to toy with the genetic material of dinosaurs long after the disasters at the original Jurᴀssic Park and Jurᴀssic World resorts.
The monstrous mutation seen in Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s story was created by people rather than nature.
The new Rancor-like dinosaur is a testament to the foolhardy determination that the franchise’s geneticists have when it comes to messing around with dinosaur DNA. Even the reboot’s heroine Zora doesn’t have clean hands here, since Johansson’s character is on a mission to retrieve more dinosaur DNA to facilitate more testing by more scientists. The monstrous mutation seen in Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s story was created by people rather than nature, so it’s fitting that it is scarier and more dangerous than any real-life dinosaur.
As the Jurᴀssic World movies made their fictional dinosaur hybrids more elaborate, the franchise used these to comment on the ways in which unregulated scientific experimentation can have unforeseen consequences. Now, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s trailer offers the most terrifying example of this issue to date. The Rancor-like dinosaur that is glimpsed throughout the trailer is one of the most threatening monsters seen in any of the movies so far, but Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s new dinosaur is all the more scary because it is ultimately the product of human engineering.
Source: VanityFair
