Now that Jurᴀssic World Rebirth has finally explained how the franchise’s dinosaurs can survive and what kills them off, the series can never really live up to the Jurᴀssic World franchise’s тιтle. All the Jurᴀssic Park and Jurᴀssic World movies have, inevitably, needed to alter the lore around the franchise’s reincarnated dinosaurs at least a little.

From 1993’s original blockbuster all the way to 2025’s second series reboot Jurᴀssic World Rebirth, the series has taken a leaf from InGen’s amoral scientists and tinkered with the DNA of its dinosaurs to make sense of their continued survival. This allows the movies to depict dinosaurs living in certain environments and not others, thus containing their inherent threat.

There Can Never Be A True Jurᴀssic World Of Dinosaurs After Rebirth

Jurᴀssic World: Rebirth’s Lore Ensures The Franchise’s тιтle Promise Can’t Be Fulfilled

The series changed this in 2018 with the infamous ending of Jurᴀssic World: Fallen Kingdom, wherein the protagonists unleashed a group of dinosaurs into the wild, and a closing sequence confirmed that they were now co-existing with humans and animals throughout the modern world. It was a bold, audacious move for the series.

Sadly, it was also one that the franchise never followed through on. Jurᴀssic World: Dominion largely ignored the previous movie’s explosive revelation that dinosaurs now roamed free all over the Earth, focusing most of its storyline instead on corporate intrigue between BioSyn and InGen. Similarly, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s self-contained story further hemmed in the franchise’s potential.

Early on in the reboot, viewers learn that most of the world’s dinosaurs are ᴅᴇᴀᴅ or dying by the time Jurᴀssic World Rebirth takes place. Unless they live in a very specific terrain, the dinosaurs cannot survive because of how much the Earth has changed. As such, there is no way for these conditions to be naturally reversed.

Thus, there is no clear path for the franchise to ever fulfill its тιтle promise. The Jurᴀssic World movies seemingly promised a world overrun with dinosaurs, both in the franchise’s new name and in the ending of Fallen Kingdom. However, the dinosaurs of Jurᴀssic World Rebirth have to remain contained in the movie’s lone location to survive.

As such, it is sadly clear that viewers will never see this vision come to life. While the ending of Fallen Kingdom and promotional materials for Jurᴀssic World: Dominion teased this prospect but never fully delivered on it, the lore revelations from Jurᴀssic World Rebirth effectively shut the door to any further Jurᴀssic World sequels exploring this twist again.