Jurassic Park Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 7 Summary

Chapter 7 Summary

Grant and Sattler receive a fax from the Tropical Diseases Center. When it is described on the phone, they initially jump to the conclusion that the lizard carcass is a basilisk lizard. The fax shows an x-ray that they immediately identify as a procompsognathus, which is a dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago. They ponder the possibility that it is a hoax, but while they are looking at the fax, they receive a call from Hammond, who is a jovial but aggressive old man. He complains of the EPA and learns from Dr. Grant about the lizard carcass discovery and Grant's opinion of what it is. Hammond acts strange on the phone and insists that Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler go to his island in Costa Rica for a well-paid, three day consultancy.

Chapter 7 Analysis

This cleverly named chapter makes the reader wonder if the focus is on the skeleton of...
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