With the trailer released for Jurassic World: Dominion, there has been a lot of excitement and skepticism. Both the new and the old cast including Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum returning as their prospective characters.
I for one am hoping this will be an improvement over the previous film. While Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was objectively bad, It did however open new opportunities for the franchise. Now that the dinosaurs have been released into the modern world this leads to the question of how they can coexist with humans.
How will the natural world adjust to these long-extinct creatures? There is one element in the trailer that has however caught the most attention and that’s the reveal that the velociraptor known as “Blue” is now looking after a little baby raptor of her own.
This leads to one question: Exactly where did Blue’s baby come from?
WHO IS BLUE’S BABY DADDY?!?!?!?
Blue, like all of Ingen’s mutants dinosaurs, is a female. This naturally leads to the other question: who is Blue’s Baby Daddy? There have been a few fan theories as to how this was possible.
The “Cartman’s Mom” Theory
There is a somewhat popular theory brought up by the YouTube channel Dangerville which believes that because raptor DNA has been acquired by other companies that an exact clone of Blue – except let loose and romantically introduced to Blue. Not only was this a lazy explanation which is something I haven’t expected from a channel that has episodes specifically about the scientific accuracy of dinosaurs.
Laziest. Explanation. Ever.
– Comic Book Guy, presumably.
So who’s the father? The answer is simple: Blue herself.
Yep, this is something of a Ms. Cartman situation.
Our Theory
There is, however, a scientific precedent for this baby raptor. Back in the very first movie when Alan Grant stumbled across the dinosaur eggs. He came to the theory that the West African Frog DNA used to complete a dinosaur’s genome also switched some of the dinosaur’s gender, allowing them to procreate. It’s unlikely that the scientists from Jurassic World this mistake would make that same mistake again unless they wanted a breeding population. As far as we can tell that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Enter The Dragon
However, there is an adaptation that can also use to self-procreate without a mating partner. This is a form of reproduction known as parthenogenesis that is prevalent among some reptiles. This includes whiptail lizards, the Indo-Pacific gecko, and even in some cases Komodo Dragons reproducing in this manner. Parthenogenesis is by means of producing an identical genetic copy naturally in an all-female species.
The exact DNA makeup of Blue’s genome is unknown this is something the film will explain. Dr. Wu, in all of his film appearances, consistently says that all his creations are female and that they always used the DNA of other animals in the past to finish incomplete holes in the genes. It is reasonable to assume that in the past 20 years since the events of the first film Masrani/Ingen learned the lessons about population control and not infuse gender-bending frogs next time. Therefore, it’s likely that Blue’s DNA is mixed with the genes of reptiles mentioned if the parthenogenesis theory stands.
This is a theory that may not go anywhere but is a subject worth discussing. The Jurassic Park franchise has always attempted to take real science into account. The importance of this since much of these dinosaurs look nothing like the dinosaurs we know now. Back in the first film, the dinosaur appearance was based solely on the science of the 1980s and 90s. the most recent films are accounting for that since in the prologue we see even the T-rex itself has feather plumage. Blue’s child could also just be rendered as a plot device, but a fascinating one.
