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The fourth instalment of the Jurassic Park series is 鈥渟cientifically more plausible鈥� than its predecessors because it deals with genetic engineering rather than the retrieval of dinosaur DNA, says a palaeontologist who has acted as technical adviser on all four films.

鈥淲e don鈥檛 have dinosaur DNA but we can make transgenic animals,鈥� said Montana State University鈥檚 Dr Jack Horner.

鈥淭he cool thing about making a hybrid is that we can take a whole bunch of genes from other animals and mix them together to make a new animal, which is actually more plausible than bringing them back.鈥�

Dr Horner is currently attempting to recreate a small 鈥渄inosaur鈥� by genetically reverse-engineering a chicken.

Jurassic World is set 22 years after the original film on a dinosaur theme park island.