The Lost World is the story of Ian Malcolm, evolutionary biologist and dinosaur expert. Malcolm travels with a team of experts and several stowaway children to an island where dinosaurs have been revived through scientific processes and are running wild. The island is a potential ecological disaster for the rest of the inhabited world, and while there it becomes apparent that it is incredibly dangerous for the scientists as well.
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