Rexy: Not That Old?

She would be massibe. I'd love to see that.

Same here. Rexy would be utterly immense!

She would be a giant indeed. I still think she couldn't be 15 in the movie, as the park itself was three times younger...

Interesting thread though.

iNGEN has it's secrets DinoSteve. Need I bring up Site B? Spinosaurus? The Pteranodons?

There wasn't any InGen 15 years before 1993. InGen was formed during the 1980', perhaps 1983. So a 15 old Rexy by the events of the film would be excluded.

That's my opinion though, and I still think this is a very interesting subject! ;)

There's no way to confirm or deny any of this really. However, I said cloning usually speeds up growth twice as fast. There's a little "wiggle room" for that statement. All in all, I don't think Rexy was all that old simply because she was huge, but I still think she would have been at least 10.

True. Much more that they actually WANTED dinosaurs to grow very fast in a relatively small amount of time.

Yeah. They needed a "product" that took a long time to grow, but they needed it in a short amount of time. So, they sped up the growing process. The real question is, by how much?

If you look at the Brachiosaurus you'll see a beast that would need decades to grow that size in real life. In Jurassic Park, it took only 5-7 years. It's all well explained in the novel. Some of the characters asks why the dinosaurs are so big if they started the park a few years before. Dr.Wu answer saying they just sped up the growth rate.

So I think they sped it up by 5-7 years...

I don't know exactly Indiana, but I think around 83'-84' in the novel.

That's believable, and that happens with the topic spawning a new one sometimes.

This is the first time I see something like that, haha

It doesn't happen often. There was the Rex vs Giga I wrote after Sniper's Rex Vs Giga, or BlackSpino44's What do you want to see in JW where I commented about Rexy possibly being in it, and then I made a discussion.

Ok, I know about those two. Well, is really nice seeing how active the JW forum is lately. I remember it dying around September.

I know. It's alway been like that, active, then dead, back to active

Now it seems being very active! Nor that I mind that!

Based on your logic, I agree. She may be even younger than 37.

Rex Fan's most likely. Otherwise, I'd have to say DinoSteve's. I do agree as well, and I can't wait to see what happens.

10-15 years old, yes. 11 would be reasonable.

Pretty much all you Indiana.  I can agree on eleven.