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Jurassic Park, also known as Jurassic World, is an American science fiction adventure media franchise. It focuses on the cloning of dinosaur through ancient DNA, extracted from mosquitoes that have been fossil in amber. The franchise explores the ethics of cloning and genetic engineering, and the morals behind bringing back extinct animals.

The franchise began in 1990, with the release of Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park. A film adaptation, also titled Jurassic Park, was directed by Steven Spielberg and was released in 1993. Crichton then wrote a sequel novel, The Lost World (1995), and Spielberg directed its film adaptation, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Subsequent films have been released, including Jurassic Park III in 2001, completing the original trilogy of films. A fourth installment, Jurassic World, was released in 2015, marking the beginning of a new trilogy. Its sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, was released in 2018. A sixth film, Jurassic World: Dominion, is scheduled for release in 2022, marking the conclusion of the second trilogy. A Jurassic World short film, Battle at Big Rock, was also released in 2019.

The various creatures in the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films were created through a combination of animatronics and computer-generated imagery (CGI). For each of the films, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has handled dinosaur scenes that required CGI. Throughout the film series, ILM has studied large animals such as elephants and rhinos, for reference in designing the digital dinosaurs.

Special-effects artist Stan Winston was hired to create animatronic dinosaurs for the original 1993 film, Jurassic Park. Director Steven Spielberg chose Winston after seeing his work on the Queen Alien in the 1986 film Aliens. Winston said the Queen was easy compared to a dinosaur animatronic: "The queen was exoskeletal, so all of its surfaces were hard. There were no muscles, no flesh, and there was no real weight to it. The alien queen also didn't have to look like a real, organic animal because it was a fictional character -- so there was nothing in real life to compare it to. There was just no comparison in the difficulty level of building that alien queen and building a full-size dinosaur." Winston's team spent much time perfecting the animatronics. They molded latex skin that was then fitted over the robotic models, forming the exterior appearance.

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