Jurassic World "Turning Dr. Turner" Camp Cretaceous TV episode Written by Joanna Lewis and Kristine Songco Directed by Leah Artwick Release date: December 3, 2021

The campers meet a scientist studying dinosaur behavior on the strange island.

Read the episode summary at the Jurassic Park Wiki

Didja Know?

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is a CG-animated TV series that aired on the Netflix streaming service from 2020-2022 for five seasons and one special. While the first couple of episodes take place before and during the events of Jurassic World, the rest of them take place shortly after that film, and about three years before the events of Fallen Kingdom. Netflix is currently producing episodes of a sequel series, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, whose first season began in May 2024.

   Each episode of the series opens with the words "A Netflix Original Series" over what appears to be a T. rex footprint in the jungle mud. 

    The Universal Pictures logo that appears after this is altered from the usual to have the Earth globe with a continent that looks very roughly like the supercontinent Pangaea may have looked in the Triassic-Jurassic periods of the Mesozoic era, 200-150 million years ago.

    As the Universal Earth globe spins, a second "continent" seen is actually a stylized DreamWorks Pictures logo (a boy sitting with a fishing pole on the crescent Moon), followed by the Amblin Entertainment logo.

The dinosaur that bursts out of the Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous gates at the beginning of the opening titles of each episode is a Tyrannosaurus rex, possibly the infamous Rexy herself, but we don't see its right side close enough to see if it has Rexy's raptor scars incurred in Jurassic Park.

Characters appearing or mentioned in this episode

Brooklynn

Darius Bowman

Kenji Kon

Yasmina Fadoula

Sammy Gutierrez

Ben Pincus

stowaway compy (dies in this episode)

Mother T. rex

Daughter T. rex

Dr. Mae Envys Turner

Bumpy (mentioned only)

Bio Robotic Assistance Droid (BRAD)

Kash D. Langford

Didja Notice? 

As the episode opens, the kids enter the mysterious tunnel doorway and the stowaway compy slips in after them unnoticed just before the sliding door closes. Yet, when the camera view switches over to the kids walking away from the closed door, down the tunnel, the compy is nowhere to be seen.

Darius realizes the two T. rexes (mother and daughter) are not fighting, but engaging in play through cranial-facial biting. Cranio-facial biting is an actual term in paleontology to describe non-fatal bite marks found on fossilized T. rex skulls. The reason for these marks is speculated to be for establishing dominance or for mating rituals.

Dr. Turner tells the kids she is a behavioral paleoneurobiologist. This is a fictitious doctorate in our world without the existence of cloned extinct creatures (so far), but paleoneurobiology by itself is an actual discipline, the study of brain evolution combining elements of paleontology and archeology.

Darius remarks that he read Dr. Turner's book, A Theoretical Emotional Journey with Theropods.

Dr. Turner admits to the kids that her employers (which turn out to be Mantah Corp) have bioengineered some of the creatures on this island, but that the T. rexes were taken from Isla Sorna. Isla Sorna is the "Site B" island where InGen was breeding and raising its dinosaurs before transport to Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar. Isla Sorna was first seen in The Lost World, and was also the major site in Survivor, Jurassic Park III, and Prey.

At 22:15 in the episode, Kash Langford plays with a fidget-spinner. 

Notes from the junior novelization Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous - The Deluxe Junior Novelization Volume Four by Steve Behling Cover illustration by Patrick Spaziante 2022 Chapter Two covers the events of this episode

Didja Notice? 

The novelization refers to the mother and daughter T. rexes as Big Eatie and Little Eatie.

Memorable Dialog

children survived alone on Isla Nublar for six entire months?.mp3

that sounds like a story.mp3

unauthorized life form detected.mp3

what can I do to assist you?.mp3

mother-daughter eating habits.mp3

stay away from killer robots and dinosaurs?.mp3