Discovery: Thirty years after Jurassic Park hit movie screens, its impact on science and culture remains as strong as ever

Based on Michael Crichton's novel by the same name, Jurassic Park told the story of an ambitious theme park that used resurrected dinosaurs as its attractions. But as the story unfolds, things start to go wrong. We speak to Travis Holland, who researches media and fan studies,at the popular and scientific cultural impact Jurassic Park continues to have today.

Featuring Travis Holland, Senior Lecturer in Communication at Charles Sturt University in Australia.

This episode was written and produced by Katie Flood. The executive producer is Mend Mariwany. Eloise Stevens does our sound design and our theme music is by Neeta Sarl. Full credits for this episode are available here. A transcript will be available soon. Sign up here for a free daily newsletter from The Conversation.

Further reading: 

• How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs
• ‘Jurassic Park’ made a dinosaur-sized leap forward in computer-generated animation on screen, 25 years ago