‘Professor Ostrom, this is Michael Crichton,’” the Yale professor recalled in 1997 while speaking to The New York Times. “I was in my office when the telephone rang one morning. Michael Crichton, the writer of the “Jurassic Park” novel on which the movie was based had been swept up in the “Dinosaur Renaissance” sparked by Ostrom’s discovery and the work of one of his students, Robert Bakker ’67, and the paleoartist Greg Paul in the 1970s and 1980s.Ī drawing of Deinonychus by Robert Bakker ’67, which appeared in Ostram’s original paper describing the dinosaur. (Real velociraptors were considerably smaller than the creatures in the film, about the same size as a turkey.) In the 1993 film “ Jurassic Park” the murderous Velociraptors were, in fact, based on Deinonychus. The name Deinonychus may not be familiar to non-scientists, but millions of people have seen one on the big screen.
In 1961, Ostrom joined Yale’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, and he remained there until his retirement in 1993, though he remained active in research and writing as an emeritus professor at Yale until 2001. at Columbia University to study with Simpson. Ostrom decided against entering medicine as his father had hoped, and instead pursued a Ph.D. As an undergraduate student at Union College Ostrom was captivated by the works of George Gaylord Simpson, a paleontologist-turned-evolutionary biologist.
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