Lost Worlds

The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1912)

Scientist no one quite believes: Professor George Edward Challenger
Location of the lost world: A plateau in the Amazon jungle
Primary explorers: Challenger, journalist Ed Mallone, professor of comparative anatomy Summerlee, sportsman Lord John Roxton
Species encountered: Iguanadons, pterodactyls, stegosaurus, three-eyed ichthyosaurus, plesiosaurs, Irish elk, toad-faced hopping carnivorous dinosaurs (probably allosaurus), anthropoid apes, diminutive native homo sapien "Indians"
Dinosaur brought back to civilization: Pterodactyl
Civilization: London


The Lost World directed by Harry O. Hoyt (1925)

Scientist no one quite believes: Professor Challenger
Location of the lost world: A plateau in the Amazon jungle
Primary explorers: Challenger, sportsman and adventurer Sir John Roxton, journalist Edward E. Mallone, Professor Summerlee, Paula White, monkey Jocko the Monkey
Species encountered: Pterodactyl, allosaurus, triceratops, trachodon, oviraptor, brontosaurus, ape men
Dinosaur brought back to civilization: An apparently carnivorous brontosaurus
Civilization: London


Lost World by Osamu Tezuka (1948-ish)

Scientist no one quite believes: nil
Location of the lost world: The planet Mamango, a small planet that broke off from Earth millions of years ago and the orbit of which brings it close to earth only once every five million years.
Primary explorers: Detective Shunsako “Mr. Mustachio” Bun, rabbit-with-a-human-brain Mimio, scientists Dr. Kenichi Shinkisama Dr. Makeru Butamo,butler Hanawa, reporter Acetylene Lamp, plant women Ayame and Momiji
Species encountered: Unidentified sauropods, a carnivorous stegosaurus, pterosaur, triceratops, Tyrannosaurus Rex, a giant snake, some form of bipedal carnivorous pack dinosaur
Dinosaur brought back to civilization: nil
Civilization: Earth


The Lost World: Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg (1997)

Scientist no one quite believes: Dr. Ian Malcom
Location of the lost world: Isla Sorna, a small island near Costa Rica
Primary explorers: Malcolm, Malcolm’s daughter, paleontologist Dr. Sarah Harding, photographer/environmental activist Nick Van Owen, technology expert Eddie Carr, hunter Roland Tembo, an small army of dinosaur fodder
Species encountered: Tyrannosaurus Rex, compsognathus, stegosaurus, triceratops, velociraptors, Parasaurolophus, Pachycephalosaurus, Gallimimus Mamenchisaurus
Dinosaur brought back to civilization: Tyrannosaurus Rex
Civilization: San Diego