In the upcoming Jurassic Park III, Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) once again returns to the island where he almost became dino feed nearly a decade before. And now, he's back for more of that tingly dino action. And this time, Grant isn't running away from the fearsome Tyrannosaurus, but rather, another deadly dino, a relatively obscure carnivore known as Spinosaurus (Latin for "spine lizard," a name it earned thanks to a large, fan-like ridge on its back).

Cinescape was able to talk to Stan Winston regarding some of the effects we'll be seeing in Jurassic Park 3. "One of the big things [the JP III team decided] was, 'Well, we've got to out-do the T-rex," says Jurassic Park/Lost World and all around special creature effects veteran Stan Winston, who is once again creating life-sized dinosaurs for the production. "So the Spinosaur is bigger and meaner and badder."

The humans only manage to escape from this new threat temporarily. Velociraptor ambush scenes are plentiful, and they also have to worry about fighting off attack from above. Oh, joy for the effects department.

"You're going to see Pteranodons [a breed of flying dinosaur] in this, which are entirely another level of technical difficulty because we are dealing with a combination of animatronics, men in suits [and] wings that are beyond what we've done in the other movies," Winston says.

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