Here's How Much It Would Cost to Make a Real-Life Jurassic Park

Want to breed dinosaurs? It's gonna be a pretty penny.

How many times have you watched Jurassic Park and thought, man it'd be cool to have my own dinosaur-filled theme park?

Okay, so most people are a little more realistic than that. But we are willing to bet that you've thought about the cost of a dinosaur-filled theme park at the very least. Luckily for our curiosity, Jurassic Park Fansite did an exhaustive tallying of every single cost associated with building a real-life Jurassic Park. As you can imagine, the number is very, VERY high.

But before we give you the grand total, let's break it down a bit.

The most important matter is the real estate. According to the fansite's calculations, buying several private islands in Costa Rica will set you back about $10 billion. (Yes, that's billion). Once you have the locale all settled you'll have to hire the best scientists and animal caretakers money can buy to, you know, actually make the dinosaurs. That tallies a cool $7.9 million. (Side note: It's good to be a dinosaur scientist!)

Next up is the price of paying for cloning and mining dinosaur DNA: $8.5 and $9 million respectively. Then you've got park construction, operating costs and all of the other hidden fees that come with keeping a very elaborate zoo open. 

So what's the grand total? That would be $23,432,400,000. We know, it's so much that it's almost hard to read! We think we'll stick to imaginary dinosaur parks, thankyouverymuch.