When Universal released Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) this summer, the studio declared that the film was ushering in “a new Jurassic era.” The gamble certainly delivered at the box office: $866.4 million worldwide. But even as the studio pushes forward on the big screen, the franchise is about to say goodbye to one of its most ambitious side stories.
Netflix has confirmed that the animated series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory will conclude with its upcoming fourth season (or ninth if you include all five seasons of the original series, Camp Cretaceous). The first teaser, which dropped just a few days ago, shows the core survivors — the so-called “Nublar Six” — stepping into Biosyn Valley, the corporate stronghold introduced in the 2022 film Jurassic World Dominion.
Watch the new teaser below:
The series carved a different identity to its predecessor Camp Cretaceous, which launched as a Netflix original in 2020 and catered heavily to a younger demo, running for five seasons before evolving into the current show. By contrast, Chaos Theory leans harder into suspense and mythology-building.
While Camp Cretaceous often overlapped with the events of 2015’s Jurassic World and its 2018 sequel Fallen Kingdom, Season 3 firmly laced itself into Dominion’s timeline, paralleling the Malta set piece where Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) dodges Atrociraptors in the streets.
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Over its run, the animated corner of the franchise has allowed Darius, Kenji, Brooklynn, Ben, Yaz, and Sammy to grow into young adults in a world reshaped by dinosaurs. That long-form development has earned goodwill, particularly among viewers who felt the latest film installment Rebirth — despite a global haul of $866.4 million — criminally sidestepped the long-promised premise of humans and dinosaurs coexisting in our world.
But as Netflix winds down the animated side of Jurassic Park, Universal’s long-term strategy looms. The studio has said nothing about additional animated projects and the real focus is theatrical: another new film following Rebirth is already rumored to be in talks.
What remains unclear is whether a third trilogy will mark the end of the saga or evolve into something truly unrecognizable. Is the Jurassic film series destined to become a mutant dinosaur much like Rebirth‘s Distortus Rex?
Universal Pictures has been here before. Another of its signature franchises, Fast & Furious, began as a story about underground street-racers and undercover cops, before ballooning into globe-spanning action spectacles that involve cars drifting through space and villains with cybernetic skeletons. Could Jurassic follow the same trajectory, stretching its mythology until it barely resembles Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 vision?
For now, the brand shows no signs of extinction. Frontier’s park-management sequel “Jurassic World Evolution 3” arrives this October, and the first-person action-adventure title “Jurassic Park: Survival” promises a grounded return to Isla Nublar. And the final season for Chaos Theory lands on November 20 on Netflix.
The voice cast for the series includes Paul-Mikél Williams (Darius Bowman), Darren Barnet (Kenji Kon), Sean Giambrone (Ben Pincus), Kausar Mohammed (Yasmina “Yaz” Fadoula), Raini Rodriguez (Sammy Gutierrez), and Kiersten Kelly (Brooklynn).
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