Jurassic World Evolution 3’s Free Update 1.5 Adds Carcharodontosaurus as a Full Family Unit on September 29
Carcharodontosaurus Arrives as Free Update 1.5
Frontier Developments has confirmed that Jurassic World Evolution 3 will receive Free Update 1.5 on September 29, 2026, adding Carcharodontosaurus to the roster of playable dinosaurs. Unlike the game’s premium DLC packs, this update requires no purchase — every player who owns the base game will be able to add the carnivore to their parks at no additional cost.
Carcharodontosaurus was one of the largest predatory dinosaurs ever to walk the earth, rivaling Giganotosaurus in size and, by some estimates, even outweighing Tyrannosaurus rex. A North African theropod from the mid-Cretaceous period, it is exactly the kind of headline predator that fans of Frontier’s dinosaur park simulators have been asking to see represented in the JWE3 roster.
A Complete Family Unit, Not Just a New Skin
What sets this addition apart from a simple reskin is how Frontier has approached the dinosaur’s design. The studio says it has remodeled Carcharodontosaurus as “a complete family unit,” meaning the species arrives with multiple life-stage and social models rather than a single adult mesh. For players who spend hours tuning enclosures in the simulation section of their game libraries, that distinction matters: it implies juvenile-to-adult growth stages and pack-oriented social behavior consistent with how JWE3 already treats its other dinosaur species, rather than a cosmetic-only addition bolted onto an existing skeleton.
That level of detail is a meaningful signal for how Frontier plans to keep expanding the roster going forward — free updates that add fully realized animals, complete with their own behavioral systems, rather than reused assets.
Free for Everyone on September 29
Free Update 1.5 lands for all Jurassic World Evolution 3 players on September 29, 2026, regardless of which DLC packs they own. Whether you are building parks on PC, or on PlayStation or Xbox Series X|S, Carcharodontosaurus will be waiting in your dinosaur list the moment the update goes live — no purchase required.
