Juras-Sick Park-cast

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at:  Episode 40 - Control . In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Dr. W. Scott Persons IV joins the show to chat with me about: field trips, othnielia vertebrae, splitting and lumping, The Lance Formation of Wyoming, nodosaurs, ichnofossils, ankylosaur osteoderms, hair-pulling and cringey moments in Jurassic Park, Nedry holding his own entrails, dinosaurs in media, The Land Before Time, incredible technology in the novel, like the fax machine!, studying dinosaur locomotion, the mighty caudofemoralis, comparative anatomy, running hadrosaurus and running tyrannosaurs, can T. rex run 40 mph?, reduced tyrannosaur arms, Yutyrannus arms, tails, spinosaurus tails, leaellynasaura tails, the evolution of feathers, looking for rictal bristles in super-primitive dinosaurs without feathers, inju...

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at: Episode 39 - Lex .  In this episode, my terrific guest Tom Fishenden joins the show to chat with me about: British dinosaurs, the Maidstone Iguanodon , Baryonyx, the Isle of Wight, Jurassic Park, Primeval, the Jurassic Park Podcast , fandom, audio dramas, the Dino Watch Podcast, World War Z, Battle of Big Rock, hypothetical dinosaur behaviours, the Lysine Contingency, the Lysine Contingency, engaging in fandom, Lex Murphy, Lewis Dodgson, the future of the Jurassic Park as an intellectual property, dinosaur designs, #StaySafeStayJurassic, more sense, and much more! I am told Tom's favourite dinosaur is the Dracorex hogwartsia, which has since been syonymized with Pachycephalosaurus.  Here's a pachycephalosaur like dracorex from the Royal Ontario Museum's collection.  Plus dinosaur new...

Welcome to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast, the Jurassic Park podcast about Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not about that, too.  Find the episode webpage at:  Episode 38 - Tim . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Roger J. Lederer joins the show to chat with me about: turkeys, Thanksgiving, turkey vultures, disposing of carcasses, registering domain names, the fastest birds, ostriches, the bustard, the elephant bird, rictal bristles, flycatchers, studying birds, DNA, Watson and Crick, cloning extinct animals, Loy's procedure, reverse breeding aurochs , birds are dinosaurs!, archaeopteryx, the evolution of feathers, the feather-colour of microraptors , enantiornithines, Dr. Richard Prum and the evolution of feathers , theories on the evolution of feathered flight, herons hunting, Crichton using Lederer's name in the text!, the Hoatzin , A Reappraisal of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Functional Morphology and Paleoecology; Bristles before down: A new perspec...