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 65 - Epilogue: San Jose . In this episode ( stream is here !), my terrific guest Dr. Jordan Mallon returns to the show to chat with me about: 65 million years ago, the end-Cretaceous extinction event, mammals claiming the earth, the Repenomamus (a mammal) eating a psittacosaurus! , the other animals that weren't dinsoaurs, during the Mesozoic, fieldwork results from summer 2023, skin impressions in champsosaurs, charismatic megafauna, microraptors eating mammals , exploring the Canadian Museum of Nature , the styracosaurus holotype, the edmontosaurus which is Canada's oldest dinosaur mount, a huge triceratops skull collected in 1929 from southern Sastachewan, an exceptional pteranodon specimen, Russell's " Dinosauroid " named Herman, the CMN's Open House in Gatineau, Q

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 64 - Approaching Dark . In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Dr. Scott Persons returns to the show to chat with me about: F35 fighter jets, prospecting in Wyoming, excavating mosasaurs and nodosaurs, taphonomy, how to attack ankylosaurs, which dinosaurs can walk through muck better?, accommodations while in the field, triceratops walking postures, the Glenrock Paleon Museum , sedimentary layers, lumping and splitting species of dinosaurs, then I stammer through a couple questions, dinosaurs transcending geographic boundaries, leaellynasaura (the cutest dinosaur) and meeting Dr. Thomas Rich , dinosaur nicknames, Donatello the Mesozoic Turtle at the Mace Brown Museum, Lord Voldetort, Lord Clive and Lady Stephanie, the ending of Jurassic Park, prospective sequels to Jurassic Park

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 63 - The Beach . In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guests Dave Rossi and Ethan Ullman from Dave and Ethan's 2000" Weird Al Podcast join the show to chat with me about: Now That's What I Call Polka!, weirdalpodcast.com , The Lost World: Jurassic Park, major dinosaur fans, reading Jurassic Park, Crichton's employ of hubris, Dippy the Diplodocus , attending Weird Al concerts and the "Al-Induced Haze," becoming a part of the greater Al fandome, being extras in Weird: The Al Yankovich Story, their detailed recap of being extras in the film , being collectors, defining the Yankosaurus (and the Polkaroo), Weird al and Jurassic Park (the film), having fun chatting about Weird Al's Jurassic Park music video, the hilarious graphic violence, Frank's 2000&q

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 62 - Hammond . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Spencer Lucas joins the show to chat with me about: the greatness of New Mexico, reading Jurassic Park, watching Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, rediscovered animals like the Coelocanth, will we discover true extra terrestrials soon?, the UFO Festival in Roswell, NM, the plausibility of Crichton's science fiction, The House Oversight subcommittee's hearing on UFOs , neat details about Tyrannosaurus, field work in New Mexico, the Permian Age, continental Pangea, ancient climates, chaos theory, how to make sense of extinction events, Permian insects and the meganeuran dragonflies, " God had an inordinate fondness for beetles, " cockroaches, giant millipedes, amber deposits, coelophysis, the incredible similarities between Triassic

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 61 - Descent . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. David Varricchio joins the show to chat with me about: fieldwork in Montana, seeing Jurassic Park in 1993 at a private screening held at the Museum of the Rockies, how it impacted Jack Horner's lab, pronouncing Choteau and buttes, excavating dinosaur skeletons, visiting Egg Mountain, orodromeus, volcanoes of Montana and thick ash beds, 'undergroundology,' oryctodromeus and realizing he was excavating a burrow!, Robert Bakker predicting burrowing dinosaurs, how big could burrowing dinosaurs be?, birds we know that burrow, how similar are Troodons and Velociraptors?, the status of the validity of Troodon, comparing steonychosaurus to troodon, toodon nests / egg clutches, egg strength, do troodons have egg teeth?, dromaeosaurid nest

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 60 - Almost Paradigm . In this episode, my terrific guests Matt Kelly and Matthew Milligan of the Weird Al-gorithm podcast join the show to chat with me about: PeeWee Herman and Paul Reubens, The Bicycle Thieves, Weird Al Yankovich, One Hit Thunder , Wheatus, podcasting, digging through music shops to find Weird Al albums, polkas, Yoda, MacArthur Park, Alapalooza, Off The Deep End, Bohemian Rhapsody v. Bohemian Polka, the punkrock roots of Weird Al, Green Jelly, claymation by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, music videos, Dinosaurs Attack!, Barney the Dinosaur, I Love You, You Hate Me , parody choices, UHF, the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesotra, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of

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 59 - Under Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Darren Naish joins the show to chat with me about: missing a recent conference, azhdarchids, Prehistoric Planet on Apple+ TV, barbaridactylus, hatzegopteryx, quetzelcoatlus, nyctosaurs, pterosaur preservation, pterodactylus, the Solnhofen Limestone and lagerstatten, depositional environments creating a fossil bias, rhamphorhynchoids, cearadactylus, Jurassic Park 3, how birds and pterosaurs may have interracted, integuement structures on pterosaur and dinosaur bodies, yutyrannus, feathered dinosaurs, more modern depictions of dinosaurs in media, recreating living and breathing dinosaurs, cryptozoology and potential non-avian dinosaurs living out there somewhere in the world: mokele mbembe, emela-ntouka, and mbielu-mbielu-mbielu, secret

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 58 - Destroying The World . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Peter Dodson joins the show to chat with me about: the Festschrift special edition of the Anatomical Record (Dinosaurs: New Ideas from Old Bones) honouring the career of Dr. Peter Dodson, the special effects in Jurassic Park, Fantasia, his father's career as an academic biologist , Dr. Edwin Colbert, authoring dinosaur books, studying paleontology in Ottawa, Alberta and Canada, memories of working with Dr. Dale Russell , preparing an Albertosaurus specimen collected by the Sternbergs!, working in Alberta, discovering a terrific Lambeosaurus skeleton, paleontologist Lawrence Lambe being honoured in Lambeosaurus' name, what else do you find amongst the dinosaurs out in the field?, field work in Egypt and finding a large, s

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 57 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Mike from Mike's Book Reviews joins the show to chat with me about: I open with a joke that flops, how he started his YouTube channel, BookTube, finding time to read, his video on Jurassic Park , re-reading Jurassic Park, Crichton's voice clearly portrayed through Malcolm, our favourite characters like Hammond, Nedry, Grant, Malcolm, Sattler, and Muldoon, Jumanji (1995), Stephen King, adding chidren to your stories, dealing with how abnoxious Lex is, Crichton's character work, problematic heroes, Congo, Timeline, Sphere, Dune, the fate of the Big Rex, the stardom of Velociraptors, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, the Oncomouse, Next, chaos theory, why did Crichton not trust science?, Disclosure, our lists of the top Michael Crichton

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 56 - The Lodge . In this episode, terrific guest Dr. Jingmai O'Connor joins to the show to chat with me about: tunnelling, antipodes ,  When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies , The Field Museum of Natural History's new spinosaurus exhibit, entering into vertebrate paleontology, inspiration from Donald Prothero , transitioning to the "dinosaur dark side," enantiornithines, moving to Beijing, assisstant professor Alida Bailleul , the origins of birds, the "multiple origins of dinosaurian flight hypothesis," the Berlin Specimen of Archaeopteryx, feathers and caudipteryx , a lack in the data of the origins of wings, but wings co-inciding with nesting, coloured eggs, and changes in reproductive behaviour, dinosaur eggs, Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origins of Flight , are drom

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 55 - The Grid . In this episode, my terrific guest author  Roselle Lim joins the show to chat with me about: Forest fires, Tiny Toon Adventures, Steven Speilberg's endorsements, Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, immigrating to Canada, how to put dinosaurs into your cookbook, eating crocodiles, Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, wicked stepmothers, employing fairy tales and fables into creative fiction, cooking analogies!, writing hope into the endings, disgusing the villains in your life as characters in your novels, allusions to myths and fairy tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Ian Malcolm's cynical perspective like Alice, a subversive text disguised as a children's tale, learning English from watching wreslting, Jura

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 54 - Return Pt. 3 . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Tom R. Holtz Jr. joins the show to chat with me about: field work, Jane the teenaged T. rex , Bob Dylan's birthday, Jurassic Park's (1993) has its 30th anniversary coming out, Crichton and Speilberg's efforts to produce an authentic dinosaur experience, introducing velociraptors to the public, Jurassic Park's lasting power, depicting dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise, the most prolific element of set design ever, a world without extinction, fossil tyrannosaurs at auction actually attracting more money than black market clones in Fallen Kingdom, centrosaurines with holes in their frills, Patchy from Walking With Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University, overcoming challenges collecting data, processing fossilized pollen

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 53 - Return Pt. 2 . In this episode, my terrific guest Ali Nabavizadeh joins the show to chat with me about: Kansas, Kansas Official State Land fossil Silvisaurus, Tylosaurus, Pteranodon, the bloat and float hypothesis , The Wizard of Oz, Jurassic Park, fascinating areas of contestation, paleoart, the novel Jurassic Park, Triceratops beaks, mouthes, tongues, jaw power, and their hypothetical behaviours, triceratops and tyrannosaurs squaring off against each other, a tribute to the recently retired Dr. Peter Dodson in a special issue of Anatomical Record, An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology by Dr. Dave Weishampel and Dr. Ali Nabavzadeh, huge hadrosaurs, dental batteries, clarifying a hadrosaur's teeth, inset teeth in ornithischians, hadrosaur beaks, sauropod bites and digestion