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Episode 52 - Return pt. 1

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 52 - Return Pt. 1 . In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay return to the show to chat with me about: what types of podcasts they'd host themselves, how to pronounce that thing at the Royal Ontario Museum (Futalognkosaurus?!), To me, it will always be the Subway $5 Foot-long o-saurus ,  Beloved  by Toni Morrison, It  by Stephen King, Dracula , The Third Policeman , Vanity Fair , comparing Michael Crichton to your favourite authors, relating to the characters in Jurassic Park , relating Henry Wu's death to "Glenn" from The Walking Dead , (yo, don't click that link unless you know what's coming!), Ellie Sattler as bait, Dr. Henry Wu's hubris, who should have been bait to lure the raptors away, the complexity of ecosystems, who is  Ian Malcolm?, a Biblica

Episode 51 - Control

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 51 - Control . In this episode, my terrific guest Lindsey Kinsella joins the show to chat with me about: marketing titles internationally, his terrific novel The Lazarus Taxa , The Tanis Site and Dinosaurs: The Last Day / Dinosaur Apocalypse !, imagining living in Late Cretaceous North America, what influence does Jurassic Park play, being inspired to put in the amount of research for the novel that Michael Crichton did, why do kids love dinosaurs?, 65 (2023), time travel, Timeline, Lazarus taxa, Douglas Adams, leptoceratops, imagining dinosaur behaviours and palaeoecosystems, dinosaur diets, where to find the Lazarus Taxa , and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications  Ontogeny and variation of the pachycepha

Episode 50 - Tyrannosaur

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 50 - Tyrannosaur . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Jim Kirkland joins the show to chat with me about: Excavating dinosaurs, traversing the badlands, volunteers on the site, extracting soft tissues (but not DNA) from fossils, ankylosaurs, studying fossils, Utahraptor Megablock, 3D printing fossils, naming dinosaurs after people, like: Nedcolbertia justinhoffmani, Martharaptor, Gastonia; dromaeosaurs, velociraptor, utahraptor, not naming a dinosaur after Steven Spielberg, Super Slasher, the future of paleontology, The Dinosaurs A - Z song from Dinosaur Train, tail-standing protoceratops, living and dying in dunes, and burrowing dinosaurs, and much more! And The Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems Conference is going to Utah in June. One of Dr. Kirkland's talks on dromaeosaurs: Utahraptor a

Episode 49 - Aviary

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 49 - Aviary . In this episode, my terrific guest Phil Hore returns to the show to chat with me about: celebrating Australian birthdays, his novels , Dracula, The Mummy, The Three Musketeers, all that stuff!, Jack the Ripper (tours), the Aviary, JP III's pteranodons..., The Lost World, Dinosaur World , Paleo Planet, the pterosaurs, Cricthon's original script, Lex's voice in the audio book, the misconception that pterosaurs are dinosaurs, Crichton's writing process, why do kids love dinosaurs?, cloning and science, pterosaur feet,  paleoartist John Conway and his depictions of pterosaurs , why the Spinosaurus murders the Tyrannosaurus, "thintelligence," then we open the entire book up and get right down to its core message! Phil SOLVES the novel in this episode, folks!,