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, strange skull, a 4m long coelocanth!, could dinosaurs consume salt water?, studying ceratopsians, sauropods and hadrosaurs, discovering and naming the Avaceratops lammersi, writing The Dinosauria, marital faux-pas naming a dinosaur after a woman who isn't your wife!, naming Auroraceratops rogosus, protoceratopsid Magnirostris dodsoni being named after him, extinct frog Nezpercius dodsoni was named after him, too, the Judith River Formation, the impact of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and the fascinating revelation that we're learning about dinosaur colours, paleo proctology, and much more!
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The Festschrift special edition of the Anatomical Record (Dinosaurs: New Ideas from Old Bones). *Yes, festschrift was a new word for me, too! |
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I visited the Royal Tyrrell in 2005, I think. This is proof. I have a shirt, too, that no longer fits :( |
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Dr. Dodson was on the Bahariya Project featured in The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt! |
Plus dinosaur news about:
Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/
Intro: Sally Ride. Outro: Shelter Dog.
The Text:
The Seventh Iteration, “Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”
This week’s text is Destroying The World, spanning
from pages 367– 369.
Synopsis:
Hammond believes they’ve saved the world by stopping the
raptors from reaching the mainland, but Malcolm says that “life” would survive –
that life finds a way to overcome all odds. “Life” is the greatest power;
Hammond is deluded if he thinks otherwise.
Discussions surround:
Life Finds a Way, Semantics, Power is Magic, Crichton Tropes
Corrections:
I said Ernst Stromer was a paleontologist
from the 1800s – which isn’t quite correct. Yes, he was born in 1886, but his
work on Spinosaurus and his career as a paleontologist was spent almost
entirely in the 1900s, including the famous trip the Bahariya Formation in
1910. So, he was a 20th century paleontologist whose magnum opus was
certainly in the 1900s. I was incorrect in describing him as a paleontologist from
the 1800s.
Also, I wondered if the expression “Crocodile Tears” may have come from crocodiles excreeting excess salt via tear ducts, and, upon looking into it, saltwater
crocodiles are known to have tears which help rid them of the excess salt that they take in with their
food.
Side effects:
Thank you!
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