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Episode 65 - Epilogue: San Jose

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

Episode 64 - Approaching Dark

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

Episode 63 - The Beach

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