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Episode 58 - Destroying The World

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

Episode 47 - The 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 47 - The Park . In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Bradley joins the show to chat with me about: Living in Edmonton, paleontology in Alberta, Dinosaur Park the UNESCO World Heritage Site , Ireland, prospecting for fossils, the dinosaur paleofauna of Alberta, publishing academic papers, estimating body mass with dollar-store dinosaur figures, the connectivity in paleofauna between North America and Asia, gregarious Gorgosaurs, Dino 101 at the U of A , Separation Anxiety , his award-winning book of poetry, depicting tyrannosaurs in the novel, swimming dinosaurs, extant phylogenetic bracket for dinosaur hypotheses, and much more! This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and th