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 it 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 38 - Tim . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Roger J. Lederer joins the show to chat with me about: turkeys, Thanksgiving, turkey vultures, disposing of carcasses, registering domain names, the fastest birds, ostriches, the bustard, the elephant bird, rictal bristles, flycatchers, studying birds, DNA, Watson and Crick, cloning extinct animals, Loy's procedure, reverse breeding aurochs , birds are dinosaurs!, archaeopteryx, the evolution of feathers, the feather-colour of microraptors , enantiornithines, Dr. Richard Prum and the evolution of feathers , theories on the evolution of feathered flight, herons hunting, Crichton using Lederer's name in the text!, the Hoatzin , A Reappraisal of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Functional Morphology and Paleoecology; Bristles before down: A new perspec...

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 37 - Bungalow . In this episode, my terrific guest Melissa Ray joins the show to chat with me about: melding the novel and the film together, differences between the film and the novel, like discussions around feminism, better versions of Ellie and Lex in the film, symbolism in the baseball and baseball mit, daddy issues, carrying baseballs and night vision goggles around, how did Lex and Tim's parents meet?, Ellie is conclusively not dating Alan Grant, and Grant is a childless widower, Sattler's portrayal, black and white symbolizing differences between Malcolm and Hammond in the film, the two "female ends" of the seatbelt in the helicopter ride to Isla Nublar foreshadowing the all-female breeding animals, overanalyzing movies today, John Williams' soundtrack, technologic...