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Episode 70 - The Inside Man

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 70 - The Inside Man . In this episode ( stream it here !), my terrific guest Dr. Paul Barrett joins the show to chat with me about: how to select which journal to publish in, the new Late Triassic sauropodomorph Musankwa sanyatiensis, the provenance of the holotype fossils, performing fieldwork off a houseboat in Lake Kariba, naming dinosaurs after boats, comparing a houseboat as a laboratory against a trailer for a field lab, interpreting the Pebbly Arkose Formation in which Musankwa was discovered, observing sauropodomorph diversity in the Late Triassic, tectonic shifting during the Late Triassic, surviving the End-Triassic extinction event, supervising PhD students and much more! Plus, be sure to look into Dr. Barrett's new book A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils ...