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 73 - The Visitor's Center . In this episode ( stream it here ), my terrific guest Lindsey Kinsella returns to the show to chat with me about: the carnotaurus, his novel The Lazarus Taxa, neat twists, his novel The Heart of Pangea, Dimetrodon narrators, naming characters, "That moment" in the book, Thylacines, Homotheriums, his new book Broken Voyage, writing from an animal's point of view, his upcoming writing projects, and much more! Find his new book, Broken Voyage available at this link:  link! Book review: Stranded in the Arctic, the international crew of an illegal whaler find themselves in a race for survival. Can they survive the cold, the sea, and, most of all, each other? Pushed to desperation in a bleak world ravaged by climate change, Lora M’Bandi fle...

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...

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 40 - Control . In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Dr. W. Scott Persons IV joins the show to chat with me about: field trips, othnielia vertebrae, splitting and lumping, The Lance Formation of Wyoming, nodosaurs, ichnofossils, ankylosaur osteoderms, hair-pulling and cringey moments in Jurassic Park, Nedry holding his own entrails, dinosaurs in media, The Land Before Time, incredible technology in the novel, like the fax machine!, studying dinosaur locomotion, the mighty caudofemoralis, comparative anatomy, running hadrosaurus and running tyrannosaurs, can T. rex run 40 mph?, reduced tyrannosaur arms, Yutyrannus arms, tails, spinosaurus tails, leaellynasaura tails, the evolution of feathers, looking for rictal bristles in super-primitive dinosaurs without feathers, inju...

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 34 - The Main Road . In this episode, my terrific guest ReBecca Hunt-Foster joins the show to chat with me about: State nomenclature, grade school dinosaur units, paleontologist origins stories, Arkansaurus fridayi , ornithomimids, Dr. James H. Quinn, Dinosaur National Monument and its history, deinocheirus, Kimmeridgian Morrison Formation , Moab and Nedcolbertia , all the famous dinosaurs: stegosaurus, apatosaurus, allosaurs, and more!, reading Jurassic Park, Colorado State Fossil Stegosaurus, a baby stegosaurus!, running stegosaurs, the thagomizer, camptosaurus, dryosaurus, sauropods, and more on stegosaurs, their thagomizers, their necks, their tales, injuring allosaurs, describing the Late Jurassic of Utah, Jurassic vegetation and botany, burrowing ornithischians, Oryctodromeus cubicul...

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 19 - Jurassic Park In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Dr. Eugenia Gold chats with me about: Eugenia's book She Found Fossils , which is available in three languages! Her news blog for kids available in English and Spanish at  Dr. Neurosaurus .com, her YouTube channel Science on the Street , Jurassic Park, empathizing with Dr. Grant, new perspectives on the film, viewing through the eyes of a parent, ring tones, dilophosaurus nightmares, Harry Potter, Boston accent, comparative biology, paleontology, phylogenetics, CT scanning, 3D imaging, spinosaurus, birds and dinosaurs, Thomas Henry Huxley, dinosaur tails, plungers on chickens and dinosaur posture, bird brains and dinosaur brains, lungs and breathing, comparing dinosaurs to mammals, academia and p...

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 16 - Malcolm In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guest Dr. David Hone chats with me about:   May Day, Victoria Day, high tea, Tea Cup Dinosaur hunters, excavating dinosaurs, Dr. Alan Grant, trace fossils, body fossils, eggs, fossil nomenclature, Computer Assisted Sonic Tomography fails, CAST process being non-viable, prospecting with drones, Velociraptor v. Deinonychus, making the best deductions, describing dinosaurs, Dilophosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, Man's Hubris and Science, West World and Andromeda Strain, Triceratops, sauropods, character backstories, Ian Malcolm, anti-technology paleontologists, the future of paleontology, photogrammetry, Eli Kish, AMNH 5027, tail vertebrae, Leaellynasaura, Crichton's research, pterosaurs, the Aviary, Cearadactylus,...

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 5 - The Beach  In this episode ( stream it here ), my terrific guest Dr. Jordan Mallon chats with me about:   Torosaurus, splitting and lumping, buying the book, reading the book, being uncomfortable with disembowelment, sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs, garials, Jurassic Park, paleo curricula, real-life moments from Jurassic Park, breeding, velociraptors, bad veterinarians, hadrosaurs, ornithischians, following the White Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland, unbirthdays and a little bit of Spiclypeus.  Plus dinosaur news about: Sauropod stride lengths Torosaurus taxonomy   Featuring the music of Snale  https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases   Intro: T-Shirts . Outro: Death of a Dream.   This episode is available for streaming on YouTube, as we...