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 69 - John Hammond . In this episode ( stream it here !), my terrific guest June Hatfield joins the show to chat with me about: Seattle, the Pacific North West and the Olympic Peninsula, Cray Supercomputers, Olympic National Forests, ancient forests, the "Grunge Scene," the tradition of re-reading Jurassic Park every summer, paperback editions of Jurassic Park, and First Edition of Jurassic Park, changes between different editions of Jurassic Park, writing tension and timing in fiction, Crichton's writing, Dr. Henry Wu, sparing expenses, Robert Muldoon, transportation to and from Isla Nublar, JP's target audience, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: The First Troodontid from the Upper Cretaceous Baruungoyot Formation of Mongolia (Harenadraco prima) The Phylogenetic Relatio...

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 62 - Hammond . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Spencer Lucas joins the show to chat with me about: the greatness of New Mexico, reading Jurassic Park, watching Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, rediscovered animals like the Coelocanth, will we discover true extra terrestrials soon?, the UFO Festival in Roswell, NM, the plausibility of Crichton's science fiction, The House Oversight subcommittee's hearing on UFOs , neat details about Tyrannosaurus, field work in New Mexico, the Permian Age, continental Pangea, ancient climates, chaos theory, how to make sense of extinction events, Permian insects and the meganeuran dragonflies, " God had an inordinate fondness for beetles, " cockroaches, giant millipedes, amber deposits, coelophysis, the incredible similarities between Triassic ...

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 54 - Return Pt. 3 . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Tom R. Holtz Jr. joins the show to chat with me about: field work, Jane the teenaged T. rex , Bob Dylan's birthday, Jurassic Park's (1993) has its 30th anniversary coming out, Crichton and Speilberg's efforts to produce an authentic dinosaur experience, introducing velociraptors to the public, Jurassic Park's lasting power, depicting dinosaurs in the Jurassic World franchise, the most prolific element of set design ever, a world without extinction, fossil tyrannosaurs at auction actually attracting more money than black market clones in Fallen Kingdom, centrosaurines with holes in their frills, Patchy from Walking With Dinosaurs, Johns Hopkins University, overcoming challenges collecting data, processing fossilized pollen...

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 49 - Aviary . In this episode, my terrific guest Phil Hore returns to the show to chat with me about: celebrating Australian birthdays, his novels , Dracula, The Mummy, The Three Musketeers, all that stuff!, Jack the Ripper (tours), the Aviary, JP III's pteranodons..., The Lost World, Dinosaur World , Paleo Planet, the pterosaurs, Cricthon's original script, Lex's voice in the audio book, the misconception that pterosaurs are dinosaurs, Crichton's writing process, why do kids love dinosaurs?, cloning and science, pterosaur feet,  paleoartist John Conway and his depictions of pterosaurs , why the Spinosaurus murders the Tyrannosaurus, "thintelligence," then we open the entire book up and get right down to its core message! Phil SOLVES the novel in this episode, folks!, ...

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! Now available on Youtube, too! This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a pr...

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 46 - Dawn . In this episode, my terrific guest Kristoph Ochs joins the show to chat with me about: SNALE , Steven Segal, Brendan Fraser, Nicholas Cage, Adam Sandler, Matthew McConaughey, Halle Berry, recommending Bulworth , the Olsen Twins, The Veloci-Pastor , The Jerry Show , Hexploitation Film Festival , horror films, Doug Jones , Killer Sofa , House Shark , Fathers' Day, The Raccoons , Cybertronic Spree , Transformers, 65, chickeny dinosaurs, All About Dinosaurs , and much more! Now available on Youtube, too! To prove I'm not some charlatan, here's my copy of All About Dinosaurs Here's an image of All About Dinosaurs from the movie! Here's my copy of All About Dinosaurs .... Here's All About Dinosaurs  as depicted in the film! This is what this terrific new Snale a...

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 45 - The Park . In this episode, my terrific guest Robbie Dorman joins the show to chat with me about: living all over the place, the Edmonton Oilers, how cold is it!?, Underneath , Killer Hockey Mascot , Gritty, Cocaine Bear , Burial , Fallout, ReGrowth , Akira, developing characters, The Simpsons, The Simpsons Show Podcast , Jurassic Park references in The Simpsons, lamenting over Lex in the second half of the novel, adapating Jurassic Park from novel into film, John Hammond, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: A New Titanosauriform Sauropod with An Unusual Tail from theLower Cretaceous of Northeastern China  (Ruxinia zhui)  Decoupling the skull and skeleton in a Cretaceous bird with unique appendicular morphologies (Cratonavis zhangi) Featuring the music of Snale  h...

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 26 - Control  In this episode ( stream it here ), my terrific guest Dr. Jordan Mallon returns to chat with me about: Tyrannosaurus imperator, T-regina, and T-rex, amorphous reptile bones, lumping and splitting, species diversity, extinctions, Triceratops trivia, big dinosaurs in Late Cretaceous North America, the bias in the fossil record towards large dinosaurs, naming dinosaurs like Spiclypeus, dinosaur names based on the Jurassic Park film, dinosaurs named in honour of Michael Crichton, dino-mania, styracosterna v. ankylopollexa, comparative anatomy, hadrosaurs v. saurolphines, synonymizing dinosaur names, Gryposaurus, Edmontosaurus v . Ugrunaaluk, phylogenetic mapping, why DNA doesn't preserve (hint, it's water!), and more! Plus dinosaur news about: Insufficient Evidence for ...

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 18 - Welcome In this episode ( stream it here!) , my terrific guest Chris McDonald chats with me about:   Florida State Fairs, Jurassic Park the Ride, 1994, The Land Before Time, dinosaurs, Kaiju films, giant monster movies, Gargantucast , Brendan Steere, Horror, The VelociPastor, sci-fi horror, Michael Crichton, the Horror Genre, Carnosaur, Gojira, Godzilla, nuclear horror, meddling with powers you don't understand, hupia, raptor, Jaws, compys, procompsognathus, Stephen King, taboos, Grant misunderstanding lizard bites, Tina Bowman, John Hammond, Dennis Nedry, dangerous herbivores, Guns, Germs and Steel, zoo control mechanisms, dilophosaurus, Harambe, Tyrannosaurus containment, swimming tyrannosaurs, cloning spinosaurs, Alien: Resurrection, and a lot more! Plus dinosa...

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,...