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 72 - Isla Nublar . In this episode ( stream it here ), my terrific guest Dr.  Hannah McGregor  joins the show to chat with me about: the Stanley Park raccoons, tales about animals out in the wild, the book Clever Girl , podcasts, feminism in Jurassic Park (Spielberg, 1993), the Pop Classics Series by ECW Press , cracking open popular films for cultural analysis, her favourite dinosaur, the Canadian Museum of Nature, Tyrannosaurus lips, Man v. Nature, Bushed by Earle Virney , Man v. Moose/Skunk, Crichton's shortfalls, unpacking the inextricable themes of Jurassic Park, Spielberg's retelling of John Landis's failures while filming the Twighlight Zone (1983) , Pandora's Box, patriarchal cultures, the site of conflict between control and chaos, de-colonization as a New World Ord...

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 61 - Descent . In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. David Varricchio joins the show to chat with me about: fieldwork in Montana, seeing Jurassic Park in 1993 at a private screening held at the Museum of the Rockies, how it impacted Jack Horner's lab, pronouncing Choteau and buttes, excavating dinosaur skeletons, visiting Egg Mountain, orodromeus, volcanoes of Montana and thick ash beds, 'undergroundology,' oryctodromeus and realizing he was excavating a burrow!, Robert Bakker predicting burrowing dinosaurs, how big could burrowing dinosaurs be?, birds we know that burrow, how similar are Troodons and Velociraptors?, the status of the validity of Troodon, comparing steonychosaurus to troodon, toodon nests / egg clutches, egg strength, do troodons have egg teeth?, dromaeosaurid nest...

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 56 - The Lodge . In this episode, terrific guest Dr. Jingmai O'Connor joins to the show to chat with me about: tunnelling, antipodes ,  When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies , The Field Museum of Natural History's new spinosaurus exhibit, entering into vertebrate paleontology, inspiration from Donald Prothero , transitioning to the "dinosaur dark side," enantiornithines, moving to Beijing, assisstant professor Alida Bailleul , the origins of birds, the "multiple origins of dinosaurian flight hypothesis," the Berlin Specimen of Archaeopteryx, feathers and caudipteryx , a lack in the data of the origins of wings, but wings co-inciding with nesting, coloured eggs, and changes in reproductive behaviour, dinosaur eggs, Feathered Dinosaurs and the Origins of Flight , are drom...

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 53 - Return Pt. 2 . In this episode, my terrific guest Ali Nabavizadeh joins the show to chat with me about: Kansas, Kansas Official State Land fossil Silvisaurus, Tylosaurus, Pteranodon, the bloat and float hypothesis , The Wizard of Oz, Jurassic Park, fascinating areas of contestation, paleoart, the novel Jurassic Park, Triceratops beaks, mouthes, tongues, jaw power, and their hypothetical behaviours, triceratops and tyrannosaurs squaring off against each other, a tribute to the recently retired Dr. Peter Dodson in a special issue of Anatomical Record, An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology by Dr. Dave Weishampel and Dr. Ali Nabavzadeh, huge hadrosaurs, dental batteries, clarifying a hadrosaur's teeth, inset teeth in ornithischians, hadrosaur beaks, sauropod bites and digestio...

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 52 - Return Pt. 1 . In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay return to the show to chat with me about: what types of podcasts they'd host themselves, how to pronounce that thing at the Royal Ontario Museum (Futalognkosaurus?!), To me, it will always be the Subway $5 Foot-long o-saurus ,  Beloved  by Toni Morrison, It  by Stephen King, Dracula , The Third Policeman , Vanity Fair , comparing Michael Crichton to your favourite authors, relating to the characters in Jurassic Park , relating Henry Wu's death to "Glenn" from The Walking Dead , (yo, don't click that link unless you know what's coming!), Ellie Sattler as bait, Dr. Henry Wu's hubris, who should have been bait to lure the raptors away, the complexity of ecosystems, who is  Ian Malcolm?, a Biblica...

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 35 - Return . In this episode, my terrific guest Drew Hagen joins the show to chat with me about: Billie goats, lawyers, Donald Gennaro, dying by dinosaurs, different types of compy bites, dinosaur accuracy, dinosaur behaviour, hermaphroditism, dilophosaurs, venoms, juvenile triceratops, sharing the podcast with friends and family, the Jungle River raft escape and the waterfall, plotting chance encounters around the park, seeing Jurassic Park for the first time, the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, John Hammond, Crichton writing believable science fiction, John Arnold's backstory, backstories, female leads in Crichton novels, and a viable, believable new interpretation of the velociraptors that makes the eggs out in the park make WAY more sense, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about: A new massopod...

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 20 - When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth In this episode ( stream it here! ), my terrific guests David and Will from The Common Descent podcast, who chat with me about: The Common Descent Podcast , "Spook"lative evolution, Croc Month, Snake Month, Dinosaur Walk Museum, Pigeon Forge Tennessee, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion, Star Wars prequels, fan reception, audience reception, monster movies, Godzilla, Crocodiles in Jurassic Park, crocodile gizzard stones, archosaurs, dinosaur cousins, nesting, infant rearing, archosaurs chewing, alligator courtship practices, mating dances, Prehistoric Planet, carnotaurus mating dance, snakes, Clever Girl, velociraptors, Robert Muldoon, velociraptors opening doors, forked tongues, phylogenetic deduc...

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 17 - Isla Nublar In this episode ( stream it here ), my terrific guest Michael Evans chats with me about:   Big Bird, Bald Eagles, Windsor Ontario, birding, photography, Detroit River, the Ambassador Bridge, Jounrney, photographing screech owls, avian flu, monkey pox, A Year in the Forest, Willistead Manor,  Stephen Speilberg, street names , podcasting, passsion projects, special effects, velociraptors, Dinosaurs (The Sinclairs), movie bloopers, stegosaurus, triceratops, novel adatpations, age gaps, Casino Windsor becoming Caesars Windsor, Squirrels , The Toronto Raptors, The Lance, video production, and more! Plus dinosaur news about: Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod dinosaur Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum Dong, 1997, from the Turpan Basin, C...