Episode 53 - Return Part 2

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 digestion, surprises at the beginning of the novel, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• How Triceratops got its face: An update on the functional evolution of the ceratopsian head (Triceratops horridus)

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

Intro: Chinese Cafe.  Outro: Black Coffee.

The Text:

This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 317 – 344.

Synopsis:

In this second installment, Grant turns the generators back on and finds Gennaro! Wu gets eviscerated and Tim and Lex confront a raptor in the kitchen! 

Discussions surround:

Show don't tell, Something went wrong, similarities, and Hubris.

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause bloating and floating, and subsequently becoming depicted in paleoart. 

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Thank you!

The Jura-Sick Park-cast is a part of the Spring Chickens banner of amateur intellectual properties including the Spring Chickens funny pages, Tomb of the Undead graphic novel, the Second Lapse graphic novelettes, The Infantry, and the worst of it all, the King St. Capers.

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Thank you, dearly, for tuning in to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the Jurassic Park podcast where we talk about the novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. Until next time! 

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