Episode 54 - Return Part 3

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 to recreate paleoecosystems, how to operate the Phylogenetic Analysis Machine, acquiring the Truth with a capital T, transgressing the Scientific Era into the New Paradigm, The Arctometatarsalian Condition, running theropods, and then we geek out over Tyrannosaurus, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals themorphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings
• New data on Kansaignathus sogdianus, a dromaeosaurid theropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Tajikistan

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

Intro: Black Coffee.  Outro: Black Licorice.

The Text:

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

Synopsis:

Sixth Iteration – “Systems recovery may prove impossible” (p. 315).

In this final installment, Grant and Gennaro make it back to the visitor center; Tim and Lex make it to Control; and Ellie escapes with her life. 

Discussions surround:

The Sixth Iteration, The Dinosaurs, Doing the Math, Park Management, Island Layout.

 

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Thank you!

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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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