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The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 11 - Eusauropods (Summer 2026).

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Eusauropod news:

• Upchurch, Paul. (1995). “The Evolutionary History of Sauropod Dinosaurs.” Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 349. 10.1098/rstb.1995.0125.
• Gomez, K.L., Pol, D., Ezcurra, M.D. and Carballido, J.L. (2025), Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Bagualia alba (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic of Patagonia and the macroevolutionary history of early eusauropods. Cladistics, 41: 70-103. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12607 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12607
• Gomez, K.L.; Paulina-Carabajal, A.; Pol, D.; & Carballido, J.L. (2025). “Contributions to the sensory palaeobiology of Sauropodomorpha from the study of the endocranium of the Early Jurassic eusauropod Bagualia alba.” Papers in Palaeontology 11(3): e70023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70023 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70023
• Romilio, A., & Runnegar, B. (2026). Earliest Australian dinosaur: ichnofossils from the Carnian Aspley Formation of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 50(1), 404–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2607630
• Kevin L. Gomez (2025). “Sauropodan niche partition during the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina.” Historical Biology, 38(2), 534-547. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506
• Gomez, K. L. (2026). Sauropodan niche partition during the Early Jurassic of Patagonia, Argentina. Historical Biology, 38(2), 534–547. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506
• Kevin L. Gomez, José L. Carballido & Diego Pol. (2025) Dental replacement patterns and morphological diversity in lower Jurassic sauropods from the Cañadón Asfalto Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 45:5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2504506
• Mo Jinyou, Zhou Xiuzhen, Fu Qiongyao, Xiong Duo, Hu Minhang & Xu Xing (2025). “A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower and Middle Jurassic Wangmen Formation of Ningming County, Guangxi, South China.” ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA (English edition) 99(4): 909-924. DOI:10.1111/1755-6724.15331 https://www.geojournals.cn/dzxbcn/dzxbcn/article/abstract/2025endzxb04001
• Ning Li, Xiaoqin Zhang, Xinxin Ren, Daqing Li & Hailu You (2025). “A new eusauropod (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, China.” Scientific Reports 15: 17936 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-03210-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-03210-5
• Xiao-Qin Zhang, Ya-Ming Wang, Zhen-Ji Wang, Yan-Chao Wang, Tao Wang, Guo-Fu Wang, Yi Zou, Qi-Xing Dong, Xing Su, Hua Jiang, Yan-Jun Wang & Hai-Lu You (2026). “The first turiasaurian sauropod (Dinosauria: Eusauropoda) from East Asia.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 206(2): zlaf201 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf201 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/206/2/zlaf201/8456546
• Triparna Ghosh, Matthew T. Carrano, Advait M. Jukar, Edward L. Stanley, Krishna Kumar & Sunil Bajpai (2026). “A new turiasaur (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) specimen from the Middle Jurassic of India.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2618183. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2026.2618183 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2026.2618183
• D. Cary Woodruff, Paul M. Barrett, Driss Ouarhache, Abdessalam El Khanchoufi, Khadija Boumir, Kawtar Ech-Charay, Ahmed Oussou, Richard J. Butler, Simon Wills, Luke Meade, Mike Smith, and Susannah C.R. Maidment (2025). “Teeth from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco reveal the oldest turiasaurian sauropods from Africa.” Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70(3): 411-420 doi:10.4202/app.01214.2024 https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app012142024.html
• Daniela E. Winkler, Emanuel Tschopp, André Saleiro, Ria Wiesinger & Thomas M. Kaiser (2025). "Dental microwear texture analysis reveals behavioural, ecological and habitat signals in Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur faunas." Nature Ecology & Evolution (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02794-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02794-5
• John Foster, Cary Woodruff & Rafael Royo-Torres (2026). “The first evidence of Turiasauria (Sauropod) in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation.” In New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102, January 2026. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399997199_THE_FIRST_EVIDENCE_OF_TURIASAURIA_SAUROPODA_IN_THE_UPPER_JURASSIC_MORRISON_FORMATION (Accessed July 17, 2026).
• Geto Boys (1992). “Geto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta (video) [Explicit] from 'Uncut Dope' (1992).” UPROXX, September 30, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJCFc_qkHw&list=RD6IJCFc_qkHw&start_radio=1 (Accessed July 27, 2026).

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Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 10 - Stegosaurs (Spring 2026).

(stream it here)

Stegosaur news:

• Zafaty, O., M. Oukassou, F. Riguetti, J. Company, S. Bendrioua, R. Tabuce, A. Charrière, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2024. A new stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) with a remarkable dermal armour from the Middle Jurassic of North Africa. Gondwana Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2024.03.009
• Omar Ait Haddou, Abdelkbir Hminna, Abdelouahed Lagnaoui, Hendrik Klein, Mohamed Arouch, Mohamed Fergougui, Aziz Rmich & Wahiba Bel Haouz (2026). “New dinosaur tracksites from the Middle-?Late Jurassic of Msemrir (Central High Atlas, Morocco).” Historical Biology (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2596117 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2596117
• Evan T. Saitta, Vincent Bonhomme, Mitchell Lukens, Daniel Vidal, Nicholas R. Longrich, Dean R. Richmond, Maximilian T. Stockdale. The function and Evolution of Stegosaur Osteoderms and Hypothesized Sexual Dimorphism in Hesperosaurus. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.10.648273
• Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa & Alberto Cobos (2025). “New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria).” Vertebrate Zoology 75: 165-189. doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e146618 https://vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/146618/
• Francisco Costa Pinto, Susannah Maidment, Cristina Sequero & Vicente D. Crespo (2025). “Miragaia longicollum MG 4863: New fossil and historical evidence from the most complete stegosaur from Europe.” Comunicações Geológicas 112(I): 35-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.34637/xs1n-3d27 https://repositorio.lneg.pt/entities/publication/97e1df73-0734-45d7-b75d-bf4cf012f252
• Kenneth Carpenter (2026). “The smallest known Stegosaurus.” In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 283-285 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400035283_2026_Carpenter_Smallest_Stegosaurus
• Rebecca K. Hunt-Foster, D. Cary Woodruff, Steven D. Sroka, and John R. Foster (2026). “The largest reported stegosaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic).” In: Foster et al., 2026, New Developments in the Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 102: 287-292. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400050523_THE_LARGEST_REPORTED_STEGOSAURID_FROM_THE_MORRISON_FORMATION_UPPER_JURASSIC
• Costa, Francisco (2026). “Dacentrurine Stegosaurs in North America: New Occurrences from the Upper Jurassic of USA (Morrison Formation).” Diversity 18(3): 143 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18030143
  https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/3/143
• Sánchez-Fenollosa, Sergio, Escaso, Fernando & Cobos, Alberto (2024). “A new specimen of Dacentrurus armatus Owen, 1875 (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Spain and its taxonomic relevance in the European stegosaurian diversity.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, zlae074. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae074 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae074/7696911
• Facundo Javier Riguetti, Sebastián Apesteguía, Juan Ignacio Canale & Pablo Ariel Gallina (2026). “New thyreophoran remains with stegosaurian affinities from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina.” / “Nuevos restos fósiles con afinidades estegosaurianas del Cretácico Inferior de Argentina.” Publicación Electrónica de la Asociación Paleontológica Argentina 26(1): 56-79. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5710/PEAPA.25.11.2025.551 https://peapaleontologica.org.ar/index.php/peapa/article/view/551
• Jia, L., Li, N., Dong, L., Shi, J., Kang, Z., Wang, S., … You, H. (2024). A new stegosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Zuoyun, Shanxi Province, China. Historical Biology, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2308214

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Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on stegosaurs … for now!

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 9 - Avialans (Winter 2026) Parts 1 and 2.

Avialan news:

• Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “8. The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.” In: Scott V. Edwards, and J. Michael Reed (eds), New Perspectives in Ornithology: 21st Century Dispatches across the World of Birds; New York, 2026; online edn, Oxford Academic: 139–168.
• Evan T Saitta, Lilja Carden, Jonathan S Mitchell & Peter J Makovicky (2025). “Feather Evolution Following Flight Loss In Crown Group Birds: Relaxed Selection And Developmental Constraints.” Evolution, qpaf020. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020 https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020/7997201
• Takumi Watanabe, Fernando E. Novas, Tatsuya Hirasawa (2026). “Evolution of the Jaw Joint and Middle Ear Morphologies in the Lineage Towards Birds.” Zoological Science 43(1): doi: https://doi.org/10.2108/zs250108 https://bioone.org/journals/zoological-science/volume-43/issue-1/zs250108/Evolution-of-the-Jaw-Joint-and-Middle-Ear-Morphologies-in/10.2108/zs250108.full
• Wang Min, Wang Xiao-Li, Zheng Xiao-Ting & Zhou Zhong-He (2024). “Cranial anatomy of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) sheds new light on bird skull evolution.” Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication). DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.241225 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387743760_Cranial_anatomy_of_Anchiornis_huxleyi_Theropoda_Paraves_sheds_new_light_on_bird_skull_evolution
• Yosef Kiat, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang & Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs.” Communications Biology 8: 1633 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09019-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09019-2
• Runsheng Chen, Min Wang, Liping Dong, Guowu Zhou, Xing Xu, Ke Deng, Liming Xu, Chi Zhang, Linchang. Wang, Honggang Du, Ganmin Lin, Min Lin & Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China.” Nature 638(8050): 441–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08410-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08410-z
• Jingmai K. O’Connor, Alexander D. Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Min Wang, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek & Huali Chang (2025). “Avian features of Archaeopteryx feeding apparatus reflect elevated demands of flight.” The Innovation (advance online publication). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.101086 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675825002899
• Jingmai O’Connor, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Yosef Kiat, Matteo Fabbri, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek, Jing Lu, Min Wang & Han Hu (2025). “Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan.” Nature (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08912-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08912-4
• Shaoyuan Wu, Ziqi Tao, Liang Liu, Charles R Marshall, Scott V Edwards, Zhonghe Zhou & Frank E Rheindt (2025). “New Fossils Imply a Deeper Origin of Modern Birds in the Mesozoic.” National Science Review, nwaf238. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238 https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238/8158921
• Sergio M. Nebreda, Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Javier C. Terol, Francisco J. Serrano, Ángela D. Buscalioni & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2026). “An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces).”
• Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 251-265 doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.182813 https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/182813/
• Wang, X., A.D. Clark, J.K. O'Connor, X. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Zheng, and Z. Zhou (2024). “First edentulous enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol avifauna.” Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105867 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124000405
• Zhiheng Li, Jinsheng Hu, Thomas A Stidham, Mao Ye, Min Wang, Yanhong Pan, Tao Zhao, Jingshu Li, Zhonghe Zhou & Julia A Clarke (2025). “Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from the Jehol Biota.” eLife 14: RP103628 doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103628.3 https://elifesciences.org/articles/103628
• Wang, M., & Zhou, Z. (2019). A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17(15), 1299–1312. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1527403
• Caizhi Shen, Alexander D. Clark, Hui Fang, Shaokun Chen, Hongxia Jiang, Qiang Ji & Jingmai K. O’Connor (2024). “A new diminutive species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group, northern China.” Scientific Reports 14: 31363 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82869-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82869-8
• Jingmai O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Ryan Davila, Yan Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, and Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “A new small-bodied longipterygid (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Aptian Jiufotang Formation preserving unusual gastroliths.” Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a56. doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1589 https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5712-longipterygid-enantiornithine-chromeornis
• Jingmai K. O’Connor, Jessie Atterholt, Alexander D. Clark, Linqi Zhou, Cuo Peng, Xiaoqin Zhang & Hailu You (2025). “A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes.” Geobios (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.11.003 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016699525000166
• Matthieu Chotard, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Luke Barlow, Martin Kundrát, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott Hartman, Xing Xu & Michael Pittman (2025). “New information on the Hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae).” BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 37 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0
• Csaba Hefler, Ying Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Matthieu Chotard, Luke Barlow, Huih Qiuf, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Wei Shyy, and Michael Pittmann (2026). “Microraptor reveals specialized gliding capabilities in multiwinged early paravians.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(6): e2518106123 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518106123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518106123
• Hyemin Jo, Jongyun Jung, Minguk Kim, Min Huh & Julia A. Clarke (2026). “Description of the first Mesozoic bird eggs from Korea and a new mid-cretaceous theropod-dominated egg locality.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113653 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113653 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018226001161
• Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Agustín G. Martinelli, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Rodrigo Miloni Santucci, Yun-Hsin Wu & Daniel J. Field (2024). “Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain.” Nature (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08114-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08114-4
• Matías J. Motta, Federico L. Agnolín, Federico Brissón Egli, Sebastián Rozadilla & Fernando E. Novas (2025). “Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria).” Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2529608. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608
• Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Sofía Urzagasti-Torres, Paolo Citton, Matteo Belvedere & Silvina de Valais (2025). “The Holotypes of Patagonichornis venetiorum Casamiquela 1996 and Tridigitichnus inopinatus Casamiquela 1996 Vertebrate Ichnotaxa (Late Cretaceous, Patagonia): History and Patrimonial Significance.” Geoheritage 17: 161 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4
• Clark AD, Atterholt J, Scannella JB, Carroll N, O’Connor JK (2024). “New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus.” PLoS ONE 19(10): e0310686. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310686 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310686
• Christopher R. Torres, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph R. Groenke, Matthew C. Lamanna, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Grace M. Musser, Eric M. Roberts & Patrick M. O’Connor (2025). “Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity.” Nature 638: 146–151 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08390-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0\
• Facundo Irazoqui, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Paula Bona and Nahuel Vega (2026). “New Species of Vegavis (Neornithes) from Antarctica Highlights Unexpected Cretaceous Antarctic Diversity.” Diversity 18(2): 82. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020082 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/2/82
• Milagros Torres Etchegorry & Federico J. Degrange (2024). “Insights into Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Teratornithidae) lifestyle based on neuroanatomy.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14184

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Part 1 Intro: Black Licorice, and the Outro: Supergroovy.

Part 2 Intro: all i really want is you, and the Outro: everything just kinda sucks

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You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 9 - Avialans (Winter 2026) Parts 1 and 2.

Avialan news:

• Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “8. The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds.” In: Scott V. Edwards, and J. Michael Reed (eds), New Perspectives in Ornithology: 21st Century Dispatches across the World of Birds; New York, 2026; online edn, Oxford Academic: 139–168.
• Evan T Saitta, Lilja Carden, Jonathan S Mitchell & Peter J Makovicky (2025). “Feather Evolution Following Flight Loss In Crown Group Birds: Relaxed Selection And Developmental Constraints.” Evolution, qpaf020. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020 https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf020/7997201
• Takumi Watanabe, Fernando E. Novas, Tatsuya Hirasawa (2026). “Evolution of the Jaw Joint and Middle Ear Morphologies in the Lineage Towards Birds.” Zoological Science 43(1): doi: https://doi.org/10.2108/zs250108 https://bioone.org/journals/zoological-science/volume-43/issue-1/zs250108/Evolution-of-the-Jaw-Joint-and-Middle-Ear-Morphologies-in/10.2108/zs250108.full
• Wang Min, Wang Xiao-Li, Zheng Xiao-Ting & Zhou Zhong-He (2024). “Cranial anatomy of Anchiornis huxleyi (Theropoda: Paraves) sheds new light on bird skull evolution.” Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication). DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.241225 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387743760_Cranial_anatomy_of_Anchiornis_huxleyi_Theropoda_Paraves_sheds_new_light_on_bird_skull_evolution
• Yosef Kiat, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Yan Wang & Jingmai O’Connor (2025). “Wing morphology of Anchiornis huxleyi and the evolution of molt strategies in paravian dinosaurs.” Communications Biology 8: 1633 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09019-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-09019-2
• Runsheng Chen, Min Wang, Liping Dong, Guowu Zhou, Xing Xu, Ke Deng, Liming Xu, Chi Zhang, Linchang. Wang, Honggang Du, Ganmin Lin, Min Lin & Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “Earliest short-tailed bird from the Late Jurassic of China.” Nature 638(8050): 441–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08410-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08410-z
• Jingmai K. O’Connor, Alexander D. Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Min Wang, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek & Huali Chang (2025). “Avian features of Archaeopteryx feeding apparatus reflect elevated demands of flight.” The Innovation (advance online publication). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xinn.2025.101086 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666675825002899
• Jingmai O’Connor, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Yosef Kiat, Matteo Fabbri, Akiko Shinya, Constance Van Beek, Jing Lu, Min Wang & Han Hu (2025). “Chicago Archaeopteryx informs on the early evolution of the avian bauplan.” Nature (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08912-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08912-4
• Shaoyuan Wu, Ziqi Tao, Liang Liu, Charles R Marshall, Scott V Edwards, Zhonghe Zhou & Frank E Rheindt (2025). “New Fossils Imply a Deeper Origin of Modern Birds in the Mesozoic.” National Science Review, nwaf238. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238 https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwaf238/8158921
• Sergio M. Nebreda, Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Javier C. Terol, Francisco J. Serrano, Ángela D. Buscalioni & Jesús Marugán-Lobón (2026). “An isolated skull from Las Hoyas (Early Cretaceous, Spain) informs the early evolution towards elongated rostra in enantiornithine birds (Aves, Ornithothoraces).”
• Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 145: 251-265 doi: https://doi.org/10.3897/sjp.145.182813 https://sjp.pensoft.net/article/182813/
• Wang, X., A.D. Clark, J.K. O'Connor, X. Zhang, X. Wang, X. Zheng, and Z. Zhou (2024). “First edentulous enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol avifauna.” Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105867 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124000405
• Zhiheng Li, Jinsheng Hu, Thomas A Stidham, Mao Ye, Min Wang, Yanhong Pan, Tao Zhao, Jingshu Li, Zhonghe Zhou & Julia A Clarke (2025). “Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from the Jehol Biota.” eLife 14: RP103628 doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.103628.3 https://elifesciences.org/articles/103628
• Wang, M., & Zhou, Z. (2019). A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) with completely fused premaxillae from the Early Cretaceous of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17(15), 1299–1312. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1527403
• Caizhi Shen, Alexander D. Clark, Hui Fang, Shaokun Chen, Hongxia Jiang, Qiang Ji & Jingmai K. O’Connor (2024). “A new diminutive species of bohaiornithid enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Group, northern China.” Scientific Reports 14: 31363 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-82869-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-82869-8
• Jingmai O’Connor, Xiaoli Wang, Alexander Clark, Pei-Chen Kuo, Ryan Davila, Yan Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, and Zhonghe Zhou (2025). “A new small-bodied longipterygid (Aves: Enantiornithes) from the Aptian Jiufotang Formation preserving unusual gastroliths.” Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a56. doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1589 https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5712-longipterygid-enantiornithine-chromeornis
• Jingmai K. O’Connor, Jessie Atterholt, Alexander D. Clark, Linqi Zhou, Cuo Peng, Xiaoqin Zhang & Hailu You (2025). “A new enantiornithine (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Lower Cretaceous Xiagou Formation with unusually short pubes.” Geobios (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2024.11.003 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016699525000166
• Matthieu Chotard, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Luke Barlow, Martin Kundrát, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Juned Zariwala, Scott Hartman, Xing Xu & Michael Pittman (2025). “New information on the Hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae).” BMC Ecology and Evolution 25: 37 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0 https://bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-025-02372-0
• Csaba Hefler, Ying Wang, Xiaoli Wang, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, Maxime Grosmougin, Matthieu Chotard, Luke Barlow, Huih Qiuf, T. Alexander Dececchi, Michael B. Habib, Wei Shyy, and Michael Pittmann (2026). “Microraptor reveals specialized gliding capabilities in multiwinged early paravians.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123(6): e2518106123 doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518106123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518106123
• Hyemin Jo, Jongyun Jung, Minguk Kim, Min Huh & Julia A. Clarke (2026). “Description of the first Mesozoic bird eggs from Korea and a new mid-cretaceous theropod-dominated egg locality.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113653 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113653 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018226001161
• Luis M. Chiappe, Guillermo Navalón, Agustín G. Martinelli, Ismar de Souza Carvalho, Rodrigo Miloni Santucci, Yun-Hsin Wu & Daniel J. Field (2024). “Cretaceous bird from Brazil informs the evolution of the avian skull and brain.” Nature (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08114-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08114-4
• Matías J. Motta, Federico L. Agnolín, Federico Brissón Egli, Sebastián Rozadilla & Fernando E. Novas (2025). “Phylogenetic relationships of Unenlagiidae among Paraves (Dinosauria).” Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2529608. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2025.2529608
• Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Sofía Urzagasti-Torres, Paolo Citton, Matteo Belvedere & Silvina de Valais (2025). “The Holotypes of Patagonichornis venetiorum Casamiquela 1996 and Tridigitichnus inopinatus Casamiquela 1996 Vertebrate Ichnotaxa (Late Cretaceous, Patagonia): History and Patrimonial Significance.” Geoheritage 17: 161 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4
• Clark AD, Atterholt J, Scannella JB, Carroll N, O’Connor JK (2024). “New enantiornithine diversity in the Hell Creek Formation and the functional morphology of the avisaurid tarsometatarsus.” PLoS ONE 19(10): e0310686. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310686 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0310686
• Christopher R. Torres, Julia A. Clarke, Joseph R. Groenke, Matthew C. Lamanna, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Grace M. Musser, Eric M. Roberts & Patrick M. O’Connor (2025). “Cretaceous Antarctic bird skull elucidates early avian ecological diversity.” Nature 638: 146–151 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08390-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08390-0\
• Facundo Irazoqui, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, Ariana Paulina-Carabajal, Paula Bona and Nahuel Vega (2026). “New Species of Vegavis (Neornithes) from Antarctica Highlights Unexpected Cretaceous Antarctic Diversity.” Diversity 18(2): 82. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d18020082 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18/2/82
• Milagros Torres Etchegorry & Federico J. Degrange (2024). “Insights into Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Teratornithidae) lifestyle based on neuroanatomy.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14184
• Milagros Torres Etchegorry & Federico J. Degrange (2024). “Insights into Argentavis magnificens (Aves, Teratornithidae) lifestyle based on neuroanatomy.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14184 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14184

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Part 1 Intro: Black Licorice, and the Outro: Supergroovy.

Part 2 Intro: all i really want is you, and the Outro: everything just kinda sucks

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The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 8 - Hadrosauroids (Winter 2026) Parts 1 and 2.

(stream it here)

Hadrosauroid news:

• Longrich, N.R., X. Pereda-Suberbiola, N. Bardet, and N.-E. Jalil. 2024. A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa. Scientific Reports 14: 3665. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-53447-9
• Nicholas R. Longrich, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Nathalie Bardet & Nour-Eddine Jalil (2025) "A new hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco provides evidence for an African radiation of lambeosaurines." Gondwana Research (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.006 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X2500156X
• Donghao Wang, Lida Xing, Jordan C. Mallon, Tetsuto Miyashita, Zaoqun Liang, Xianqiu Zhang, Zheng Ren, Zhicong Liang & Minyi Xian (2025). “First occurrence of the duck-billed dinosaur tribe Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) in South China.” Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652
• Wenjiang Qiu, Hantang Hua, Kui Zhao, Han Yao, Fenglu Han & Rui Wu (2025) "The first discovery of Stromatoolithus pinglingensis in the Ganzhou Basin and a revision of Paraspheroolithus porcarboris." Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2581783 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2581783
• Aaron J van der Reest, S. Andrew DuFrane, Alberto Reyes, Philip J. Currie, and Jenni Scott (2025). “Edmontosaurus from the Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta, and its chronostratigraphic position in the Late Cretaceous Brazeau Formation and correlative units in western Canada.” Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0001 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2023-0001
• Paul C. Sereno, Evan T. Saitta, Daniel Vidal, Nathan Myhrvold, María Ciudad Real, Stephanie L. Baumgart, Lauren L. Bop, Tyler M. Keillor, Marcus Eriksen, and Kraig Derstler (2025). “Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”” Science (advance online publication). DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3536 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3536
• DiPiazzo, Christopher (November 2025). Edmontosaurus: Beast of the Week. In Prehistoric Beast of the Week [blog]. Accessed Jan. 25, 2026. https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2013/08/anatotitan-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html
• Henry S. Sharpe, Phil R. Bell, Ian Baylatry, Robin Sissons & Corwin Sullivan (2025). “Re-evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity. The Anatomical Record (advance online publication).” doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70098 https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70098

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Part 2 Intro: valentine, and the Outro: destroyer

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You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 8 - Hadrosauroids (Winter 2026) Parts 1 and 2.

(stream it here)

Hadrosauroid news:

• Bandeira, K.L.N., B.A. Navarro, R.V. Pêgas, N.S. Brilhante, A.S. Brum, L.G. de Souza, R.C. da Silva, and V. Gallo. 2024. “A reassessment of the historical fossil findings from Bahia State (Northeast Brazil) reveals a diversified dinosaur fauna in the Lower Cretaceous of South America.” Historical Biology advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2024.2318406 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2318406
• Hugo Bert, Holly Woodward, Nicolas Rinder, Romain Amiot, John R. Horner, Christophe Lécuyer, Mariana Sena & Jorge Cubo (2025). “Neonatal state and degree of necessity for parental care in Maiasaura based on inferred neonatal metabolic rates.” Scientific Reports 15: 24827 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-06282-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-06282-5
• Jiménez-Moreno Francisco Javier, Ángel Alejandro Ramírez-Velasco, Patricio Ocampo-Cornejo, Jorge Velázquez-Castro & Rodolfo Palomino-Merino (2025). “ (Ornithopoda: Iguanodontia: Hadrosauroidea).” Evolving Earth 100072. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eve.2025.100072 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2950117225000160
• Tito Aureliano, Aline M. Ghilardi, Jonatan Kaluza & Agustín G. Martinelli (2025). “Inside a duck-billed dinosaur: Vertebral bone microstructure of Huallasaurus (Hadrosauridae), Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia.” The Anatomical Records (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70040https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70040
• Thomas W. Dudgeon and David C. Evans (2025). “Disparate feeding mechanics between two hadrosaurid dinosaurs support the potential for resource partitioning.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 292(2056): 20250921. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.0921 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.0921
• Sebastian G. Dalman, Steven E. Jasinski, D. Edward Malinzak, Spencer G. Lucas, Martin Kundrát, and Anthony R. Fiorillo (2025). “A new saurolophine hadrosaurid (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Hunter Wash Member, Kirtland Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.” in: Lucas et al., 2025, Fossil Record 11.” New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 101: 73—114. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396005330_A_new_saurolophine_hadrosaurid_Ornithischia_Hadrosauridae_from_the_Upper_Cretaceous_Campanian_Hunter_Wash_Member_Kirtland_Formation_San_Juan_Basin_New_Mexico
• Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Sofía Urzagasti-Torres, Paolo Citton, Matteo Belvedere & Silvina de Valais (2025). “The Holotypes of Patagonichornis venetiorum Casamiquela 1996 and Tridigitichnus inopinatus Casamiquela 1996 Vertebrate Ichnotaxa (Late Cretaceous, Patagonia): History and Patrimonial Significance.” Geoheritage 17: 161 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12371-025-01211-4
• Filippo Bertozzo, Darren H. Tanke, Simone Conti, Fabio Manucci, Gareth Arnott, Pascal Godefroit, Alastair Ruffell, Denver Fowler, Elizabeth A. Freedman Fowler, Ivan Y. Bolotsky, Yuri L. Bolotsky & Eileen Murphy (2025). “Deciphering causes and behaviors: A recurrent pattern of tail injuries in hadrosaurid dinosaurs.” iScience (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113739 https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02000-0
• Longrich, N.R., X. Pereda-Suberbiola, N. Bardet, and N.-E. Jalil. 2024. A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa. Scientific Reports 14: 3665. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-53447-9
• Nicholas R. Longrich, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola, Nathalie Bardet & Nour-Eddine Jalil (2025) "A new hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco provides evidence for an African radiation of lambeosaurines." Gondwana Research (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.05.006 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1342937X2500156X
• Donghao Wang, Lida Xing, Jordan C. Mallon, Tetsuto Miyashita, Zaoqun Liang, Xianqiu Zhang, Zheng Ren, Zhicong Liang & Minyi Xian (2025). “First occurrence of the duck-billed dinosaur tribe Lambeosaurini (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) in South China.” Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652
• Wenjiang Qiu, Hantang Hua, Kui Zhao, Han Yao, Fenglu Han & Rui Wu (2025) "The first discovery of Stromatoolithus pinglingensis in the Ganzhou Basin and a revision of Paraspheroolithus porcarboris." Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2581783 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2581783
• Aaron J van der Reest, S. Andrew DuFrane, Alberto Reyes, Philip J. Currie, and Jenni Scott (2025). “Edmontosaurus from the Rocky Mountain foothills, Alberta, and its chronostratigraphic position in the Late Cretaceous Brazeau Formation and correlative units in western Canada.” Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0001 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2023-0001
• Paul C. Sereno, Evan T. Saitta, Daniel Vidal, Nathan Myhrvold, María Ciudad Real, Stephanie L. Baumgart, Lauren L. Bop, Tyler M. Keillor, Marcus Eriksen, and Kraig Derstler (2025). “Duck-billed dinosaur fleshy midline and hooves reveal terrestrial clay-template “mummification”” Science (advance online publication). DOI: 10.1126/science.adw3536 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3536
• DiPiazzo, Christopher (November 2025). Edmontosaurus: Beast of the Week. In Prehistoric Beast of the Week [blog]. Accessed Jan. 25, 2026. https://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2013/08/anatotitan-prehistoric-animal-of-week.html
• Henry S. Sharpe, Phil R. Bell, Ian Baylatry, Robin Sissons & Corwin Sullivan (2025). “Re-evaluation of a soft crested Edmontosaurin, with implications for hadrosaurid life appearance and diversity. The Anatomical Record (advance online publication).” doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.70098 https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.70098

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

Part 1 Intro: Black Coffee , and the Outro: T-Shirts .

Part 2 Intro: valentine, and the Outro: destroyer

Would you like a copy of Ankylosaurs: Head to Tail?

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Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on hadrosauroids … for now!

Until next time!

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 7 - Sauropodomorphs (Winter 2025).

Sauropodomorph news:

• Lísie V S Damke, Max C Langer, Átila A S Da-Rosa & Rodrigo T Müller (2024). “New specimens of Saturnalia tupiniquim (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha): insights into intraspecific variation, rostral anatomy, and skull size.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(4): zlae156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae156 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae156/7925713
• David M Lovelace, Aaron M Kufner, Adam J Fitch, Kristina Curry Rogers, Mark Schmitz, Darin M Schwartz, Amanda LeClair-Diaz, Lynette St.Clair, Joshua Mann, Reba Teran, Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 203, Issue 1, January 2025, zlae153, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae153
• Hechenleitner, E.M., Martinelli, A.G., Rocher, S. et al. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature 648, 634–639 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09634-3
• Samantha L. Beeston, Daniela Schwarz, Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett, Patrick Asbach & Philip D. Mannion (2025). “New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70045
• Cecilia Apaldetti; Ricardo N. Martinez; Oscar A. Alcober & Diego Pol (2011). Claessens, Leon (ed.). "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLOS ONE. 6 (11)e26964. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...626964A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMC 3212523. PMID 22096511.
• Claire Peyre de Fabrègues, Cecilia Apaldetti, Ignacio A. Cerda, Diego Abelín, and Ricardo N. Martínez (2025). “Leyesaurus marayensis (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from Northwestern Argentina: an update.” Ameghiniana (advance online publication) doi: 10.5710/AMGH.11.12.2024.3622 https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/127
• Thomas Filek, Matthias Kranner, Ben Pabst and Ursula B. Göhlich (2025). “Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies.” Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 250325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250325 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250325
• Sina F. J. Dupuis, Jordan Bestwick, Dennis M. Hansen, Esben Horn, Stacey Wiik, Rasmus Frederiksen, Robert Zboray, Kiarash Tajbakhsh, Ursina Bachmann, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). “Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology.” Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3
• Michael W. Maisch, Lirazel S. M. Maisch (2024). Neubewertung von _"Plateosaurus" ornatus_ von Huene, 1908 - ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed? Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg [Annual Report of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg] 180: 379–399
• Rémi Lefebvre, Chloé Aubry, Heinrich Mallison & Alexandra Houssaye (2025). “Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(4): zlaf077. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf077. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/4/zlaf077/8224426
• André O Fonseca, Fabiula P Bem & Rodrigo T Müller (2025). “Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) sheds light on early dinosaur wrist evolution.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(1): zlaf100 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf100 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/205/1/zlaf100/8248636
• Alessandro Lania, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). "Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 39 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6
• Xiang-Yuan Chen, Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new species of Xingxiulong (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng formation of Yunnan Province, China.” Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130
• Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Yan-Chao Wang, Huan Xu, Jianbo Chen, Zhuo Feng, Xing Xu, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia.” Scientific Reports 15: 26749 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12185-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12185-2
• Paul M Barrett & Kimberley EJ Chapelle (2024). “A brief history of Massospondylus: its discovery, historical taxonomy and redescription of the original syntype series.” Palaeontologia africana. Palaeontologia africana 58: 97–131 ISSN 2410-4418 https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/ac85b6f0-23a8-4fa7-a1a2-878f3ee610ff
• Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, Dylan C. T. Rowe, Diane Scott & Robert R. Reisz (2025). "Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 44 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5
• Han, F., Y. Yu, S. Zhang, R. Zeng, X. Wang, H. Cai, T. Wu, Y. Wen, S. Cai, C. Li, R. Wu, Q. Zhao, and X. Xu. 2023. Exceptional Early Jurassic fossils with leathery eggs shed light on dinosaur reproductive biology. National Science Review advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad258
• Qian-Nan Zhang, Lei Jia, Tao Wang, Yu-Guang Zhang & Hai-Lu You (2024). “The largest sauropodomorph skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China.” PeerJ 12: e18629 doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18629 https://peerj.com/articles/18629/

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

Intro: Chinese Cafe , and the Outro: Death of a Dream.

December 25, 2025

EPISODE 7 - SAUROPODOMORPHS (WINTER 2025) Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 7 - Sauropodomorphs (Winter 2025).

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Sauropodomorph news:

• Lísie V S Damke, Max C Langer, Átila A S Da-Rosa & Rodrigo T Müller (2024). “New specimens of Saturnalia tupiniquim (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha): insights into intraspecific variation, rostral anatomy, and skull size.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(4): zlae156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae156 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae156/7925713
• David M Lovelace, Aaron M Kufner, Adam J Fitch, Kristina Curry Rogers, Mark Schmitz, Darin M Schwartz, Amanda LeClair-Diaz, Lynette St.Clair, Joshua Mann, Reba Teran, Rethinking dinosaur origins: oldest known equatorial dinosaur-bearing assemblage (mid-late Carnian Popo Agie FM, Wyoming, USA), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 203, Issue 1, January 2025, zlae153, https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae153
• Hechenleitner, E.M., Martinelli, A.G., Rocher, S. et al. A long-necked early dinosaur from a newly discovered Upper Triassic basin in the Andes. Nature 648, 634–639 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09634-3
• Samantha L. Beeston, Daniela Schwarz, Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett, Patrick Asbach & Philip D. Mannion (2025). “New information on Late Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs provides support for the independent acquisition of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in avemetatarsalian lineages.” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.70045
• Cecilia Apaldetti; Ricardo N. Martinez; Oscar A. Alcober & Diego Pol (2011). Claessens, Leon (ed.). "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina". PLOS ONE. 6 (11)e26964. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...626964A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964. PMC 3212523. PMID 22096511.
• Claire Peyre de Fabrègues, Cecilia Apaldetti, Ignacio A. Cerda, Diego Abelín, and Ricardo N. Martínez (2025). “Leyesaurus marayensis (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from Northwestern Argentina: an update.” Ameghiniana (advance online publication) doi: 10.5710/AMGH.11.12.2024.3622 https://www.ameghiniana.org.ar/index.php/ameghiniana/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/127
• Thomas Filek, Matthias Kranner, Ben Pabst and Ursula B. Göhlich (2025). “Tail of defence: an almost complete tail skeleton of Plateosaurus (Sauropodomorpha, Late Triassic) reveals possible defence strategies.” Royal Society Open Science 12(5): 250325. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250325 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.250325
• Sina F. J. Dupuis, Jordan Bestwick, Dennis M. Hansen, Esben Horn, Stacey Wiik, Rasmus Frederiksen, Robert Zboray, Kiarash Tajbakhsh, Ursina Bachmann, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). “Osteology and histology of a Plateosaurus trossingensis (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland with an advanced chronic pathology.” Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00368-3
• Michael W. Maisch, Lirazel S. M. Maisch (2024). Neubewertung von _"Plateosaurus" ornatus_ von Huene, 1908 - ein früher Ornithischier (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) aus dem Rhätbonebed? Bd. 180 (2024): Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg [Annual Report of the Society for Natural History in Württemberg] 180: 379–399
• Rémi Lefebvre, Chloé Aubry, Heinrich Mallison & Alexandra Houssaye (2025). “Evolution of the sauropodomorph astragalus: relationships with the emergence of the sauropod bauplan and weight-bearing function, and critical appraisal of evolutionary rate estimation.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(4): zlaf077. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf077. https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/4/zlaf077/8224426
• André O Fonseca, Fabiula P Bem & Rodrigo T Müller (2025). “Osteology of the appendicular skeleton of Macrocollum itaquii (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) sheds light on early dinosaur wrist evolution.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 205(1): zlaf100 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf100 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/205/1/zlaf100/8248636
• Alessandro Lania, Ben Pabst & Torsten M. Scheyer (2025). "Craniomandibular osteology of a new massopodan sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic (latest Norian) of Canton Aargau, Switzerland." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 39 doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00373-6
• Xiang-Yuan Chen, Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new species of Xingxiulong (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha) from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng formation of Yunnan Province, China.” Historical Biology (advance online publication) doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2025.2458130
• Ya-Ming Wang, Qian-Nan Zhang, Yan-Chao Wang, Huan Xu, Jianbo Chen, Zhuo Feng, Xing Xu, Tao Wang & Hai-Lu You (2025). “A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia.” Scientific Reports 15: 26749 doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12185-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-12185-2
• Paul M Barrett & Kimberley EJ Chapelle (2024). “A brief history of Massospondylus: its discovery, historical taxonomy and redescription of the original syntype series.” Palaeontologia africana. Palaeontologia africana 58: 97–131 ISSN 2410-4418 https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/ac85b6f0-23a8-4fa7-a1a2-878f3ee610ff
• Ethan D. Mooney, Tea Maho, Dylan C. T. Rowe, Diane Scott & Robert R. Reisz (2025). "Massospondylus embryos and hatchling provide new insights into early sauropodomorph ontogeny." Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 144: 44 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13358-025-00382-5
• Han, F., Y. Yu, S. Zhang, R. Zeng, X. Wang, H. Cai, T. Wu, Y. Wen, S. Cai, C. Li, R. Wu, Q. Zhao, and X. Xu. 2023. Exceptional Early Jurassic fossils with leathery eggs shed light on dinosaur reproductive biology. National Science Review advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwad258
• Qian-Nan Zhang, Lei Jia, Tao Wang, Yu-Guang Zhang & Hai-Lu You (2024). “The largest sauropodomorph skull from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation of China.” PeerJ 12: e18629 doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18629 https://peerj.com/articles/18629/

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

Intro: Chinese Cafe , and the Outro: Death of a Dream.

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Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on sauropodomorphs … for now!

Until next time!

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 6 - Small-bodied Ornithopods (Fall 2025).

Small-bodied Ornithopod news:

• Cooper, M.R. (1985). “A revision of the ornithischian dinosaur Kangnasaurus coetzeei Haughton, with a classification of the Ornithischia.” Annals of the South African Museum. 1985;95:281–317. https://archive.org/details/biostor-109745/
• Susannah C. R. Maidment and Paul M. Barrett (2025). “Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western USA.” Royal Society Open Science 12(6):242195. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242195.
• Yunfeng Yang, James L. King & Xing Xu (2025). “A new neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation of northern China.” PeerJ 13:e19664. doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj. 19664 https://peerj.com/articles/19664/
• Paul M. Barrett and Susannah C.R. Maidment (2025). “A Review of Nanosaurus agilis Marsh and Other Small-Bodied Morrison Formation “Ornithopods.” Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 66(1): 25-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.3374/014.066.0102 https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-66/issue-1/014.066.0102/A-Review-of-Nanosaurus-agilis-Marsh-and-Other-Small-Bodied/10.3374/014.066.0102.short
• Tykoski, R.S., D.L. Contreras, and C. Noto (2023). “The first small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Lewisville Formation (middle Cenomanian) of Texas.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2023.2257238
• Filippo Bertozzo, Niu Kecheng, Nathan Vallée Gillette & Pascal Godefroit (2025). “Anatomical description and digital reconstruction of the skull of Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from China.” PLoS ONE 20(1): e0312519. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312519 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0312519
• Haviv M. Avrahami, Peter J. Makovicky, Ryan T. Tucker, Lindsay E. Zanno. “A new semi-fossorial thescelosaurine dinosaur from the Cenomanian-age Mussentuchit Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah.” The Anatomical Record, July, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25505
• Juan Maíllo, Jerome Hidalgo-Sanz, José Manuel Gasca, José Ignacio Canudo & Miguel Moreno-Azanza (2025). “Intraskeletal histovariability and skeletochronology in an ornithopod dinosaur from the Maestrazgo Basin (Teruel, Spain).” Journal of Anatomy (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14225 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14225
• Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa, Francisco J. Verdú, Maite Suñer & Alberto Cobos (2025). “Unravelling ornithopod diversity in the Late Jurassic coastal ecosystems of Eastern Iberia (Spain).” Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 131(3): 529-546. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54103/2039-4942/28723 https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/28723
• Romain Pintore, Alexandra Houssaye & John R. Hutchinson (2025). “How femoral morphology informs our understanding of the evolution of ornithopod locomotion and body size.” Palaeontology 68(4): e70016. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.70016 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pala.70016
• Juan García-Palou, Erik Isasmendi, and Angélica Torices (2025). “An analysis of the first fossil remains of styracosternan ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of La Rioja (Spain) and its paleobiogeographical implications.” Palaeontologia Electronica 28(2): a34. doi: https://doi.org/10.26879/1364 https://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2025/5599-styracosternan-of-la-rioja
• Bruno A. Navarro, Ariovaldo A. Giaretta, Marcelo A. Fernandes, Alberto B. Carvalho, Hussam Zaher(2024). “First dinosaur ichnofauna from the Bauru Group indicates Cenomanian–Turonian events led to an ‘Ornithischian Hiatus’ in the Upper Cretaceous of Southeast Brazil.” Cretaceous Research, Volume 168, December 2024, Article Number 106075. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106075
• Phil R. Bell, Matthew C. Herne, Sienna A. Birch, Ralph E. Molnar & Elizabeth T. Smith (2025). “Articulated hindlimb of a small-bodied ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia.” Alcheringa (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2025.2537025 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2025.2537025

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

Intro: Buzzsaw Party Boy, and the Outro: Sleepyhead.

Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on allosauroids … for now!

Until next time!

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 5 - Allosauroidea (Summer 2025).

Allosauroid news:

• Chan-Gyu Yun (2024). “Evaluating the paleoecology of the Megaraptora (Dinosauria: Theropoda) through biomechanical approaches.” Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 39: xxx (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.7203/sjp.29797 https://sepaleontologia.es/early-view-yun/
• Jorge O. Calvo, Juan D. Porfiri, Alexis M. Aranciaga Rolando, Fernando E. Novas, Domenica D. Dos Santos, Derek E. Wessel & Matthew C. Lamanna (2025). “Morphological and Phylogenetic Significance of the First Adult Humerus of the Patagonian Cretaceous Theropod Megaraptor namunhuaiquii Novas, 1998. Annals of Carnegie Museum 90(3): 161-181. doi: https://doi.org/10.2992/007.090.0301 https://bioone.org/journals/annals-of-carnegie-museum/volume-90/issue-3/007.090.0301/Morphological-and-Phylogenetic-Significance-of-the-First-Adult-Humerus-of/10.2992/007.090.0301.short
• Alexander O. Averianov & Hans-Dieter Sues (2024). “New evidence for the presence of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan.” Historical Biology (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2423675 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2423675
• Alexander O. Averianov, Ivan T. Kuzmin, Pavel P. Skutschas & Hans-Dieter Sues (2025). “First record of Carcharodontosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Upper Cretaceous Khodzhakul Formation of Uzbekistan.” Journal of Paleontology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2025.1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/first-record-of-carcharodontosauridae-dinosauria-theropoda-in-the-upper-cretaceous-khodzhakul-formation-of-uzbekistan/7068DD313B954E2DB7EC507F956EFE73
• Maximilian Kellermann, Elena Cuesta & Oliver W. M. Rauhut (2025). “Re-evaluation of the Bahariya Formation carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for allosauroid phylogeny.” PLoS ONE 20(1): e0311096 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311096 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0311096
• Andrew Danison, Mathew Wedel, Daniel Barta, Holly Woodward, Holley Flora, Andrew Lee & Eric Snively (2024). “Chimerism in specimens referred to Saurophaganax maximus reveals a new species of Allosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda).” Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 12(1): 81-114 doi: https://doi.org/10.18435/vamp29404 https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/vamp/index.php/VAMP/article/view/29404
• André Burigo and Octávio Mateus (2025) [2024]. “Allosaurus europaeus (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) Revisited and Taxonomy of the Genus.” Diversity 17(1): 29 doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d17010029 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/17/1/29
• Elisabete Malafaia, Pedro Dantas, Fernando Escaso, Pedro Mocho & Francisco Ortega (2025). “Cranial osteology of a new specimen of Allosaurus Marsh, 1877 (Theropoda: Allosauridae) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and a specimen-level phylogenetic analysis of Allosaurus.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(1): zlaf029. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf029 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/204/1/zlaf029/8151024
• Taylor Oswald, Colin Boisvert, Domenic D'amore, and Brian Curtice (2025). “Here be Dragons”: Shed Teeth Potentially Indicate the Presence of Multiple Unidentified Allosauroids from the Early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 50(2): 55-129. doi: https://doi.org/10.2181/036.050.0204 https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-the-arizona-nevada-academy-of-science/volume-50/issue-2/036.050.0204/Here-be-Dragons--Shed-Teeth-Potentially-Indicate-the-Presence/10.2181/036.050.0204.short
• Zou Y, Chen L, Wang T, Wang G, Zhang W, Zhang X, Wang Z, Wu X, You H. 2025. A new metriacanthosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Yunnan Province, China. PeerJ 13:e19218 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19218

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

Intro: Shelter Dog, and the Outro: Centipede.

Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

The goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 4 - Marginocephalians (Summer 2025).

Marginocephalia news:

• X.Zhao, Z.Cheng and X. Xu, (1999). “The earliest ceratopsian from the Tuchengzi Formation of Liaoning, China.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Vol. 19, No. 4 (Dec. 13, 1999), pp. 681-691. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4524038
• Asato Ishikawa, Wenjie Zheng, Takuya Imai, Soki Hattori, Masateru Shibata, Soichiro Kawabe & Xingsheng Jin (2025). “Psittacosaurus houi, a longer snouted psittacosaurid from the Lower Cretaceous Lujiatun Unit of Yixian Formation, China, with the synonymy of the unresolved genus Hongshanosaurus revisited.” PeerJ 13: e19547 doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19547 https://peerj.com/articles/19547
• Fenglu Han, Qi Zhao, Jinfeng Hu & Xing Xu (2024). “Bone histology and growth curve of the earliest ceratopsian Yinlong downsi from the Upper Jurassic of Junggar Basin, Northwest China.” PeerJ 12: e18761. doi: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18761 https://peerj.com/articles/18761/
• Guo Te, He Yi-Ming & Zhao Qi (2025). “Osteohistology on Liaoceratops yanzigouensis (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota .” Vertebrata Palasiatica (advance online publication). DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250708 https://www.vertpala.ac.cn/EN/10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.250708
• Tomonori Tanaka, Kentaro Chiba, Tadahiro Ikeda & Michael J. Ryan (2024). “A new neoceratopsian (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation (Albian), southwestern Japan.” Papers in Palaeontology 10(5): e1587. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1587 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.1587
• Jinfeng Hu, Xing Xu, Qi Zhao, Yiming He, Catherine A. Forster & Fenglu Han (2024). “Endocranial morphology of three early-diverging ceratopsians and implications for the behavior and the evolution of the endocast in ceratopsians.” Paleobiology (October, 2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2024.25 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/endocranial-morphology-of-three-earlydiverging-ceratopsians-and-implications-for-the-behavior-and-the-evolution-of-the-endocast-in-ceratopsians/70089050F60D7D474913AC51128D3E24
• Alexandre V. Demers-Potvin and Hans C.E. Larsson. 2024. “Occurrence of Centrosaurus apertus (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) in Saskatchewan, Canada, and expanded dinosaur diversity in the easternmost exposure of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Dinosaur Park Formation.” Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 61(11): 1127-1155. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0125
• Jordan Mallon, Mathew Roloson, Emily Bamforth, John B. Scannella, and Michael J. Ryan (2025). “The Canadian fossil record supports anagenesis in Triceratops (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia).” Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (advance online publication). doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2024-0170 https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjes-2024-0170
• Phil R. Bell, Brian J. Pickles, Sarah C. Ashby, Issy E. Walker, Sally Hurst, Michael Rampe, Paul Durkin & Caleb M. Brown (2025). “A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada.” PLoS One 20(7): e0324913. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0324913. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?d=10.1371/journal.pone.0324913
• Paul M. Barrett and Susannah C.R. Maidment (2025). “A Review of Nanosaurus agilis Marsh and Other Small-Bodied Morrison Formation “Ornithopods.” Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 66(1): 25-50. doi: https://doi.org/10.3374/014.066.0102 https://bioone.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-peabody-museum-of-natural-history/volume-66/issue-1/014.066.0102/A-Review-of-Nanosaurus-agilis-Marsh-and-Other-Small-Bodied/10.3374/014.066.0102.short
• Woodruff, D.C., R.K. Schott, and D.C. Evans. 2023. “Two new species of small-bodied pachycephalosaurine (Dinosauria, Marginocephalia) from the uppermost Cretaceous of North America suggest hidden diversity in well-sampled formations.” Papers in Palaeontology 9: e1535. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1535
• Anton F.-J. Wroblewski (2025). “Southernmost record of the pachycephalosaurine Stygimoloch spinifer and palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous North American dinosaurs.” Lethaia 57(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.18261/let.57.4. https://www.idunn.no/doi/10.18261/let.57.4.7

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

Intro: Toucans, and the Outro: Hummingbird.

Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on marginocephalians … for now!

Until next time!

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

This is the third of these interstitial episodes I’ve created – the goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 3 - Macronaria (Summer 2025).

Macronaria news:

• Pereira, P. V. L. G. C.; Bandeira, K. L. N.; Vidal, L. S.; Ribeiro, T. B.; Candeiro, C. R. A.; Bergqvist, L. P. (2024). "A new sauropod species from north-western Brazil: biomechanics and the radiation of Titanosauria (Sauropoda: Somphospondyli)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. zlae054 (4). doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae054.
• Simón, M.E. and L. Salgado. 2023. A new gigantic titanosaurian sauropod fromthe early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Neuquén Province, Argentina). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica advance online publication. doi: 10.4202/app.01086.2023
• Filippi, L.S., R.D. Juárez Valieri, P.A. Gallina, A.H. Méndez, F.A. Gianechini, and A.C. Garrido. 2023. A rebbachisaurid-mimicking titanosaur andevidence of a Late Cretaceous faunal disturbance event in South-West Gondwana. Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105754
• Gabriel G. Barbosa, Julian C. G. Silva Junior and Felipe C. Montefeltro (2024). “Digital reconstruction of the skull of Sarmientosaurus musacchioi, a titanosaur (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina.” MorphoMuseuM: e248. doi: 10.18563/journal.m3.248 https://morphomuseum.com/articles/view/248
• Federico Agnolin, Matías Motta, Jordi García Marsá, Mauro Aranciaga Rolando, Gerardo Alvarez Herrera, Nicolás Chimento, Sebastián Rozadilla, Federico Brizzon-Egli, Mauricio Cerroni, Karen Panzeri, Sergio Bogan, Silvio Casadio, Juliana Sterli, Sergio Miquel, Sergio Martínez, Leandro Perez, Diego Pol & Fernando Novas (2024)[2025]. “New fossiliferous locality from the Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous, Campanian) from northern Patagonia, with the description of a new titanosaur.” Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales nueva serie 26(2): 217-259 doi:10.22179/REVMACN.26.885 http://revista.macn.gob.ar/ojs/index.php/RevMus/article/view/885/715
• Han, F.; Yang, L.; Lou, F.; Sullivan, C.; Xu, X.; Qiu, W.; Liu, H.; Yu, J.; Wu, R.; Ke, Y.; Xu, M.; Hu, J.; Lu, P. (2024). "A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). 2293038. doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2293038.
• Kasidit Eiamlaor, Suravech Suteethorn, Phornphen Chanthasit, Varavudh Suteethorn & Kantapon Suraprasit (2025). “Pneumatic structures of sauropod cervical vertebrae from the Lower Cretaceous Sao Khua Formation of northeastern Thailand.” Cretaceous Research 106189. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106189 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125001120
• Mocho, P., F. Escaso, J.M. Gasulla, À. Galobart, B. Poza, A. Santos-Cubedo, J.L. Sanz, and F. Ortega. 2023. New sauropod dinosaur from the LowerCretaceous of Morella (Spain) provides new insights on the evolutionary historyof Iberian somphospondylan titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad124
• Verónica Díez Díaz, Philip D. Mannion, Zoltán Csiki-Sava & Paul Upchurch (2025). “Revision of Romanian sauropod dinosaurs reveals high titanosaur diversity and body-size disparity on the latest Cretaceous Haţeg Island, with implications for titanosaurian biogeography.” Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2441516 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2024.2441516 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2024.2441516
• Zoran Marković, Miloš Milivojević, Richard J. Butler, Paul M. Barrett, Simon Wills, Andrew A. van de Weerd, Wilma Wessels & Predrag Radović (2025). “First dinosaur remains from Serbia: Sauropod and theropod material from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Osmakovo.” Cretaceous Research 106177. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106177 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125001004
• Beeston, S.L., S.F. Poropat, P.D. Mannion, A.H. Pentland, M.J. Enchelmaier, T. Sloan, and D.A. Elliott. 2024. Reappraisal of sauropod dinosaur diversity in the Upper CretaceousWinton Formation of Queensland, Australia, through 3D digitisation and descriptionof new specimens. PeerJ 12: e17180. doi: 10.7717/peerj.17180
• Hocknull​, S.A., M. Wilkinson, R.A. Lawrence, V. Konstantinov, S. Mackenzie, and R. Mackenzie. 2021. A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia. PeerJ 9: e11317. doi: 10.7717/peerj.11317
• André Saleiro & Emanuel Tschopp (2025). “New sauropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and their implications for sauropod dental evolution.” Papers in Palaeontology 11(1): e70001. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70001 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70001
• Ashu Khosla, Karen Chin, Omkar Verma, Spencer G. Lucas, Adrian P. Hunt, Dangpeng Xi, Debi Dutta & Habib Alimohammadian (2025). “Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological inferences from inclusions in vertebrate omnivore coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of central India.” Cretaceous Research 106110 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106110 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667125000333
• Stephen F. Poropat, Anne-Marie P. Tosolini, Samantha L. Beeston, Mackenzie J. Enchelmaier, Adele H. Pentland, Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Karen Chin, Vera A. Korasidis, Phil R. Bell, Nathan J. Enriquez, Alex I. Holman, Luke M. Brosnan, Amy L. Elson, Madison Tripp, Alan G. Scarlett, Belinda Godel, Robert H.C. Madden, William D.A. Rickard, Joseph J. Bevitt, Travis R. Tischler, Tayla L.M. Croxford, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott & Kliti Grice (2025). “Fossilized gut contents elucidate the feeding habits of sauropod dinosaurs.” Current Biology 35(11): 2597—2613. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.053Highlights https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00550-0
• Phil R Bell, D Cary Woodruff, Khoi Nguyen, Buuvei Mainbayar & Philip J Currie (2025). “Remarkable soft tissue anatomy recorded in titanosaur (Sauropoda) tracks from the latest Cretaceous of Mongolia.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204(3): zlaf053. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf053 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/204/3/zlaf053/8205517
• Seongyeong Kim, Yuong-Nam Lee, Noe-Heon Kim & Yong Sik Gihm (2025). “Sauropod nesting sites on mid-channel bars: Taphonomic evidence of environmental adaptation in the Lower Cretaceous Sihwa Formation, Korea.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 113147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113147 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018225004328
• Letícia Lacerda, Kamila L.N. Bandeira, Bruno A. Navarro, Maria L.P. Bertolossi, Valéria Gallo, Rafael C. da Silva, Diogenes de A. Campos & Alexander W.A. Kellner (2025). “New lithostrotian specimens (Neosauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Mato Grosso State (Western Brazil) and comments about tail injuries in sauropod dinosaurs.” Journal of South American Earth Sciences 105336. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2024.105336 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981124005583

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Intro: Maybe Days, and the Outro: Atom-Age Vampire/Cat in the Brain.

Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on macronarians … for now!

Until next time!

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

This is the first of these interstitial episodes I’ve created – the goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 2 - Ankylosauria (Summer 2025).

Ankylosauria news:

• Zhu, Z., Wu, J., You, Y., Jia, Y., Chen, C., Yao, X., … Xu, X. (2024). A new ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, southern China. Historical Biology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2024.2417208
• Xing, L., K. Niu, J. Mallon, and T. Miyashita. 2024. A new armored dinosaur with double cheek horns from the early Late Cretaceous of southeastern China. Vertebrate Anatomy Morphology Palaeontology 11: 113–132. doi: 10.18435/vamp29396
• PANG Qiqing, LI Zhiguang & GUO Zhen (2024). “A New Species of Ankylosaurian Dinosaur——Tianzhenosaurus chengi sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of Tianzhen County, Shanxi Province, China.”
• Journal of Hebei GEO University 2024(06): 41-73. DOI: 10.13937/j.cnki.hbdzdxxb.2024.06.006
• https://oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CJFD&filename=HBDX202406006&dbname=CJFDAUTO
• ZHANG Ji-ming, JIA Lei, XU Li, YOU Hai-lu, GAO Dian-song, LIU Di, LI Yu & WANG Yan-chao (2024). “New ankylosaurid material from the Lower Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin, Henan Province.” Acta Palaeontologia Sinica 64(1): 60-73 (in Chinese). DOI: 10.19800/j.cnki.aps.2024037 http://gswxb.cnjournals.cn/gswxben/article/abstract/20250104
• Sophie Sanchez, Armand de Ricqlès, Jasper Ponstein, Paul Tafforeau & Louise Zylberberg (2024)
• Microstructure and development of the dermal ossicles of Antarctopelta oliveroi (Dinosauria, Ankylosauria): A complex morphogenetic system deciphered through three-dimensional X-ray microtomography.” Journal of Anatomy (05 November 2024). doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.14159
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14159
• Denner Deiques, André Barcelos-Silveira, Paula Dentzien-Dias & Heitor Francischini (2025). “Dinosaur tracks from the Guará Formation (Brazil) shed light on the biodiversity of a South American Late Jurassic humid desert.” Journal of South American Earth Sciences 105364. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2025.105364 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895981125000264
• Victoria M. Arbour, Martin G. Lockley, Eamon Drysdale, Roy Rule & Charles W. Helm (2025). “A new thyreophoran ichnotaxon from British Columbia, Canada confirms the presence of ankylosaurid dinosaurs in the mid Cretaceous of North America.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2451319. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2451319. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.245131

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

Intro: Sally Ride, and the Outro: Late Bloomer.

Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on ankylosaurs … for now!

Until next time!

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Thanks for tuning into the Dinosaurs Lately podcast, the dinosaur podcast that features periodic updates recapping the latest news on the dinosaurs. This is the podcast that targets a type of dinosaur and tries to catch you up on everything that’s been published on them … lately.

This is the first of these interstitial episodes I’ve created – the goal is to keep up with all the dinosaurs news, even when I’m not publishing new episodes of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast. If you’re interested in this sort of thing – I hope it helps you feel … up to date.

Episode 1 - Abelisauroidea (Summer 2025).

Abelisauroid news:

• Pol, D., M.A. Baiano, D. Černý, F.E. Novas, I.A. Cerda, and M. Pittman. 2024. “A new abelisaurid dinosaur from the end Cretaceous of Patagonia and evolutionary rates among the Ceratosauria.” Cladistics advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/cla.12583
• Elisabete Malafaia, Fernando Escaso, Rodolfo A. Coria, Adán Pérez-García & Francisco Ortega (2024). “Theropod teeth from the UpperCretaceous of central Spain: assessing the paleobiogeographic history ofEuropean abelisaurids.” Cretaceous Research 106072 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106072 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667124002453
• Theo B. Ribeiro, Luiz Felipe Vecchietti, Carlos R. A. Candeiro, Juan I. Canale, Lílian P. Bergqvist, Paulo M. Brito & Paulo V. L. G. C. Pereira (2025). “Overabundance of abelisaurid teeth in the Açu Formation(Albian-Cenomanian), Potiguar Basin, Northeastern Brazil: morphometric,cladistic and machine learning approaches.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2487366. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2487366 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2025.2487366
• Enzo E. Seculi Pereyra, Juan Vrdoljak, Martín D. Ezcurra, Javier González-Dionis, Carolina Paschetta & Ariel H. Méndez (2025). “Morphologyof the maxilla informs about the type of predation strategy in the evolution ofAbelisauridae (Dinosauria: Theropoda).” Scientific Reports 15: 7857. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-87289-w https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-87289-w
• Cau, A. and Paterna, A. (2025). “Beyond the Stromer’sRiddle: the impact of lumping and splitting hypotheses on the systematics ofthe giant predatory dinosaurs from northern Africa.” Italian Journal of Geosciences. Volume: 144 (2025) f.2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2025.10
• Christophe Hendrickx, Mauricio A Cerroni, Federico L Agnolín, Santiago Catalano, Cátia F Ribeiro & Rafael Delcourt (2024). “Osteology, relationship, and feeding ecology of the theropod dinosaurNoasaurus leali, from the Late Cretaceous of North-Western Argentina.” Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(4): zlae150 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae150 https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/202/4/zlae150/7926352
• Averianov, A.O., P.P. Skutschas, A.A. Atuchin, D.A. Slobodin, O.A. Feofanova, and O.N. Vladimirova. 2024. “The last ceratosaur of Asia: a new noasaurid from the Early Cretaceous Great Siberian Refugium.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291: 20240537. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0537
• ThePaleoFreak (2025). “Beyond Cau's riddle.” July 14, 2025. https://thepaleofreak.substack.com/ https://thepaleofreak.substack.com/p/beyond-the-caus-riddle

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

Intro: The Day of the Incredible Monster From the Center of the Earth, and the Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

Dinosaurs Lately is a companion show to the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, the podcast where guests chat with me about Michael Cricthon’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, and also not that, too. If you’d like to be a guest on that show, you can reach me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. These podcasts are 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com and you can connect and follow on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers, on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast”, on Tumblr @misterrogers22 on X at @RogersRyan22 or on BlueSky at ‪@rogersryan22.bsky.social.

Thanks for tuning in! I hope you feel you’re all caught up on abelisauroides … for now!

Until next time!

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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

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 flees her homeland to join a group of unlikely outcasts aboard the whaling ship Livyatan. When an explosion rips through the vessel, the crew become shipwrecked deep inside the Arctic Circle—sabotaged by one of their own. Now, they must trek across the treacherous sea ice to reach dry land before the ice retreats—all the while with a traitor in their midst and fearsome predators stalking their every move.

Available at this link!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new late-diverging non-hadrosaurid hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from southwest China: support for interchange of dinosaur faunas across East Asia during the Late Cretaceous. (Qianjiangsaurus changshengi)
• A new titanosaur from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina. (Titanomachya gimenezi)

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

Intro: Black Coffee, and the Outro: T-Shirts.

The Text:

Nothing this time.

Then:

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 8 "The Visitor Center"

David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to become a mainstream science denier, and definitely someone who doesn't believe everything they read!

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 Order, viewing Hammond as specifically coded as a colonizer/Colonialist, drawing some connections between Hammond and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard's character in Jurassic World), putting Harry Potter into Critical Theory in podcast form: Witch, Please and the current-running Material Girls podcast, and much more!

Find her new book, Clever Girl

A smart and incisive exploration of everyone’s favorite dinosaur movie and the female dinosaurs who embody what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free.

The Jurassic Park series is one of the most famous and profitable movie franchises of all time — an entire generation of people has never known life without these CGI dinosaurs. The movie spectacle broke film and merchandising records, pioneered special effects, and made Jeff Goldblum into an unlikely sex symbol, and now it has also been re-envisioned as a classic of queer feminist storytelling.

In Clever Girl, Hannah McGregor argues that the female-only dinosaurs of Jurassic Park are stand-ins for monstrous women, engineered by men to be intelligent, violent, and adaptive, and whose chaos resists the systems designed to control them. As they run wild through their prison, a profit-driven theme park, they destroy the men and structures who mistakenly believed in their own colonialist and capitalist power, showing the audience what it means to be angry, monstrous, and free. The velociraptors were not just jump scares for children but also revelatory and predatory symbols of feminist rage. Clever girls, indeed.

Available at this link: Clever Girl!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A Spanish saltasauroid titanosaur reveals Europe as a melting pot of endemic and immigrant sauropods in the Late Cretaceous (Qunkasaura pintiquiestra)
• Coahuilasaurus lipani, a New Kritosaurin Hadrosaurid from the Upper Campanian Cerro Del Pueblo Formation, Northern Mexico (Coahuilasaurus lipani)

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

Intro: Chinese Cafe, and the Outro: Death of a Dream.

The Text:

Nothing this time.

Then:

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 7 "It's a Dinosaur!"

David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

Corrections:

To be very clear, Hannah McGregor is one author in the Pop Culture series, in which there are many offers. I was unclear on that, but you don't have to be unclear on it, thanks to this correction!

Side effects:

May cause you to become a mainstream science denier, and definitely someone who doesn't believe everything they read!

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 71 - Isla Nublar.

In this episode, my terrific guest A.C. Gleason joins the show to chat with me about:

editing texts, adapating the novel into the film, Jaws, Spielberg films, H.P. Lovecraft, Crichton's writing, Crichton's success at writing screenplays, considering what else could have been added or omitted from the text into the film, dinosaurs, velociraptors, smoothly delivering believable science fiction, the Epigraph by Linnaeus, intellectual properties, gaining power and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A New Theropod Dinosaur from the Callovian Balabansai Formation of Kyrgystan. (Alpkarakush kyrgyicus)
• Caletodraco cottardi: A New Furileusaurian Abelisaurid from the Cenomanian Chalk of Normandy. (Caletodraco cottardi)

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

Intro: Buzzsaw Partyboy, and the Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

Stitches and seams in the text.

Then:

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 6 "Isla Nublar."

David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to abbreviate the alphabet into a much easier to digest little ditty.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 70 - The Inside Man.

In this episode (stream it here!), my terrific guest Dr. Paul Barrett joins the show to chat with me about:

how to select which journal to publish in, the new Late Triassic sauropodomorph Musankwa sanyatiensis, the provenance of the holotype fossils, performing fieldwork off a houseboat in Lake Kariba, naming dinosaurs after boats, comparing a houseboat as a laboratory against a trailer for a field lab, interpreting the Pebbly Arkose Formation in which Musankwa was discovered, observing sauropodomorph diversity in the Late Triassic, tectonic shifting during the Late Triassic, surviving the End-Triassic extinction event, supervising PhD students and much more!

Plus, be sure to look into Dr. Barrett's new book A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils

Dinosaurs have captivated the world since Megalosaurus was the first one named in 1824, and A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils features fifty of the most momentous dinosaur findings from the fossil record. From rare fossil embryos that provide a glimpse into the early stage of dinosaur growth and development, to the claw of a Deinonychus, the dinosaur that served as a template for Jurassic Park’s terrorizing raptors, the book illustrates the enthralling evolutionary history of animals that ruled the Earth for more than 150 million years with 75 full-color illustrations. Each stunning fossil photograph, magnified for optimal detail, includes an entry explaining the importance of the discovery and the fossil’s significance in the larger evolutionary timeline. Themed chapters build off each other to depict a full and incredible story, including content on:

• the origin and rise of dinosaurs
• an introduction to major groups
• biological characteristics like feeding, behavior, distribution, and locomotion
• the first fossil birds, including the legendary feathered dinosaur, Archaeopteryx, considered widely to be the world’s first bird species

The book provides insight on what fossils tell us about dinosaur relationships, movement, diet, skin, teeth, and frills, and so much more. A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils compiles centuries’ of the most exciting fossil findings that helped earn dinosaurs an enduring place in the public imagination. This authoritative and visually beautiful book will delight and inspire readers young and old, and help them understand the rise and fall of some of the most amazing creatures to roam Earth.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The first deep-snouted tyrannosaur from Upper Cretaceous Ganzhou City of southeastern China. (Asiatyrannus xui)
• Early Cretaceous troodontine troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Ohyamashimo Formation of Japan reveals the early evolution of Troodontinae. (Hypnovenator matsubaraetoheorum)

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

Intro: Toucans, and the Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

First, a review of the phone lines in Jurassic Park.

Then:

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 5 "Subterfuge."

David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to forget to celebrate the upcoming release of your terrific guest's new terrific book on dinosaurs, A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils!

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 Relationships and Evolutionary History of the Armoured Dinosaurs (Ankylosauria, Stegosauria, Nodosauridae)

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

Intro: Toucans, and the Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

First, my essay Lex and Big Rex

"Lex and Big Rex have a symbolic partnership in Jurassic Park, which shows that only after losing a series of father figures can Lex find the strength to face the fear and uncertainty of her parents’ divorce – which is symbolized by the Big Rex."

Then:

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 4 "Introducing John Hammond."

David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the script.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to try and pass your failed bread attempts as just an unlevened Kosher product.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 68 - The Badlands.

In this episode (stream is here!), my terrific guest "Tom Jurassic" Fishenden returns to the show to chat with me about:

celebrating summer holidays, memorable dates, audio dramas, Tales From A Jurassic World (TFAJW), Jurassic Park, Jurassic World, fan fiction, season one of TFAJW, books on tape, Biosyn, Lew Dodgson, Season Two of TFAJW, The Lost World, Michael Crichton, voice acting, legacy characters like Howard King, Lex Murphy, dinosaurs, big dinosaurs, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Anew stegosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu Province, China (Baiyinosaurus baojiensis)
• A newLate Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Mid-Zambezi Basin, Zimbabwe (Musankwa sanyatiensis)

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

Intro: Maybe Days, and the Outro: Atom-Age Vampire / Cat in the Brain.

The Text:

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 3 "The Badlands."

David Koepp's first draft, and Malia Scotch-Marmo's rewrite of Michael Crichton's draft of the scrip.

Corrections:

I looked into 1612 – I have no idea what it has to do with anything. It didn’t ring a bell for Tom because … it doesn’t mean anything to anyone! And I don’t think London Bridge actually collapsed in the Great Fire of 1666 either.

Side effects:

May cause you to try and shoe-horn a Wilhelm Scream into the third season of your audio-drama.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 67 - The Encased Mosquito.

In this episode (stream is here!), my terrific guest Dr. Mark A. Loewen joins the show to chat with me about:

the formation of the Rocky Mountains, Laramidia and its connection to Pangea, how Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops benefited from the climatic and geographic changes of the Late Cretaceous, and the new paper on Lokiceratops rangiformis; its discovery, its purchase and new home in Denmark at the Museum of Evolution in Denmark, hyperdiversity of macroherbivorous dinosaurs endemic to particular areas in Larimidia, finding artists to portray the animal, naming new dinosaurs, declaring a new clade albertaceratopsini, naming conventions, centrosaurs in Jurassic Park like styracosaurus, nasutoceratops and sinoceratops, the differences between chasmosaurs and centrosaurs, thinking of dinosaurs like centorsaurines as if they were birds, and how the large cavities in ceratopsian skulls may have impacted their lives, centrosaurine chewing, reverse engineering a chicken, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:* Diuqin lechiguanae gen. et sp. nov., a new unenlagiine (Theropoda: Paraves) from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Neuquén Group, Upper Cretaceous) of Neuquén Province, Patagonia, Argentina. (Diuqin lechiguanae) * Lokiceratops rangiformis gen. et sp. nov. (Ceratopsidae: Centrosaurinae) from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana reveals rapid regional radiations and extreme endemism within centrosaurine dinosaurs. (Lokiceratops rangiformis)

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/Intro: Sally Ride, and the Outro: Latebloomer.

The Text:

This week’s subject is a little review of Loy's Procedure, used as a back-up plan for extracting dinosaur DNA at Jurassic Park.

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 2 "The Encased Mosquito."

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to try and teach a ceratopsian to chew gum.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.ca or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on twitter at @RogersRyan22

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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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 66 - Iterations.

In this episode (stream is here!), my terrific guest Rob Luther joins the show to chat with me about:

podcasting about our passions, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Iterations and fractal curves, challenges in podcasting, the continuing legacy of Michael Crichton, the Turtle Forever podcast, the film Jurassic Park, Crichton's literary ambitions, favourite dinosaurs, hosting guests on a show, teaching, active listening, the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, 2023's Mutant Mayhem, and his other show, Retro Junkies podcast, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Phylogenetic relationships of a new titanosaur (Dinosauria,Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Uruguay (Udelartitan celeste)
• An unexpected early-diverging iguanodontian dinosaur (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal (Hesperonyx martinhotomasorum)

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

Intro: The Incredible Monster from the Center of the Earth, and the Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

This week’s text is Iterations.

Jurassic Park (1993): Sc. 1 "Accident at Isla Nublar."

Corrections:

I never thanked Michael Crichton, but indeed, he deserves a "thank you." Thanks Michael.

Rana is not "amphibian DNA," but rather the genus name for common types of frogs.

There were technically 6 velociraptors shown in Jurassic Park; the three in the pen, the infant in the nursery and the two fossilized ones in Montana. Technically.

Side effects:

May cause you to put on your orange bandana when you meant to put on the blue one...

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on X at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.ca or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or on Youtube by searching for the “Juras-Sick Park-Cast podcast” or on Tumblr @misterrogers22 or on twitter at @RogersRyan22

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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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 65 - Epilogue: San Jose.

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Jordan Mallon returns to the show to chat with me about:

65 million years ago, the end-Cretaceous extinction event, mammals claiming the earth, the Repenomamus (a mammal) eating a psittacosaurus!, the other animals that weren't dinsoaurs, during the Mesozoic, fieldwork results from summer 2023, skin impressions in champsosaurs, charismatic megafauna, microraptors eating mammals, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the styracosaurus holotype, the edmontosaurus which is Canada's oldest dinosaur mount, a huge triceratops skull collected in 1929 from southern Sastachewan, an exceptional pteranodon specimen, Russell's "Dinosauroid" named Herman, the CMN's Open House in Gatineau, QC when the collections are open to the public, Tiktaalik the lobe-finned fish, Dr. Peter Dodson and horned dinosaurs, taking career advice from movies in the 90s, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the ending to Jurassic Park, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, Southern China
• A new avialan theropod from an emerging Jurassic terrestrial fauna

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

Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature, and Late Bloomer and Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.

The Text:

This week’s text is Epilogue: San Jose, spanning from pages 397 – 399.

Synopsis:

Several days have passed since the InGen Incident, and Costa Rica doesn’t know what to do with the Americans they’ve rescued from Isla Nublar. At a hotel where the Americans are being kept, Dr. Marty Guitierrez visits to speak with Dr. Grant to ask some questions. But the reality is, after what happened at Jurassic Park, nobody is going anywhere anytime soon!

Discussions surround:

Cloning dinosaurs, The Ending, the sequels we don't get, and what's so great about dinosaurs.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May turn you into a blubbering mess.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 64 - Approaching Dark.

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Scott Persons returns to the show to chat with me about:

F35 fighter jets, prospecting in Wyoming, excavating mosasaurs and nodosaurs, taphonomy, how to attack ankylosaurs, which dinosaurs can walk through muck better?, accommodations while in the field, triceratops walking postures, the Glenrock Paleon Museum, sedimentary layers, lumping and splitting species of dinosaurs, then I stammer through a couple questions, dinosaurs transcending geographic boundaries, leaellynasaura (the cutest dinosaur) and meeting Dr. Thomas Rich, dinosaur nicknames, Donatello the Mesozoic Turtle at the Mace Brown Museum, Lord Voldetort, Lord Clive and Lady Stephanie, the ending of Jurassic Park, prospective sequels to Jurassic Park, cloning extinct animals like mammoths, cloning presently endangered species, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, the future of the Juras-Sick Park-Cast, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Quseir Formation of the Kharga Oasis, Egypt (Igai semkhu)
• Vectidromeus insularis, a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England (Vectidromeus insularis)

Featuring the music of Snale at Bandcamp.com

Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.

The Text:

This week’s text is Approaching Dark, spanning from pages 395 – 397.

Synopsis:

Big helicopters burst through the fog, thundering and wheeling over the landscape, their underbellies heavy with armament, causing the raptors to scatter. The Costa Ricans question the survivors, eager to find who was in charge, but nobody is in charge. The island is bombed and destroyed, as Grant takes a final look back as Isla Nublar, which is a diminishing bright spot in the darkening night.

Discussions surround:

Island Layout, Control is a Hoax, Feminism, Almost Paradigm.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to miss the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turle phase."

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 63 - The Beach.

In this episode, my terrific guests Dave Rossi and Ethan Ullman from Dave and Ethan's 2000" Weird Al Podcsat join the show to chat with me about:

Now That's What I Call Polka!, weirdalpodcast.com, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, major dinosaur fans, reading Jurassic Park, Crichton's employ of hubris, Dippy the Diplodocus, attending Weird Al concerts and the "Al-Induced Haze," becoming a part of the greater Al fandome, being extras in Weird: The Al Yankovich Story, their detailed recap of being extras in the film, being collectors, defining the Yankosaurus (and the Polkaroo), Weird al and Jurassic Park (the film), having fun chatting about Weird Al's Jurassic Park music video, the hilarious graphic violence, Frank's 2000" TV, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• New theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan provides critical implications for the early evolution of ornithomimosaurs (tyrannomimus fukuiensis)
• Dinosaur Brooding Behavior and the Origin of Flight Feathers (velociraptor nesting)

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

Intro: Chinese Cafe. Outro: Sally Ride.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Beach, spanning from pages 393 – 395.

Synopsis:

The nest invaders, Gennaro, Grant and Sattler, follow the velociraptors through subterranean tunnels, out a beach, and upon observing their strange behaviour, Grant is struck with an epiphany, that they are instinctually driven to migrate!

Discussions surround:

Humility Before Nature, and The Name Game!

Corrections:

Side effects:

Careful ... things may get weird!

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 dinosaurs and birds, eucoelophysis, silesaurids, dinosaur origins, visiting the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• New enantiornithine bird from the uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of southern Patagonia, Argentina
• A New Basal Neornithischian Dinosaur from the Phu Kradung Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Northeastern Thailand

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

Intro: Buzzsaw Partyboy. Outro: Black Licorice.

The Text:

This week’s text is Hammond, spanning from pages 390 – 393.

Synopsis:

Yo, Hammond dies!

Discussions surround:

The Illusion of Control, Island Layout, Timeline, Believe Me, I Know!, Crichton Tropes, Hubris and Hammond's Dream.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to leave behind non-human biologics!

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 nesting behaviour, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Furcatoceratops elucidans, a new centrosaurine(Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation,Montana, USA.
• A new gigantic titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Northwestern Patagonia,Argentina

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

Intro: Toucans. Outro: Chinese Cafe.

The Text:

This week’s text is Descent, spanning from pages 384 – 390.

Synopsis:

Gennaro is forced down the rabbit hole where they land in the raptor nest. It’s filled with dozens of raptors, of various ages. Grant supposes there have been multiple generations born on the island, and then they get to counting the eggs, the egg shells, but are ultimately distracted by the animals’ conspicuous and unusual behaviour: why are they all lining up in this unusual northeast-southwest formation? Then, the raptors are sprint out of the nest and “into the darkness beyond.”

Discussions surround:

Timeline, Alice's Adventurees in Wonderland, and Rebirth

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to self-identify as being as Mad as a Hatter.

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 60 - Almost Paradigm.

In this episode, my terrific guests Matt Kelly and Matthew Milligan of the Weird Al-gorithm podcast join the show to chat with me about:

PeeWee Herman and Paul Reubens, The Bicycle Thieves, Weird Al Yankovich, One Hit Thunder, Wheatus, podcasting, digging through music shops to find Weird Al albums, polkas, Yoda, MacArthur Park, Alapalooza, Off The Deep End, Bohemian Rhapsody v. Bohemian Polka, the punkrock roots of Weird Al, Green Jelly, claymation by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, music videos, Dinosaurs Attack!, Barney the Dinosaur, I Love You, You Hate Me, parody choices, UHF, the Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesotra, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from theLower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK
• A potentially fatal cranial pathology in a specimenof Tarchia

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

Intro: Toucans. Outro: Chinese Cafe.

The Text:

This week’s text is Almost Paradigm, spanning from pages 380 – 384.

Synopsis:

Hammond is uncomfortable with Malcolm’s sepsis, and leaves for a walk believing that the park is under control now, and is safe. On his walk back to his bungalow, he stews over how unfit everyone he’d hired to work at Jurassic Park had been, blaming them all for its downfall – and taking no responsibility of his own. Then he hears the roar of the juvenile tyrannosaurus, and panics. Out of fear and anger, he winds up falling down a ravine, landing in a river below, with a broken ankle. It turns out the tyrannosaur roar is just a recording being broadcast over loud speakers, as Tim and Lex are playing around on the computer in the control room, and there was no danger after all.

Discussions surround:

Dramatic Irony, Responsibility and Safety, Considering whether or not you should, and Almost Paradise v. Almost Paradigm.

Corrections:

I said that Nedry didn't turn off the fences in the movie - when, of course he did. Arnold also turns off the power, but Nedry did it first. My mistake. Sorry.

Side effects:

May cause you to become ... weird!

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 59 - Under Control.

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Darren Naish joins the show to chat with me about:

missing a recent conference, azhdarchids, Prehistoric Planet on Apple+ TV, barbaridactylus, hatzegopteryx, quetzelcoatlus, nyctosaurs, pterosaur preservation, pterodactylus, the Solnhofen Limestone and lagerstatten, depositional environments creating a fossil bias, rhamphorhynchoids, cearadactylus, Jurassic Park 3, how birds and pterosaurs may have interracted, integuement structures on pterosaur and dinosaur bodies, yutyrannus, feathered dinosaurs, more modern depictions of dinosaurs in media, recreating living and breathing dinosaurs, cryptozoology and potential non-avian dinosaurs living out there somewhere in the world: mokele mbembe, emela-ntouka, and mbielu-mbielu-mbielu, secret secrets about upcoming Star Wars projects, Star Wars being influenced by dinosaurs, and much more!

Check out his blog and podcast Tetrapod Zoology and his books:

Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore now available.

Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 million years now available.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• An early-diverging iguanodontian (Dinosauria:Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America
• A new ornithopod dinosaur, Transylvanosaurus platycephalus gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia), from the Upper Cretaceous of the Haţeg Basin, Romania

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

Intro: Sally Ride. Outro: Shelter Dog.

The Text:

This week’s text is Under Control, spanning from pages 369 – 379.

Synopsis:

Things are back under control. The computer’s functioning properly, the Visitor Center and Safari Lodge are secure, there aren’t any dinosaurs in the norther sector, and the authorities are on their way. Even the air-conditioning is working again! And a medic is coming for Malcolm.

The carnage has been measured: out of 24 people on the island, eight were dead and six were missing (p. 269). The National Guard is on its way – and the Costa Rican guard is surely speaking with Washington D.C., to discuss what these Americans are doing out on Isla Nublar. This international conversation may be slowing down the medical response, the novel suggests (p. 369).

Grant recruits Muldoon, Sattler and Gennaro to investigate the velociraptor nests, to inspect them and estimate how many animals have been born in Jurassic Park. Before they go, they discover a secret bunker at the maintenance shed equipping them with nerve gas for defense against the raptors.

They travel to the southern fields and follow a juvenile velociraptor to the nest.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Equilibrium, Shipping News, Damned Gennaro, Timeline, Contrivances in Plot, and Big Questions.

Corrections:

I incorrectly correlated “rediscovered” animals with cryptid animals – they are categorically different. A rediscovered animal would be a known animal, if from nothing else, at least fossil evidence – cryptids on the other hand, are known anecdotally or only by witness accounts – not from verified evidence. So – that was not a correct line of thought, though I’m glad we were able to talk a bit about cryptids!

Side effects:

May cause you to lose all your money to ₡hupacabraTM.

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 Anatomic 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, strange skull, a 4m long coelocanth!, could dinosaurs consume salt water?, studying ceratopsians, sauropods and hadrosaurs, discovering and naming the Avaceratops lammersi, writing The Dinosauria, marital faux-pas naming a dinosaur after a woman who isn't your wife!, naming Auroraceratops rogosus, protoceratopsid Magnirostris dodsoni being named after him, extinct frog Nezpercius dodsoni was named after him, too, the Judith River Formation, the impact of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and the fascinating revelation that we're learning about dinosaur colours, paleo proctology, and much more!

Bonus details include overhearing groceries being put away, my cat whining and distinctly audible thunder. Sorry about all that... I try my best.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new alvarezsaurid theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Gobi Desert, Mongolia
• Volcanic temperature changes modulated volatile release and climate fluctuations at the end-Triassic mass extinction

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

Intro: Sally Ride. Outro: Shelter Dog.

The Text:

The Seventh Iteration, “Increasingly, the mathematics will demand the courage to face its implications.”

This week’s text is Destroying The World, spanning from pages 367– 369.

Synopsis:

Hammond believes they’ve saved the world by stopping the raptors from reaching the mainland, but Malcolm says that “life” would survive – that life finds a way to overcome all odds. “Life” is the greatest power; Hammond is deluded if he thinks otherwise.

Discussions surround:

Life Finds a Way, Semantics, Power is Magic, Crichton Tropes

Corrections:

I said Ernst Stromer was a paleontologist from the 1800s – which isn’t quite correct. Yes, he was born in 1886, but his work on Spinosaurus and his career as a paleontologist was spent almost entirely in the 1900s, including the famous trip the Bahariya Formation in 1910. So, he was a 20th century paleontologist whose magnum opus was certainly in the 1900s. I was incorrect in describing him as a paleontologist from the 1800s.

Also, I wondered if the expression “Crocodile Tears” may have come from crocodiles excreeting excess salt via tear ducts, and, upon looking into it, saltwater crocodiles are known to have tears which help rid them of the excess salt that they take in with their food.

Side effects:

May cause nomenclaturial irony.

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 57 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guest Mike from Mike's Book Reviews joins the show to chat with me about:

I open with a joke that flops, how he started his YouTube channel, BookTube, finding time to read, his video on Jurassic Park, re-reading Jurassic Park, Crichton's voice clearly portrayed through Malcolm, our favourite characters like Hammond, Nedry, Grant, Malcolm, Sattler, and Muldoon, Jumanji (1995), Stephen King, adding chidren to your stories, dealing with how abnoxious Lex is, Crichton's character work, problematic heroes, Congo, Timeline, Sphere, Dune, the fate of the Big Rex, the stardom of Velociraptors, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, the Oncomouse, Next, chaos theory, why did Crichton not trust science?, Disclosure, our lists of the top Michael Crichton novels, Eaters of the Dead, The Great Train Robbery, and Mike's list of his favourite books of all time: Lonsome Dove, Hyperion, Jurassic Park, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind, Ender's Game, Fellowship of the Ring, A Storm of Swords, It and Dune! and much more!

You can find Mike at @MikesBookReviews on Facebook and YouTube, and @zepp1978 on Twitter and Instragram.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new spinosaurid dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous of Cinctorres (Spain)
• A new bohaiornithid-like bird from the Lower Cretaceous ofChina fills a gap in enantiornithine disparity

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

Intro: Truth Time. Outro: Toucans.

The Text:

This week’s text is Lodge, spanning from pages 350 – 359.

Synopsis:

Tim, Lex, Grant and Gennaro rush to the Control room to get the power back on! Tim takes control of the computer, racing and struggling with the system, while guided with information from Gennaro, to switch to main power, restore power and contact the Anne B.

Discussions surround:

Show, Don't Tell, Uniform Maritime Law, Contrivances in Plot, and Cliff Hangers.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause voices to sound like they're coming through a tin-can telephone.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 dromaeosaurs secondarily flightless?, why birds survived the end-Cretaceous extinction event and Dr. Daniel Field, Elsornis, baby enantiornithine bird's having costly energy demands leading to their extinction, the problematic gastric mills among enantiornithines, Green River fossil avifauna, specimens trapped in amber, Alida Bailleuls' exceptionally well preserved hyparcosaurus cells, human rights violations in Myanmar, extracting more information from specimens in amber, comparing feathers in amber to lithic specimens, microraptor stomach contents, and much more!

Jingmai is the author of When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies! which is a non-fiction book for kids and teens in the Incredible Evolution series about what birds are, where they come from, and other fascinating facts about their evolution.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Fossil eggshell cuticle elucidates dinosaur nesting ecology
• Reconstruction of oviraptorid clutches illuminates their unique nesting biology

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

Intro: Do You Want To Leave Me, Or Do You Want To Stay. Outro: Maybe Days.

The Text:

This week’s text is Lodge, spanning from pages 350 – 359.

Synopsis:

Malcolm relates the importance of showing humility before nature, as the raptors gnaw through the bars. Meanwhile, Lex and Tim escape the raptors into the nursery – sacrificing the infant raptor to the three other raptors pursuing them; before being reunited with Grant and Gennaro.

Grant weaponizes his knowledge of dinosaurs, and the toxins in Wu’s lab, to defeat the three raptors, before racing to the Control room.

Discussions surround:

The Sword of Damocles, Show, Don't Tell, Crichton Tropes, Narrative Juxtaposition?, Control is a Hoax, Timeline, Doing the Math, Park Management, God Complex, and Rule of Threes.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to google images of a prolapsed cloaca!

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 55 - The Grid.

In this episode, my terrific guest author Roselle Lim joins the show to chat with me about:

Forest fires, Tiny Toon Adventures, Steven Speilberg's endorsements, Jurassic Park, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern, immigrating to Canada, how to put dinosaurs into your cookbook, eating crocodiles, Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, wicked stepmothers, employing fairy tales and fables into creative fiction, cooking analogies!, writing hope into the endings, disgusing the villains in your life as characters in your novels, allusions to myths and fairy tales, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Ian Malcolm's cynical perspective like Alice, a subversive text disguised as a children's tale, learning English from watching wreslting, Jurassic Park as a cautionary tale, social media, following the white rabbit, analyzing Dr. Alan Grant, Ellie was way too good for Grant, the insane land of Wonderland, navigating Wonderland, satirizing Victorian institutions like the monarchy, writing subversive texts inside children's literature, Jurassic Park as a subversive text, and much more!

Her latest novel:

You can order it here: Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Feather Quill Knobsin the Dinosaur Velociraptor
• Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa

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

Intro: Black Licorice. Outro: Sally Ride.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Grid, spanning from pages 345 – 350.

Synopsis:

Tim struggles to get power restored, in order to save their friends in the Lodge, but three raptors leap up to the balcony and enter the second floor of the Visitor Center. Lex and Tim snag a key card from a dead security officer and escape into another room.

Discussions surround:

The history of Error 404 File Not Found.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to smell forest fires from hundreds of miles away.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 Biblical influence on Western ideology, Crichton's voice via Malcolm, and much more!

• 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: Buzzsaw Party Boy. Outro: Chinese Cafe.

The Text:

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

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

We’ll cover this in part three when there’s a bit more time available to us.

Synopsis:

This chapter is huge – and so, please allow me to address this in portions, as we scheme to make this a multi-episode chapter. And indeed, it’s as consequential and meaningful as The Tour was, way back when we had to divide that chapter up into three parts.

In this first part: Grant drives back to the Visitor Center via the underground tunnel (p. 317), stashes the kids in the cafeteria at the visitor center, and then heads out to restore power at the generator shed. Meanwhile, Muldoon and Sattler conceive a plot to distract the raptors, ensuring Grant is free to move around.

But the raptors prove to be far more cunning than they could have imagined…

Discussions surround:

Timeline, Feminism, The Lodge, Contrivance in Plot, Park Management and the Island Layout.

Corrections:

I said that in Utah there were more than 42 ecosystems now identified in the Mesozoic rocks, but my guest Dr. Jim Kirkland said "more than 30." So, I got that terrifically wrong!

Side effects:

May cause you to become incredibly famous.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 51 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guest Lindsey Kinsella joins the show to chat with me about:

marketing titles internationally, his terrific novel The Lazarus Taxa, The Tanis Site and Dinosaurs: The Last Day / Dinosaur Apocalypse!, imagining living in Late Cretaceous North America, what influence does Jurassic Park play, being inspired to put in the amount of research for the novel that Michael Crichton did, why do kids love dinosaurs?, 65 (2023), time travel, Timeline, Lazarus taxa, Douglas Adams, leptoceratops, imagining dinosaur behaviours and palaeoecosystems, dinosaur diets, where to find the Lazarus Taxa, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications
• Ontogeny and variation of the pachycephalosaurinedinosaur Sphaerotholus buchholtzae, and its systematics within the genus (Sphaerotholus buchholtzae)

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

Intro: Shelter Dog. Outro: Buzzsaw Party Boy.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 298 – 314.

Synopsis:

While considering what to do with the tranquilized Tyrannosaur and boasting that full control has been restored to Jurassic Park, the auxiliary power runs out. As the power goes out, the waterfall is halted, and the electric door separating Grant from the kids is unlocked and opened.

Arnold and Wu review the system printout and sees that they’ve been running on auxiliary power since they reset the system back at 5:14 a.m.

Discussions surround:

Doing the Math, Malcolm's History of the Western World, Timeline, Show, don't tell, Crichton Tropes, Contrivances of Plot, Movie Adaptations, Control is a Hoax, Hammond's Dream, and Island Layout.

Corrections:

I said that in Utah there were more than 42 ecosystems now identified in the Mesozoic rocks, but my guest Dr. Jim Kirkland said "more than 30." So, I got that terrifically wrong!

Side effects: May cause your Leptoceratops to become a Kleptoceratops!Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 50 - Tyrannosaur.

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Jim Kirkland joins the show to chat with me about:

Excavating dinosaurs, traversing the badlands, volunteers on the site, extracting soft tissues (but not DNA) from fossils, ankylosaurs, studying fossils, Utahraptor Megablock, 3D printing fossils, naming dinosaurs after people, like: Nedcolbertia justinhoffmani, Martharaptor, Gastonia; dromaeosaurs, velociraptor, utahraptor, not naming a dinosaur after Steven Spielberg, Super Slasher, the future of paleontology, The Dinosaurs A - Z song from Dinosaur Train, tail-standing protoceratops, living and dying in dunes, and burrowing dinosaurs, and much more!

And The Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems Conference is going to Utah in June.

One of Dr. Kirkland's talks on dromaeosaurs: Utahraptor and Dromaeosaurs.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Ornithischian dinosaurs in Southeast Asia: a review with palaeobiogeographic implications
• Ontogeny and variation of the pachycephalosaurine dinosaur Sphaerotholus buchholtzae, and its systematics within the genus (Sphaerotholus buchholtzae)

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

Intro: Toucans. Outro: Shelter Dog.

The Text:

This week’s text is Tyrannosaur, spanning from pages 288 – 298.

Synopsis:

Muldoon and Gennaro locate the Big Rex and head out to tranquilizer her. Meanwhile, Lex, Tim and Grant plummet over the waterfall where the Big Rex has been waiting to eat them. The tyrannosaur loses them in the water, but finds the life vest.

Meanwhile, Grant snags the kids, resuscitates Lex from drowning and leads them up a path behind the waterfalls to hide from the Tyrannosaur. Behind the falls, Grant finds a secured maintenance facility, golf cart, and juvenile velociraptor, but unfortunately, he gets separated from the kids by a locked door. He tranquilizes the raptor, discovering that it’s a male that was bred in the wild.

The kids, on the other hand, are locked out and the tyrannosaur bursts through the waterfalls, uses its tongue like an elephant trunk to catch Tim, and is about to eat him, when it falls asleep.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Timeline, Believe Me! I know!, Crichton Tropes, Contrivances in Plot, Park Management and Movie Adaptations.

Corrections:

Side effects: May cause you to threaten lawsuits to any and all people who use the word "Jurassic," and cost you having Utahraptor named after you. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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!, Phil Hore's Youtube channel, and his podcast: The Bizzare History of Australia, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Cearadactylus atrox Leonardi & Borgomanero, 1985 (Cearadactylus atrox)
• Redescription of Cearadactylus atrox (Pterosauria,Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation (Santana Group)of the Araripe Basin, Brazil

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

Intro: Maybe Days. Outro: Toucans.

The Text:

This week’s text is Aviary, spanning from pages 276 – 287.

Synopsis:

Arnold and Malcolm suppose that Grant and the kids are having challenging navigating the park, because they’ve yet to successfully trigger a motion sensor, and Malcolm shows that the 92 per cent coverage of the motion sensors has decidedly insufficient, to Arnold. Arnold hopes that nobody has gone into the aviary, because the pterosaurs are too dangerous.

Then, Grant and the kids enter the aviary and find that the pterosaurs are too dangerous, and escape with their lives – thanks to Lex’s baseball glove.

Meanwhile, Malcolm waxes philosophical with Sattler over the way of the world, and how misdirected we as a civilization have become.

Finally, Grant and the kids find themselves with nowhere to turn as two dilophosaurs are at the riverside where they’d like to pass. The tyrannosaur distracts them, as the raft slips by unnoticed.

Discussions surround:

Show Don't Tell, The Dinosaurs, Control is a Hoax, Timeline, Feminism, Contrivances in the Plot, Park Management, Movie Adaptation, The Murphys at Home, Crichton Tropes, Thintelligence, Hammond's Dream, Almost Paradigm, Jurassic World Dominion and Island Layout.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause guano droppings to streak across your body while you're running for cover!

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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April Fools!

Well, since you spent the effort to download and click on this – here are a few … behind the scenes things, or outtakes from the show that I usually spend a lot of time taking out!

What's in here? A bunch of gross noises … and an interview with my cat.

This episode is trash – sorry you had to listen to it! This seems like something someone who was very appreciative that people were tuning in to listen to the show wouldn’t do – but … I’m not a wise man. I’m a big dumb Jurassic Park fan.

Thank you dearly for tuning in to the Juras Sick Park Cast blooper reel. I promise, I won’t do it again.

There's a SPIDER ON YOUR HEAD! Just kidding ... April Fools! 

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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 48 - Search.

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Elizabeth D. Jones joins the show to chat with me about:

My cat's name, the SECU DinoLab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science, how Jurassic Park introduced ancient DNA research to the world, Ancient DNA: The Making of a Celebrity Science, the embarrassing story of when she met paleontologist Mary Schweitzer, Schweitzer's paper: Soft tissue and cellular preservation in vertebrate skeletal elements from the Cretaceous to the present, < !! , the moral obligation of sharing history, The Jurassic Park Effect, debunking the Jurassic Park Hypothesis, figurative contamination, the problems with media taking the implications of some studies too far, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner Svante Pääbo, celebrity science, if we can't clone dinosaurs, what extinct animals CAN we clone?, Colossal Biosciences and George Church, Snuffy, Cretaceous Creatures, the Duelling Dinosaurs!, dinosaur diets, more sense, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• An exquisitely preserved in-ovo theropod dinosaur embryo sheds light on avian-like prehatching postures
• Osteology and phylogenetic relationshipsof Ligabuesaurus leanzai (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the EarlyCretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, Patagonia, Argentina

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

Intro: Sally Ride. Outro: Maybe Days.

The Fifth Iteration

“Flaws in the system will not become severe” (p. 269).

The Text:

This week’s text is Search, spanning from pages 271 – 276.

Synopsis:

Gennaro and Muldoon investigate the site of the hadrosaur stampede when Arnold radios them, saying that he’s found Nedry’s stolen Jeep! Meanwhile, Grant awakens in the raft flowing down the river to Lex and Tim quarrelling about their dad, while microceratopses bounce in the branches above them.

When Muldoon and Gennaro reach the second Jeep, they find Nedry’s corpse and don’t bother “collecting him,” but do prioritize the weaponry, before returning to the site of the stampede. But there’s no sign of the Big Rex, so they have to wait for her to reappear.

Meanwhile, Grant and the kids flow up to the Aviary, and they climb out of the raft in search of a telephone or motion sensors.

Discussions surround:

Timeline, Contrivances in Plot, Park Management, Island Layout and Poetic Justice.

Corrections:

I totally didn't go to Raleigh, North Carolina on a road trip to see A Perfect Circle - I almost certainly went to Columbus, Ohio. My mistake!

Side effects: May cause you to have a frustratingly difficult morning, but turn it all around with a fun conversation about dinosaurs!Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• What The Frog’s Eye Tells the Frog’s Brain (the amphibian visual cortex)
• Hadrosauroid Jaw Mechanics and the Functional Significance of the Predentary Bone

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

Intro: Hummingbird. Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Park, spanning from pages 260 – 268.

Synopsis:

Grant, Lex and Tim scare away a maiasaura, climb down the tree and head back to the maintenance shed to get a raft to float down the Jungle River. Meanwhile, Arnold steps away from the monitors to meet with Hammond and Wu. Grant and the kids find a tranquilizer gun and head to the dock at the Lagoon. But the Big Rex is there, sleeping, so they sneak into the raft, but Lex blows their getaway by coughing, awakening Big Rex, and having her swim after them.

Discussions surround:

The Dinoasurs, Timeline, Amphibian Visual Cortex, Tension, Feminism, Contrivances in Plot, Plotting the Book, God Complex, Chricton Tropes, and Island Layout.

Side effects:

May cause you to awkwardly quote T.S. Eliot and John Keats.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 Bullworth, 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! Plus dinosaur news about:

• Wear biomechanics in the slicing dentition of the giant horned dinosaur Triceratops (Triceratops horridus)
• Stable isotope record of Triceratops from a massaccumulation (Lance Formation, Wyoming, USA) provides insightsinto Triceratops behaviour and ecology (Triceratops horridus again!)

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

Intro: Hummingbird. Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

This week’s text is Dawn, spanning from pages 251 – 259.

Synopsis:

Lex and Grant meet Ralph the infant triceratops after awaking at 5 a.m. in Sauropod Maintenance Shed 04. And the phones still aren’t working. As Grant and the kids go to trip a motion sensor and get rescued, Arnold inconveniently taken the motion sensors offline.

Meanwhile, Arnold can’t get the phones back on, so Wu and Gennaro convince him reset the system. They need these phones back on to call for a doctor for Malcolm. During the system reset, the tyrannosaur attacks the hadrosaurs, causing a stampede. Grant and the kids are caught in the midst of the hadrosaurs, and escape up a tree to safety. As the systems come back on, restoring the phone lines, the control room notices that the tyrannosaur has made a kill.

Discussions surround:

Movie Adaptaions, The Dinosaurs, Timeline, Park Management, Contrivances in the Plot, Compared to the Movie.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to spontaneously transform into a blood-thirsty velociraptor by night, hell-bent on killing "the right people."

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 returns to 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 Simopsons 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 https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/releases

Intro: T-Shirts. Outro: Death of a Dream.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Park, spanning from pages 244 – 251.

Synopsis:

Muldoon leads the cleanup crew in the park to repair the fences, meanwhile Harding and Hammond are out wrangling the dinosaurs which have escaped and returning them to their paddocks. They all return to Control where Muldoon argues with Hammond about not having any weapons strong enough to tackle the Big Rex. As their argument spills into the hallway, John Arnold explains to Donald Gennaro all the reasons why he believes Ian Malcolm and his chaos theory are wrong, and therefore, Jurassic Park is perfectly safe.

Discussions surround:

Timeline, Believe Me! I Know!, Contrivances of Plot, Chaos Theory, Hubris, and Island Layout.

Corrections:

I said that in the Life Of Pi, the special effects company was bankrupted because of the time and money spent creating the lion, when of course, in reality they went bankrupt because they were rendering the special effects for a tiger. My mistake!

Side effects:

May cause your nostrils to stick together, and shuttle-bus operators to wait until your car starts before they leave.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 44 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guest Adam Buck joins the show to chat with me about:

Smart devices, Saturday Night Live, Stefon, The Loop, The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt, (and the documentary), archaeology, why kids love dinosaurs, Egypt, World War 2, Michael Crichton, Ernst Stromer, Spinosaurus, Jurassic Park, Tina Bowman and the compy, excavating archaeological digs in Greece, Fair's Fair Used Books in Calgary, Ontario Teacher's Strike of 1997, Halloween, depictions of visible minorities, Samuel L. Jackson's John Arnold, adapting Ellie Sattler from the novel into the film, Steven Spielberg and John Williams, which rock star is Jeff Goldblum emulating, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new small-bodied ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North Patagonia (Río Negro Province, Argentina) (Patagopelta cristata)
• Three-dimensional soft tissue preservation revealed in the skin of a non-avian dinosaur (hadrosaur skin)

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

Intro: Death of a Dream. Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 238 – 243.

Synopsis:

Arnold returns control to the island, and Muldoon wrangles a team to begin cleaning up after the storm. Gennaro then goes to recruit Harding for the cleanup mission, and finds Malcolm high on morphine, relating his memories of being attacked by the Tyrannosaur. Despite Malcolm putting on a brave face, Sattler makes it clear – he must get to a hospital as soon as possible if he’s to survive his injuries.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Timeline, Feminism, Plotting the Book and Park Management.

Corrections:

I supposed that The Lost World was released in 1997, but of course, it was released in 1995. I must have got my copy in 1995 on a trip to ... Washington, D.C.? I stand by my story - I just don't remember all the details!

Side effects:

May cause you to conspire against Snow White. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here). 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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 43 - In The Park.

In this episode, my terrific guest Cole Medeiros joins the show to chat with me about:

Prequels, San Francisco's seals, Jurassic Park, parasaurolophus and pachycephalosaurus, reconstructing dinosaurs via shrink-wrapping, envisioning an imaginative Jurassic universe, reconciling what's canon between the novel and film universes, adapting the novel on the screen, Michael Crichton's writing style, comparing Nedry's death to Wu's death, what the heck Malcolm was talking about, home CRISPR kits!, writing prequels, wide open backstories for all the characters, emulating Crichton's writing style, 123 Fake St., check out his website, just like he mentioned in the show! ColeMedeiros.com and his card game: Gubs by Gamewright , hear about his upcoming prequel to Jurassic park, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about:

• A non-avian dinosaur with a streamlined body exhibits potential adaptations for swimming (Natovenator polydontus)
• Intestinal preservation in a birdlike dinosaur supports conservatism in digestive canal evolution among theropods (Daurlong wangi)

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

Intro: Sleepyhead. Outro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain.

The Text:

This week’s text is In The Park, spanning from pages 233 – 238.

Synopsis:

Grant, Lex and Tim exit the Tyrannosaur paddock by climbing an electric fence, and find a maintenance shed to sleep in. Grant and Tim have a heart-to-heart about their lives and their pasts and their futures.

Discussions surround:

Show Don't Tell, Timeline, Crichton Tropes, The Jurassic Expanded Universe, Comparisons to the Film, and Island Layout.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause an addictive compulsion ot chase the White Rabbit.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 42 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guests Garret and Sabrina of I Know Dino join the show to chat with me about:

cool musuems around the world, visiting Canada, the ROM's Dawn of Life Gallery, reporting on SVP, podcasting, pronouncing dinosaur names, enjoying Jurassic Park the novel and the film, raptors in the kitchen, gallimimus stampeding, Alan Grant's character development, the resounding presence of the film, dinosaurs news!, enantiornithines and siledesauridae and ... seriously, check out Tom Holtz Jr.'s Twitter feed for dinosaur news - it's authoritative!, but also, visit and enjoy I Know Dino, Stegouros elengassen, soft tissues and gut contents, paleopathologies, the Crystal Park Dinosaurs, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about:

• Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global ForestCollapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction
• New materials of the Early Cretaceous spinosaurid (Theropoda) teeth of Napai Basin, Fusui County, Guangxi

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

Intro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain. Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 228 – 233.

Synopsis:

John Arnold and Henry Wu search through the computer system to figure out what Dennis Nedry has done to the operating systems at Jurassic Park. They discover wht_rbt.obj, a command disguised as an object, that was Nedry’s trap door that links the security and perimeter systems and then turns them off, giving him complete access to every place in the park.

Discussions surround:

Show Don't Tell; Timeline; and Similarities and Differences with the film;

Corrections:

KPg stands for the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, not the Cretaceous-Cenozoic boundary.

Side effects:

May cause a severe case of wanderlust to explore museums both near and far.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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A companion piece to Episode 42 - Control Part A. Listener discretion is advised. 

This episode is a deep-dive into a cultural reference, exploring what the reference, Looking for Mr. Goodbytes means, as Dennis Nedry's login credentials. 

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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 41 - The Road.

In this episode, my terrific guest Zoey Handley joins the show to chat with me about:

World of Warcraft, Leeroy Jenkins, Wolfenstein, parasaurolophus, Jurassic Park Evolution, Jurassic Park, the original trilogy and the Jurassic World sequels, The Mentalist, Gennaro, Muldoon and Arnold, online handles, Space Ranger 2, gaming systesm, Super Mario World, yoshi, Super Nintendo, N64, Ocean Software, playing the game, comparing it to the novel, comparing it to the film, making maps of the levels, comparing game elements to the novel including:

• weaponry
• animals
• character designs
• localities
• plot points

As well as things Jurassic Park shouldn't clone, inspiration from the Kenner toy line, rumours about killing the tyrannosaurus, knowing all about guns, the velociraptors, exploring the game map, Chuck Rock, impressing your friends with high scores, licensing rereleases of vintage games, not liking Jeff Goldblum?!, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Injured dinosaur left behind unusual footprints
• Footprints: Drought uncovers 113 million-year-old dinosaurtracks in Texas

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

Intro: Hummingbird. Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Road, spanning from pages 220 – 227.

Synopsis:

Muldoon and Gennaro speed out to retrieve the tourists out in the park, but reach the grim realization that the tyrannosaur has attacked the Land Cruisers, dismembering Ed Regis and mortally wounding Dr. Ian Malcolm. They must return to the visitor area immediately or else Malcolm will surely die – but there’s hope that Grant and the kids are alive and hiding in the park, where the motion sensors will surely spot them in no time.

Discussions surround:

Contrivances in plot; Park Management; Similarities and Differences with the film; and Island Layout;

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to believe it's possible to kill the tyrannosaurus...

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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, 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, injured allosaurus pubes, a detailed description of stegosaur tails, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about:

• The Double Dinosaur Brain Myth
• Allosaurus Died From Stegosaur Spike to the Crotch, WyomingFossil Shows

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

Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Grow Old Or Don't.

The Text:

This week’s text is Lex, spanning from pages 210 – 217.

Synopsis:

Tim finds Lex hiding in a culvert under the road, and they climb out to find Dr. Grant. Meanwhile, Ed Regis climbs out from the bounders in which he’d been hiding, feeling great shame for having abandoned the kids during the tyrannosaur attack.

As Regis emerges, he’s tackled and eaten by the juvenile tyrannosaurus, which pushes Grant and the kids to escape further into the park, rather than following the road back to “safety.”

Discussions surround:

Show, don't tell; Daddy Issues; Timeline; Believe me, I know!;

Side effects:

May cause you to mythically believe in a second brain in your hips, and tingling in your phantom tail.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 39 - Lex.

In this episode, my terrific guest Tom Fishenden joins the show to chat with me about:

British dinosaurs, the Maidstone Iguanodon, Baryonyx, the Isle of Wight, Jurassic Park, Primeval, the Jurassic Park Podcast, fandom, audio dramas, the Dino Watch Podcast, World War Z, Battle of Big Rock, hypothetical dinosaur behaviours, the Lysine Contingency, the Lysine Contingency, engaging in fandom, Lex Murphy, Lewis Dodgson, the future of the Jurassic Park as an intellectual property, dinosaur designs, #StaySafeStayJurassic, more sense, and much more! Plus dinosaur news about:

• Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows earlydiversification of Ornithodira
• Binocular Vision in Theropod Dinosaurs

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

Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Grow Old Or Don't.

The Text:

This week’s text is Lex, spanning from pages 210 – 217.

Synopsis:

Tim finds Lex hiding in a culvert under the road, and they climb out to find Dr. Grant. Meanwhile, Ed Regis climbs out from the bounders in which he’d been hiding, feeling great shame for having abandoned the kids during the tyrannosaur attack.

As Regis emerges, he’s tackled and eaten by the juvenile tyrannosaurus, which pushes Grant and the kids to escape further into the park, rather than following the road back to “safety.”

Discussions surround:

Show, don't tell; Daddy Issues; Timeline; Believe me, I know!;

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to login to Zoom twice, creating a ghost account, which can only be spoken to via a Ouigji board.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 38 - Tim.

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. Roger J. Lederer joins the show to chat with me about:

turkeys, Thanksgiving, turkey vultures, disposing of carcasses, registering domain names, the fastest birds, ostriches, the bustard, the elephant bird, rictal bristles, flycatchers, studying birds, DNA, Watson and Crick, cloning extinct animals, Loy's procedure, reverse breeding aurochs, birds are dinosaurs!, archaeopteryx, the evolution of feathers, the feather-colour of microraptors, enantiornithines, Dr. Richard Prum and the evolution of feathers, theories on the evolution of feathered flight, herons hunting, Crichton using Lederer's name in the text!, the Hoatzin, A Reappraisal of Azhdarchid Pterosaur Functional Morphology and Paleoecology; Bristles before down: A new perspective on the functional origin of feathers; A review of the Taxonomy and Paleoecology of the Anuro-gnathidae, strange feather uses, ubirajara jubatus, "raptor" nomenclature, tyrannidae, birds being territorial and mean, cassowaries, The Gobbler!, and much more!

You can find way more neat bird data on Dr. Lederer's website, www.ornithology.com.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur(Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the upper Campanian of Texas points to agreater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots
• The role of Avian Rictal Bristles

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

Intro: Grow Old Or Don't. Outro: Centipede.

The Text:

This week’s text is Tim, spanning from pages 204 – 210.

Synopsis:

A concussed Tim Murphy awakes from the tyrannosaur attack to find himself trapped in a car, atop a tree. He climbs out of the tree, as the Land Cruiser crashes down above him.

Discussions surround:

Show Don't Tell, Storytelling, Tension, Movie Adaptations, Control is a Hoax, Timeline, People of Colour, Shape of the Data, Cloning Dinosaurs, and the Island Layout.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to totally miss the point.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 37 - Bungalow.

In this episode, my terrific guest Melissa Ray joins the show to chat with me about:

melding the novel and the film together, differences between the film and the novel, like discussions around feminism, better versions of Ellie and Lex in the film, symbolism in the baseball and baseball mit, daddy issues, carrying baseballs and night vision goggles around, how did Lex and Tim's parents meet?, Ellie is conclusively not dating Alan Grant, and Grant is a childless widower, Sattler's portrayal, black and white symbolizing differences between Malcolm and Hammond in the film, the two "female ends" of the seatbelt in the helicopter ride to Isla Nublar foreshadowing the all-female breeding animals, overanalyzing movies today, John Williams' soundtrack, technological advancements in cinematography, Nedry's demise, reading into Hammond's fall, Aristotelian tragedies, incorporating mystery, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A review of European Triassic theropods
• New giant theropod material from the Kem Kem CompoundAssemblage (Morocco) with implications on the diversity of the mid-Cretaceouscarcharodontosaurids from North Africa

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

Intro: Centipede. Outro: Supergroovy.

The Text:

This week’s text is Bungalow, spanning from pages 198 – 204.

Synopsis:

Wu wants to figure out if Grant’s amphibian DNA hypothesis holds the answer to their breeding dinosaur problem, but he’s sidetracked by Hammond’s insistence to eat dinner first. They realize that the monitor is out in the dining room of Hammond’s Bungalow, and the phones are out.

Discussions surround:

The Illusion of Control, Wu the Genius, Movie Adaptation, Feminism, Control is a Hoax, Payoffs, Entrepreneurship, Neutering the dinosaurs, Narratives, Ancestry, Money, The Dinosaurs and The God Complex.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to totally miss the point.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 36 - Nedry.

In this episode, my terrific guest Chris Creamer joins the show to chat with me about:

The Fabric of the Game, NHL logos, the Oxford comma, old headlines, the Toronto Maple Leafs, our favourite Maple Leafs games ever, The Best Maple Leafs Game Ever, SportsLogos.net, unpacking the symbolism in sports logos, Dan Brown novels, velociraptors, stegosaurus anatomy, The Far Side, seeing Jurassic Park for the first time, Zellers!, 3-D 20th anniversary screenings of Jurassic Park, The Toronto Raptors NBA franchise, marketing a new franchise, National Basketball Association, The Raptor, and his achilles injury!, The Mighty Ducks, the 2019 NBA Championship Toronto Raptors!, NBA branding, birds are dinosaurs!, ancient mythologies and their associations to dinosaur fossils, other sports franchises inspired by fossils, Utah, Chip Kidd and the Jurassic Park logo, branding and marketing, merchandising, Michael Jordan, Air Jordans, globalization, where you can find Fabric of the Game and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A comprehensive anatomical and phylogenetic evaluationof Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria, Theropoda) with descriptionsof new specimens from the Kayenta Formation of northern Arizona
• Nevadadromeus schmitti (gen. et sp. nov.), a New BasalNeornithischian with Affinities to the Thescelosaurinae, from the UpperCretaceous (Cenomanian) Willow Tank Formation of Southern Nevada

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

Intro: Supergroovy. Outro: T-Shirts.

The Text:

This week’s text is Nedry, spanning from pages 193 – 197.

Synopsis:

Nedry gets lost in the park looking to meet his man at the east dock, and winds up being horrifically, wonderfully and memorably eaten by a dilophosaurus.

Discussions surround:

Heroes and Villains, Nedry's plan, Movie Adaptations, similarities and differences with the film, Child of the 80s, Chaos Theory, Horror Story, and The Dinosaurs.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause permanent blindness and evisceration.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation(Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingencollection
• Osteohistology and taphonomy support social aggregation in the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus

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

Intro: T-Shirt. Outro: Death of a Dream.

The Text:

This week’s text is Return, spanning from pages 191 – 193.

Synopsis:

Driving in the gas-powered jeep, Harding, Gennaro and Sattler are impeded by a large, fallen tree. The radios are down, and they can’t report the damage back to control. Meanwhile Arnold and Muldoon can’t find Nedry, nor the jeep.

Discussions surround:

Problems with the narration, and the Island Layout.

Corrections:

Donald Gennaro has a background in investment banking (p. 49), and he may have been the type of lawyer who helps set up Limited Liability Partnerships and articles of incorporation, that sort of stuff. So, not "just a finance lawyer," though it's not entirely specified what types of law he practices. We're told their high-tech clients frequently need capitalization, and Gennaro aided with that, and specifically in the fundraising for InGen (p. 50).

And as we were a bit confused on the compy venom, possibly because there is the source text, then the expanded cinematic universe and what's canon in the film ... there's too much to keep straight! In th enovel, on page 26, we're told, the compy venom "seemed to be a neurotoxic poison related to cobra venom, although more primitive in structure."

The predator to prey ratio said earlier in the novel (p. 43) is 1:400 based upon African and Indian game park models. For example, 10,000 hadrosaurs, therefore, yield only 25 tyrannosaurs, according to that math. Jurassic Park, has more than one carnivore, and less than 400 total animals, therefore, both sides of that 1:400 ratio, so ... it's WAY out of equilibrium, and the foodweb would surely collapse in a matter of a few feeding cycles, probably in a month or something.

The actual ratio is (if you factor out the compys and pterosaurs, because they're not quite preying on the other herbivores) the ratio is 46:175.

That's 2 tyrannosaurs, 7 dilophosaurs and 37 raptors preying on the rest of the island - in fact, I might put the compys in the "prey" category as the raptors would probably eat those, especially as meals became more scarce. So that readjusts to 46: 240.

Side effects:

May cause confusion.

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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 cubicularis, finding fossils and documenting everything, bunny hands in paleoart, and much more!

You can find ReBecca Hunt-Foster's website here: www.rebeccakhunt.com and learn more about the Dinosaur National Monument here.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Taxonomic, palaeobiological and evolutionary implications of a phylogenetic hypothesis for Ornithischia (Archosauria: Dinosauria)
• A sauropod from the Lower Jurassic La Quinta formation (Dept. Cesar, Colombia) and the initial diversification of eusauropods at low latitudes

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

Intro: Death of a Dream. Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

Fourth Iteration

“Inevitably, underlying instabilities begin to appear” (p. 179).

This week’s text is The Main Road, spanning from pages 181-191.

Synopsis:

Big Rex knocks down the fences in the storm, and ominously directs her terrifying attention upon everyone in the Land Cruisers. Ed Regis wets his pants and runs away, but everyone else is left in the tyrannosaur’s devastating path. Lex’s screams are cut off by the lowering of the tyrannosaur’s head, Malcolm is flung like a rag doll, Tim is trapped in the Land Cruiser, which the tyrannosaur throws into the top of a tree, and Grant has a moment of discovery, realizing that if he remains absolutely still, the tyrannosaur can’t see him – but then it kicks at him, and he blacks out upon hitting the ground.

Discussions surround:

Movie adaptations, The Dinosaurs, Believe me, I know! and The Iterations.

Corrections:

For an upcoming “Allusions” section I was reviewing one of the fundamental biotech companies that Crichton references – and I realized I’ve been saying and spelling it totally wrong – because I can’t see or something? What I’ve been calling “Genetech” all this time is actually Genentech with a second N stuck in the middle!

Side effects:

May cause fits of terror and urination in your pantaloons.

Thank you!

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You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 33 - Breeding.

In this episode, my terrific guest Jeame Reaume returns to chat with me about:

Tina Turner, Ankylosaurus, evolution, Original Motion Soundtracks, Godzilla (1998), John Williams, Dune (2021), B-Sides, mix-tapes, Matthew Broderick, Puff Daddy's Come With Me, Fuels' awesome album Sunburn, Foo Fighters, Green Day, sampling music, The Last Action Hero soundtrack, Buckethead, Lost Highway by David Lynch, Trent Reznor, synching albums to movies, Jurassic Park Trivia!, and more!

You can find Jamie Reuame at Shapes Guitar Lessons.com where he's an instructor, and he's co-host of Trivia Schmivia.com and you can find his musical catalogue on Youtube.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A New Nanoid Titanosaur From the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil
• Protogynous Sex Change in the Reed Frog Hyperolius viridiflavus

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

Intro: Sleepyhead. Outro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat in the Brain.

The Text:

This week’s text is Breeding Sites, spanning from pages 167 – 177.

Synopsis:

The Tour in the Land Cruisers are surprised to spot velociraptors on the supply ship heading to the mainland, but they can’t radio Control to warn them, because a major tropical storm is hitting, causing interference with the radio.

Meanwhile, in Control, Nedry has enacted a scheme to turn off the park security measures so he can steal embryos for Lewis Dodgson and BioSyn.

Discussions surround:

Movie adaptations, Nicknames, The Dinosaurs, Cloning dinosaurs, Plotting the book, Timeline, Contrivances of Plot, Chaos Theory, Island Layout, Believe Me, I know!, Spared No Expense, Building a Mystery, and The Third Iteration.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 32 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guest Matt Bufton joins to chat with me about:

Plus dinosaur news about:

Flight of the Conchords, Children's programming, podcasting, The Curious Task podcast, The Institute for Liberal Studies, Ottawa, Friedrich Hayek, Chaos Theory, central planning of complex systems, calls for regulation, characters like Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant, Dennis Nedry, Malcolm's criticisms of the park, Crichton's condemnation of government, setting regulations on new technological fields like: the Internet, crypto-currencies, applications of biotech, whatever regulations that govern biotech, they seem to be working?, needless regulations, regulations leading to substandard products and services, John Stossel journalism and scam artists, how to best assemble a team of watchdogs, quoting Shakespeare, entrepreneurs making mistakes, Jimmy Wales starting Wikipedia, Canada stops Harvard's oncomouse in its tracks, Cannabis retailers, Quebec separatism, Jeremy Rifkin, Bitcoin, incarcerating dinosaurs, and much more!

• Elemgasem nubilus: a new brachyrostran abelisaurid (Theropoda, Ceratosauria) from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Patagonia, Argentina
• Upper Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) dinosaur nesting colony preserved in abandoned crevasse splay deposits, Wi Island, South Korea

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

Intro: Atom-Age Vampire - Cat in the Brain. Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 160-166.

Synopsis:

Park officials believe the eggshells are avian, whereas Grant and Malcolm agree, they are dinosaur eggshells. To prove his point, Malcolm leads Wu through a series of data like procompsognathus height charts and an overall animal count, to demonstrate conclusively that multiple species are breeding in the park and have been for ages.

Wu can’t believe it – and is terrified: if the animals are breeding, it calls into question every security measure they’ve put in place! Grant concludes there are seven nesting sites on the island.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Children of the 80s and Building a Mystery.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to transgress against the new law that it is now illegal to be bitten by a dinosaur. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 31 - Stegosaur.

In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Michael Booth returns to chat with me about:

Jurassic World: Dominion, making trilogies, Top Gun: Maverick, sequels, Mission Impossibles, injuring Tom Cruise, making movies, making more novels in the Jurassic Park universe, building a believable sci fi world, strange dinosaur behaviours, Corridor Crew, working with puppets, Scarehouse, Yoda, the sick Triceratops, Sam Neill anecdotes, (un)convincing accents, Artifice, Chatham-Kent International Film Festival, Forest City Film Festival, promoting movies, Ryan Powers, Toronto International Film Festival, the People's Joker, Brendan Fraser, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Africa’s oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression ofdinosaur distribution
• The osteology and affinities of Eotyrannus lengi, a tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wealden Supergroup of southern England

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

Intro: Hummingbird. Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

This week’s text is Stegosaur, spanning from pages 154 - 157.

Synopsis:

The tour continues to the stegosaurus paddock, where the vet is tending to a sick stego, which Grant rushes to inspect. The stegos are “always getting sick,” but Sattler cracks the case! While consuming gizzard stones, the stegos were inadvertently also consuming toxic berries – explaining why there is no trace of the west Indian lilac bushes being eaten, nor in the stego spoors. Because it’s not the plants, it’s the berries. They find this evidence in a discarded pile of gizzard stones … as well as something else even more shocking!

Meanwhile, Gennaro quizzes Malcolm on why Chaos theory predicts that Jurassic Park is unsafe for people – or put differently, will have “very large consequences for human life.” Animal welfare and animal containment are predicted to fail at Jurassic Park – and no sooner has he said that, Grant and Ellie reveal their consequential discovery – a raptor eggshell, proving that dinosaurs are breeding in Jurassic Park.

Discussions surround:

Sick Stegos, Chaos Theory, Easter Eggs, and Harding is Mr. Magoo.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to experience deliquesce diarrhea. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 30 - Control.

In this episode, my terrific guests The Past Time Podcast duo Drs. Matt Borths and Adam Pritchard chat with me about:

The Past Time podcast, producing podcasts, reading the novel, Dr. Elizabeth Jones, DNA, cloning, splicing genes, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Jurassic World, gene therapy, eliminating disease, why has no one adapted the river scene?, characterization, emotions and attitudes, the debate between the good and bad products of scientific discovery, what if Ian Malcolm were in Frankenstein, reverse-engineering dinosaurs out of a chicken, mapping the human genome, amphibian DNA, Callovosaurus, cloning unknown animals, Diabloceratops, choosing dinosaurs for your novel, Pteranodon v. Cearradactylus, Dodgson in the Tyrannosaur nest, Grant in the velociraptor nests, dinosaurs wild in the world, taking Bernese pythons seriously, Callovosaurus and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The most complete enantiornithine from North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Avisauridae
• Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provideinsight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display

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

Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature. Outro: Latebloomer.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 149 - 154.

Synopsis:

Wu, Hammond and Arnold begin to feel some anxieties of the consultants actually recommending that the park be closed for safety reasons, and become leery of Malcolm and Gennaro in particular – while our consultants tour through the sauropod paddock, enjoying the view of Triceratops, Apatosaurus and Hadrosaurs.

Muldoon, on the other hand, has anxieties of the consultants’ actual safety, and preps his Jeep with a rocket launcher just in case – which isn’t much of a vouch of confidence for the park’s safety is it?

At the same time, a large storm coming in jeopardizes the safety of the big supply ship, the Anne B, and since Hammond spared the expense of installing a storm barrier at the docks, this ship must depart early.

Oh, and unbelievably, contrary to everything they’ve been told so far on this tour, Tim spots a rogue velociraptor running amongst the hadrosaurs, and it’s so unbelievable everyone scrambles to find an explanation.

Discussions surround:

Movie adatpations, Control is a Hoax, and the Island Layout.

Corrections:

Side effects:

May cause you to hear sudden exclamatory warnings while you're trying to drive around unrelated to what's going on around you. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 29 - Big Rex

In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley returns to chat with me about:

How, long after Jurassic Park in 1993, elements of the novel continue to reappear in subsequent films in the franchise! How much of Jurssic Park: The Lost World is from Crichton's 1990 novel? How about Jurassic Park III? Lots!

Yeah, but how about the Jurassic World installments, what parts of the novel is still in there? Turns out, ... well, not as much, but some! Some of it is still founded in Crichton's seminal text! Check it out!

In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley returns to chat with me about:

How long after Jurassic Park in 1993, elements of the novel continue to reappear in subsequent films in the franchise! How much of Jurssic Park: The Lost World is from Crichton's 1990 novel? How about Jurassic Park III? Lots!

Yeah, but how about the Jurassic World installments, what parts of the novel is still in there? Turns out, ... well, not as much, but some! Some of it is still founded in Crichton's seminal text! Check it out!

• Plus dinosaur news about:

  • Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus jimmadseni, a new speciesfrom the lower part of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western NorthAmerica
  • Ngwevu intloko: a new early sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Elliot Formation of South Africa and comments on cranial ontogeny in Massospondylus carinatus

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

Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Grow Old or Don't.

The Text:

This week’s text is Big Rex, spanning from pages 144-149.

Synopsis:

They arrive at the tyrannosaur paddock, and the “shy and sensitive” Big rex is baited with a goat.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Dinosaur bites, Timeline, Feminism, Power is Magic, Believe me! I know!, and Crichton Tropes.

Corrections:

LAW stands for Light Anti-tank Weapons (not laser-assisted weapons). Sorry.

Side effects:

May cause you to conflate your memory of a ceratosaurus and carnotaurus together, into one big mistake. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 28 - Control

In this episode, my terrific guest Dan Rose joins us to chat with me about:

The story of the velociraptors in the seminal dinosaur film Jurassic Park (1993) by Steven Spielberg, post-production duties, Sinking Ship Entertainment, foley artists, Dennis Nedry's death scene, dilophosaurus attacks, the specific moment when Jurassic Park goes from fun-loving to Friday the 13th, the Dino Dana Movie, working with dinosaurs, Robert Muldoon, the Big One, the raptors in Jurassic Park, the film raptors v. the book raptors, all the raptor scenes from the movie, a little bit of Girl Power, gender bending velociraptors, and way more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new chasmosaurinae ceratopsid from the upper Cretaceous Farmington member of the KirtlandFormation, New Mexico
• Gnathovorax cabreirai: a new early dinosaur and the originand initial radiation of predatory dinosaurs

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

Intro: Grow Old or Don't. Outro: Centipede.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 138 - 143.

Synopsis:

Arnold and Hammond quarrel over the difficulties the park must overcome to have Jurassic Park ready for its grand opening, because they have all the problems of a major theme park, all the problems of a major zoo, and the added difficulties of caring for animals nobody’s ever observed before. It’s revealed that Dennis Nedry is here to fix the bugs in the system this weekend. On the tour, the guests visit the venomous dilophosaurus

Discussions surround:

Tension, Contrivances in the plot, Timeline, The Dinosaurs, Voice Acting, Park Management, Errors, and the Island's Layout.

Side effects:

May cause you to have trouble removing venomous sacs from anesthetized dilophosauruses. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 27 - The Tour

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In this episode, my terrific guest and palaeoartist Douglas Henderson joins to chat with me about:

The Cretaceous rock formation s of Montana, landscape painting, artists chronicling their world, starting out in Montana, capturing landscapes in art, adapting paleontology into art, Yellowstone, drawing dinosaurs, not drawing grass, meeting and working with Dr. Jack Horner, maiasaura, Robert Bakker, Greg Paul, Time Machine2: Search for Dinosaurs, Dr. Alan Grant, Victory at Sea, taking creative license, Prehistoric Beasts, illustrations, Phil Tippett, working for Hollywood, that mural in Jurassic Park, The Stephen and Sylvia Czerkas exhibit in Hollywood that inspired Crichton?, Snakewater, Choteau, pronouncing Choteau, and more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• A new Cretaceous thyreophoran from Patagonia supports aSouth American lineage of armoured dinosaurs
• Ecomorphospace occupation of large herbivorous dinosaursfrom Late Jurassic through to Late Cretaceous time in North America

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

Intro: Centipede. Outro: Supergroovy.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Tour, spanning from pages 134 - 137.

Synopsis:

Amidst arguments and drama between Malcolm and Gennaro, the tour begins as the consultants and kids climb into the automated Toyota Land Cruisers and begin their park tour. They visit the Hypsilophodon Highlands, seeing the hypsilophodons and othnielia in their paddock.

Discussions surround:

Marketing, Japan, People of Visible Minorities, Automation, Feminism, Child of the 80s, The Tour, Dinosaurs, Timeline, and the Island Layout.

Corrections:

Apparently I've been pronouncing Choteau like some francophone, when it's almost pronounced like "Shadow." I stand corrected.

Side effects:

May cause you to bring preconceptions of humidity to a piece of artwork, unprovoked! Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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, 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 Multiple Species of Tyrannosaurus in the Latest Cretaceous of North America: A Comment on “The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus”
• A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomicrevision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda)

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

Intro: Supergroovy.  Outro: T-Shirts.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control, spanning from pages 126 - 133. 

Synopsis:

As Jurassic Park’s employees conclude their demonstration of all their systems of control, Grant and Malcolm find themselves uneasy with the park’s approach to controlling living, breathing animals in an artificial setting, which is aiming to recreate a natural park setting.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Version 4.4, Control is a Hoax, the Timeline, and the God Complex.

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause animals like the Gila monster and rattlesnake to share their hemotoxins. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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 25 - Version 4.4

In this episode, my terrific guest Kristoph Ochs returns to chat with me about:

Plus dinosaur news about:

• "Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an unusual theropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana". (1969)
• Nestingat extreme polar latitudes by non-avian dinosaurs

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

Intro: T-Shirts. Outro: Death of a Dream.

The Text:

This week’s text is Version 4.4, spanning from pages 120 - 126.

Synopsis:

Wu approaches Hammond to discuss restocking the park with Version 4.4. The dinosaurs are too fast, but he thinks he could tweak them so they meet the visitor’s expectations, but Hammond isn’t listening anymore, and dismisses him.

Discussions surround:

The Dinosaurs, Re-create versus reconstruction, Park Management, and the Timeline.

Corrections:

Side effects: May cause you to enter into the Santa Clause, forcibly ripping you from your family to perform the ungodly actions of Santa Claus - That's karma: you should never have killed Santa! Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 24 - Control

In this episode, my terrific guest Ben Lewis chats with me about:

Book clubs, podcasts, capitalism, Michael Bay's "The Island," black body radiation, infrared light like in Predator, colour, buzz words, physicists, Dr. Ian Malcolm, mathematicians, "Thin"telligence, Guiness Book of World Records, why mathematicians?, Monte Carlo simulations, Chaos Theory, running simulations, regulating industry, is Jurassic Park socialist literature?, graphing quadreatic equations, inflection points, Poisson Distribution curves, the shape of the data, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down, Fractal Curves, economics, Heinz Pagels, dense periodic orbits, strange attractors, Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, why invite Malcolm to the park at all?, resonant yaw, poetic justice, reading Jurassic Park is worthwhile, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The Exquisitely Preserved Dinosaur Skin of Psittacosaurusand the Scaly Skin of Ceratopsian Dinosaurs
• Histological and chemical diagnosis of a combat lesion in Triceratops

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

Intro: Death of a Dream. Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

This week’s text is Control spanning from pages 92 – 111.

Synopsis:

Malcolm questions Wu on one of Gennaro’s big questions – whether the procompsognathus remains Grant and Ellie identified is an escaped animal from Jurassic Park (p. 111). Malcolm is told that the compys were released in a series of batches, and that they are dependant upon lysine which is provided to them by Jurassic Park in tablet form, without which the animals will fall into a coma and die within 12 hours.

The control room is busy helping the boat dock, so while the tour waits, they go visit the velociraptor holding pen, where the raptors attack the fence, further intriguing Malcolm’s suspicions.

Discussions surround:

Sketchy science, Park management, The Supply Boat - the Anne B, Bow Down Before the Master, Cloning Dinosaurs, Timeline, Dinosaurs, Elaborating on Velociraptors, Visible Minorities, Building a Mystery, Dodgson's Man, Dinosaurs on the Brain, and Paleontology.

Corrections:

I said that colours absorb heat, when surely I meant that colours absorb (and reflect) light.

Side effects: May cause intestinal illnesses in stegosaurus. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 23 - The Tour pt. 3

In this episode, my terrific guest Adam Leggett returns to chat with me about:

All about Dennis Nedry! Weird Al Yankovic's Fat, We put a serious spotlight on Dodgson's Inside Man. Nedry's death, Nedry's backstory, Nedry's career, his portrayal in film, Wayne Knight, Wayne Knight in The Edge, and Armed Family, his deception, Nedry trivia!, Nedry's comeuppance, his tragic story, his cultural references, his gruesome and glorious death, and the neat Goonies easter egg.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• First definitive record of Abelisauridae (Theropoda:Ceratosauria) from the Cretaceous Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, WesternDesert of Egypt
• Thedinosaur tracksite from the lower Barremian of Areia do Mastro Formation (CaboEspichel, Portugal): implications for dinosaur behavior

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

Intro: Sleepyhead. Outro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Tour pt. 3, as we continue extrapolating and exfoliating all the details out of this massive, consequential, dense chapter, spanning from pages 92 – 111.

Discussions surround:

Jurassic Atmospheres, Grant's velociraptor excavation, 0.4 per cent success rates, feminism, paleontology, Believe me, I know!, and Building a Mystery.

Corrections:

I said that “Malcolm,” said that programmers liked to leave a trapdoor for themselves in the code, a signature letting people know “Kilroy was here,” but of course Malcolm had nothing to do with it – I meant Crichton!

The post-production team that puts SFX into a scene isn’t the gaffer - it's the foley artist. Foley artsitss use an arsenal of props, foley artists devise and record the everyday sounds heard in films, television shows, and video games—noises like footsteps, a sword being drawn from a sheath, or the swishing of clothing as two people walk past each other.

Side effects: May cause intense cravings for tiramasu. Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 22 - The Tour pt. 2

In this episode, my terrific guest Danielle Wigle, who chats with me about:

Teaching the book in high school, film adaptations, media literacy, the softer more empathetic Hammond, Carrousel of Nations, Windsor festivals, her first time, VHS cassettes, Ellie Sattlers' problematic representation, Laura Dern, Oh Balls!, having an Attenborough, socialist literature, velociratpors are stock dividends, the island is a failure, why Nedry was so upset, the InGen Incident, what if Nedry didn't die?, Samuel L. Jackson as Ray Arnold, Ray vs. John, being hard on Dr. Harding, the electric waterfall, gruesome depictions of death, Hammond's death co-opted in The Lost World, we quote the be-Jesus out of the movie, where does Hammond's wealth come from?, female characters like Bobbie Carter, Alice Levine and Lex, Tim Murphy, Billy from Jurassic Park III, Donald Gennaro, Ian Malcolm, and a lot more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• New giant carnivorous dinosaur reveals convergentevolutionary trends in theropod arm reduction
• First definitive ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceousof Jilin Province, northeastern China

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

Intro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain.  Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

This week’s text is The Tour pt. 3, as we continue extrapolating and exfoliating all the details out of this massive, consequential, dense chapter, spanning from pages 92 – 111. 

Discussions surround:

Robert Bakker / The Dinosaur Heresies, Jack Horner and maiasaura nesting habits, Henry Fairfield Osborn’s 1917 publication Skeletal Adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurs.”

As well as Responsibility and safety, The Illusion of Control, Child of the 80s, Compared to the movie, Her father’s daughter, DinosaursGod complex, Spared no expense, Dodgson’s man, and Chekhov’s Gun.

Side effects:  May cause adrenocortically mediated postnatal stress syndrome.  Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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 21 - The Tour pt. 1

In this episode, my terrific guests Dave Marshall from Palaeocast, the paleontology podcast , who chat with me about: slagging off Jurassic Park, etymology of chelicerates (claw-horns), requests for the audience to submit sketches of what they think we look like, eurypterids, Merostomata, Xiphosurans, Chasmataspidids, the Ordovician, Silurian and Devonian, teeth like chopsticks (pterygotid large pincers), and their evolution and how new discoveries alter hypotheses, pesky vertebrates, horseshoe crabs are survivors, extinction events, launching podcasts, palaeontology, paleontology, oil rigs, biostratigraphy, aquatic sloths, and sloth Atlantis, teaching Poodles to Fly, documentaries, Prehistoric Planet, Jurassic Park's impact on popular culture, being sick of dinosaurs, imaginging the past, dinosaurs in museology, Jurassic Park's omnipotent, omnipresent saturation in the public discourse on paleontology, documentary development, scientific speculation in documentaries for the purposes of entertainment, phylogenetic bracketing and ginger hair, Palaeocast Gaming Network, The Virtual Natural History Museum, and a lot more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Pelecanimimus (Theropoda: Ornithomimosauria) postcranial anatomy and the evolution of the specialized manus inOrnithomimosaurs and sternum in maniraptoriforms
• Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs

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

Intro: Hummingbird.  Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

The Tour, spanning from pages 92 – 111. Just part one of our three part series, because this chapter is so crazy!

The grandkids and safety consultants tour the facilities, learning how Jurassic Park has clones dinosaurs.

Discussions surround:

Biohazards, Elaborate Security Measures, Regis is a Liar, Timelines, Mission Control, Thomas H. Loy, the Manhattan Project, The Human Genome Project, Helotoxins, colchicinoids, and beta-alkaloids, and a whole lot more!

Side effects: 

Hair loss where you'd like to have hair, but new hair in places where you didn't have hair before...

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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, 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, allogator courtship practices, mating dances, Prehistoric Planet, carnotaurus mating dance, snakes, Clever Girl, velociraptors, Robert Muldoon, velociraptors opening doors, forked tongues, phylogenetic deductions in Jurassic Park's dinosaurs, Mike Bowman, healthy Mesozoic ecosystems, conservation attempts, equilibrium, complexities of ecosystems, and a lot more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Reappraisal and new material of the holotype of Draconyx loureiroi provide insights on the tempo and modo of evolution of thumb-spiked dinosaurs
• Insights into paleoecology of the Bajo Barreal formation(upper Cretaceous), Patagonia, Argentina

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

Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.  Outro: Latebloomer.

The Text:

This week’s text is When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth, spanning from pages 87 – 92.

The group enters the Visitor Center and Donald Gennaro presents the tasks set out for the consultants during their inspection of Hammond’s island. Malcolm’s mathematical principles reveal that they needn’t concern themselves with escaped dinosaurs.

Hammond and Malcolm have a tiff, just before Tim and Lex arrive for the tour. 

Discussions surround:

Costa Rican infant mortality rates, the Aswan Dam and Nile Delta, zoos, Contrivances of plot, Chaos Theory, Hubris, Crichton tropes, Hammond's god complex, Due Diligence, and Kids on Helicopters, and more!

Side effects: 

Cotton mouth and dry eyes. And the muchies... 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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, 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 pursuing paleontological degrees, Dr. Ellie Sattler, Alioramus or Dodo, smart dodos, feathered dinosaurs, amphibian DNA vs. modern crocs and birds, and a lot more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Quantifying vascularity in the frontoparietal domeof Stegoceras validum (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae) from highresolution CT scans
• The cranial anatomy of the long-snoutedtyrannosaurid dinosaur Qianzhousaurus sinensis from the UpperCretaceous of China

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

Intro: Centipede.  Outro: Supergroovy.

The Text:

This week’s text is the Third Iteration and Jurassic Park, spanning from pages 81 – 87.

“Details emerge more clearly as the fractal curve is re-drawn” (p. 81).

Discussions surround:

Regis is a liar … or maybe just wrong (all the time), Paleobotany, Cloning dinosaurs, Paradigm shifts, The Iterations, dinosaurs, feminism, the timeline, and more!

Side effects: 

Possible swelling in your feet. 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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, 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 dinosaur news about:

• The Plantigrade Segnosaurians : Sloth Dinosaurs or Bear Dinosaurs?
• A new hypothesis of eudromaeosaurian evolution: CT scansassist in testing and constructing morphological characters

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

Intro: Grow Old or Don't.  Outro: Centipede.

The Text:

This week’s text is Welcome, spanning from pages 79 - 80.

Sattler, Gennaro, Grant and Malcolm are suddenly faced with an Apatosaurus that Hammond has cloned, and are stupefied by what this means to reality as they know it. Hammond is proud, and he outlines their itinerary as his guests – and leaves them in the care of Ed Regis. 

Discussions surround:

Dinosaurs, having a God Complex, Hammond's Dream, Notable omissions, and differences between the novel and the film, and a lot more!

Side effects: 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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, 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 Jurassiceusauropod dinosaur Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum Dong, 1997, fromthe Turpan Basin, China, and the evolution of hyper-robust antebrachia insauropods
• Zircon geochronology of the new dinosaur fauna in the Middle Jurassic lower ShaximiaoFormation in Chongqing, SW China

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

Intro: Supergroovy. Outro: T-Shirts.

The Text:

This week’s text is Isla Nublar, spanning from pages 76 – 79.

Synopsis Once in Costa Rica, our heroes, and the ill-motivated villains board a helicopter and depart the San Jose airport, rising above the countryside, taking in all the sights.

Discussions surround:

Apatosaurs, recapping the novel, Feminism, timeline, Island Layout, villains, God Comlexes, ecological criticism Dodgson's man, and more!

Side effects:

May cause horsing around.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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, 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, ornithocheirids, Bakker's Dinosaur Heresies, Dimorphodon and Jurassic World, Cryodrakon boreas, 

www.DaveHone.gov.uk. 

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Skeletal Adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurus
• The youngest dinosaur footprints from England and theirpalaeoenvironmental implications

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

Intro: Supergroovy.  Outro: T-Shirts.

The Text:

This week’s text is Malcolm, spanning from pages 71 – 76.

Ian Malcolm introduces himself as a braggadocios, outspoken, and opinionated mathematician who’s openly defiant of Hammond’s island resort, believing whole-heartedly that Hammond has “a serious problem” (p. 73).

Discussions surround:

Feminism, timeline, Dodgson's man, calling all kids, and more!

Side effects: 

Pants becoming increasingly uncomfortable.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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 15 - Airport

In this episode, my terrific guest Robbie Dorman chats with me about: 

Burial, Westerns, Chuck Palahniuk, world building, magic, magical moments, mysteries, velociraptors, Malcolm's motivations, corporate malfeasance, Columbia University, science and scientists, Chaos Theory, relating to genre-fiction readers, building tension, movie Alan Grant v. novel Alan Grant, cool scientists, show don't tell, metatextual documentation, House of Leaves, Michael Crichton, The Simpsons Show Podcast, awful episodes of the Simpsons, 

Plus dinosaur news about:

• The Tanis site and end-Cretaceous meteor strike
• First articulated ornithomimid specimens from the upper Maastrichtian Scollard Formation of Alberta, Canada

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

Intro: T-Shirts. Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

This week’s text is Airport, spanning from pages 69 – 71. 

Dodgson meets his mysterious inside man, going over the details of the plan, showing that there are more nefarious deeds afoot this weekend, during the inspection. 

Discussions surround:

Believe me, I know!, Island layout, Timeline, Dodgson's man, Weighin in, Elaborate security measures, Building a Mystery, and more!

Corrections:

I was mistaken – I keep crediting Ed Regis with the line “Welcome to Jurassic Park,” which is famously said by Hammond in the film – but in reality, nobody actually says it: quote: The group followed Ed Regis toward the nearest buildings. Over the path, a crude hand-painted sign read: “Welcome to Jurassic Park” (p. 80). It was just a sign. My mistake. 

I said that Dr. Alan Grant was working at the University of Utah, but of course, I was wrong, it is instead University of Denver, in Colorado. That Morrison Formation is tripping me up – the danged thing spans across too many states – that said, of course Grant was not excavating from the Morrison Formation, it was the Two Medicine Formation (probably). 

Side effects: 

May make you feel alert and excited all day, until it's you time, and then you'll feel lousy and worn out. 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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! 

JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton

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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 14 - Target of Opportunity

In this episode, my terrific guest Steve Bull chats with me about:

The Toronto Raptors playoff run, boating, mornings, setting alarms, sleeping through alarms, Jurassic Park, Aliens, The Dark Knight and the Batman voice, The DaVinci Code, Stephen King, Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, pop culture, Harry Potter, Black Eyed Peas, Jurassic World, Blue, compromising on screen time with kids, scary movie moments, appealing to the masses, Billy and the Clone-a-saurus, Brides Maids, comedy, Office Space, Second City, Evan Carter, stand-up comedy, boating, Power Boat TV, Toronto Island, how to get guests to Isla Nublar, Safehaven Marine, Harambe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Disney movies, Back to the Future, Days of Thunder, quotting movies and songs, having chats with your boys, swear jars, and more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Evidence of proteins, chromosomes and chemical markers of DNA in exceptionally preserved dinosaur cartilage
• Fossilized nuclei and chromosomes reveal 180 million yearsof genomic stasis in royal ferns

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

Intro: Death of a Dream. Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

This week’s text is Target of Opportunity, spanning from page 64 – 68.

Biosyn’s board of directors wait impatiently and irritably for a final member to make their emergency meeting, the first they’ve ever called, so they can reach quorum, and therefore, they must be discussing something very important.

Discussions surround:

World building and cloning dinosaurs in technical literature, How old are the dinosaurs on the island, Dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, Prequels, Quorom, Directors' duties, responsibility and safety, never helping mankind, ecological criticism, Building a Mystery and more!

Side effects: may cause wandering eye syndrome.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 13 - Choteau 

In this episode, my terrific guest Phil Hore chats with me about: 

The X-Men, Australia, the Outback, Alpha Flight, the Australian theatrical release of Jurassic Park, nerds, Matilda, Walzing Matilda, Diamantinasaurus, and Banjo Paterson, Australovenator, Wolverine, sauropod babies and nesting, The Goodies, Triceratops evasive manoeuvers, arctometacarpals on Tyrannosaurs, Land of the Lost, hot tips on how to get the job you want at a museum, type specimens of fish, HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin, HMS Endeavor and Sir Joseph Banks, Dry Store Room No. 1, cataloguing pubic hair, Dr. Livingston and Tanzania, The inside scoop on Dinosaur Train, real estate in London, unbelievable strokes of circumstance, David Attenborough, The Prehistoric Times, John Hammond's characterization in the film compared to the novel, biting compys, Crichton's original dinosaur story, Grant's unaffected perception of Maiasaura and velociraptors, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Introducing the megaraptorid Maip macrothorax and;
• Also introducing the newly named Paralitherizinosaurus!

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

Intro: Sleepyhead. Outro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain.

The Text:

Our chapter this week is Choteau spanning from pages 63 – 64.

Discussions surround:

Costly digging, Donald Gennaro, Ellie Sattler, Believe me!, Feminism, Timeline, Building a Mystery, and more. 

Side effects: may cause wandering eye syndrome.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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 12 - Hammond 

In this episode, my terrific guest Sullivan Rogers chats with me about: 

The Junior Novelization of Jurassic Park, podcasting, doing things wrong, Gail Herman, differences between Spielberg's film adaptation and the junior novelization, wiggling around, frog DNA, Mr. DNA,  dilophosaurus, poison, John Hammond, the electric fences, billionaires, raptors, escaping raptors, being 10 years old at Jurassic Park, being scared of dogs, the Jurassic Park franchise, Tim puking, dimetrodon, amargasaurus, secuirty cameras, and more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Yamaceratops juveniles from the Mongolian desert.
• Vectiraptor greeni from the Ilse of Wight.

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

Intro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain. Outro: Hummingbird.

The Text:

This week’s text is Hammond, spanning from pages 58 – 62.

Gennaro represents the investors for Hammond’s resort, who are worried that they will be financially and perhaps criminally liable for problems at the resort, so Gennaro has been instructed to lead a safety inspection with a collection of consultants.

Gennaro is instructed to pull the plug at the slightest provocation. We learn that Gennaro was integral to Hammond’s capital campaign entitled the Pachyderm Portfolio, raising the funds necessary to make Hammond’s dream a reality. The dream was highly speculative, unlikely to succeed – but Hammond in fact tells Gennaro – yes, they’ve achieved the impossible, and they’re going to make a fortune! 

Discussions surround:

Responsibility and safety, Heroes and villains, Hoaxes are omnipresent, the Pachyderm Portfolio, Japan, Hammond's ironic lack of self-awareness, and more!

Corrections: 

In our discussion on Dimetrodon, I said I couldn’t think of other quadrupedal carnivores or theropods, when, of course there were plenty of quadrupedal carnivores – 

A list of carnivorous tetrapods from the Permian include:

• amphibians including the like 20 families of Temnospondyli which were horrifying crocodile-like frog-crocs, that came before amphibians had figured out what the heck they were doing;
• the Lepospondyli which had those bizarre, arrow-head shaped skulls;
• the Reptiliomorpha, which were of course lizard-like things before lizards settled down into being just lizards including reptile-like amphibians, and stuff that kind of look like reptiles, if reptiles were a cross between giant bullfrogs and Pitbull terriers;
• the Sauropsida, which are generally more lizard-like – though not necessarily small, and lived in the desert, the ocean, and everywhere in between, and stuff that were developing more distinctively lizard-y skulls; (these animals would eventually evolve into the dinosaurs and birds we know and love today);
• the Synapsida, which includes pelycosaurs and therapsids (and the therapsids are where the mammals come from, and includes the dimetrodon we were talking about). And there are hordes of stuff that range from right out of your dreams, to right out of your nightmares.

SO – yes, there were lots of quadrupedal carnivores, that doesn’t make dimetrodon unique, BUT, that doesn’t mean dimetrodon isn’t super cool, because it is! 

Caution: Side effects can be mild, moderate, or severe. Always consult your doctor before listening. 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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 11 - Plans

In this episode, my terrific guest Victor Yeates chats with me about:

Seeing Jurassic park opening day (somehwere in the U.S.,) Police Academy, Woodbine Centre Rexdale, watching the classics, enforcing coolness, the X-Men movies, Hammond, Dolly the sheep, travelling in the States, movies in 4D, cloning people, square watermelons, pale trout and a lot more!

Here’s a Youtube video of a clip from Police Academy 4 that was filmed at the Woodbine Mall!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Baby Matilda, the juvenile diamantinasaurus from ... you guessed it, Australia
• Two gorgeous gorgosaurus

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

Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Grow Old or Don't.

The Text:

This week’s chapter is “Plans,” spanning from pg. 52 – 58.

Grant and Sattler receive a package containing the blueprints to Hammond’s island resort, and it’s suspicious spaciousness and fortifications suggest it looks like a zoo with military upgrades. Before leaving on Hammond’s chopper, Grant must secure a fossil on Hill Four, and with the use of a CAST device, gets a good look at the velociraptor skeleton, and imagines what it must have been like in real life. Then he’s whisked away by Ellie to get to Choteau by five p.m.

Discussions surround paleontology, Defense!, Ellie Sattler, Easter eggs, Revenues, guests and park design, and a special section comparing a scene in this chapter called:

"… more like an oversized Turkey!"

Corrections:

Finally, and only because we spoke about the film with a bit more formality that usual, I’d like to include a lesson provided to us by Paleo Joe in the episode New York.

I’ve always thought the scene in Jurassic Park where that kid at the dig site confronts Alan Grant on whether or not a velociraptor was scary was the dumbest, most contrived moment in film – but Paleo Joe was very good at explaining that:

1. A) Volunteers are invaluable at a dig site, so there it’s not out of question to have a random assortment of folks there to chip in; and
2. B) when they’ve got an idea in their head, they’re incredibly bold about their observations.

So … that scene holds WAY more water than I would have given it credit. Thanks to Joe for adding new layers to my viewing of Jurassic Park that I hadn’t considered before.

Warning: Side effects include both constipation and diarrhea. Sorry about that.

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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.

In this episode, my terrific guest Gavin Micahel Booth chats with me about:

Getting his drivers license, watching Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg films, George Lucas films, theatre-going, Crichton films, science fiction, Mr. DNA and exposition dumps, marketing, 65 Million Years in the Making, movie budgets, Tom Green's career, Jurassic World 4: Ghosts of Mars, Jurassic World Dominion, Ms. Cleo and past lives, Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, casting, Jeff Goldblum, the musical score, John Williams, child actors, Lego Jurassic Park game, video games, Last Call, and more!

You can learn more about my guest Gavin Michael Booth's work and upcoming projects by visiting his website or search for his social profiles: @GavinMichaelBooth.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• First titanosaur dinosaur nesting site from the LateCretaceous of Brazil
• Why tyrannosaurid forelimbs were so short: An integrative hypothesis

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

Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature . Outro: Latebloomer.

The Text:

Gennaro is instructed by his boss to accompany the consultants on their tour of Hammond’s resort, ensuring that the investments of theirs (and of the investors they represent) are safe.

Discussions surround Safety and Responsibility, Criminal Lawyers, What's at Stake, Feminism, and Ellie Sattler.

Clips from: Breaking Bad, and the Beastie Boys' Paul Revere, New Style, and Time to Get Ill.

Side effects vary from minor problems like a runny nose to life-threatening events:

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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. 

In this episode, my terrific guest Jamie Reaume chats with me about: 

Ace Ventura When Nature Calls, Christmas Cards, The Chatham Capitol Theatre, Dune, special effects, Michael Keaton's Batman, The Dark Knight, classic Hollywood, Brachiosaurus, velociraptors, sound design, adopting Costa Rican culture in the sound design, The Shining, Jack, plaigiarism v. tribute, Blues, Led Zepplin, learning to play guitar, 1993, layering sounds, Gary Rydstrom , tyrannosaurus sound design, velociraptor sound design, posterizable moments, Ninja T-Rex, mating sounds, music production, No Country for Old Men, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Muldoon, trivia, Dances With Wolves, runtimes, Weird Al, Daniel Radcliff, Ian Malcolm, Godzilla soundtrack, sampling roars, Aerosmith, Living on the Edge, Spoonman, Metallica, performing live, and what I like about poo (you'll see).  

You can find Jamie Reuame at Shapes Guitar Lessons.com where he's an instructor, and he's co-host of Trivia Schmivia.com and you can find his musical catalogue on Youtube.

Musical samples come from Safe Trip (kitchen pot, with his fingertips); The Ones and Zeros of Digital Rain (playing glasses of water); and Beautiful Pulse (with the funky outro). 

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Fossil evidence of the avian vocal organ from the Mesozoic
• Voices of the past: a review of Paleozoic and Mesozoicanimal sounds

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

Intro: Latebloomer. Outro: Grow Old or Don't.

Side effects vary from minor problems like a runny nose to life-threatening events: 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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 8 - The Shore of The Inland Sea

In this episode, my terrific guest Justin Kiley from the Missing Compys podcast chats with me about: 

Jurassic Park, Jurassic World Dominion, Michael Crichton, podcasting, cloning people, horror films, returning to the text, militarizing dinosaurs, misusing biotechnology, better villains, Lew Dodgson, black market dinosaurs, ecological criticism, environmental consequences, State of Fear, compies, procompsognathus, escaped dinosaurs, off-site labs, Jurassic Park timelines, Site B, novel Hammond v. film Hammond, Norm Atherton and Atherton Labs, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Maisie and Lockwood, Biosyn, fan theories for Jurassic World Dominion, bad capitalism, park design and layout on Isla Nublar, Ed Regis, writing trilogies v. writing sequels, animal rights, ethics, Ian Malcolm, spinosaurus?

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Ankylosaur craniums
• Nest of Juveniles Provides Evidence of Family Structure Among Dinosaurs

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

Intro: Grow Old Or Don't. Outro: Centipede.

The Text:

Paleontologist Alan Grant is excavating the first complete skeleton of a baby carnivore in Snakewater Montana, when he’s visited by Bob Morris from the EPA, who has questions about the mysterious goings-on at InGen and the Hammond Foundation, which Grant may know something about. As Morris leaves, Grant receives a call asking to help identify some mysterious remains.

Discussions surround Columbo, Responsibility and Safety, the Portrayal of Women, Chapter Titles, Ecological Criticism, Working Class v. Upper Class, Due Diligence, MacGuffin, and Building a Mystery.

The Surgeon General advises against it: 

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com. 

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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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 7 - The Shape of The Data

In this episode, my terrific guest Robert Brown chats with me about:

UHF, U-62, RJ Fletcher, Weird Al Yankovich, VR, Occulus Quest, Jurassic Park, sound systems, podcasting, video games, Aerosmith's Greatest Hits, M.C. Hammer, Hammer Time! Bon Jovi, Bad Medicine, our dearly departed buddy James Mays, sound systems, Tom Cruise, differences between the book and the movie, Game of Thrones, Jack Reacher, Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy, producing trilogies, is Alan Grant a Gerrard Butler or a Grizzly Adams?, Ian Malcolm, The Fly, Jeff Goldblum, John Hammond, Sir Richard Attenborough, CGI dinosaurs, movie making, velociraptors, kicking, Chaos Theory, reading, the history of Scotland, Scottish names, etymology of Hammond, Arnold, Grant, Sattler, Dungeons and Dragons, and don't forget, he has an ax and sword collection and compound bow!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Subaqueous spinosaurs
• 3-D Triceratops skeleton

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

Intro: Centipede. Outro: Supergroovy.

The Text:

Alice Levin notices Tina’s drawing of the green lizard, and suggests it looks like a dinosaur, and becomes excited that it may be the “rediscovery” of a believed-to-be-extinct species of dinosaur! Dr. Stone thinks Levin has an overactive imagination and refuses to indulge in her fantasies.

Discussions include responsibility and safety, the "Believe me!" trope, Heroes and villains, grievously overlooking C.O.D., due diligence, the MacGuffin, Building a Mystery, and how to read the First Iteration.

Do not take on an empty stomach:

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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 6 - New York

In this episode, my terrific guest "Paleo Joe" Kchodl chats with me about:

Spaceballs, John Candy, Mel Brooks, tyrannosaurus teeth, Utah, Michigan, South Dakota, fossil noobs, fossils, ancient life, paleoenvironments, layer cake sandwiches, stegosaurus, Nova, sauropods, dinosaur track ways, trilobites, fossil fish, fossil fraud, insects in amber, South Korean mammoth cloning, the Horner / Bakker fued, reverse engineering dinosaurs, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, raptors, Robert Bakker, Indian Jones, John Hammond, excavation, fossil preperation, lab work, binomial nomenclature, naming a new species, protitanichthys, creationists, Burpee Museum, Blue, Jurassic World, velociraptor, feathered raptors, spinosaurus, Home Alone, and you can visit his website at PaleoJoe.com

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Yuxisaurus kopchicki

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

Intro: Supergroovy. Outro: T-Shirts.

The Text:

Dr. Richard Stone receives the lizard specimen at the Tropical Diseases Laboratory in New York, because the specimen’s intended recipient, Dr. Simpson, is unavailable for the summer. The sample comes with a picture drawn by Tina to help identify the lizard. X-rays and Polaroids of the sample are taken.

They test for communicable diseases, and finding none, answer Dr. Guitierrez that the lizard is safe, which Marty believes. Meanwhile, three of these green lizards prey upon a newborn baby at the Bahia Anasco clinic.

Discussions surround Ecological Criticism, Due Diligence, Building a Mystery, Chaos Theory, Superstitious Costa Ricans, and writing a Horror Story.

Do not take on an empty stomach:

Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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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, 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.

The Text:

Guitierrez is puzzled by the mystery of the strangely described, biting basilisk lizard – and is interested in observing the specimen himself, so he visits Cabo Blanco.

Discussion surrounds Building a Mystery, Jurassic Park's MacGuffin, Ecological Criticism, and Due Diligence.

Take twice daily, and seven times weekly:

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 4 - Puntarenas

In this episode, my terrific guest "Rob" chats with me about:

running with the bulls in Turin, travelling the world, when animals attack, visiting beautiful rainforests, coatimundis, reptile bites, Jurassic Park, dinosaurs, watching movies in 3-D, motion sickness, the most hilarious story about vomiting I know, imagining what dinosaurs must have been like, Disney+, Star Wars, The Lost World, Jurassic Park, and drinking pool water.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Dzharaonyx eski
• Bashanosaurus primitivus

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

Intro: Death of a Dream. Outro: Sleepyhead.

The Text:

Dr. Cruz puts Tina in an oxygen tent, after she’s fallen desperately ill from a mysterious lizard’s bites. The doctor calls for a specialist (Dr. Guitierrez) to help identify the lizard that bit Tina, so they can apply any antivenin if necessary. After hearing the unusual description of the lizard, Guitierrez identifies it as a basilisk lizard. They’re not poisonous, but he explains Tina must be allergic to reptiles.

Discussions include Xenophobia, The Dinosaurs, Due Diligence, Feminism, Jurassic Park's MacGuffin and Building a Mystery.

May cause anal leakage:

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 3 - Almost Paradise

In this episode, my terrific guest Kristoph Ochs chats with me about:

Family abductions, cinephelia, Carnosaur (1993), Jurassic Park, directing, film making, Ghostbusters, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, the upcoming Jurassic World Dominion, returning cast members Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldbloom, Tammy and the T-Rex, Denise Richards, and Paul Walker.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannosaurus regina and tyrannosaurus imperator
• Kritosaurus australis, and
• a dinosauromorph that bridges continents

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

Intro: Sleepyhead. Outro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain.

First Iteration: “At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen” – Ian Malcolm Almost Paradise: (pgs. 11 – 15)

In July 1989, the Bowman family (Mike, Ellen and Tina) visit a remote beach during a two-week holiday. According to guidebooks, Cabo Blanco was unspoiled wilderness, almost a paradise (p. 11). The Bowmans squabble as they reach the isolated, pristine white beach. Tina runs off – to get away from her parents’ incessant bickering – and discovers a strange lizard, that bites her.

Discussions surround quarrelling dialogue, Crichton's crutches (the Believe me! trope, the worrywart, and inherited traits), parallels and paradigms, safety, hubris/control, and Mystery Building.

Do not take on an empty stomach:

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 2 - Prologue: The Bite of The Raptor

In this episode, my terrific guest Adam Leggett chats with me about:

Not remembering things, liking dinosaurs, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, child audiences, opening scenes, military endings, Lord of the Flies, finding connections where there are none to find, Crichton novels, Sphere, Congo, film adaptations, surprise appearnaces from Vince Vaughan and Julianne Moore, Andromeda Strain, water sources, iconic movie moments, comedic relief, the unspoken backstory of Dr. Henry Wu, and how momentous Jurassic Park was and remains today.

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Chilesaurus diegosuarezi
• Brevidentavis zhangi
• Meemannavis ductrix

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

Intro: Atom-Age Vampire-Cat In The Brain. Outro: Hummingbird.

Text:

Our point-of-view character for this chapter is Dr. Bobbie Carter, who is shocked when a helicopter arrives through a horrible storm carrying a fatally wounded construction worker. She’s lied to about the injury, told that it’s a construction accident, when it’s clearly a mauling – and then the injured worker speaks: raptor before vomiting blood and spasming on the floor, to his death. Then the body and all evidence of the injury are whisked away by the InGen Construction Sikorsky, and they’re gone forever. The word raptor makes the not-usually-superstitious Costa Rican aides at the clinic extraordinarily superstitious, because it reminds them of the hupia, a vampiric spirit that kidnaps newborns. Carter looks up the word in the dictionary and see that it means: bird of prey.

Discussion surrounds how to read "Raptor," raptor bites, being sick v. being injured, the art of deception, half-baked ideas, power and safety, the Safety Dance, and Building a Mystery.

May cause drowsiness. Do not take prior to operating heavy machinery:

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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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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 1 - Introduction "The InGen Incident"

In this episode, my terrific guests Phil and Lindsay Longpre chat with me about Jurassic Park the movie, the novel, ecological criticism, John Hammond, the goldrush, bio technology and more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Cretaceous croc confractosuchus sauroktonos (with an unidentified ornithopod)
• Iberian titanosaur Abditosaurus kuehnei,
• Argentinian abelisaur Guemesia ochoai, and
• Iberian spinosaur Iberospinus natarioi.

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

Intro: Hummingbird. Outro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature.

The Text:

Introduction: “The InGen Incident” ix

As a synopsis, this is an essay by Crichton that outlines that biotechnology and genetic engineering have been rushed with furious haste, for profits.

The biotechnology revolution differs in three important respects from past scientific transformations.

1) it is broad-based: 500 corporations spend $5 billion a year on biotechnology

2) much of the research is thoughtless or frivolous

3) the work is uncontrolled

Most concerning, “no watchdogs are found among scientists themselves.” Scientists are no more ethical in pursuing science than the capitalists pursuing the science (x).

The whimsical use of biotechnology should concern us all (ix). And everyone is a stakeholder (x).

Science is no longer pursued for the betterment of mankind (x). Galileo proceeded with “science as a free and open inquiry into the workings of nature.” Scientists traditionally operated above politics and war, rebelling against secrecy in research and frowning upon patents – working for the betterment of all mankind.

Crichton labels a clear moment when the betterment of all switched to patents for profit: April 1976. Venture capitalist Robert Swanson bankrolled biochemist Hebert Boyer (both real people) to launch Genetech, a real business who’s Wikipedia page includes no mention of Jurassic Park…

They, standing on the shoulders of giants (those giants being British researchers James Watson and Francis Crick, who deciphered the structure of DNA), launched a trend-setting, gene-splicing new world of genetic engineering enterprise (x). This led to a “significant shift in attitude,” says Crichton (xi).

We’re told of the “InGen Incident” where fewer than 20 people were on a remote island off the west coast of Costa Rica, in the final two days of August 1989, and only a handful survived. By Oct. 5, 1989, InGen was bankrupt.

Discussions surround world building, foreshadowing, Hammond personified,

Take only as recommended: Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean (click here).

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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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.

In this episode, I introduce myself (hi) and the podcast, and cover everything from the front cover to the epigraphs.

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

Intro: Sacrifice to the Inhuman Creature. Outro: Latebloomer.

Please enjoy responsibly: Find it on iTunes, on Spotify (click here!) or on Podbean: The Pilot Episode.

The Epigraphs “Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale colour, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them.” – Linnaeus 1797.

“You cannot recall a new form of life.” Erwin Chargaff – 1972

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.

You can find links to all that baggage in the show notes, or by visiting the schickens.blogpost.com or finding us on Facebook, at Facebook.com/SpringChickenCapers or me, I’m on twitter at @RogersRyan22 or email me at ryansrogers-at-gmail.com.

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!

JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton