We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could we didn’t stop to think if we should! On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Elsa Panciroli to discuss Steven Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park (1993), even though it has nothing to do with the Stone Age. We all agree it is a perfect movie and possibly the best of all time, but we’re still going to criticize its scientific accuracy, because that’s what we do here.
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Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (2021) https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/beasts-before-us-9781472983978/
The Earth: A Biography of Life (2022) https://www.nhbs.com/the-earth-a-biography-of-life-book
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In this episode:
The oldest DNA found so far: https://www.science.org/content/article/mammoth-molars-yield-oldest-dna-ever-sequenced
Animals that can change sex: https://www.treehugger.com/animals-can-change-their-sex-4869361
How old is amber? https://nammu.com/eng/how-old-is-amber/
Docodonta – Mesozoic mammals: https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Docodonta
3D-printed mummy voicebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66mc-bDeXU
Thagomizer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
Herbivores aren’t friendly: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HerbivoresAreFriendly
Inaccurate dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: https://screenrant.com/jurassic-park-completely-wrong-about-dinosaurs/
Jurassic Park’s Velociraptors were actually based on Deinonychus: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/you-say-velociraptor-i-say-deinonychus-33789870/
Raptor Red (1996) by a guy named Bakker: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/7633/raptor-red-by-robert-t-bakker/9780553575613
