Episode Details

We’ve dug too far! We overshot the Stone Age and hit the Dinosaur Age again! Today we’re joined by palaeontologist Joe Wood to review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), the second movie in the Jurassic franchise (and the last good one). We talk about lumpers, splitters, slappers, clappers, and everything you ever wanted to know about our fine feathered friends.

Links

Joe’s links:

• An Hour of Our Time podcast
• An Hour of Our Time podcast
• The Shifting Realms Dungeons and Dragons actual play

List of Dinosaurs

• Compsognathus (“Compies”)
• Sinosauropteryx (preserved feathers!)
• Stegosaurus (not tail-draggers!)
• Tyrannosaurus (Ty-what? Never heard of it)
• Edmontosaurus (Cretaceous cows)
• Pachycephalosaurus (boneheads)
• Parasaurolophus (“The one with the pompadour! Elvis!”)
• Mamenchisaurus (OK, that neck is actually too long)
• Pinacosaurus (the one with the syrinx)
• Velociraptor (slapper vs. clapper)
• Citipati (Big Mama)

Palaeontologists

• David Hone
• Robert Bakker
• Jack Horner

Books

• Michael Crichton – Dragon Teeth
• Mark Jaffe – The Gilded Dinosaur
• Edward Dolnick – Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

Other talking points

• Holotype
• Huxley proposed that birds evolved from dinosaurs
• The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate
• Which dinosaurs had feathers?
• Phylogenetic bracketing
• Dinosaur syrinx
• Crocodile heart shunt
• Stegosaurus gular armour
• Lumpers vs splitters
• Enchodus
• Ben Shapiro do