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  • Dinosaurs Lately - Marginocephalians (Summer 2025)

    Dinosaurs Lately - Marginocephalians (Summer 2025)
    Aug 26 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 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-2023-0125Jordan 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-2024-0170Phil 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.0324913Paul 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.shortWoodruff, 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/spp2.1535Anton 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 ...
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    38 mins
  • Dinosaurs Lately - Macronarians (Summer 2025)

    Dinosaurs Lately - Macronarians (Summer 2025)
    Aug 8 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. 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...
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    55 mins
  • Dinosaurs Lately - Ankylosauria (Summer 2025)

    Dinosaurs Lately - Ankylosauria (Summer 2025)
    Jul 29 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. 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/10.1080/08912963.2024.2417208Xing, 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/vamp29396PANG 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.2024.06.006https://oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CJFD&filename=HBDX202406006&dbname=CJFDAUTOZHANG 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/20250104Sophie 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.14159https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joa.14159Denner 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/S0895981125000264Victoria 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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    21 mins
  • Dinosaurs Lately - Abelisauroidea (Summer 2025)

    Dinosaurs Lately - Abelisauroidea (Summer 2025)
    Jul 23 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. 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.12583Elisabete 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/S0195667124002453Theo 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/10.1080/02724634.2025.2487366Enzo 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-wCau, 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.2025.10Christophe 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/zlae150/7926352Averianov, 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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    22 mins
  • Episode 73 - The Visitor Center

    Episode 73 - The Visitor Center
    Dec 19 2024

    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!

    #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton
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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Episode 72 - It's a Dinosaur!

    Episode 72 - It's a Dinosaur!
    Nov 9 2024
    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 authors. 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! #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • Episode 71 - Isla Nublar

    Episode 71 - Isla Nublar
    Aug 28 2024

    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!

    #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Episode 70 - The Inside Man

    Episode 70 - The Inside Man
    Aug 14 2024
    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 dinosaursan introduction to major groupsbiological characteristics like feeding, behavior, distribution, and locomotionthe 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! #JurassicPark #MichaelCrichton
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    1 hr and 49 mins