Episode 50 - Tyrannosaur

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. 

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Thank you!

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