Episode 59 - Under Control

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.