Episode 61 - Descent

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 61 - Descent.

In this episode, my terrific guest Dr. David Varricchio joins the show to chat with me about:

fieldwork in Montana, seeing Jurassic Park in 1993 at a private screening held at the Museum of the Rockies, how it impacted Jack Horner's lab, pronouncing Choteau and buttes, excavating dinosaur skeletons, visiting Egg Mountain, orodromeus, volcanoes of Montana and thick ash beds, 'undergroundology,' oryctodromeus and realizing he was excavating a burrow!, Robert Bakker predicting burrowing dinosaurs, how big could burrowing dinosaurs be?, birds we know that burrow, how similar are Troodons and Velociraptors?, the status of the validity of Troodon, comparing steonychosaurus to troodon, toodon nests / egg clutches, egg strength, do troodons have egg teeth?, dromaeosaurid nesting behaviour, and much more!

Plus dinosaur news about:

• Furcatoceratops elucidans, a new centrosaurine(Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) from the upper Campanian Judith River Formation,Montana, USA.
• A new gigantic titanosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Northwestern Patagonia,Argentina 

Featuring the music of Snale https://snalerock.bandcamp.com/

Intro: Toucans.  Outro: Chinese Cafe.

The Text:

This week’s text is Descent, spanning from pages 384 – 390.

Synopsis:

Gennaro is forced down the rabbit hole where they land in the raptor nest. It’s filled with dozens of raptors, of various ages. Grant supposes there have been multiple generations born on the island, and then they get to counting the eggs, the egg shells, but are ultimately distracted by the animals’ conspicuous and unusual behaviour: why are they all lining up in this unusual northeast-southwest formation? Then, the raptors are sprint out of the nest and “into the darkness beyond.” 

Discussions surround:

Timeline, Alice's Adventurees in Wonderland, and Rebirth

Corrections:

Side effects: 

May cause you to self-identify as being as Mad as a Hatter. 

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