Episode 28: Jurassic Park (1993)

We were so preoccupied with whether or not we could we didn’t stop to think if we should! On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Elsa Panciroli to discuss Steven Spielberg’s classic Jurassic Park (1993), even though it has nothing to do with the Stone Age. We all agree it is a perfect movie and possibly the best of all time, but we’re still going to criticize its scientific accuracy, because that’s what we do here. Follow Elsa on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gsciencelady and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elsapanciroli/ Read Elsa’s Books: Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (2021) https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/beasts-before-us-9781472983978/ The Earth: A Biography of Life (2022) https://www.nhbs.com/the-earth-a-biography-of-life-book Get in touch with us! Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: The oldest DNA found so far: https://www.science.org/content/article/mammoth-molars-yield-oldest-dna-ever-sequenced Animals that can change sex: https://www.treehugger.com/animals-can-change-their-sex-4869361 How old is amber? https://nammu.com/eng/how-old-is-amber/ Docodonta – Mesozoic mammals: https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Docodonta 3D-printed mummy voicebox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O66mc-bDeXU Thagomizer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer Herbivores aren’t friendly: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HerbivoresAreFriendly Inaccurate dinosaurs in Jurassic Park: https://screenrant.com/jurassic-park-completely-wrong-about-dinosaurs/ Jurassic Park’s Velociraptors were actually based on Deinonychus: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/you-say-velociraptor-i-say-deinonychus-33789870/ Raptor Red (1996) by a guy named Bakker: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/7633/raptor-red-by-robert-t-bakker/9780553575613