Episode 85: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) w/ Dr. Advait Jukar

Dr. Advait Jukar, our first ever guest, returns for another crack at the Ice Age franchise. In The Meltdown (2006), we catch up with the world’s most famous computer-animated megafauna as they flee climate change, and a snake-oil salesman, and vultures, and Mesozoic monsters, and in the end it turns out the stakes were never really that high. But if you like long lists of scientific names for animals, then you’re in for a treat! Advait’s links: Florida Museum of Natural History: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ The Montbrook fossil site: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/sites/montbrook/ Win some SotSA Merch! Send your mistakes, inaccuracies, and corrections to us by email or social media: Twitter: @SotSA_Podcast Bluesky: @sotsapodcast.bsky.social Facebook: @SotSAPodcast Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sotsa/ Email: [email protected] In this episode: The Channeled Scablands: http://www.sevenwondersofwashingtonstate.com/the-channeled-scablands.html The fan list of species we’re using in this episode: https://parody.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Species_in_Ice_Age_2:_The_Meltdown Sloths: Megalonyx:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalonyx Nothrotheriops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothrotheriops Eremotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremotherium Paramylodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramylodon Armadillos: Dasypus bellus, the beautiful armadillo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasypus_bellus Pampatheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampatheriidae Holmesina (a genus of Pampathere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmesina Glyptodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodon Sea Creatures: Huphesuchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hupehsuchus Metriorhynchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metriorhynchus Dakosaurus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakosaurus Brachauchenius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachauchenius Globidens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globidens Pacus: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/pacu-fish.htm Elephants: Platybelodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platybelodon Paracerotherium, the inspiration for Star Wars’ ATAT: https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-did-a-mega-mammal-inspire-star-wars/ Aphanobelodon: https://www.deviantart.com/cisiopurple/art/Aphanobelodon-zhaoi-939120720 Other animals: Megaloceras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloceros Protoceratideae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoceratidae Macrauchenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrauchenia Serranía de la Lindosa cave art: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0496 Chalicotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalicotherium Tylocephalonyx (dome-headed chalicothere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylocephalonyx Mylagaulidae (horned rodents): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylagaulidae Bootherium (extinct Muskox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootherium Dodo (Raphuscucullatus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo The only painting of a dodo from life? https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/ts256f/the_dodos_true_coloursa_dodo_that_was_painted/ Other dodo sketches from life: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228371340_The_history_of_the_Dodo_Raphus_cucullatus_and_the_penguin_of_Mauritius The White Dodo: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2004.31.1.57 New woolly rhino mummy: https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/siberian-gold-miners-accidentally-find-ancient-woolly-rhino-mummy-with-horn-and-soft-tissues-still-intact