November 09, 2025

Episode 115: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) with Joe Wood

1 hour 23 minutes

We’ve dug too far! We overshot the Stone Age and hit the Dinosaur Age again! Today we’re joined by palaeontologist Joe Wood to review The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), the second movie in the Jurassic franchise (and the last good one). We talk about lumpers, splitters, slappers, clappers, and everything you ever wanted to know about our fine feathered friends.

Joe’s links:

An Hour of Our Time podcast:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-hour-of-our-time/id1357779625

and

https://open.spotify.com/show/0Mc5nXRa8XEn1UJJvhySXY?si=5EtqTooBRCqW4ccaNYoRnw

The Shifting Realms Dungeons and Dragons actual play: https://youtube.com/@quasirealpublishing?si=XakeSxGg8CrFO_Xa

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In this episode:

List of Dinosaurs

Compsognathus (“Compies”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compsognathus

Sinosauropteryx (preserved feathers!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinosauropteryx

Stegosaurus (not tail-draggers!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus

Tyrannosaurus (Ty-what? Never heard of it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus

Edmontosaurus (Cretaceous cows): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmontosaurus

Pachycephalosaurus (boneheads): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pachycephalosaurus

Parasaurolophus (“The one with the pompadour! Elvis!”): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasaurolophus

Mamenchisaurus (OK, that neck is actually too long): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamenchisaurus

Pinacosaurus (the one with the syrinx): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinacosaurus

Velociraptor (slapper vs. clapper): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor

Citipati (Big Mama): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citipati

Palaeontologists

David Hone: https://www.davehone.co.uk/

Robert Bakker: https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_Bakker

Jack Horner: https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Horner

Books

Michael Crichton – Dragon Teeth: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31287693-dragon-teeth

Mark Jaffe – The Gilded Dinosaur: https://archive.org/details/gildeddinosaur00mark

Edward Dolnick – Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199798305-dinosaurs-at-the-dinner-party

Other talking points

Holotype: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holotype

Huxley proposed that birds evolved from dinosaurs: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/thomas-henry-huxley-and-the-dinobirds-88519294/

The Huxley-Wilberforce Debate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_Oxford_evolution_debate

Which dinosaurs had feathers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathered_dinosaur

Phylogenetic bracketing: https://fossil.fandom.com/wiki/Phylogenetic_bracketing

Dinosaur syrinx: https://www.livescience.com/extremely-rare-fossilized-dinosaur-voice-box-suggests-they-sounded-birdlike

Crocodile heart shunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfrtGzazKI

Stegosaurus gular armour: https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/gular-armour/

Lumpers vs splitters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters

Enchodus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchodus

Ben Shapiro doesn’t understand lions (Behind the Bastards podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdm6bFMoqh4

Do palaeontologists really call it a “thagomizer”? https://www.reddit.com/r/Dinosaurs/comments/1axr07u/the_thagomizer/

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