What The Duck?!

Hollywood lied to us: Jurassic Park


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Quick! Think of a ‘dinosaur movie’. Chances are Jurassic Park (1993) was first to mind.   

Steven Spielberg’s genetic nightmare/theme park gone wrong classic is so iconic that it inspired a generation of kids to study palaeontology, and reinvented our modern popular idea of dinosaurs. But does that idea still stack up?   

Could you really clone a triceratops from DNA found in an ancient mozzie?  

Did dilophosaurus really look like a frill-necked lizard?  

And aren’t dinosaurs supposed to be feathery?   

Ann Jones cracks into how Jurassic Park did (and didn’t) lie to us. 

Featuring: 

  • Dr Travis Holland, Senior Lecturer in Communication at Charles Sturt University, host Fossils and Fiction Podcast 
  • Tim Richards, Lecturer at the University of Queensland
  • Associate Professor Cameron Webb, Mosquito Expert, NSW Health Pathology & University of Sydney 

This episode of What the Duck?! was produced on the lands of the Wadawarrung, Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Kaurna people.

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