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Ep. 301: It Ain’t Just Chickens That Are Dinosaurs

Published: 2021-11-29 10:00:00
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Steven Rinella talks with Jack Horner, Ryan Callaghan, Spencer Neuharth, Seth Morris, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Is Jack Horner sick of hearing about Jurassic Park?; subscribe to MeatEater's Youtube channel and watch all of our video content, like Sourced, B-Side of Fishing, and One Week in November; Steve one-upping Spencer with his own fabulous rock story; Gordon Lightfoot's muse; the Squirrel Doc's signed book, dinner at Kevin Gillespie's Gunshow restaurant, and other things you ought to bid on in MeatEater's Auction House of Oddities; Corinne's first mule deer buck; Chester's hoo-yip song calling in bears; Jack's dyslexia and finding the baby dinosaurs of the world; all birds are equally dinosaurs; hypothesizing T-Rex as an opportunist; eating your prey alive; endothermic homeotherms and ectothermic heterotherms; 20-inch high velociraptors taking down a T-Rex; how did birds survive that very bad day?; the accoutrements, armor, and sex lives of dinosaurs; and more.


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Referenced Books

North American Tree Squirrels
by Dr. John Koprowski
Mentioned in the Me Eater Auction House of Oddities segment. The book is described as being signed by Dr. John Koprowski, the squirrel researcher who appeared on the podcast. It's presented as a comprehensive resource for squirrel enthusiasts, being auctioned as part of the auction house collection.
Referenced at 00:00:08
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
Referenced during a discussion about how species are defined and classified. Jack Horner mentions this book when explaining how scientific thinking changed regarding the classification of organisms and the concept that species evolve over time rather than being completely distinct from one another. The speaker incorrectly dates it to 1959 (actually published in 1859).
Referenced at 00:00:08