This extended cut is almost twice as long as the version that appears in episode 364. Some of the topics that are only in this version:
- Did the Caudofemoralis muscle help early dinosaurs thrive over other reptiles?
- Neither crocodilians nor birds are much like their common ancestor
- Possible soft tissue differences that didn’t fossilize
- Triassic rock formations in the US, including great potential in Texas (the Dockum Group)
- Ghost Ranch coelophysids
- High levels of variability in early dinosaur growth patterns
- Work on books (Including the 3rd edition of Dinosauria)
- How Archeology led Sterling to Dinosaurs
- Fossil unwrapping parties
- How it’s easier to get funding for field work than prep work
- Details on earliest possible dinosaur discovery
- What are the unique Characters of Dinosauromorphs?
- Thoughts on Ornithoscelida
- Crocodilians becoming secondarily ectothermic
- If Effigia would make a good pet
- Whether the Triassic will ever become as popular as Jurassic and Cretaceous