The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Here’s our latest stop on our dinosaur roadtrip through Japan, we’ll be posting more soon! 🙂

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Here’s our first stop on our Japanese dinosaur museum trip! The most interesting piece in the museum is definitely the crouching/sitting T. rex behind us in the video. Although the spit-roasting style Deinonychus is also pretty entertaining (we too a video of that too which will show up at some point). And the Apatosaurus which is clearly real fossils was also cool to see. There were many other floors with other animals including Mesozoic marine reptiles and a really interesting timeline display projected around the perimeter of a circular room.

Here’s our 2nd of 6 episodes featuring the dinosaurs of the Jurassic Park series.

In this bonus episode we go over Carnotaurus, Ceratosaurus, Coelurus, Compsognathus, Corythosaurus, Deinonychus, Dilophosaurus, and Dryosaurus.

You can really hear the changes with our audio equipment between these segments. We adjusted them so at least the volume is the same, but a couple were after Garret’s oral surgery, so they sound… special 😛

Here’s our first in a 6 (or maybe 7) part series of dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park franchise!

In this bonus episode we go over Allosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Apatosaurus, Archaeornithomimus, Baryonyx, Brachiosaurus, and Camarasaurus. And how they’re featured in the Jurassic Park franchise.

Enjoy!

We spent last weekend in Penghu county, Taiwan. A series of islands off the west coast.

And we were surprised to find a (FREE) fossil museum there!

Since Taiwan doesn’t have any dinosaur fossils (including on its many smaller islands) there weren’t any dinosaur fossils in there.

But we did find these little guys in an explanation of Earth’s history

They also had this touchable fossil (which we couldn’t identify, but possibly cattle) with an explanation about how dinosaurs are related to dragons

And upstairs they had a Penghusuchus which was discovered on the islands. It’s from the late Miocene (~5 million years ago), long after non-avian dinosaurs were gone.

and a small recreation of it with its name misspelled :/

Unrelated to the museum… 

That night we stumbled onto a fireworks festival

Displayed over the “rainbow bridge” named for obvious reasons…

And last, but not least, the next day we checked out some cool local geology: columnar basalt

In a week and a half we’ll be doing a grand tour of dinosaur museums in Japan, hitting one a day for four days straight. We will be posting pictures and videos of the trip here 🙂