The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Some of the bonus content in this extended interview includes:

• Working and volunteering at the Field Museum
• Preliminary work with a small theropod from Utahraptor
• Why Evan loves Gallimimus
• Power walking dinosaurs
• SVP work
• Garret’s fear of the ocean
• Alamosaurus
• Sauropod neck flexibility/posture/feeding
• rabbit & owl necks
• Why Evan majored in biology over geology

Here’s our unabridged edit of the interview with Steve & Adele about their new Elaphrosaur paper. Some of the extra material in this version:

• Other similar dinosaurs that were considered for the vertebra
• More finds from Eric the Red West
• Hypotheses about polar dinosaurs
• What other plants and animals lived with the Elaphrosaur
• Some jokes about a certain Phil and his long papers

We can talk about Scotty for ages. We had to cut out nearly half of the interview to fit it neatly into the show. But there is lots of great stuff in this extended version, including:

• More info about Scotty’s horns & eye bosses
• More thoughts on T. rex lips
• What you need to know to survive as a T. rex
• Art depicting different phases of Scotty’s life (not just as a fierce predator)
• Whether (and when) Scotty had feathers
• The random ornithomimid finger bone found with Scotty
• How Scotty could have snuck up on you
• Was Scotty really the largest ever T. rex
• Beth’s drawing process
• Upcoming paleontology in Saskatchewan

Here are some of the listener questions and other topics covered in this extended interview:

• Phil’s experience visiting museums and speaking with paleontologists
• What the future of animation might be like
• Details on when/where his ongoing project Mad God will be shown
• How Tippett Studio was involved with Jurassic World, Star Wars, and other projects
• Who came up with the title “Dinosaur Supervisor” for Jurassic Park
• Likes and dislikes about modern movies

We got lots of behind the scenes info from Ralph about his work on Cake Boss and Buddy Vs. Duff. Some of the things we included in this extended interview are:

• Why Ralph started making chocolate dinosaurs
• How a “day” on TV isn’t actually just one day
• Where the cakes end up when they’re done showing them off
• Why the swinging tail mechanic didn’t work
• Embarrassing moments mixing up famous people’s names
• The important reason not to have any unpainted D&D figurines