Prehistoric Planet

a fun thing to think about.

Yeah, I think Prehistoric Planet actually did a depiction of that, of some, I can't remember which large dinosaur it was, but doing a silly mating dance for a potential mate.

So that was pretty fun.

Calvin continues asking his dad questions.

... or to remove parasites, but when they do that, they ingest far fewer rocks.

I was thinking that when you mentioned the clay, because I think it was in Prehistoric Planet, it was in one recent dinosaur documentary, they had this scene where all these, I wanna say ceratopsians, were going through a cave or something.

Mm-hmm.

And they were trying to get to this nutrient-rich clay, which I think was calcium.

It's the same year.

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I think it's just because it didn't get the same sort of fanfare that Prehistoric Planet did, and because that was the Planet Earth people, and everybody loves Planet Earth.

Mm-hmm.

Paleontologists and paleoartists are putting this knowledge out into the books, which the public are reading.

And then you have documentaries like Prehistoric Planet, which did a fantastic job of showcasing what we think dinosaurs looked potentially like and how they probably might have acted.

And other documentaries that are coming out as well, like the dinosaurs on Netflix that are trying to show more behavior.

And what a lot of these models and exhibits are doing, they're not showing any of this type of ecological storytelling.

And in terms of what sort of Jurassic Park got right at the time, obviously Jurassic Park was incorporating behavior.

And obviously there are paleologists like Jack Horner taking on a pivotal role in terms of giving Steven Spielberg access to information.

and the Stan Winston team and you saw this with obviously artwork from like Crash McCreary who was doing some really great artwork around sort of behavior and how dinosaurs moved ultimately though our knowledge has moved on quite a lot now and what we think of dinosaurs today is very different to when Jurassic Park was in development so you know pop culture has moved ahead we've got documentaries like prehistoric planet and life on our planet and the dinosaurs and the new walker of dinosaurs series that came out so all of these documentary shows are showcasing dinosaurs and the science of paleontology in very new ways

james as we approach the closer for this podcast i'll ask a few closing out questions and what you see the future of dinosaur models but i'll be missing me not to ask you What's your favorite dinosaur? And tell me how you got into studying dinosaurs.

They could have moved them around.

This was very famously portrayed in Prehistoric Planet in...

I really liked Prehistoric Planet.

I-

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I picked a dinosaur one.

Will, what's our patron question today?

Our question is from Hannah, who asks, "In the deserts episode on Prehistoric Planet, a herd of Dreadnoughtus is shown hanging out in the desert during the mating season.

And then among the top 100 year titles for September, um, f- only three of Apple TV's titles are unscripted.

So, which was Dynasty, Yukon Huskies, Twisted Yoga, and Prehistoric Planet.

In, but 15 of Netflix's top 100 performing titles w- are unscripted.

Now of course, the less unscripted content you have, the less they're gonna s- take up your top 100, right? But I think people are moving to really now understand what Apple TV is about.

Uh, and then there was also Widow's Bay, which got 1.1 million unique views.

And then among the top 100 year titles for September, um, f- only three of Apple TV's titles are unscripted, so which was Dynasty, Yukon Huskies, Twisted Yoga, and Prehistoric Planet.

In, but 15 of Netflix's top 100 performing titles w- are unscripted.

Now of course, the less unscripted content you have, the less they're gonna s- take up your top 100, right? But I think people are moving to really now understand what Apple TV is about.

I'm not 100% sure, but, uh, you know, it, it's just, like, one of those passions of, like, it's, it's fun.

Um, also, um, if anyone is looking for good dinosaur media, please check out Prehistoric Planet.

It's, it is fantastic.

Ooh.

I'm gonna start with a question about flappy claps anyway, 'cause, uh, we've got this, uh, we've got this question, which is from Klaus, and I've sh- had to shorten it to fit it on the screen, but, "Tyrannosaurus rex versus Quetzalcoatlus scenes in Prehistoric- historic Planet." Um-

Prehistoric Planet.

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It's hard reading, innit? Uh, "Since Dave is an expert on both Azhdarchids and Tyrannosaurids, I would love to hear his thoughts on that." And because we've got, um, this, I can add it to the stage and you can see a T-Rex, hopefully, um, begin to get really annoyed 'cause loads of, uh, Quetzalcoatlus are turning up to his carcass, and he's not a happy bunny.