This interview is amazingly thoughtful and production quality is excellent. It is a absolute joy to watch these ideas come alive. Fantastic job convincing me this is my next read! Just got to finish Neil Oliver's "Wisdom of the Ancients". Another fabulous read for anyone who like powerful views of history that put today into perspective :)
I’m from Rockford which is by the Wisconsin border. I’ve noticed that the more south you go in Illinois, people tend to say “Ellinois” versus “Ill-in-ois”
I've read both of Professor Brusatte's books and greatly enjoyed them. After reading them I can watch a program about plate tectonics and relate that to what was in the books. It has also given me a better understanding of evolution and its mechanics.
Been a big fan of Greg since he signed.. Always gave his all, & before Ange, we picked up more points with him in the team than Laxault.. His stats have always been impressive, & Ange has seen his qualities straight away & we're seeing his coaching bringing out the best in him.. So happy for him, he thoroughly deserves all the praise going.. #HH
That new book sounds fascinating even before he has written it! I have read that birds survived the asteroid because they were burrowing species. Maybe this is the same for mammals? Seems like I'll be going to the pictures soon! 🙂
I almost finished reading Professor Brusatte's book on dinosaurs, will be getting straight into his book on mammals. Great communicator. Hopefully we'll get more videos. We need better science education for the general public. Prof Brusatte could be the David Attenborough or Carl Sagan for paleontology.
Great interview yet again! It's so gratifying to hear these findings straight from the scientists themselves. I'm definitely interested in the new Mammals book. Did Prof Brusatte record an audio version??
Really like these interviews!!! I thoroughly enjoyed the professor's dinosaur book and I look forward to the new mammal book. In the past few years I have read a bit about the synapsids and the early mammals. Fascinating stuff!
Spielberg DID know there were feathers on theropod dinosaurs. Archaeopteryx had been known for over a century. Ostrom’s work from the late 1960s was a few decades old by the 1990 publication of the book, Jurassic Park, and later the movie. The special effects guys back then were up to their eyeballs just trying to create the first digital dinosaurs. Feathers were too much, too soon for computers of that decade. “That humble little change,” that temporal fenestra found in synapsids ALSO appeared by convergence in a clade of millerettids including Australothyris, Eunotosaurus and Casea, all plant-eaters that did not survive their era. Mammals kept the dinosaur big? Not really. Podokesaurus, Protoavis, Archaeopteryx, Marasuchus, Scutellosaurus, the ‘compys’ frequently mentioned in Jurassic Park the book are only a few of the small ones Brusatte is omitting. Plus ALL the baby dinosaurs hatching out of small eggs and growing up throughout the Mesozoic. They count, too!
Can you pitch this Idea that instead of oversized featherless Velociraptors, maybe use Gorgonopsids in the next movie? Just show them the majestic beast here and there, oh sorry, I messed up the new pictures. that is another big carnivore from 260 million years ago. Or my kid just drew this Gorgonopsid, they were the apex predator of their time before dinosaurs, very good-looking, and he loves them, he says they are just like Bagheera the black panther in Jungle Book, oh no, the good one 67 Disney animation. You know they could kill a Velociraptor in a fair fight.. Something along this line, maybe we'll have a Gorgonopsid by the fifth move.
This interview is amazingly thoughtful and production quality is excellent.
It is a absolute joy to watch these ideas come alive. Fantastic job convincing me this is my next read!
Just got to finish Neil Oliver's "Wisdom of the Ancients".
Another fabulous read for anyone who like powerful views of history that put today into perspective :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great interview. I'm very glad he managed to get the feathered dinosaur into the movie.
What an excellent interview! Well, as always... but still, you definitely deserve this like and comment for the Almighty Algorithm!
Great interview. And appreciate the improved sound quality on this one : )
Thanks! I can't do much about the interviewee's microphone but I always enhance everything as best I can. :-)
YES -- more Synapsids! ✨✨✨
I'm from the same area in Illinois. Small world!
I’m from Rockford which is by the Wisconsin border. I’ve noticed that the more south you go in Illinois, people tend to say “Ellinois” versus “Ill-in-ois”
I would love to see a Paraceratherium if I had a time machine.
I've read both of Professor Brusatte's books and greatly enjoyed them. After reading them I can watch a program about plate tectonics and relate that to what was in the books. It has also given me a better understanding of evolution and its mechanics.
Been a big fan of Greg since he signed.. Always gave his all, & before Ange, we picked up more points with him in the team than Laxault.. His stats have always been impressive, & Ange has seen his qualities straight away & we're seeing his coaching bringing out the best in him.. So happy for him, he thoroughly deserves all the praise going.. #HH
Interesting. I never thought that the mammal ancestors kept the dinosaurs (other than birds) big so that none of them could survive the KT event.
Yes an interesting idea and logical. I've never thought of this before!
That new book sounds fascinating even before he has written it! I have read that birds survived the asteroid because they were burrowing species. Maybe this is the same for mammals?
Seems like I'll be going to the pictures soon! 🙂
I almost finished reading Professor Brusatte's book on dinosaurs, will be getting straight into his book on mammals. Great communicator. Hopefully we'll get more videos. We need better science education for the general public. Prof Brusatte could be the David Attenborough or Carl Sagan for paleontology.
I think Robert T. Bakker would be better for that title
Great interview yet again! It's so gratifying to hear these findings straight from the scientists themselves. I'm definitely interested in the new Mammals book. Did Prof Brusatte record an audio version??
Hi -- there is an Audible version on Amazon, although I don't think it is Steve himself who reads it...
a podcast where I figure out what books\audiobooks to buy next
What a great book 🎉
Really like these interviews!!! I thoroughly enjoyed the professor's dinosaur book and I look forward to the new mammal book. In the past few years I have read a bit about the synapsids and the early mammals. Fascinating stuff!
Spielberg DID know there were feathers on theropod dinosaurs. Archaeopteryx had been known for over a century. Ostrom’s work from the late 1960s was a few decades old by the 1990 publication of the book, Jurassic Park, and later the movie. The special effects guys back then were up to their eyeballs just trying to create the first digital dinosaurs. Feathers were too much, too soon for computers of that decade.
“That humble little change,” that temporal fenestra found in synapsids ALSO appeared by convergence in a clade of millerettids including Australothyris, Eunotosaurus and Casea, all plant-eaters that did not survive their era.
Mammals kept the dinosaur big? Not really. Podokesaurus, Protoavis, Archaeopteryx, Marasuchus, Scutellosaurus, the ‘compys’ frequently mentioned in Jurassic Park the book are only a few of the small ones Brusatte is omitting. Plus ALL the baby dinosaurs hatching out of small eggs and growing up throughout the Mesozoic. They count, too!
has anyone done any research into evolution of pinipeds and whales and what land mammal they came from
I think quite a bit of work has been done. Whales are artiodactyls, and pinnipeds are within order Carnivora.
Can you pitch this Idea that instead of oversized featherless Velociraptors, maybe use Gorgonopsids in the next movie? Just show them the majestic beast here and there, oh sorry, I messed up the new pictures. that is another big carnivore from 260 million years ago. Or my kid just drew this Gorgonopsid, they were the apex predator of their time before dinosaurs, very good-looking, and he loves them, he says they are just like Bagheera the black panther in Jungle Book, oh no, the good one 67 Disney animation. You know they could kill a Velociraptor in a fair fight.. Something along this line, maybe we'll have a Gorgonopsid by the fifth move.
So what are the "rats" of evolution that live in the shadows of mammals and might survive us?
I can’t believe that a significant amount of Americans think the earth is only a few thousand years old and humans and Dinos coexisted.
Useless data.. Only good for drawing a paycheck...