#480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 222 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:22) - Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(07:18) - T-Rex's size & biomechanics
(31:00) - T-Rex's hunting strategies
(44:07) - History of dinosaurs on Earth
(1:04:38) - $31.8 million T-Rex fossil
(1:17:44) - T-Rex's skull and bone-crushing bite force
(1:36:33) - What Jurassic Park got wrong
(1:54:52) - Evolution and sexual selection
(2:15:26) - Spinosaurus
(2:26:02) - What Jurassic Park got right
(2:33:35) - T-Rex's intelligence
(2:43:34) - Cannibalism among T-Rex
(2:49:05) - Extinction of the dinosaurs
(3:06:15) - Dragons
(3:22:39) - Birds are dinosaurs
(3:33:23) - Future of paleontology
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Dave Hohn, a paleontologist, expert on dinosaurs, co-host |
| 0:07.0 | of the Terrible Lizards podcast, and author of many scientific papers and books on the behavior |
| 0:13.0 | and ecology of dinosaurs. |
| 0:16.4 | This was truly a fun and fascinating conversation. |
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