GETTING CURIOUS | What Was Poppin’ In Prehistoric America? with Dr. Julia Clarke

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this episode of Getting Curious, we’re digging deep with Dr. Julia Clarke, Wilson Professor of Paleontology at The University of Texas at Austin and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She and Jonathan get to the bottom of how Texas looked 250 million years ago, which dinosaurs roamed prehistoric America, and what Pangaea’s got to do with the age of dinosaurs. Follow Dr. Clarke on Twitter @jclarkepaleolab, and learn more about her work here. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a
0:08.1	40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something
0:12.0	that makes me curious.
0:13.7	And if you're curious about whether or not I can say expert,
0:16.8	I can.
0:17.9	On today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Julia Clark,
0:20.8	the Wilson Professor of Paleontology at the University of Texas at Austin, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, where I ask her,
0:28.0	what was popping in prehistoric America?
0:35.0	Welcome to getting curious, this is Jonathan Vanes. I'm so excited for this week's episode because honey,
0:38.0	I have been very curious lately about dinosaurs
0:42.0	and then I'm mining my own business and I meet Dr. Julia Clark, who is a Wilson professor of
0:48.2	paleontology at the University of Texas at Austin and you're a fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
0:54.6	That's correct.
0:56.2	So you are an expert in dinosaurs and their history.
1:05.0	Yeah, so what I study is, I like to say I study how new behaviors and structures arise in deep time and the group that I study that in is
1:18.1	dinosaurs and what I'm talking about is like how did dinosaurs gain flight how did
1:22.4	they get feathers?
1:24.0	Wow.
1:25.0	But yes I studied dinosaurs.
1:27.0	Yeah, so when we got to Texas, I started,
1:31.0	and I think it's not even just Texas.
1:32.0	A lot of my life I've often wondered like when I look around a place like I wonder what this would have looked like before it was completely developed and there was like old school like stuff you know everywhere so it's like 250 million years ago what
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