SIO448: How To Build A Dinosaur

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Eric Jaffe joins the show and walks us through the dream so many of us have had - building a dinosaur! With his expertise in molecular biology, we learn if this is even possible, and how exactly it would work. Would we use mosquitoes for this project like Jurassic Park tells us is totally possible and sound? Actually, what even is a dinosaur anyway? Lots of fascinating dino-talk in this one from a great science communicator!

Building a Dinosaur Is a project spearheaded by the Paleontologist Jack Horner. He has worked with the labs of numerous scientists including but not limited to: Hans Larsson, Dana Rashid and Mary Schweitzer.

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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 448. I'm your
0:20.4	host Thomas Smith and I'm so excited to bring you today's episode.
0:24.3	Today we're going to be joined by Dr. Eric Jaffey he's someone who filled out the
0:28.3	expert forum way back when and his proposal is absolutely delightful. I think I
0:32.4	had referenced Jurassic Park at some point and
0:35.0	he said he would love to take me up on my offer to talk about the science behind
0:40.0	Jurassic Park and how to properly build a dinosaur.
0:43.4	Now, I'm actually going to read this from his proposal
0:45.6	because it's something we actually kind of skipped over
0:48.3	just due to how the conversation went.
0:49.8	He says, funny enough, the proper way to build a dinosaur is to manipulate the development of a chicken.
0:54.8	He says DNA only lasts 10,000 years and the mosquito plan is so stupid on like 10 levels.
1:00.1	I'm sad to hear that the mosquito plan might not be a good plan.
1:03.5	Yeah, I'm still going to hold out hope.
1:05.6	But Dr. Jaffey would like to take us through how you might actually build a
1:09.0	dinosaur and along the way just teach us a ton about biology and evolution that is just it's
1:14.6	astounding it's so fascinating to me each and every time I learn anything like
1:17.9	this it just feels impossible in a really cool way though this was just a lot of
1:22.4	fun I can't wait for you to hear it.
1:24.0	After this break of course, which you can avoid by going to Patreon.com slash serious pod
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1:32.5	We have a seriously awful movies coming your way this month.
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