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Smologies #2: DINOSAURS with Paleontologist Michael Habib

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Yes, a double dose of short, all-ages episodes to launch Smologies! We cleaned up the full version and polished it into a safe-for-work digest of dinosaur facts and tales from a paleontologist with Dr. Michael Habib. Learn about the economics of a dino dig, his favorite beasts, cloning from amber samples, which museum dinos are real vs. fakes, Jurassic Park flimflam and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Oh, hi, it's your internet uncle, Ali Ward, back with facts and science and stories and

0:05.5

the second-ever episode of Smaller Gs, which is a new spin-off of quick to still-aligie

0:10.9

episodes that we've shrunk down and de-filthed so you can listen in a classroom or on a road

0:17.0

trip with your in-laws.

0:18.0

I don't know what your in-laws vibes are, but maybe you need a clean version.

0:21.8

Also if you want the full version of this episode, it's linked in the show notes and

0:26.4

there are also bleeped full versions available, but small or small, and they'll show up right

0:32.0

in this feed every other Thursday.

0:34.6

Now as usual, regular brand new full-length episodes of Oligies come out on Tuesdays.

0:39.3

We're just launching this double on a Tuesday because I got married to your pod mom and

0:44.6

Jared Sleeper last Saturday and I'm taking this week off to go see family in Montana.

0:49.1

My first vacation in nine years, I'm very excited.

0:51.4

Okay, this intro is already too long.

0:53.2

Let's get to fossils, dyno digs, prontosources, titanus, sorai, flimflam, Jurassic Park.

1:00.8

What does a dinosaur taste like?

1:03.3

Museum secrets and more.

1:04.5

In this episode two, Smaller Gs with paleontologist Michael Habib.

1:09.8

Now, you study movement of animals and that's kind of how you got into paleontology.

1:35.4

What is paleontology only about fossils or is it just about living things of that era?

1:41.4

So paleontology, it doesn't necessarily have to be about fossils, but it historically

1:47.2

kind of was.

1:48.2

It was considered to be the study of fossils essentially, although it more literally

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