Hello, you're listening to a special episode of the Science of Everything podcast, dinosaurs and popular culture.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So in this special episode, I have a discussion with the I Know Dino podcast, which some of you may be familiar with,

and we talk about dinosaurs and their presentation and representation in popular media and their

understanding and misunderstandings in popular culture.

And we discuss quite a range of topics, including dinosaur appearance, their habits and

behavior, the different varieties of dinosaurs and how accurately they're depicted in media.

And we also cover a bit of the history of paleontological understandings of dinosaurs

and how that's been reflected in movies and other popular media.

So without further ado, let's transition over to the recording with the I Know Dino podcast.

All right, so we're doing something a little bit differently this week, or maybe I should say

this episode, we're going to be talking about dinosaurs, and it's a collaboration this week

between I Know Dino and the Science of Everything.

We'll be talking about dinosaurs and really how they intersect with other fields in science and also why they are so compelling and why they're such a big part of popular culture.

Yeah, it's an exciting topic. I'm happy to be here.

So our first topic for discussion is why dinosaurs have captured so much public attention.

I have a lot of thoughts about this. I'm curious, James, what you think about why they're so popular.

I did a bit of reading about the history of dinosaurs in popular culture.

And it seems like it was in the late Victorian period when the fossils first began to be sort of scientifically studied,

that it really captured a lot of people's attentions.

And then more recently in the later 20th century,

with some of the more popular expressions in film, like Jurassic Park being one of the big

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