The Great Dinosaur Smashup

Science Vs

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Science, Education, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

More than 150 years ago, just before dino-mania struck, New York City was supposed to get a majestic dinosaur museum full of amazing models of dinos. There would have been nothing like it in the world. Until a bunch of thugs showed up with sledgehammers and smashed every bit of the models to smithereens — and buried it all in Central Park. Today we’re finding out what happened — and WHY. We speak with doctoral researcher Vicky Coules and paleontologist Carl Mehling. SURVEY!! HELP US SCIENCE!! WE NEED YOUR HELP TO UNCOVER THE LAST MYSTERIES OF SEX https://bit.ly/ScienceVsSurvey Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/ScienceVsTheGreatDinosaurSmashup In this episode, we cover: (00:00) The amazing dino museum we didn’t get to have (03:15) What we knew about dinos in the 1800s (04:57) The famous Crystal Palace dinosaurs (06:48) The plan for the Paleozoic Museum is born (10:40) The Great Dinosaur Smashup of 1871 (12:52) Suspect No. 1: Boss Tweed (17:58) Vicky cracks the case! (26:17) One final mystery — where are the dino pieces?? This episode was produced by Blythe Terrell with help from Wendy Zukerman, R.E. Natowicz, Michelle Dang, Meryl Horn, Rose Rimler and Joel Werner. Editing by Wendy Zukerman. Fact checking by Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord. Music written by Bobby Lord, Emma Munger, So Wylie, Bumi Hidaka and Peter Leonard. Thanks so much to everyone we spoke to about this episode, including Gowan Dawson, Robert Peck, Wendy Anthony and Jessica M. Lydon. Also thanks to Jack Weinstein, the Zukerman Family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy's look of it. You're listening to science versus
0:03.0	Today on the show, Blaith Terel.
0:08.0	Yes, I am Blaeth Terrell. I'm editor of the show.
0:11.0	Wendy, we are here in the studio for a very important reason I have a story for you I came across the story
0:17.1	About a year ago actually and I have not been able to get it out of my head. It is so much fun and it has everything.
0:25.7	Wendy everything. Everything? Yes it's got dinosaurs.
0:29.2	Ooh. It's got nerd fights. It's got 1800s New York City politics.
0:34.0	Whoa.
0:35.0	Should we get started?
0:36.0	Yes.
0:37.0	Spstanding time and space.
0:39.0	Where do we begin?
0:40.0	Okay, Wendy, imagine. It is the 1870s, and we are in a room full of massive models of dinosaurs.
0:51.2	These super cool life-size models, and you're walking among them, they're like, you know, they're towering over you.
1:00.0	We've got a meat eater, we've got a plant eater, maybe we've got like other prehistoric creatures,
1:06.3	mammoth, giant armadillos, and Lasmosaurus, one of those water creatures, you know like and these models these gorgeous
1:14.4	super cool models are destined for this museum but it's the first time ever that most people
1:18.8	will ever have seen a dinosaur and it is going to be a complete game changer.
1:24.2	People are gonna like, it's gonna blow people's minds.
1:26.3	Wow.
1:26.8	Okay, but Wendy, here's why you have to imagine it.
1:35.0	Because before this museum ever had a chance to open,
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