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SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.827.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The illustrated interpretation of dinosaur morphology and behavior has had a big impact on how the public views dinosaurs and it's gone through a couple of key turning points, including a more recent push for more speculative paleoart.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is possible. I'm Roman Mars.

0:05.2

Anyone who has had kids knows that they go through obsessive phases that can last anywhere

0:09.7

from a few days to several years. I went through a lot of phases growing up.

0:15.2

That's producer Emmett Fitzgerald. There was a brief train phase. Then in

0:20.4

preschool I was obsessed with farming equipment. I could list obscure

0:24.7

European tractor brands off the top of my head like an old Italian wheat farmer.

0:28.9

But I think my most intense obsession, like many kids, was dinosaurs.

0:34.3

I knew more about dinosaurs at the age of five than I do now,

0:37.7

and I was all but certain that I would one day become a paleontologist.

0:41.7

I don't know exactly where this dinosaur obsession came from, but I think part of it was just that dinosaurs looked so cool.

0:48.0

I had all these books filled with incredible drawings of colorful dinosaurs leaping around, roaring, and tearing into one another.

0:56.1

I fell in love with the artwork in those books.

0:59.0

And at least for the time being, art is the only way we experience dinosaurs.

1:03.0

We can study bones and fossils,

1:05.0

but barring the invention of time travel,

1:07.0

or some Jurassic Park resurrection scenario,

1:10.0

we will never see these animals with our own eyes.

1:13.0

There are no photos or video,

1:15.0

which means that if we want to picture how they look,

1:17.0

someone has to draw them.

1:19.0

Hello, I'm Dr. Robert Bucker,

1:22.0

known to the folks in North Texas as Jurassic Bob.

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