Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 175 - Dinosaurs! A Fun-Filled Trip Back In Time!
Hosts: D'Arcy, Heidi, Jeremy, Mike, Rebecca
This is about dinosaur hipsters, the ethics of using nuclear weaponry against Sarah Palin, and ninja Fred Savage murdering a child and taking his place.
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8 comments postedListening to your discussion about dinosaur taxonomy. Oh my god...
Can a species be both reptile and dinosaur at the same time? Well yeah, actually. Taxonomy is a descriptive means of classification. It's not rigid and unchangeable. Classifications change all the time with new discoveries.
Some scientists will tell you that birds are reptiles. Yes, they have feathers. Yes, they're warm blooded. But those are superficial compared to more important commonalities. The skull in particular.
Genetically, birds are still very closely related to the reptiles, much more than mammals are. In fact, birds (and dinosaurs) are archosaurs, the great family of reptiles, which put them in the same classification as crocodiles and alligators. Birds and alligators have a closer common ancestry than either have to turtles. In contrast to the archosaurs, turtles are barely reptiles. (Interestingly enough, whenever the TMNT refer to themselves as amphibians, there's a chance they might actually be correct.)
Also... MIKE. I heard you say that the T-Rex and the triceratops didn't live at the same time. They absolutely DID. And by the way, that should be the styracosaurus, seeing as triceratops is now thought to be just an infant styracosaurus. Maybe you were thinking of stegasaurus, since Disney's Fantasia had depicted the two fighting one another. Not only did neither animal even live at the same time, but they lived on entirely different continents.
Whew...
I can't take any of what you just said seriously when you confuse Styracosaurus and Torosaurus!
:)
I'm certainly no scientist, but I'm positive T-Rex lived in the Cretaceous, not the Jurassic period!
Okay, I did screw up that one. I was kind of hurrying. Good catch. Point 1: DAPDX.
But don't shoot down the rest of it just because I goofed on one name. (You wouldn't do that.) The rest of that is absolutely correct.
The T-Rex DID live in the Cretaceous, and I wasn't saying that it didn't. What I was saying was that Torosaurus/Triceratops were there, too. Both species were right there at the end.
I was just teasing. I'm not really disregarding the other stuff you said, I just don't know that much about it and Mike was the one saying they didn't live at the same time. I think I was just saying T-Rex didn't exist in the Jurassic and therefore shouldn't have been in JURASSIC Park. I don't know about the genetics and such, but I do know that a T-Rex with feathers sounds really cool to me.
It's all good. Great show as always. I like dinosaurs, so I couldn't resist.
Don't worry, we'll be sure to give Mike a hard time about it on the show!
Noticed Jeremy tried to mention the name of that film board. It's official title is The National Film Board of Canada, or "NFB" for short, and who's work often showed up a lot on TV back then as "filler" in-between movies on HBO, Showtime and even Nickelodeon. They have a webpage nowadays you can watch them online these days.
http://www.nfb.ca/
Nickelodeon back then, aside from not having the kind of cash to create original stuff, often did rely on acquisitions of material from all over, reasons why we had things like Canada's "You Can't Do That on TV" or England's "The Tomorrow People" on the air back then. Having lived through that era, I certainly missed what Nick used to be. I don't remember Will Vinton's Dinosaur film showing up on there, but the film was offered to schools through Pyramid Films anyway, and it can be ordered here on tape or disc! I'm sure prior to the Fred Savage video it probably got a few plays throughout the country either in school or perhaps on TV as something they stuck in after a movie to fill time (Nickelodeon often did that to even out it's 2-hour "Special Delivery" block on the weekends)...
http://www.pyramidmedia.com/item.php3?title_id=1096
While you guys commented on the voices during that Claymation sequence, I thought the voices were at least trying typical of school brats to me (besides Phillip, who sounds more like a pimple-faced, four-eyed type). While mentioning the black kid, I thought he sounded Latino to me in one scene, oh well. The one called "Richard" sounded more like a greaser-type to me. While true this was also the first appearance of Herb and Rex from the Xmas special, I feel their "Siskel & Ebert" persona didn't quite showed up until they were used for these "Festival of Animation" bridging sequences...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM5zZwoju20
You guys outta do "The Adventures of Mark Twain" one day, that one was quite a trip!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088678/
Thinking about another video I saw once on Dinosaurs, there's Phil Tippett's own stop-motion opus, "Prehistoric Beast", which became the basis for a documentary hosted by Christopher Reeve...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcTEJn8HZR4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Beast
Bothered reminding myself of another animated short that involves a dinosaur, and was produced by the guys behind KIller Klowns from Outer Space!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxffufNlCs