The Common Descent Podcast

Silver Screen Science - 65 (2023)

Aug 27, 2023
This podcast explores the portrayal of prehistoric creatures in movies, including dinosaurs, bugs, and saber-toothed creatures. They discuss how these creatures adhere to common tropes in paleontology media and the exaggerations and mixing of different species. The hosts also delve into the depiction of deadly ancient environments, movie settings, tropes, and the fun of nitpicking scientific inaccuracies in movies. They also discuss a gross body horror moment and language inconsistencies in a movie, as well as the inaccurate portrayal of science in the film being discussed and hint at a future silver screen movie.
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