Dr. Advait Jukar, our first ever guest, returns for another crack at the Ice Age franchise. In The Meltdown (2006), we catch up with the world’s most famous computer-animated megafauna as they flee climate change, and a snake-oil salesman, and vultures, and Mesozoic monsters, and in the end it turns out the stakes were never really that high. But if you like long lists of scientific names for animals, then you’re in for a treat!
Advait’s links:
Florida Museum of Natural History: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/
The Montbrook fossil site: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-vertebrate-fossils/sites/montbrook/
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In this episode:
The Channeled Scablands: http://www.sevenwondersofwashingtonstate.com/the-channeled-scablands.html
The fan list of species we’re using in this episode: https://parody.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Species_in_Ice_Age_2:_The_Meltdown
Sloths:
Megalonyx:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalonyx
Nothrotheriops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothrotheriops
Eremotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremotherium
Paramylodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramylodon
Armadillos:
Dasypus bellus, the beautiful armadillo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasypus_bellus
Pampatheres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampatheriidae
Holmesina (a genus of Pampathere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmesina
Glyptodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyptodon
Sea Creatures:
Huphesuchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hupehsuchus
Metriorhynchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metriorhynchus
Dakosaurus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakosaurus
Brachauchenius: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachauchenius
Globidens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globidens
Pacus: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/pacu-fish.htm
Elephants:
Platybelodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platybelodon
Paracerotherium, the inspiration for Star Wars’ ATAT: https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-did-a-mega-mammal-inspire-star-wars/
Aphanobelodon: https://www.deviantart.com/cisiopurple/art/Aphanobelodon-zhaoi-939120720
Other animals:
Megaloceras: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaloceros
Protoceratideae: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoceratidae
Macrauchenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrauchenia
Serranía de la Lindosa cave art: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0496
Chalicotherium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalicotherium
Tylocephalonyx (dome-headed chalicothere): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylocephalonyx
Mylagaulidae (horned rodents): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylagaulidae
Bootherium (extinct Muskox): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootherium
Dodo (Raphuscucullatus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
The only painting of a dodo from life? https://www.reddit.com/r/Naturewasmetal/comments/ts256f/the_dodos_true_coloursa_dodo_that_was_painted/
Other dodo sketches from life: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228371340_The_history_of_the_Dodo_Raphus_cucullatus_and_the_penguin_of_Mauritius
The White Dodo: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/anh.2004.31.1.57
New woolly rhino mummy: https://www.livescience.com/animals/extinct-species/siberian-gold-miners-accidentally-find-ancient-woolly-rhino-mummy-with-horn-and-soft-tissues-still-intact
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