Kenneth Lacovara

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"That first Jurassic Park movie, that was state-of-the-art science, you know, except for that. But then they kind of got locked in and kind of frozen in time. And so the movies become less and less accurate over time."

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"So, it's like the global center for exploration and we have a dinner every spring and it's a huge event. There's like 2,000 people that come and the appetizers famously are insects... You should come sometime."

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"Now, they did do a good job. My big baby Dreadnoughtus that I discovered in South America was in Jurassic World Dominion, and I actually think they did a really good job with the anatomy of it."

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"It's kind of the founding of the Academy of Natural Sciences, which unfortunately just ceased being open to the public... I love the academy."

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"If you look at the Crystal Palace dinosaurs, these are the first artistic reconstructions of dinosaurs... and you can still go and see them today. They're a little bit south of London."

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"Captain FitzRoy gifts young Charles Darwin a copy of the Principles of Geology as they're about to go on their voyage... and he starts to have his mind changed."

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"That's not until like 1795, I think, is when he published his book, the Theory of the Earth... it wasn't really a very polished piece of text and it's very hard to get through."

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"Did you see Apple TV's Prehistoric Planet with David Attenborough? So like great CGI. But they had my dinosaur Dreadnoughtus and it was in episode two and I had the thrill of hearing Sir David say Dreadnoughtus."

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"I think the San Diego Zoo was largely responsible for the emerging recovery of the California condor. They were down to 22 individuals, I think, in around 1970."