Joe Rogan Experience #2580 - Kenneth Lacovara
Joe Rogan talks with paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara about why claims that dinosaurs are fake don't hold up, how fossils form, how museum skeletons are built, and what wiped the dinosaurs out.
The gist
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Lacovara says anyone can test dinosaurs for themselves by finding exposed sedimentary rocks between about 237 and 66 million years old and digging.
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Many museum skeletons are replicas, and Lacovara says best practice keeps real bones in collections and colors any added pieces differently.
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Lacovara says the asteroid heated the surface to between toaster oven and pizza oven, so only burrowers like small mammals and crocodiles survived.
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His fossil-hunting formula is right-age sedimentary rock, exposure and distance from other paleontologists, and he always carries an entrenching tool.
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Lacovara invites the public to dig 66-million-year-old fossils at the Edelman Fossil Park, and Rogan recommends his book Why Dinosaurs Matter.
"It's like a little army shovel, but you can fold the handle at a right angle. And I always have one of those with me because it's a great climbing tool and a digging tool and you use it for camp things, but also it's a weapon."
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"And your book, Why Dinosaurs Matter? Go get it, folks. Is there an audiobook?"
▶ Play at 2:20:43What they recommend · 3 picks
"It's like a little army shovel, but you can fold the handle at a right angle. And I always have one of those with me because it's a great climbing tool and a digging tool and yo..."
"And your book, Why Dinosaurs Matter? Go get it, folks. Is there an audiobook?"
"Have you ever had your DNA run by like 23andMe or one of those? So, according to 23andMe, I have more Neanderthal markers in my genome than 99% of their customers."
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"It's like a little army shovel, but you can fold the handle at a right angle. And I always have one of those with me because it's a great climbing tool and a digging tool and yo..."
"Have you ever had your DNA run by like 23andMe or one of those? So, according to 23andMe, I have more Neanderthal markers in my genome than 99% of their customers."
Joe Rogan
1 pick · host
"And your book, Why Dinosaurs Matter? Go get it, folks. Is there an audiobook?"
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