Episode 85: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) w/ Dr. Advait Jukar

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

• The fan list of species we’re using in this episode

  
  Sloths:

• Megalonyx

• Nothrotheriops

• Eremotherium

• Paramylodon

  Armadillos:

• Dasypus bellus, the beautiful armadillo

• Pampatheres

• Holmesina (a genus of Pampathere)

• Glyptodon
  

  Sea Creatures:

• Huphesuchus

• Metriorhynchus

• Dakosaurus

• Brachauchenius

• Globidens

• Pacus

  Elephants:

• Platybelodon

• Paracerotherium, the inspiration for Star Wars’ ATAT

• Aphanobelodon

  Other animals:

• Megaloceras

• Protoceratideae

• Macrauchenia

• Serranía de la Lindosa cave art

• Chalicotherium

• Tylocephalonyx (dome-headed chalicothere)

• Mylagaulidae (horned rodents)

• Bootherium (extinct Muskox)

• Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)

• The only painting of a dodo from life?

• Other dodo sketches from life

• The White Dodo

• New woolly rhino mummy