Show Notes:
Could we really bring back dinosaurs?
In this episode of Film on the Fringe, Dr. Atom opens the gates to Jurassic Park with a personal story from the set—sharing his time working with Amblin and Universal during the film’s production.
From there, the episode investigates the science behind cloning dinosaurs, including the roles of CRISPR, AI, and genetic de-extinction.
We then travel back to the Bone Wars, Victorian dinosaur obsessions, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, culminating in Doyle’s unlikely friendship with Houdini.
Finally, we enter truly fringe territory: young Earth creationism, ancient carvings of dinosaurs, and the belief that humans once lived side by side with T. rex.
It’s a wide-ranging exploration of how science, myth, and storytelling collide—and how dinosaurs continue to live on in imagination, ideology, and illusion.
🎥 Featured Films & Media:
– Jurassic Park (1993)
– The Lost World (1925)
– The Lost World novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
– The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
– Footage of The Lost World shown to Houdini
– The Ica Stones, Acambaro Figurines, and Ta Prohm carvings
🧪 Topics Covered:
– Could we really clone dinosaurs? The real science behind the fiction
– Chickenosaurus and the CRISPR mammoth
– The Bone Wars and the invention of Dinosauria
– Doyle and Houdini: belief, spectacle, and spiritualism
– Victorian dinosaur fever and the first life-sized prehistoric park
– Young Earth Creationism and fringe theories of human-dino coexistence
– Ancient art and so-called evidence for man living with dinosaurs
– Mythic dragons, biblical beasts, and oral tradition as cryptozoology
– Dinosaurs as cultural mirror: from extinction to resurrection
Breaking News: De-Extinction Update
- Scientists revive the dire wolf (or a close relative)—a real-life “Jurassic Park” moment.