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Tom mentions 'a wonderful book written by Adrienne Mayer' who is described as being at the intersection of classicist and paleontologist. The book examines records from ancient Greece, Rome, and Native American legends about thunder beasts and prehistoric creatures, including her thesis about griffins being based on Protoceratops fossils in the Gobi Desert.

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Referenced when discussing how dinosaurs were cutting-edge in Victorian times. Tom notes that 'in Bleak House, in the opening paragraph, Dickens fixes on... the mists that are kind of filling London. And he says that it wouldn't be a surprise to see a megalosaurus walking up Hoban Hill' - described as a 'cutting edge reference' for the time.

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Explicitly mentioned as 'a famous book called The Dinosaur Heresies' in which Bakker argued that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, mobile, and incredibly successful. The opening quote of the episode is also from Robert T. Bakker, likely from this book.

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Referenced as 'Michael Crichton's novel, which predates it, obviously' when discussing the Spielberg film adaptation. The discussion centers on how the story portrayed dinosaurs according to cutting-edge paleontological understanding of the time.