National Parks Traveler Episode 50: "AJ," The New Allosaurus From Dinosaur National Monument, And Saratoga National Historical Park

By NPT Staff - January 26th, 2020

This week’s show is our 50th, a number that looked so distant a year ago. Today we talk with Dr. Mark Loewen, a paleontological research associate at the Natural History Museum of Utah, and associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah, about a Jurassic Period carnivore dubbed "AJ," a new species of allosaurus, found in Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.

Lisa Dittman, chief of interpretation at Saratoga National Historical Park in New York, provides us with a short Revolutionary War history tour of the park. It was on that landscape in 1777 that the British army suffered its very first defeat on the battlefield.

:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:24 New allosaurus species interview with Dr. Mark Loewen, research associate at the Natural History Museum of Utah, and associate professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah
13:44 National Parks Traveler promotion
13:58 Friends of Acadia promotion
14:27 Grand Teton National Park Foundation promotion
15:00 North Cascades Institute promotion
15:32 Allosaurus interview continues
25:55 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation promotion
26:21 Yankee Freedom promotion
26:59 Washington's National Park Fund promotion
27:43 A look at the Revolutionary War and Saratoga National Historical Park
47:13 Episode closing
47:35 Orange Tree Productions promotion
48:11 NPT Footer

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