Episode 177: Cambrian Fecal Revolution
The Cambrian Explosion is one of the most significant events in evolutionary history. Classically, it describes the sudden appearance of complex fossils (including all major animal groups) at the begi...
17 Elo 1h 4min
Episode 176: Insect Gigantism Pt2
The Carboniferous period is host to some of the largest arthropods to have ever lived. Giant taxa such as the griffenfly Meganuera and the millipede Arthropleura are almost talismanic and are often de...
13 Touko 48min
Episode 175: Insect Gigantism Pt1
The Carboniferous period is host to some of the largest arthropods to have ever lived. Giant taxa such as the griffenfly Meganuera and the millipede Arthropleura are almost talismanic and are often de...
2 Touko 39min
Episode 174: A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils
Prof. Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum, London, recently authored A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils. We took this as an opportunity to get an overview of what we really know about dinosau...
15 Huhti 58min
Episode 173: Petrified Forest
Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona, USA is a hub for Triassic palaeontology and has exposures representing 20 million years of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation. Visitors marvel a...
17 Maalis 49min
Episode 172: Rhynchocephalians
Today, there is only one living species of rhynchocephalian: the tuatara of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Despite today's paucity of species, this was once a diverse group of reptiles, with a wide range of li...
5 Helmi 52min
Episode 171: Freshwater Mosasaurs
We've been given exclusive access to a brand new study examining the chemistry of a mosasaur tooth found within the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota. The remarkable circumstances of ...
12 Joulu 20251h 34min
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