The Expedition: Planning
Welcome to this special series of podcasts relating to a fieldtrip that I have been invited on by Dr Martin Brazeau of Imperial College London. I'm being flown out as the Palaeozoic arthropod "expert"...
1 Heinä 201839min
The Expedition: Context
Welcome to this special series of podcasts relating to a fieldtrip that I have been invited on by Dr Martin Brazeau of Imperial College London. I'm being flown out as the Palaeozoic arthropod "expert"...
1 Heinä 201842min
Episode 92: Squamate Origins
Squamates are a group of reptiles that include lizards and snakes, with the earliest fossils occurring in the Jurassic, despite molecular studies dating the group back to the Triassic. The study of th...
30 Touko 201849min
Episode 91: Dinosaurs of Appalachia
The Appalachian mountains, span the Eastern margin of the United States of America. They are predominantly composed of Paleozoic rocks, but Mesozoic marine sediments (formed adjacent to the Appalachia...
24 Touko 201845min
Episode 90: Ichthyornis
Bird evolution has long fascinated palaeontologists. Despite crown-group birds (birds giving rise to modern lineages today) evolving during the Cretaceous, there are relatively few fossils from this t...
3 Touko 201828min
Episode 89: Teeth and herbivory in reptiles
Tooth shape and arrangement is strongly linked with diet, and palaeontologists often use teeth to determine what kind of food an animal may have been eating. Carnivorous teeth are generally more simpl...
17 Huhti 201856min
Episode 88: Bacula
The buculum is a bone present in the head of the penis of most mammals. Whilst a few mammals, like us, don't possess a baculum, some have greatly reduced versions and many have very elaborate shapes. ...
6 Huhti 201848min
Episode 87: Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx is perhaps one of the most iconic taxa in the fossil record. Exclusively found in the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Lagerstätte in Bavaria, Germany, it is a crucial taxon for understanding the...
17 Maalis 201841min
