Palaeocast

LOOP 6.1: Dave and Tom introduce us to episode 6 of Life On Our Planet and the pair touch upon the Chicxulub impact and the radiation of birds into the Cenozoic. Dave curtails the introduction with on...

6 Marras 20238min

LOOP 5.3: We're exploring feather evolution with Dr Anjan Bhullar, University of Yale. We trace feathers up the theropod family tree and question whether or not they would be present in ALL dinosaurs....

5 Marras 202343min

LOOP 5.2: Producer Barny Revill returns to talk about his second episode. With the public spotlight firmly fixated on the dinosaurs, how much effort had to go into their GCI models and does the reputa...

5 Marras 202341min

LOOP 5.1: It's episode 5 and Dave and Tom are pronouncing dinosaur names all wrong. Does any actually pronounce it "Deinonychus"? Dave reveals why Netflix chose Morgan Freeman as narrator over himself...

5 Marras 202321min

LOOP 4.3: Prof. Peter Falkingham, Liverpool John Moores University, was the consultant biomechanist for the series. He introduces us to the importance of biomechanics in CGI, but more widely in determ...

28 Loka 202324min

LOOP 4.2: We get down to details with Producer Barny Revill and analyse some of the different elements of episode 4: What were the challenges of working in such inhospitable environments? How do you r...

28 Loka 202338min

LOOP 4.1: Against the odds, we've all made it through the PTME. It's now time to focus on episode 4, with the reptiles and their adaptation to different environments. We touch upon biomechanics and cr...

28 Loka 202313min

LOOP 3.4: With researcher Ida-May Jones, we explore the Venn diagram of academic and documentary research. She introduces us to the strawberry dart frogs and the extraordinary lengths that mothers wil...

27 Loka 202312min