Palaeocast

Undoubtedly, Megalodon is the world's most famous extinct shark is and in this episode, we hear everything we know about this taxon, its ecology and how it got to be so big. Its ultimate extinction is...

15 Apr 201940min

From 1:1 scale whales to microfossils scaled up to the size of a house, there are few model-building projects that 10 Tons are afraid to take on. At the helm of this business is Esben Horn and in this...

15 Mar 201945min

Opsins are the photosensitive proteins in the eye, responsible for converting a photons of light into an electro-chemical signals. Different opsins react to different wavelengths of light, each corres...

28 Feb 201951min

Decapods are a group of crustaceans that include such well-known families as crabs, lobsters and shrimp. Whilst crustaceans are known from as early as the Cambrian, we don't see the first decapods unt...

1 Jan 201952min

The interaction between plants and atmosphere forms the basis of the carbon cycle and is amongst the most important processes for maintaining life on the planet today. Photosynthesis removes carbon di...

16 Okt 201827min

The Carboniferous was a time of huge swampy forests, big trees, and lots of life both on land and in the ocean. One world-renowned fossil site from approximately 300 million years ago is the Joggins F...

17 Sep 201839min

Palaeontology has an ability to grab the public's attention like no other subject. Perhaps it's the size and ferocity of something like a T. rex, or maybe it's the alien nature of something like Hallu...

12 Aug 201842min

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 Jul 201839min