Episode #6: What Came First, the Shark or the Ratfish? with Dr. Dominique Didier
Dr. Dominique Didier has touched and fondled more ratfish than anyone one, so what better person to discuss the evolutionary perfection and sex life of this living fossil.
19 Aug 202054min
Episode #5: Beating Your Art to the Grave with Paleo Artist Gary Staab
Gary Staab leaps on snakes, wrestles caiman, taxidermies road kill, oh and sculpts massive dinosaurs, realistic sharks and celebrity mummies.
12 Aug 20201h 12min
Episode #4: Cheating the Tooth Fairy with Leif Tapanila
Dr. Leif Tapanila studies fossil invertebrates and clams, so why is he here to talk about Helicoprion (AKA the Buzz Saw Shark)? Turns out it's all Ray's fault.
5 Aug 20201h 13min
Episode #3: Smashing the Patriarchy like a Bone-Crushing Dog with STEMinist Amy Atwater
As a paleontologist and science communicator, Amy Atwater has been challenging the conviction that all paleontologists look like Indiana Jones!
30 Jul 20201h 12min
Episode #2: Channeling Your Childhood Superpower with Kirk Johnson
The Nerds talk to Dr. Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and long-time friend and collaborator of Ray's.
21 Jul 20201h 20min
Episode #1: The Only Way to Know Where We’re Going is to Know Where We’ve Been.
Ray Troll and David Strassman swap childhood stories about becoming Paleo Nerds and reminisce about their most treasured finds in this exciting and refreshing debut recording.
21 Jul 202054min
