Silver Screen Science - Evolution (2001)
There’s a pandemic on, and we and many of our listeners are spending lots of time at home. On the bright side, it’s a good opportunity to watch movies and record Silver Screen Science! So, we’re putti...
1 Apr 20201h 15min
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation
One of the rewards we offer to our highest-level Patrons is a special mini-episode on an animal or group of their choosing. We’ve done five so far, and we’ve put them together into this compilation so...
29 Mar 20201h 45min
Silver Screen Science - Tremors
There’s a pandemic on, and we and many of our listeners are spending lots of time at home. On the bright side, it’s a good opportunity to watch movies and record Silver Screen Science! So, we’re putti...
25 Mar 202050min
Episode 83 - Coelacanths
In 1938, a fishing crew pulled up a fish that everyone thought had been extinct for 70 million years. Since then, coelacanths have become famous not just for their strangely incomplete fossil record, ...
22 Mar 20201h 43min
Episode 82 - Trilobites
Few fossil animals are as popular with the public, as abundant in the fossil record, or as important to the study of past life on Earth as trilobites. These ocean-dwelling arthropods came in an amazin...
8 Mar 20201h 57min
Episode 81 - Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is the process that turns a caterpillar to a butterfly, a fry to a fish, and a tadpole to a frog. Animals have been metamorphosing for over 500 million years, from early crustaceans to t...
23 Feb 20201h 47min
Episode 80 - Mary Anning
Happy Darwin Day! This time around, we’re talking about Mary Anning! She was one of the earliest modern paleontologists, she helped lay the groundwork for our modern methods of uncovering and understa...
9 Feb 20201h 41min
Episode 79 - Pterosaurs
The first pterosaur to be scientifically identified was Pterodactylus, more than 200 years ago. Since then, scientists have grappled with understanding these bizarre and fantastic animals, aided by in...
26 Jan 20202h 15min
