Episode 176: Insect Gigantism Pt2
The Carboniferous period is host to some of the largest arthropods to have ever lived. Giant taxa such as the griffenfly Meganuera and the millipede Arthropleura are almost talismanic and are often de...
13 Maj 48min
Episode 175: Insect Gigantism Pt1
The Carboniferous period is host to some of the largest arthropods to have ever lived. Giant taxa such as the griffenfly Meganuera and the millipede Arthropleura are almost talismanic and are often de...
2 Maj 39min
Episode 174: A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils
Prof. Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum, London, recently authored A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils. We took this as an opportunity to get an overview of what we really know about dinosau...
15 Apr 58min
Episode 173: Petrified Forest
Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona, USA is a hub for Triassic palaeontology and has exposures representing 20 million years of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation. Visitors marvel a...
17 Mars 49min
Episode 172: Rhynchocephalians
Today, there is only one living species of rhynchocephalian: the tuatara of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Despite today's paucity of species, this was once a diverse group of reptiles, with a wide range of li...
5 Feb 52min
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3 Dec 202557min
Episode 170: Cariocecus bocagei
The iguanodontians were an incredibly successful group within the Cretaceous. They could reach incredible sizes, with the largest species even matching the proportions of some sauropods, and they also...
19 Sep 20251h 50min
