Palaeocast

This year marks the 175th anniversary of The Palaeontographical Society. Having been established in 1847, PalSoc is the world's oldest Society devoted specifically to the advancement of palaeontologic...

16 Aug 202259min

Bolca is a site of exceptional preservation of fossils (termed a konservat lagerstätte) located close to Verona, Italy. This 50 million year old limestone was deposited in the Eocene Epoch and contain...

15 Juli 20221h

In the last few years there has been lots of new work on the iconic Spinosaurus - was it aquatic? What about its relatives? What kind of evidence can we look at to tell us this answer? In this episode...

20 Juni 20221h 2min

Marrellomorphs are the group of early Paleozoic arthropods that get their name from the well-known Burgess Shale fossil Marrella splendens. They have for a long time been considered to be closely rela...

16 Maj 202252min

Sloths (or do you pronounce it "sloths"?), are a group of tree-dwelling xenarthrans from South and Central America. They are well known for their sedentary lifestyles where they just hang around and s...

20 Apr 20221h 4min

The end-Cretaceous mass extinction was a cataclysmic asteroid impact that ushered in the end of the non-avian dinosaurs and forever changed the course of evolution on Earth. But what can we say about ...

25 Feb 20221h

Continuing our mini series on Burmese Amber, we now turn our focus to the ethics of working on this fossil material. Can possessing or working on amber from Myanmar ever be considered ethical? In the ...

15 Feb 202241min

Continuing our mini series on Burmese Amber, we now turn our focus to the ethics of working on this fossil material. Can possessing or working on amber from Myanmar ever be considered ethical? In the ...

3 Feb 202248min