Episode 141: Bolca Fish
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
Episode 140: Aquatic Spinosaurids
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
Episode 139: Marrellomorphs
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
Episode 138: Hispaniolan Sloths
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
Episode 137: Tanis
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
Episode 136: Burmese Amber Pt2b
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
Episode 135: Burmese Amber Pt2
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
Episode 134: Mammal Locomotion and Ecology
In this episode we talk to Professor Christine Janis about mammal palaeontology, and her career. Christine is one of the world's foremost experts in mammal palaeontology and mammalogy. She has authore...
16 Jan 202252min
