Podcast 340 - Fun Times At Copraland
The gang discusses two papers that technically involve symbiosis. The first paper looks at fossil evidence for tape worms, and the second pa...
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Palaeo After Dark
A group of fresh faced scientists have biweekly informal discussions about evolutionary biology and palaeontology... over beer.
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Podcast 339 - Back on Our Bullshit
The gang discusses two papers that use fossils to understand ecological interactions in the past. The first paper reports predation patterns...
Podcast 338 - Trilobite and Terror Bird
The gang discusses two papers that describe fossils which provide glimpses into the evolution and ecology of animals that were "late edition...
Podcast 337 - Smol Beeg Animals
The gang discusses two papers that look at early tetrapods. The first paper investigates the transition to terrestrial environments in early...
Podcast 336 - Who Needs a Jaw?
The gang discusses two papers about jawless fishes. The first paper looks at some soft tissue preservation of early vertebrates which includ...
Podcast 335 - I Like Turtles
The gang discusses two papers that use fossil material to assess the origin of animal groups. The first paper describes a new Early Devonian...
Podcast 334 - Stuck on You
The gang discusses two papers about encrusting organisms. The first paper looks at evolutionary patterns of bryozoans to infer environmental...
Podcast 333 - Think Big
The gang discusses two papers about fossil cephalopods. The first paper uses new methods to reassess the taxonomy of what was previously con...
Podcast 332 - Bird Peepin'
The gang discusses two papers that investigate phenotypic plasticity. The first paper reviews the pathways by which phenotype can be plastic...
Podcast 331 - Reef It Up
The gang discusses two papers that investigate ancient bioherms. The first paper looks at the formation of early Phanerozoic reefs, and the...
Podcast 330 - Dinosaur Body Pillow
The gang discusses two papers about the functional morphology of ancient groups of animals. The first paper is a review of how the life posi...
Podcast 329 - Boom Shakalaka
The gang discusses two papers that use quantitative methods to investigate the biomechanical limitations of extinct organisms. The first pap...
Podcast 238 - Fins for Days
The gang discusses two papers that are united by a fin. The first paper uses a computer algorithms to infer the shape of mosasaur tail fins,...
Podcast 327 - Horse or Deer?
The gang talk about two papers about extraordinary dinosaur fossils and the unique information that can be gleaned from them. The first pape...
Podcast 326 - But What Is It?
The gang discuss two papers of odd fossils with exceptional preservation. The first paper looks at some Cambrian vertebrates and shows that...
Podcast 325 - The Curse of the Not Cat
Listeners, I'm going to level with you. This podcast is cursed. Not because of the content, which is mostly a pretty straight forward discus...
Podcast 324 - Pick Up the Pieces
The gang discusses two papers that use fragmentary fossils of animals to investigate the origins of major groups. The first paper describes...
Podcast 323e - "All Sales Final" Part 5 - Another Satisfied Customer
The crew of the CS Perry struggle to extract themselves from their rapidly deteriorating situation. "Lightless Dawn" , "Spacial Harvest", an...
Podcast 323d - "All Sales Final" Part 4 - The Milk Run
The crew of the CS Perry, now trapped in a space station run by multiple hostile AI, work to figure out how best to salvage a mission gone v...
Podcast 323c - "All Sales Final" Part 3 - The Hard Sell
The crew of the CS Perry begin the negotiation process for the CA-chip, but the sales team wants an arm and a leg for the product. "Lightles...