Podcast 324 - Pick Up the Pieces

Palaeo After Dark by Palaeo After Dark

Jan 25, 202601:24:45Science & Medicine

The gang discusses two papers that use fragmentary fossils of animals to investigate the origins of major groups. The first paper describes an Early Ordovician eurypterid, and the second paper looks at mosaic evolutionar...

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