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A free webseries exploring the fossil record and the evolution of life on Earth.
The Carboniferous period is host to some of the largest arthropods to have ever lived. Giant taxa such as the griffenfly Meganuera and the m...
Prof. Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum, London, recently authored A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils . We took this as an opport...
Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona, USA is a hub for Triassic palaeontology and has exposures representing 20 million ye...
Today, there is only one living species of rhynchocephalian: the tuatara of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Despite today's paucity of species, this w...
We've been given exclusive access to a brand new study examining the chemistry of a mosasaur tooth found within the Late Cretaceous Hell Cre...
A free webseries exploring the fossil record and the evolution of life on Earth.
The iguanodontians were an incredibly successful group within the Cretaceous. They could reach incredible sizes, with the largest species ev...
Grassy biomes, including grasslands, savannahs and crops, cover over 40% of all land on Earth. They play a significant role in carbon and si...
Grassy biomes, including grasslands, savannahs and crops, cover over 40% of all land on Earth. They play a significant role in carbon and si...
Determining the origin of teeth in vertebrates is an incredibly significant but notoriously difficult problem within palaeontology. Teeth di...
Determining the origin of teeth in vertebrates is an incredibly significant but notoriously difficult problem within palaeontology. Teeth di...
Ants are a hugely successful family of eusocial insects with over 14,000 modern species described. They are known from every continent excep...
Ants are a hugely successful family of eusocial insects with over 14,000 modern species described. They are known from every continent excep...
An ecosystem can be described as all the interactions that occur between organisms and their physical environment. The processes acting with...
A free webseries exploring the fossil record and the evolution of life on Earth.
Found in the fossil record between the Jurassic and the middle Miocene, Notosuchia was a highly diverse and strange group of crocodylomorphs...
The field of evolutionary biology has been greatly influenced by the development of modern genetic methodology. The understanding of genes,...
In 12 years of podcasting, we have never actually taken the time to address the fundamentals of our field. Such questions could include: wha...
It's been two centuries since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus , was named by William Buckland and to commemorate the date, the Natural Hist...
The Middle Jurassic is incredibly important to our understanding of pterosaur evolution; however, the remarkable rarity and incompleteness o...
Originally mounted in 1907, the Carnegie specimen is the best example of the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus , and perhaps the most famous dino...
LOOP 8.4: LOOP Showrunner Dan Tapster returns to give a retrospective on the series and its production. We look at went well and address cri...
LOOP 8.3: Episode 8's producer, Sophie Lanfear, joins us again to describe how difficult it was to wrap the series up, having to balance tel...
LOOP 8.2: Prof. Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway University of London, joins us to cover the last 2 million years of Earth's history. We exp...
LOOP 8.1: Dave and Tom introduce episode 8 and round of this special series on Life On Our Planet. We talk about our favourite scenes and re...
LOOP 7.3: We're taken into the field to film snow leopards by episode 7's Assistant Producer, Darren Williams. He reveals how difficult it i...
LOOP 7.2: Prof. Christine Janis, University of Bristol, outlines mammalian evolution and focusses on the global events that governs their ra...
LOOP 7.1: In the introduction to episode 7, Dave and Tom just about keep it together whilst reflecting on the most emotional scene of the sh...
LOOP 6.4: Prof. Anjan Bhullar continues his overview of avian evolution with a look at how the birds fared after the K-Pg mass extinction. W...
LOOP 6.3: Documentary research takes you down a lot of unexpected avenues. If you're recreating something like the Chicxulub impact and the...
LOOP 6.2: Dr Anjan Bhullar, Yale University, returns to speak further about dinosaurs. He's pressed on where he'd draw the line between dino...
LOOP 6.1: Dave and Tom introduce us to episode 6 of Life On Our Planet and the pair touch upon the Chicxulub impact and the radiation of bir...
LOOP 5.3: We're exploring feather evolution with Dr Anjan Bhullar, University of Yale. We trace feathers up the theropod family tree and que...
LOOP 5.2: Producer Barny Revill returns to talk about his second episode. With the public spotlight firmly fixated on the dinosaurs, how muc...
LOOP 5.1: It's episode 5 and Dave and Tom are pronouncing dinosaur names all wrong. Does any actually pronounce it "Deinonychus "? Dave reve...
LOOP 4.3: Prof. Peter Falkingham, Liverpool John Moores University, was the consultant biomechanist for the series. He introduces us to the...
LOOP 4.2: We get down to details with Producer Barny Revill and analyse some of the different elements of episode 4: What were the challenge...
LOOP 4.1: Against the odds, we've all made it through the PTME. It's now time to focus on episode 4, with the reptiles and their adaptation...
LOOP 3.4: With researcher Ida-May Jones, we explore the Venn diagram of academic and documentary research. She introduces us to the strawber...
LOOP 3.3: Prof. Mike Benton, University of Bristol, gives us an overview of the major events in tetrapod evolution. He reveals some of the s...
LOOP 3.2: Producer Sophie Lanfear gives us our first insights into how documentaries are shaped. She tells us about the enormous scope of ep...
LOOP 3.1: We introduce episode three of Life On Our Planet and discuss one of the most significant stories in the series. We're in agreement...
LOOP 2.4: Silverback researcher Edd Dyer joins us to introduce us to his part in the creation of the series. The title 'researcher' really d...
LOOP 2.3: Hydrodynamicist Dr Tom Fletcher, Silverback Films, returns to explore the science behind Dunkleosteus . How much of the fossil is...
LOOP 2.2: Prof. Christian Klug, University of Zurich, is our first academic guest. He introduces us to the Cambrian explosion, the Great Ord...
LOOP 2.1: We introduce episode two of Life On Our Planet and discuss our roles in its creation. We're down deep in the geological time with...
In LOOP 1.2 we are joined by showrunner Dan Tapster. He's the one responsible for pulling everything together, designing the story and creat...
Life On Our Planet (LOOP) is a new 8-part series created for Netflix by Silverback Films and Amblin Television. This Steven Spielberg produc...
A free webseries exploring the fossil record and the evolution of life on Earth.
Following up on an initial discovery of ice-age remains in Byron, New York, in the 1950's, Dr Richard Laub took on the task of systematicall...