Episode 175: Insect Gigantism Pt1
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...
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Episode 174: A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils
Prof. Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum, London, recently authored A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils . We took this as an opport...
Episode 173: Petrified Forest
Petrified Forest National Park in northeastern Arizona, USA is a hub for Triassic palaeontology and has exposures representing 20 million ye...
Episode 172: Rhynchocephalians
Today, there is only one living species of rhynchocephalian: the tuatara of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Despite today's paucity of species, this w...
Episode 171: Freshwater Mosasaurs
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...
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Episode 170: Cariocecus bocagei
The iguanodontians were an incredibly successful group within the Cretaceous. They could reach incredible sizes, with the largest species ev...
Episode 169: Grasslands Pt2
Grassy biomes, including grasslands, savannahs and crops, cover over 40% of all land on Earth. They play a significant role in carbon and si...
Episode 168: Grasslands Pt1
Grassy biomes, including grasslands, savannahs and crops, cover over 40% of all land on Earth. They play a significant role in carbon and si...
Episode 167: Origin of Teeth Pt2
Determining the origin of teeth in vertebrates is an incredibly significant but notoriously difficult problem within palaeontology. Teeth di...
Episode 166: Origin of Teeth Pt1
Determining the origin of teeth in vertebrates is an incredibly significant but notoriously difficult problem within palaeontology. Teeth di...
Episode 165: Ants Pt2
Ants are a hugely successful family of eusocial insects with over 14,000 modern species described. They are known from every continent excep...
Episode 164: Ants Pt1
Ants are a hugely successful family of eusocial insects with over 14,000 modern species described. They are known from every continent excep...
Episode 163: Ecosystem Engineers
An ecosystem can be described as all the interactions that occur between organisms and their physical environment. The processes acting with...
Episode 162: Cerney Wick
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Episode 161: Notosuchians
Found in the fossil record between the Jurassic and the middle Miocene, Notosuchia was a highly diverse and strange group of crocodylomorphs...
Episode 160: An introduction to Evolutionary Biology
The field of evolutionary biology has been greatly influenced by the development of modern genetic methodology. The understanding of genes,...
Episode 159: An Introduction to Palaeontology
In 12 years of podcasting, we have never actually taken the time to address the fundamentals of our field. Such questions could include: wha...
200 Years of Dinos
It's been two centuries since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus , was named by William Buckland and to commemorate the date, the Natural Hist...
Episode 158: Ceoptera evansae
The Middle Jurassic is incredibly important to our understanding of pterosaur evolution; however, the remarkable rarity and incompleteness o...