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Published on May 5th, 2018 | by Guest Blogger
Since I was child, I wanted to pursue a career in palaeontology. As I am now starting my career as a postgraduate student in the palaeontological field, I have noticed that it has been filled with [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 9th, 2018 | by Guest Blogger
One year after a bizarre act of local fossil vandalism on Scotland’s Dinosaur Isle let us consider the value of footprints in the sand and the implications for U.S. Government cuts to national monuments of global [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 31st, 2017 | by Chris Barker
Christmas was not particularly kind for one titanosuchid. Published on the day many were receiving gifts and well wishes, this Permian reptile was given the bad news that it was suffering from a bout of osteomyelitis, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 10th, 2017 | by Guest Blogger
Or what a difference a word makes. Words have meaning. That meaning gives them power. Two essentially identical sentences can have entirely different meanings just by changing a single word. In some cases, that word can [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 30th, 2017 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
[This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here.] A hoard of fossilised pterosaur eggs discovered in China is helping scientists gain a rare insight into the extinct flying reptiles. Newly released [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 21st, 2017 | by Guest Blogger
I have the great opportunity to write about paleontology. Paleontology is something I’ve always wanted to be involved with, but it’s something I never pursued academically. I have acquired several books on the subject that I [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 21st, 2017 | by Chris Barker
My friends know me as a theropod fanboy, which should come to no surprise, as I am a massive cliché of a palaeontologist (unashamedly so, as theropods are beyond cool). However, give me a weird archosauromorph [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 4th, 2017 | by Chris Barker
Biology is full of exciting avenues, and some of the finest, in my opinion, are the morphological and behavioural adaptations that define the split seconds whether an animal lives or dies, eats or starves. Predator-prey interactions [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 30th, 2017 | by Chris Barker
Titanosaurs include some of the largest terrestrial organisms to walk the Earth: globally distributed, multi-tonne behemoths representing the last of the sauropods at the end Cretaceous extinction event. Much about their biology is known, ranging from [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 29th, 2017 | by Chris Barker
The Late Cretaceous rocks of Ganzhou, China, are rife with oviraptorids. We have seen these strange theropods before here at Palaeocast, when we looked at the very high temperatures at which they incubated their eggs. The [&hellip... Read More →
Episode 160: An introduction to Evolutionary Biology
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Why did Sauropods grow so big?
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Episode 159: An Introduction to Palaeontology
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200 Years of Dinosaurs
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Episode 158: Ceoptera evansae
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