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Carboniferous

Episode 67: Blue Beach Tetrapods

July 22nd, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Blue Beach is a locality in Nova Scotia, Canada that is well known for it’s fossils from the Lower Carboniferous. [&hellip

Cenozoic

Evolution of echolocation in dolphins

April 13th, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Echolocation is an amazing ability that some mammals have evolved. Using sonar frequencies, dolphins and other toothed whales can communicate [&hellip

Jurassic

Episode 60: Determining Diet

March 4th, 2016 | by Joe Keating

Diet is perhaps the most important aspect of ecology. As such, understanding the diet of extinct animals is crucial if [&hellip

Cretaceous

Baby Chasmosaurus

January 18th, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Juvenile dinosaurs are less common than adults, and typically not as well preserved due to the fact that their bones [&hellip

Cenozoic

Episode 58: Animal biomechanics

January 15th, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

One of the most difficult aspects of palaeontology is understanding how extinct animals moved around. It’s one thing to find [&hellip

Cretaceous

Episode 57: Wealden Fossils

January 1st, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

The Wealden Supergroup of southern England is known for it’s Cretaceous fossils, particularly of dinosaurs, but also crocodilians, pterosaurs, lizards, [&hellip

Cretaceous

Episode 55: Pterosaurs

November 15th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, and lived in the skies above the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic. [&hellip

Cenozoic

Aquatic adaptations in crocodylomorphs

November 9th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Crocodylomorphs today are not thought to be the most diverse group, consisting of all semi-aquatic forms of alligators, crocodiles, and gharials. [&hellip