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Carboniferous

Episode 71: Graptolites

October 15th, 2016 | by Laura Soul

Graptolites are small colonial organisms, each made up of many tiny, genetically identical zooids joined together by tubes. They’ve been [&hellip

Cenozoic

Episode 68: Fossil plants and the Paleocene Eocene thermal maximum

August 1st, 2016 | by Laura Soul

The Bighorn Basin in Wyoming has been an important area for research into terrestrial ecosystems for decades. The basin formed [&hellip

Cretaceous

Episode 66: Saving Mongolia’s Dinosaurs

June 28th, 2016 | by Laura Soul

Mongolia is a vast country with fossils from almost every period in the history of life. Important specimens representing the origin [&hellip

Misc

Episode 56: Vertebrate preparators

December 1st, 2015 | by Laura Soul

Preparators are specialist staff working in museums and universities worldwide. They perform a very wide variety of tasks from fieldwork [&hellip

Live

Geological Society of America annual meeting 2015

November 30th, 2015 | by Laura Soul

This year the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America was held in Baltimore, Maryland. This is one of [&hellip

Live

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting 2015

November 10th, 2015 | by Laura Soul

Welcome to our coverage of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) annual meeting from Dallas, Texas. This year was the 75th anniversary [&hellip

News

A new giant predatory amphibian from the Triassic

March 24th, 2015 | by Laura Soul

Steve Brusatte, who we interviewed in Episode 37, is part of a team who have discovered a new species of [&hellip

Cenozoic

Episode 34: Foraminifera and Palaeoclimatology

September 15th, 2014 | by Laura Soul

Planktonic foraminifera are single celled organisms that are highly abundant in modern oceans and a hugely important part of the [&hellip

Cambrian

Episode 31: Anomalocaridids

July 15th, 2014 | by Laura Soul

Anomalocaridids are iconic Cambrian animals, originally found in the Burgess Shale deposits in Canada. From the Genus Anomalocaris, their name translates [&hellip