Cenozoic

Episode 116: Ice Age Palaeoecology
Published on November 1st, 2020 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Dr Jacquelyn Gill talks about how Pleistocene palaeoecology can inform us about future ecological change... Read More →
The Cenozoic era, meaning “new life”, is a division of earth’s history spanning from around 66 million years ago to the present. It is subdivided into the Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary periods. The beginning of the Cenozoic is characterised by a phase of recovery following the end Cretaceous mass extinction, and during which mammals and birds began to diversify.
Published on November 1st, 2020 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Dr Jacquelyn Gill talks about how Pleistocene palaeoecology can inform us about future ecological change... Read More →
Published on October 1st, 2020 | by David Marshall
We retrieve a HUGE amount of data from the diatoms in Lake Baikal... Read More →
Published on July 31st, 2020 | by David Marshall
Dr Russell Bicknell joins to examine the evolutionary history of the horseshoe crabs... Read More →
Published on June 29th, 2020 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Was it the asteroid impact or volcanism that killed the dinosaurs... Read More →
Published on January 1st, 2020 | by Elsa Panciroli
Herpetology is the study of reptiles, amphibians and caecilians. This includes frogs, salamanders, crocodiles, snakes, lizards and tuatara, to name just a few. These cold-blooded tetrapods have an evolutionary history that reaches back to the Carboniferous. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 15th, 2019 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Terror birds, or phorusrhacids as they are known scientifically, are a group of large, flightless birds that lived during the Cenozoic, and truly lived up to their name. Known for their large, powerful skulls, and enormous [&hellip... Read More →
Published on April 15th, 2019 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Undoubtedly, Megalodon is the world’s most famous extinct shark is and in this episode, we hear everything we know about this taxon, its ecology and how it got to be so big. Its ultimate extinction is [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 1st, 2019 | by David Marshall
Decapods are a group of crustaceans that include such well-known families as crabs, lobsters and shrimp. Whilst crustaceans are known from as early as the Cambrian, we don’t see the first decapods until Devonian. Over the [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 30th, 2017 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
When thinking of palaeontology in Asia, most people think of Mongolia and China, but there is actually a significant palaeontology community in Japan. Japan has many fossils, starting in the Ordovician, and ranging from everything from [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 15th, 2017 | by David Marshall
The proboscideans are a group of animals that contains the elephant and mastodont families. Many of us will be well-aware of these groups, but what of some of the lesser-known proboscideans? One such family are the [&hellip... Read More →