Cenozoic

Episode 154/155: The Byron Dig
Published on May 15th, 2023 | by David Marshall
Dr Richard Laub spent 30 years leading the Byron Dig. He joins us to summarise it all in just 2 hours. ... Read More →
The Quarternary period is a division of earth’s history spanning from around 0.05 million years ago to the present, and during which the earth has been subject to a series of glacial and interglacial phases. A major extinction of large animals in North America began in the Quaternary during which sloths, mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, horses, camels and cave bears were wiped out. The end of the Quaternary is characterised by profound changes to the global environment brought about by human activity.
Published on May 15th, 2023 | by David Marshall
Dr Richard Laub spent 30 years leading the Byron Dig. He joins us to summarise it all in just 2 hours. ... Read More →
Published on April 20th, 2022 | by David Marshall
We hang out with the sloths of Hispaniola, looking for new species hiding within Dr Robert McAfee's measurements... Read More →
Published on January 16th, 2022 | by Elsa Panciroli
Prof Christine Janis discusses her illustrious career and we take a close look at sabre-toothed marsupials and giant kangaroos... Read More →
Published on April 15th, 2021 | by David Marshall
We look at rates of evolutionary innovation in crocodiles through time with Dr Tom Stubbs... Read More →
Published on February 15th, 2021 | by David Marshall
Dr Larisa DeSantis teaches us the methods used to determine what Smilodon was eating... Read More →
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 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 August 5th, 2014 | by David Marshall
We’re all familiar with canines (dogs, wolves, jackals, foxes, etc), but these are just only one of three sub-families of the larger canid family to survive to the present day. There were also the Hesperocyoninae and [&hellip... Read More →