• Cretaceous

    Episode 108: Plesiosaurs

    Plesiosaurs are some of the most easily recognisable animals in the fossil record. Simply uttering the words ‘Loch Ness Monster’ can conjure a reasonably accurate [&hellip

  • Misc

    Episode 107: Nomenclature

    Names can provide a large amount of information about the heritage of an individual, the purpose of a product or even the characteristics of an [&hellip

  • Cenozoic

    Episode 106: Herpetology

    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 [&hellip

  • Cretaceous

    Episode 105: Ferrodraco

    Australia has many fossils from all ages, including several dinosaurs known exclusively from this time and place. However, they are not well known for their [&hellip

  • Precambrian

    Episode 104: Ediacaran Developmental Biology

    The Ediacaran Period is host to the first large and complex multicellular organisms known in the fossil record. This ‘Ediacaran Biota’ has long eluded definitive [&hellip

  • Cenozoic

    Episode 103: Terror birds

    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 [&hellip

  • Cambrian

    Episode 102: Small Shelly Fossils

    Between the weird and wonderful rangeomorphs of the Ediacaran Period and the world-famous palaeocommunities of the Burgess Shale, the ‘Early Cambrian’ is host to a [&hellip

  • Cretaceous

    Episode 101: Organic Preservation of Dinosaur Bone

    Fossilisation of organic material was long thought to result in the complete loss of original content. However in the last 20 years, several high-profile publications [&hellip

Cretaceous

Episode 108: Plesiosaurs

March 1st, 2020 | by David Marshall

Plesiosaurs are some of the most easily recognisable animals in the fossil record. Simply uttering the words ‘Loch Ness Monster’ [&hellip


Misc

Episode 107: Nomenclature

January 20th, 2020 | by David Marshall

Names can provide a large amount of information about the heritage of an individual, the purpose of a product or [&hellip


Cenozoic

Episode 106: Herpetology

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 [&hellip


Cretaceous

Episode 105: Ferrodraco

November 15th, 2019 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Australia has many fossils from all ages, including several dinosaurs known exclusively from this time and place. However, they are [&hellip


Cenozoic

Episode 103: Terror birds

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 [&hellip


Cambrian

Episode 102: Small Shelly Fossils

August 14th, 2019 | by David Marshall

Between the weird and wonderful rangeomorphs of the Ediacaran Period and the world-famous palaeocommunities of the Burgess Shale, the ‘Early [&hellip


Devonian

Episode 100: Tiktaalik

May 24th, 2019 | by Vishruth Venkat

One of palaeontology‘s great themes of questioning is the rise of novelty: how new structures and functions arise in specific [&hellip


Misc

Episode 98: 10 Tons

March 15th, 2019 | by David Marshall

From 1:1 scale whales to microfossils scaled up to the size of a house, there are few model-building projects that [&hellip



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