Episode 23: Mass extinctions
December 1st, 2013 | by David Marshall
What are Mass extinctions, how are they quantified, what are the driving forces behind them, how bad were the ones [&hellip
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The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting
October 31st, 2013 | by David Marshall
Welcome to our coverage of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual conference here in the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles. [&hellip
The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
October 28th, 2013 | by David Marshall
Welcome to our coverage of the Geological Society of America’s Annual Meeting and Exposition, 27-30 October 2013. This year sees [&hellip
Episode 22: Fire and Charcoal
October 15th, 2013 | by David Marshall
Most people would consider fire to be an entirely destructive process, however given the right circumstances organic materials can be [&hellip
Episode 21: Marine reptiles of Svalbard
October 1st, 2013 | by David Marshall
In this episode we talk to Jørn Hurum, Associate Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum Oslo, Norway. Jørn has [&hellip
Episode 20: Year Review
September 15th, 2013 | by Joe Keating
As Palaeocast celebrates it’s 1st Birthday, we take the chance to look back over the past year and review our [&hellip
Episode 19: The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
September 1st, 2013 | by Joe Keating
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, or ‘GOBE’, describes one of the most important increases in biodiversity in the history of [&hellip
Episode 18: Trilobites
July 1st, 2013 | by David Marshall
Trilobites are one of the most instantly recognisable groups of fossils. They were present from the very start of the Paleozoic and [&hellip
Episode 17: Ammonoid evolution and ecology
June 1st, 2013 | by Joe Keating
Ammonoids are a diverse group of cephalopods, a group of molluscs that include squid, octopuses, cuttlefish and nautiloids. They lived [&hellip
Episode 16: Multicellularity in cyanobacteria
May 1st, 2013 | by David Marshall
One of the most significant events in Earth’s history has been the oxygenation of its atmosphere 2.45–2.32 billion years ago. This accumulation [&hellip
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