Episode 94: Joggins Fossil Cliffs
September 17th, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
The Carboniferous was a time of huge swampy forests, big trees, and lots of life both on land and in [&hellip
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Episode 93: The History of Palaeontological Outreach
August 15th, 2018 | by David Marshall
Palaeontology has an ability to grab the public’s attention like no other subject. Perhaps it’s the size and ferocity of [&hellip
Episode 92: Squamate Origins
May 30th, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Squamates are a group of reptiles that include lizards and snakes, with the earliest fossils occurring in the Jurassic, despite [&hellip
Episode 91: Dinosaurs of Appalachia
May 24th, 2018 | by David Marshall
The Appalachian mountains, span the Eastern margin of the United States of America. They are predominantly composed of Paleozoic rocks, [&hellip
Episode 90: Ichthyornis
May 3rd, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Bird evolution has long fascinated palaeontologists. Despite crown-group birds (birds giving rise to modern lineages today) evolving during the Cretaceous, [&hellip
Episode 89: Teeth and herbivory in reptiles
April 17th, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Tooth shape and arrangement is strongly linked with diet, and palaeontologists often use teeth to determine what kind of food [&hellip
Episode 88: Bacula
April 6th, 2018 | by David Marshall
The buculum is a bone present in the head of the penis of most mammals. Whilst a few mammals, like [&hellip
Episode 87: Archaeopteryx
March 17th, 2018 | by David Marshall
Archaeopteryx is perhaps one of the most iconic taxa in the fossil record. Exclusively found in the Late Jurassic Solnhofen [&hellip
Episode 86: Coal
February 1st, 2018 | by David Marshall
The Carboniferous (Latin for ‘coal-bearing’) is a period of the Paleozoic Era named after the massive accumulations of coal that [&hellip
Episode 85: Ichthyosaurs
January 7th, 2018 | by David Marshall
Ichthyosaurs are large marine reptiles that existed for most of the Mesozoic Era. The most familiar forms superficially represent dolphins, [&hellip
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