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Podcast 175 - Big Data Studies
The gang discusses two papers that use large data sets to look at big picture patterns in evolution and ecology. Specifically, they look at one paper…
6 years, 9 months ago
Podcast 174 - Feeling Drained; Parasites in the Fossil Record
The gang talks about two papers that look at potential examples of parasitism in the fossil record. One paper finds possible parasites attaching to a…
6 years, 10 months ago
Podcast 173 - Early Plants
The gang discusses two papers that look into early plant evolution and ecology. The first paper looks at some evidence from fossil spores to determin…
6 years, 10 months ago
Podcast 172 - GSA 2019
James, Brendan, Aly, Carlie, Anna, and Curt gather together at the 2019 Geological Society of America Meeting in Phoenix and discuss the various pale…
6 years, 11 months ago
Podcast 171 - Birds Get Swole in New Zealand
The gang discusses some very interesting papers about bird fossils in New Zealand. These papers describe how many different types of birds ended up o…
6 years, 11 months ago
Podcast 170 - The Impact of Taphonomy; On Conodonts and Dinosaur Nesting Sites
The gang discusses two very different papers that are sort of united together based upon the importance of taphonomy. First, they look at a paper abo…
7 years ago
Podcast 169 - Learning about Agnostids
The gang takes some time to discuss two papers about agnostids, a strange group of trilobite-like arthropods whose evolutionary history has been the …
7 years ago
Podcast 168 - Alligator Teeth and Too Small Cats
The gang discusses two papers that look at the diets of past and present crocodylomorphs using patterns in teeth shape and enamel. It turns out, past…
7 years, 1 month ago
Podcast 167 - Jet Lagged Pterosaur Eggs
[TRIGGER WARNER: Some dead baby jokes because we were in a very weird mental place, and also way too much rambling conversations about Star Wars]
The…
7 years, 1 month ago
Podcast 166 - NAPC 2019
We all just got back from the 2019 North American Paleontological Conference at UC Riverside with an extra long (over 5 hours) episode. Join James, C…
7 years, 2 months ago