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Podcast 165 - Sharks for St. Crispin's Day
The gang have a "Shark Week" and discuss two papers about the ecology of modern tiger sharks. The first paper talks about a unique feeding strategy f…
7 years, 2 months ago
Podcast 164 - Rails and Snails
The gang talks about two papers that are interested in iterative evolution, the repeated evolution of the same or similar morphological characteristi…
7 years, 2 months ago
Podcast 163 - Triassic Fish Questions
The gang discusses two papers that look at the extinction and survivorship patterns of clades across the Triassic mass extinction event. Specifically…
7 years, 3 months ago
Podcast 162 - Turtle Power
The gang discusses a few papers that look at the evolutionary history, biogeography, and life habit of Mesozoic turtles. Specifically, they look at a…
7 years, 3 months ago
Podcast 161 - Whales Not Whales
The gang discusses two papers that look at how various animals associated with whales have reacted to environmental shifts over the last several hund…
7 years, 4 months ago
Podcast 160 - Weasel Time
The gang finds two papers that discuss the ecology of fossil mustelids, the objectively best group of mammals. Both of these papers look at creative …
7 years, 4 months ago
Podcast 159 - Rocks Fall Everyone Dies; The Cretaceous Mass Extinction
The gang discusses two papers about the Cretaceous mass extinction event (i.e. the time that the non-avian dinosaurs died). Specifically, they talk a…
7 years, 5 months ago
Podcast 158 - Is Eevee a Mammal?
The gang celebrates their 6th anniversary by taking some time to talk about two papers about early mammal ecology. The first paper looks at some uniq…
7 years, 5 months ago
Podcast 157 - A Sticky Situation; More Talk of Vertebrates in Amber
The gang discusses two papers about the interesting vertebrate remains in Myanmar amber, including a neonate snake and an Enantiornithean bird, and …
7 years, 6 months ago
Podcast 156 - Never Underestimate the Little Snake
The gang discuss two papers that look at the links between morphology and ecology. Specifically, they discuss a fossil marine reptile with a very uni…
7 years, 6 months ago