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Podcast 135 - Competing Convergences
The gang discusses a few papers that illustrate how different evolutionary processes can generate very similar morphological structures. Yes, we're t…
8 years, 4 months ago
Podcast 134 - Training Fish in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber
The gang discusses two papers that look how the environmental stresses caused from warming temperatures can affect fish. Specifically, we look at a p…
8 years, 4 months ago
Podcast 133 - Long-Standing Pathologies
The gang discusses the various ways that injuries and diseases can be preserved in the fossil record, as well as the information these pathologies ca…
8 years, 5 months ago
Podcast 132 - We've Been Doing This For Five Years
The gang spends their 5th anniversary podcast discussing the evolution and distribution of early tetrapods. So basically, we messed up. But at least …
8 years, 5 months ago
Podcast 131 - Would Sauropod Ribs Be Tasty?
The gang discusses two papers that look at the complex evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. In particular, these papers try to determine how s…
8 years, 6 months ago
Podcast 130 - Trace Fossil Diversity is Over 9000
The gang discusses two papers that use ichnology (the study of traces left by animals) as evidence for biological diversity in regions where body fos…
8 years, 6 months ago
Podcast 129 - Curt Made Us Talk About Exaptation
The gang discuss a recent paper which suggests that pollinating butterflies and moths may have evolved well before the evolution of flowering plants …
8 years, 7 months ago
Podcast 128 - Conservation Paleoecology
The gang talks about conservation paleoecology; the study of the fossil record to inform modern conservation efforts. Specifically, they look at two …
8 years, 7 months ago
Podcast 127 - Let's Just Talk About Birds
The gang celebrates the new year by just talking about birds. Specifically, they look at two papers that use the evolutionary history of birds to exp…
8 years, 8 months ago
Podcast 126 - The People of Minneapolis VS The Alchemist
The gang celebrates the end of the year by taking another break to play Fiasco, a crime/noir storytelling game by Bully Pit Games.
A lone figure stan…
8 years, 8 months ago