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Podcast 85 - Hot Blooded; Studying Fossil Metabolism
In this episode, the gang discusses two papers that use morphological and chemical proxies to understand the metabolism of fossil animals. Did all ea…
10 years, 3 months ago
Podcast 84 - Jawless Fish and Spider Butts; Searching for Ancestral Forms in Fossil Data
In this episode, the gang discusses two papers that try and piece apart the complicated evolutionary history of cyclostomes (lampreys and hagfish) an…
10 years, 3 months ago
Podcast 83 - Dead End Conversations; The Evolutionary Impact of Ecological Specialization
In this episode, the gang discusses two papers about the long term macroevolutionary effects of ecological specialization. Is specialization on a spe…
10 years, 4 months ago
Podcast 82 - So Like Majora's Mask; Astrobiology and Cyclicity of Extinction
In this episode, we wanted to discuss large-scale astrobiological patterns and cyclicity of extinction, but instead we picked a few papers that weren…
10 years, 4 months ago
Podcast 81 - Niche Ontogeny; The Hero This City Deserves
In this episode the gang discusses two papers about how niche breadth can change as organisms grow, with one paper looking at modern organisms and th…
10 years, 5 months ago
Podcast 80 - The Severity of The Sixth Mass Extinction, A Belated Birthday Fun-Time Celebration
In this episode, the gang celebrates its third year of podcasting by discussing two papers that use the fossil record to determine how our current bi…
10 years, 5 months ago
Podcast 79 - All the Cool Stuff is Dead; On Dodos and Glyptodonts
In this episode the gang talks about Dodo brains and Glyptodont genes. Meanwhile, James makes an unappreciated joke, Curt tries to create an "interne…
10 years, 6 months ago
Podcast 78 - History Repeats, Bizarre Convergence in Fossil Animals
The gang discusses three papers that detail some truly unique examples of morphological convergence; from brachiopods that look like corals to bovids…
10 years, 6 months ago
Podcast 77 - Old and Burny, A Discussion of Fossil Fungi
In this episode, we discuss the complex relationship between fungi and earth systems processes through time, focusing on the potential role of fungi …
10 years, 7 months ago
Podcast 76 - In Which James and Amanda are Slightly too Inebriated to Discuss Mesozoic Fossils
In this episode we discuss a grab bag of Mesozoic papers, ranging from potential dinosaur mating dances to large-eyed mosasaurs. And after a fairly s…
10 years, 7 months ago