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Podcast 75 - New Years Resolutions and Sponges Y'all!
We ring in the new year by talking about new research on the evolutionary history of early animals. Also, Amanda makes some very deep cartoon cuts, J…
10 years, 7 months ago
Podcast 74 - Early Tetrapods Awaken
In this episode, we discuss two papers about early tetrapods/tetrapodomorph taxa, Tiktaalik and Ichthyostega, and what new findings suggest about th…
10 years, 8 months ago
Podcast 73 - Sincere Apologies to All Ammonite Workers
In this episode, we discuss two papers that describe ammonite feeding habits. Meanwhile, Amanda gets into a boxing match, Curt is introduced to Moon…
10 years, 8 months ago
Podcast 72 - Converging on a Topic
Fresh off of GSA, the gang gets together to discuss a quick paper about the extent to which adaptation can overprint historical signal in evolution. …
10 years, 9 months ago
Podcast 71 - GSA 2015
It's that time of year again, so James and Curt bring you day by day coverage of the 2015 Geological Society of America meeting, joined by friends Br…
10 years, 9 months ago
Podcast 70 - Systems Breaking Down; The End of the Ediacaran
The gang discusses two papers that deal with the events that led to the extinction of the early metazoan Ediacaran fauna, as well as the extinction's…
10 years, 10 months ago
Podcast 69 - Tasty Kosher Food
The gang finally just does what comes naturally and discusses two papers about food. Specifically, one paper on why things aren't tasty and another a…
10 years, 10 months ago
Podcast 68 - Plonts
The gang discusses two papers about the evolutionary placement of some Cretaceous flowering plants (angiosperms). Meanwhile, Amanda finds her alter e…
10 years, 11 months ago
Podcast 67 - Stratigraphic Bias
The gang discusses two papers that detail how the stratigraphic record affects our understanding of the fossil record. Meanwhile, Amanda gets very e…
10 years, 11 months ago
Podcast 66 - Penguin Death Land
In this episode the gang tries to have a discussion about the fossil preservation of birds. Instead they get completely sidetracked imagining the pen…
11 years ago