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Podcast 268 - Tooth Hurts
The gang discusses two papers that investigate the feeding strategies of ancient animals, including a fossil stingray and an ancient bird. Meanwhil…
2 years, 11 months ago
Podcast 267 - The Blender Episode
The gang discusses two papers that use Blender 3d modeling techniques (and other functional morphology techniques) to study arthropod morphology…
3 years ago
Podcast 266 - Tooth and Jaw
The gang discusses two papers that looks at mammal jaws and teeth. The first paper uses many different analyses to study how the mammal jaw evolved…
3 years ago
Podcast 265 - Big Boy Season
The gang discusses two papers that look at examples of unusually large animals in the fossil record; one large lacewing larvae and one very large sk…
3 years, 1 month ago
Podcast 264 - Old Elvis Taxon
The gang discusses two papers that look at the ecomorphology of Mesozoic swimming reptiles. The first paper investigates swimming strategies in vari…
3 years, 1 month ago
Podcast 263 - In the Presence of ALAN
The gang discusses two papers that look at the impact of humans on bird populations. The first paper looks at the history of a condor nesting site i…
3 years, 2 months ago
Podcast 262 - Take It To The Mat
The gang discusses two papers that study the paleoecology of the Ediacaran fauna. The first paper looks at environmental information that can be gle…
3 years, 2 months ago
Podcast 261 - Bad Coping Strategies
Episode 261
The gang discusses two papers about inferring life habit and ecology from extinct animals. The first paper summarizes the data for ichthyosaur birth…
3 years, 3 months ago
Podcast 260 - Making Due With What You Have
The gang discusses two functional morphology papers. The first paper looks at eye placement and skull morphology in Thylacosmilus and the second pa…
3 years, 3 months ago
Podcast 259 - Niche Evolution or Conservatism
The gang discusses two papers that look at patterns of niche conservatism or niche evolution in the fossil record. The first paper looks at the poll…
3 years, 4 months ago