Podcast Episodes

Episode 96 - Marsupials

Episode 142

Marsupials are like alternate-reality mammals. Everything about them, from their skeletons to their reproductive strategies, is just a bit strange – …

5 years, 8 months ago

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Episode 95 – The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse

Episode 141

This episode marks the end of our extinction series, but on the bright side, Aly’s here!

Most of the extinction events we discuss are very animal-foc…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Episode 94 - Dogs

Episode 140

Dogs are among the most diverse and successful mammalian predators on the planet, from widespread wild predators like wolves to the most iconic domes…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Episode 93 - Cats

Episode 139

Cats are among the most diverse and successful mammalian predators on the planet, from lions on the savanna to ocelots in the jungle to domestic cats…

5 years, 9 months ago

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Episode 92 - Eggs

Episode 138

Everybody starts somewhere, and most animals start inside an egg! Eggs are about as old and as varied as animal life itself, and when they show up in…

5 years, 10 months ago

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Episode 91 - Frogs

Episode 137

Roughly nine out of ten living amphibian species are frogs. They’re incredibly diverse and successful, and they have been since the Jurassic Period. …

5 years, 10 months ago

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Episode 90 - "Living Fossils"

Episode 136

"Living fossils" aren't really a thing, not the way they're typically talked about anyway, and the term can be a source of debate among scientists an…

5 years, 11 months ago

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Episode 89 - The Burgess Shale

Episode 135

In the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia sits one of the most important, well-studied, and scientifically influential fossil sites in the world. T…

5 years, 11 months ago

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Live Chat - Conservation Paleontology

Episode 134

In this series, we invite scientists to live Q&As on YouTube, where we discuss topics we’ve covered before on the podcast.

This episode, we discussed…

6 years ago

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Live Chat - Paleopathology

Episode 133

In this series, we invite scientists to live Q&As on YouTube, where we discuss topics we’ve covered before on the podcast.

This episode, we discussed…

6 years ago

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