Palaeocast
A free webseries exploring the fossil record and the evolution of life on Earth.
- Website
- http://www.palaeocast.com
- Description
- A free webseries exploring the fossil record and the evolution of life on Earth.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-11-16 01:25
- last episode published
- 2024-07-23 14:37
- publication frequency
- 19.07 days
- Contributors
- Palaeocast
- Author
- Dave Marshall
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 229
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Education Natural Sciences History Higher Education Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-07-23 | ||
| 2024-06-15 | Found in the fossil record between the Jurassic and the middle Miocene, Notosuchia was a highly diverse and strange group of crocodylomorphs, most notable for their terrestrial lifestyle. Joining us for today’s episode is Dr Yohan Pochat-Cottilloux fro... | |
| 2024-03-22 | The field of evolutionary biology has been greatly influenced by the development of modern genetic methodology. The understanding of genes, genomes and the molecular mechanisms key to life on Earth are all goals of evolutionary biology in the 21st cen... |
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| 2024-02-19 | In 12 years of podcasting, we have never actually taken the time to address the fundamentals of our field. Such questions could include: what is palaeontology, what is a fossil, how does one become a palaeontologist, and why is palaeontology important... |
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| 2024-02-07 | It's been two centuries since the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, was named by William Buckland and to commemorate the date, the Natural History Museum hosted '200 Years of Dinosaurs: Their Rise, Fall, and Rebirth'. This international conference provide... |
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| 2024-02-06 | The Middle Jurassic is incredibly important to our understanding of pterosaur evolution; however, the remarkable rarity and incompleteness of Middle Jurassic pterosaurs has long hampered scientific understanding of the lineage. Joining us this episo... |
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| 2023-12-08 | Originally mounted in 1907, the Carnegie specimen is the best example of the sauropod dinosaur Diplodocus, and perhaps the most famous dinosaur skeleton in the world. Casts of the specimen, including the London example known as “Dippy”, were distribut... |
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| 2023-11-09 | LOOP 8.4: LOOP Showrunner Dan Tapster returns to give a retrospective on the series and its production. We look at went well and address criticisms; is it possible to keep everyone happy? We finish this series by discussing the show’s take-home message... |
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| 2023-11-09 | LOOP 8.3: Episode 8’s producer, Sophie Lanfear, joins us again to describe how difficult it was to wrap the series up, having to balance telling the story of the last ice age with conveying the message of the series. We speak about climate change and t... |
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| 2023-11-09 | LOOP 8.2: Prof. Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway University of London, joins us to cover the last 2 million years of Earth’s history. We explore the periodicity of glacials and interglacials and the control Earth’s orbit around the sun has on climate. ... |
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