Dr Jake Kotevski didn't become a palaeontologist because of a fossil. He became one because of Sam Neill. New episode out now.
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The culture and science of palaeontology with @slyssabits.bsky.social and @travish.co
Alyssa reunites with her old geology professor — and somehow ends up arguing for putting a Compsognathus in her backpack. Episode 59 is out now. We talk geology education, the decline of geoscience programs, and why UT Chattanooga owns a cave. In your pod feeds now.
Episode 58: Secrets of the Sea Monsters with Dr Dean Lomax
Episode 58: Secrets of the Sea Monsters with Dr Dean Lomax
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Episode 57: Queensland Dino Week Road Trip
Episode 57: Queensland Dino Week Road Trip
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We're road tripping across Queensland for Queensland Dino Week. Hitting your podcast feeds... now! rss.com/podcasts/fos...
A rare letter by Mary Anning is going to auction, and Lyme Regis Museum wants to buy it www.bbc.com/news/article...
Palaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggests
The collector's discoveries helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life.
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Unfortunately we are cancelling our live event planned for Adelaide tomorrow
Learn all about Wellington Caves in the newest episode of Fossils and Fiction now in your favourite podcast player
Live recording of Fossils and Fiction at Suburban Brew (Adelaide) on November 29. Palaeontologists Aiden Couzens and Matt Herne join our panel to talk about Australia's oddest fossils. The show begins with Professor Flint's Palaeojam followed by Fossils live! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1964100016...
For fossil-loving folk in Adelaide at the end of the month (maybe there's a conference or something 😉), we're hosting some live pods over pints and pizza www.eventbrite.com/e/live-palae...
Your Sunday read! In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing far ahead of schedule. In doing so, he's run headlong into a very difficult question: How on earth do you prove it? My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social! 🧪
These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth
Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once
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Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
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Help fund art and science on the iconic sauropod family group Diplodocoidea experiment.com/projects/rea...
Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea
We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary…
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Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?
October 12 marks the start of Earth Science Week across Australia. Explore the resources provided by Geoscience Australia at www.ga.gov.au/about/earth-...
New at the Terrible Lizards Podcast, a discussion between Iszi, Dave and me on the contents of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, now out in softback ... terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e09-anc...
Terrible Lizards: TLS11E09 Ancient Sea Reptiles
Long time listener and second time guest Darren Naish joins us to talk about marine reptiles. While Darren is best known for his work on dinosaurs and pterosaurs, he has fingers in a huge number of ve...
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Fun Fact: Trilobites evolved eyes made out of hard calcite minerals. These little crystal eyes fossilize beautifully! Art from my new book: DINOSAURS 🦕 where I illustrate all prehistoric life! Preorder book here: a.co/d/7X856do #paleoart #fossiladdict #evolution #sciart #dinosaurs
Artist Zev Landes is responsible for some iconic modern Australian palaeo-art, but maybe he doesn't like the field at all? Find out in the newest episode of Fossils and Fiction, now in your feeds rss.com/podcasts/fos...
It's Book Week in Australia. If you're looking for Dino books for young readers, check out our interview with Bronwyn Saunders, author of "Diprotodon: A Megafauna Journey" www.fossilsfiction.co/2024/03/28/e...
Episode 29: Diprotodon with Bronwyn Saunders – Fossils & Fiction
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Dinosaur dance floors and ancient sharks. What a combo! Followed up by 'Would you Rather?' rss.com/podcasts/fos...
Kiwis at twilight. A coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf depicting 'Mantell's Apteryx', published in Zoological Sketches, vol. 1 (1861). The book's images were based on animals in the vivarium of the Zoological Society of London in Regent's Park.
