Episode 62: The Tully Monster
March 18th, 2016 | by David Marshall
Tullimonstrum gregarium, better known as the ‘Tully Monster’ is a problematic fossil from the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek lagerstätte, Illinois, USA. [&hellip
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Episode 59: Chemnitz petrified forest
February 22nd, 2016 | by David Marshall
Beneath the city of Chemnitz, Germany, exists a entire fossilised forest. This whole ecosystem was preserved in life-position during a [&hellip
59th Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Association
December 13th, 2015 | by David Marshall
Monday 14th December Thematic Symposium: “Palaeobiotic interactions” Competition and symbiosis on marine hard substrates in the fossil record Paul D. [&hellip
A new fireworm from the Cretaceous of Lebanon
November 17th, 2015 | by David Marshall
A new fossil from Lebanon is named today in BMC Evolutionary Biology as Rollinschaeta myoplena. We spoke to lead author Luke Parry about this [&hellip
Soft-tissue preservation in the wing of an Early Cretaceous bird
October 7th, 2015 | by David Marshall
Birds have a long evolutionary history; the earliest of them, the famed Archaeopteryx, lived 150 million years ago in what [&hellip
Episode 52: Melanin
September 28th, 2015 | by David Marshall
Melanin is a pigment that is found across the animal kingdom. Melanosomes, the organelles that contain melanin, have been found [&hellip
Episode 51: Eurypterids
September 1st, 2015 | by David Marshall
Eurypterids, or ‘sea-scorpions’ are an extinct group of chelicerates: the group containing the terrestrial arachnids (such as spiders and scorpions) [&hellip
Episode 50: Rangeomorph Reproduction
August 14th, 2015 | by David Marshall
On today’s episode we’re revisiting Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. At this lagerstätte it is possible to find large bedding planes full of Precambrian organisms [&hellip
Episode 49: Synapsids
July 31st, 2015 | by David Marshall
Synapsids are one of the major groups of terrestrial vertebrates. They first appear in the Carboniferous period and since that [&hellip
A Piece of Earth History in my intestine?
July 20th, 2015 | by David Marshall
New Study: Constraining the Deep Origin of Parasitic Flatworms and Host-Interactions with Fossil Evidence Many humans or their pets have [&hellip
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