Episode 94: Joggins Fossil Cliffs
September 17th, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
The Carboniferous was a time of huge swampy forests, big trees, and lots of life both on land and in [&hellip
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Episode 92: Squamate Origins
May 30th, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Squamates are a group of reptiles that include lizards and snakes, with the earliest fossils occurring in the Jurassic, despite [&hellip
Episode 90: Ichthyornis
May 3rd, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Bird evolution has long fascinated palaeontologists. Despite crown-group birds (birds giving rise to modern lineages today) evolving during the Cretaceous, [&hellip
Episode 89: Teeth and herbivory in reptiles
April 17th, 2018 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Tooth shape and arrangement is strongly linked with diet, and palaeontologists often use teeth to determine what kind of food [&hellip
Hundreds of pterosaur eggs help reveal the early life of flying reptiles
November 30th, 2017 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
[This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article here.] A hoard of fossilised pterosaur eggs discovered [&hellip
Episode 78: Japanese Palaeontology
June 30th, 2017 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
When thinking of palaeontology in Asia, most people think of Mongolia and China, but there is actually a significant palaeontology [&hellip
Episode 74: Early Archosaurs and Teleocrater
April 12th, 2017 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
We have a pretty good idea about how different dinosaur groups evolved, and how they are related (although anyone who [&hellip
Episode 70: The Golden Age of Dinosaur Discovery
October 1st, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
The last 10 years has shown a large increase in the number of new species and new discoveries of dinosaurs, as [&hellip
Episode 67: Blue Beach Tetrapods
July 22nd, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
Blue Beach is a locality in Nova Scotia, Canada that is well known for it’s fossils from the Lower Carboniferous. [&hellip
Abrupt extinction of toothed bird-like dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous
April 21st, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone
The extinction of non-avian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous has always been a discussion favourite amongst vertebrate palaeontologists. [&hellip
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