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Episode 61: WitmerLab

March 16th, 2016 | by Caitlin Colleary

Dr. Larry Witmer’s lab at Ohio University studies the anatomy of modern animals to make interpretations regarding the functional morphology [&hellip


Episode 60: Determining Diet

March 4th, 2016 | by Joe Keating

Diet is perhaps the most important aspect of ecology. As such, understanding the diet of extinct animals is crucial if [&hellip


Episode 58: Animal biomechanics

January 15th, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

One of the most difficult aspects of palaeontology is understanding how extinct animals moved around. It’s one thing to find [&hellip


Episode 57: Wealden Fossils

January 1st, 2016 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

The Wealden Supergroup of southern England is known for it’s Cretaceous fossils, particularly of dinosaurs, but also crocodilians, pterosaurs, lizards, [&hellip


Episode 56: Vertebrate preparators

December 1st, 2015 | by Laura Soul

Preparators are specialist staff working in museums and universities worldwide. They perform a very wide variety of tasks from fieldwork [&hellip


Episode 55: Pterosaurs

November 15th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, and lived in the skies above the dinosaurs during the Mesozoic. [&hellip


Episode 54: Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

November 1st, 2015 | by Joe Keating

The ‘Crystal Palace Dinosaurs’ are a series of sculptures of extinct animals including dinosaurs, other extinct reptiles and mammals, which [&hellip



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