Palaeocast | Palaeontology podcasts

A New Early Reptile With Bizarre Teeth From The Triassic of England

January 20th, 2025 | by Hady George

If there was a Period of Earth’s history that could be called ‘the one with the weird vertebrates’, it would [&hellip

February 15th, 2021 | by David Marshall

Dr Larisa DeSantis teaches us the methods used to determine what Smilodon was eating

May 1st, 2020 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

Early tetrapods include the earliest animals to grow legs, and their closest ancestors. Moving from the water to land required [&hellip

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

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

July 28th, 2015 | by Liz Martin-Silverstone

A new study out today has looked at the tooth development of theropod dinosaurs and found they had a novel [&hellip