Palaeocast

We got a chance to talk to Dr. George Poinar of Oregon State University about his work in amber. We discuss what it is a... Read more

Around 250 million years ago, the largest biotic crisis the world has ever known occurred. The Permo-Triassic Mass Extin... Read more

We interview Professor William Stein of Binghamton University about the world's first forets at Gilboa, NY, USA. We talk... Read more

Theropods are what we would classically recognise as the meat-eating dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era. They are best known ... Read more

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, and lived in the skies above the dinosaurs during the M... Read more

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is a molecule that encodes the genetic information within every species of life on earth. Th... Read more

Archaeopteryx is perhaps one of the most iconic taxa in the fossil record. Exclusively found in the Late Jurassic Solnho... Read more

Insects are the most abundant and diverse group on animals on the planet today. Would they therefore also be expected to... Read more

The biota of the Ediacaran period (635 - 541 ma) is of critical importance to our understanding of the origin of animals... Read more

The Appalachian mountains, span the Eastern margin of the United States of America. They are predominantly composed of P... Read more

Trilobites are one of the most instantly recognisable groups of fossils. They were present from the very start of the Pa... Read more

Ceratopsians are some of the most iconic dinosaurs that we recognise today including animals like Triceratops and Styrac... Read more

Terror birds, or phorusrhacids as they are known scientifically, are a group of large, flightless birds that lived durin... Read more

The Carboniferous (Latin for ‘coal-bearing’) is a period of the Paleozoic named after the massive accumulations of coal ... Read more

Vertebrates are one of the most diverse and successful groups of animals on the planet.  Modern vertebrates come in an a... Read more

The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction was the latest of the 'big five' events. Approximately 75% of species we... Read more

The Wealden Supergroup of southern England is known for it's Cretaceous fossils, particularly of dinosaurs, but also cro... Read more

Ankylosaurs are a group of non-avian dinosaurs best known for their armour, tank-like bodies, and sometimes large tail c... Read more

The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, or 'GOBE', describes one of the most important increases in biodiversity ... Read more

Undoubtedly, Megalodon is the world’s most famous extinct shark is and in this episode, we hear everything we know about... Read more