Palaeo After Dark

The gang discuss two papers that look at the links between morphology and ecology. Specifically, they discuss a fossil m... Read more

The gang celebrates their 6th anniversary by taking some time to talk about two papers about early mammal ecology. The f... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that look at the complex evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. In particular, these ... Read more

The gang returns to one of their favorite pet topics, food! This week, we discuss two papers that investigate what diffe... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that look at changes in teeth through time. The first paper looks at the earliest example ... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that look at how the morphology of tetrapods (animals with four limbs and a backbone) has ... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that look how the environmental stresses caused from warming temperatures can affect fish.... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that investigate the ways that tetrapods return to the sea. It's another opportunity for A... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that look at the origins of the latitudinal diversity gradient, the tendency for higher sp... Read more

The gang discuss two papers that use various lines of evidence to try to determine what Cambrian animals (particularly t... Read more

The gang talks about two papers that look at potential examples of parasitism in the fossil record. One paper finds poss... Read more

The gang returns to a favorite topic, the link between morphology and ecology. Specifically, they look at two studies th... Read more

Come and join us for an extra length episode where we discuss the talks we saw during the 2018 Geological Society of Ame... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that use fossil evidence to interpret physiology and functional morphology of extinct anim... Read more

The gang discusses a few papers that illustrate how different evolutionary processes can generate very similar morpholog... Read more

The gang discusses two papers on suction feeding among tetrapods, the process by which animals take in water to pull foo... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that use large data sets to look at big picture patterns in evolution and ecology. Specifi... Read more

Well, it has finally come to this. After almost 150 episodes under our belts, we've finally produced a podcast where alm... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that use new findings to upend some of our previous interpretations of fossil taxa. First,... Read more

The gang discusses two papers that deal with the origins of biomineralization (how living things make hard minerals to s... Read more