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For most animals, the body doesn’t end at the hips! That final stretch of anatomy comes in many shapes and sizes suitable to a wide variety of lifestyles. This episode, we discuss the diversity and biological importance – past and present – of Tails.
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They are among the most famous and the most recognizably bizarre of all dinosaurs. This episode, we discuss the fossil record, evolutionary history, and many morphological mysteries surrounding Stegosaurs.
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Incredibly diverse, eternally fascinating, and so ubiquitous today that it’s hard to imagine a world without them. This episode, we discuss the deep history of Ants.
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Powered flight has only evolved a few times, but it’s incredible how many times and how ways evolution has produced organisms that sail through the sky. This episode, we discuss the astonishing diversity – past and present – of Gliding.
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Our understanding of evolution would be incomplete without knowledge of what, deep down, determines the traits of an organism and, crucially, how those traits are passed from parent to offspring. This episode, we discuss the foundational field of Genetics.
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Some geologic boundaries are marked by mass extinction and radical planetary transformations. This episode, discuss one that’s marked mostly by mystery: the Jurassic-Cretaceous Transition.
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We live in a solar-powered world. This episode, we discuss the process that provides the energy that every organism on the planet relies on, as well as the oxygen that characterizes the atmosphere that allows life as we know it to thrive: Photosynthesis.
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In evolution, sometimes species get big, and sometimes they get small. The factors behind changing body sizes are extremely varied, and many trends in size evolution are poorly understood. This episode, we discuss Evolutionary Gigantism and Dwarfism.
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These lizards are famous for their diverse lifestyles, their widely-ranging body sizes, and their somewhat mysterious evolutionary past. This episode, we discuss Monitor Lizards.
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Travel back in time to the Late Triassic, and the waters were home to animals you’d easily mistake for crocs. This episode, we discuss the fossil record, lifestyles, and uncanny croc-ness of Phytosaurs.
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