Listen to Episode 189 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Among the most famous dinosaurs of all time, they were agile, active, feathery predators of habitats all over the world during the Cretaceous Period. This episode, we discuss the diverse lifestyles and notorious mysteries of Dromaeosaurs.
Listen to Episode 183 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
They are among the most diverse and complex forms of integument, occurring in a huge variety of forms and functions on living and extinct dinosaurs. This episode, we discuss the diversity and exciting unfolding evolutionary story of Feathers.
Listen to Episode 176 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
They’re sometimes called “duckbills” or the “cows of the Cretaceous,” and they were among the most successful and social of dinosaurs. This episode, we discuss the evolution, diversity, and unique features of Hadrosaurs.
Listen to Episode 150 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
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.
Listen to Episode 139 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Lots of animals scavenge from time to time, but very few do it full-time. This episode, we explore the incredible adaptations and ancient history of some of nature’s most extraordinary carrion-eaters, Vultures.
Listen to Episode 120 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite alternative!
The most famous dinosaur of all time didn’t come out of nowhere. T. rex has a long history of cousins and ancestors, whose evolution and lifestyles have been the subject of mountains of research, debate, and popular depictions. This episode, we discuss the whole family tree of Tyrannosaurs.
Listen to Episode 108 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app!
You might think that the ocean is no place for a bird, yet one group of birds has done remarkably well as marine divers. Their success is evident in their surprising diversity and wide geographic range both in modern times and over the past 60 million years. This episode, we talk about Penguins.
Listen to Episode 101 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you can find it!
Dinosaurs are famous for being successful, strange, and super-sized, but one group outdoes all the rest. This episode, we’re discussing the fascinating and puzzling group of animals that smash the record for largest land animals of all time: Sauropods.
Listen to Episode 87 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you can find it!
In the Late Jurassic they were small bipedal animals with horns on their cheeks; by the end of the Cretaceous, they had given rise to multi-ton animals with enormous ornamented skulls that roamed North America in massive herds. This episode, we discuss the evolution and lifestyles of Ceratopsians.
Listen to Episode 69 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Lots of animal groups have evolved bony armor, but one group of dinosaurs really took it to the extreme. The armored knobs, spikes, and weapons they wore all over their bodies have fascinated dino-fans for more than a century, and there are still so many questions unanswered. This episode, we look at Ankylosaurs.
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