Listen to Episode 160 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
One of the best fossil sites in the world is a former mining site in Germany. It preserves an exceptional record of an Eocene ecosystem, including thousands of exquisitely preserved fossil specimens. This episode, we discuss the history and discoveries of The Messel Pit.
Listen to Episode 152 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
For the last few decades, a seemingly non-stop stream of famous fossils have been produced by excavations in China, and most of them are coming from the same region. This episode, we discuss the deep history, the incredible fossils, and the abundant research opportunities of the Jehol Biota.
Listen to Episode 127 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever podcasts are sold!
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In the Upper Great Plains of the United States is a series of ancient sediments that have for more than a century been a premier source of information on the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs. This episode, we discuss the history, science, and significance of the Hell Creek Formation.
Listen to Episode 110 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite podcast place!
Go digging in the right place in Illinois and you’re liable to find some of the best Carboniferous fossils in the world. This episode, we discuss the history, the geology, and the incredible – and sometimes bizarre – plants and animals of the Mazon Creek Fossil Beds.
Listen to Episode 89 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite place to find podcasts!
More than 100 years ago, explorers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains came across some exceptional fossils. Nowadays, that locality is famous as one of the most important fossil sites in the world for understanding animal evolution, Earth history, and fossil preservation. This episode, we talk about the incredible Burgess Shale.
Listen to Episode 67 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast source of choice! And don’t forget the Bonus Episode: Voices of La Brea!
Join us as we explore one of the most famous fossil sites in the world. It’s not in a desert or on a mountain, but in the heart of one of the largest cities in North America. It’s also one of the best places on Earth to understand the changes in climate and ecology at the very end of the Ice Age. This episode, we take a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits.
Listen to Episode 32 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or that other place you get podcasts!
This episode, we dive in (not literally – we wish!) to the paleontology of Australia’s Naracoorte Caves, among the world’s best windows into the last several hundred thousand years of Australia’s history.
Listen to Episode 14 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your podcast source of choice!
Our most recent episode talks about one of our favorite dig sites, the Gray Fossil Site. Not only is this site where the two of us got a lot of our hands on experience with paleontology, but it is also a fascinating fossil deposit.
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