Listen to Episode 73 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts!
As our friend Aly is fond of saying, plants aren’t just a colorful background to Earth history, they’re dynamic and influential drivers of environmental change. In this episode, she joins us to discuss one of the most famous and important innovations in all of plant evolution: Trees.
Listen to Episode 64 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite place for podcasts!
What would our science be without art? Fossils make for great photos, but a key part of paleontology is our ability to reconstruct long-dead organisms as living, functioning beings. In this episode, we’re joined by paleoartist and herpetologist Gabriel Ugueto as we discuss the many ways artists attempt to recreate ancient species through Paleoart.
Listen to Episode 57 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast place!
In the modern world, flowering plants are dominant in nearly all ecosystems, but it wasn’t always this way. The fossil record of these plants doesn’t offer many clues to their origins, but once they arrived on the scene they underwent one of the biggest radiations in life history. In this episode, we’re joined again by our friend Aly Baumgartner to discuss the Evolution of Angiosperms.
Listen to Episode 54 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or that other place you get podcasts … you know the one!
Darwin Day has come around again (February 12th), and bio-nerds around the world are celebrating science and natural history! Last year, we devoted an episode to Charles Darwin himself, and this year we’re joined again by Dr. Sarah Bray of the podcast Discovering Darwin. But this time, we’re highlighting the other guy, the young naturalist who arrived at the same evolutionary hypothesis as Darwin, and who shared the spotlight of discovery for a while. This episode, we’re talking about the fascinating and often overlooked Alfred Russell Wallace.
Will and David took a trip to St. Louis for SciFest: Rock, Fossil, Quake on September 22nd!
You can listen to us discuss the event and to our interviews with paleontologists on PodBean Spotify, YouTube, and other podcast places.
The paleontologists we spoke with were:
Dr. Ashley Morhardt, Washington University
Dr. Andy Farke, Raymond Alf Museum
Dr. Denver Fowler, Badlands Dinosaur Museum
Dr. Casey Holliday, University of Missouri
Dr. Liz Freedman Fowler, Dickinson State University
Josh Matthews, Burpee Museum
Welcome to our Spotlight Series!
Listen to Spotlight on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you catch pods!
We’re talking paleo-science with some paleo-people! Across this 5-part series, you’ll get to know some paleontologists as we interview them about their research and their lives as scientists.
Our theme for this series is Invertebrate Paleontology
Here on this blog post, we’ll collect information on our guests, ways you can find them on the internet, and some photos of what we discussed in the episodes!
We’ll be updating this post as we release our Spotlight episodes throughout September!
(more…)Listen to Episode 38 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast source!
In this episode, we are joined by our friend Aly Baumgartner, who tells us all about one of the world’s most successful – and influential – groups of plants, including how they’ve evolved, spread, and changed the world. Our very first plant-dedicated topic: Grass!
Listen to Episode 28 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever podcasts are provided!
February 12th is Darwin Day! On this day, biology-nerds like us – and our special guest, Dr. Sarah Bray! – celebrate the birthday and life achievements of the scientist who ushered in our modern understanding of the subjects that underlie just about every topic we discuss on this podcast: Charles Darwin.
Listen to Episode 19 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or that other place you get podcasts!
And don’t forget the Diversity in Paleontology Bonus Episode! Thanks to all who participated!
This episode, we discuss a special topic with a special guest! Michelle Barboza-Ramirez from the Femmes of STEM podcast joins us to discuss the history and unique challenges of Women in Paleontology.
Listen to Episode 7 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast place!
This episode we are joined by special guest Ethan Fulwood, who helped us explore a group of animals you may be somewhat familiar with: Primates.
The Common Descent Podcast 