Listen to Episode 184 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
A pioneering figure in the fields of paleontology and comparative anatomy, founder of the Natural History Museum in London, namer of Dinosauria, and antagonistic contemporary of Darwin, this episode we explore the life and legacy of Richard Owen.
Listen to Episode 158 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
There was a time when artwork depicting ancient animals was uncommon and even unexpected. The modern world of paleoart owes its existence in large part to an animal artist who became perhaps the most influential paleoartist of all time: Charles R. Knight.
Listen to Episode 132 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or your podcast-player of choice!
They are two of the biggest names in the history of paleoanthropology and human evolution, and they’re one of history’s most impressive scientific duos. This episode, we discuss the science and stories of Mary and Louis Leakey.
Our guest this episode is Meredith Johnson, Communications Director at the Leakey Foundation and host of Origin Stories! Learn more here!
Listen to Episode 106 on PodBean, Spotify, Spotify, or borrow it from a friend!
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a Hungarian Baron became a paleontologist, traveling around Europe, excavating fossils, going on adventures, and producing innovative research on fossils, geology, and more. This episode, we discussed the life and work of Franz Nopcsa.
Listen to Episode 80 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or that other podcast place you like!
Happy Darwin Day! In keeping with tradition, we’re joined by special guest Brittney Stoneburg this episode to discuss one of the most influential figures of early paleontology, a person who helped set the stage for the ways we uncover and understand ancient life today, and who was famously not famous in her own time. This episode, we’re discussing Mary Anning.
Listen to Episode 58 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or that other podcast player you like!
For three decades at the end of the 1800s, two prominent paleontologists waged a war across North America. They discovered hundreds of fossil species from dozens of sites as they competed for the biggest discoveries and wrote lengthy criticisms of each other’s work. In the process, they laid the foundations of American paleontology and generated the nastiest and most infamous feud in the history of the field: the Bone Wars.
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.
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.
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