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In the oceans and waterways of the world, it is one of the most common and successful feeding strategies, and it has been for hundreds of millions of years. This episode, we discuss the details and diversity of Filter Feeding.
Listen to Episode 174 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
The seas of the Paleozoic Era were quite different from today, and between them, there was a great ecological transition. This episode, we discuss the complexities, mysteries, and lasting impacts of the Mesozoic Marine Revolution.
Listen to Episode 172 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
The world’s most famous marine mammals come in two varieties. This episode, we discuss the diversity and evolutionary history of the more diverse of the two: Toothed Whales.
Listen to Episode 171 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
As the world’s continents have shifted and changed shape over time, so have the oceans. This episode, we discuss the history and study of the various iterations of one of Earth’s most famous ancient body of water: The Tethys Sea.
Listen to Episode 169 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Snakes have adapted surprisingly well to marine life, evolving a host of aquatic adaptations several times across many millions of years. This episode, we discuss the repeated evolution of Sea Snakes.
Listen to Episode 168 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Several times throughout the ages, various branches of the crocodylomorph family tree have moved into the sea. This episode, we discuss the many forms of Marine Crocs.
Listen to Episode 156 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
During the Paleozoic, the so-called “sea scorpions” were among the most successful carnivores in the world’s waters. This episode, we explore the ancient history and claims-to-fame of Eurypterids.
Listen to Episode 136 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or find it somewhere else!
Not all fish are shaped, well, like fish. In this episode, we discuss the bizarre group of tube-mouthed, prehensile-tailed, mostly finless, bony-plated wonders: Seahorses
Listen to Episode 128 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or that other place you like!
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Far below the ocean surface, where light, heat, and food become scarce, there is a vast environment that supports strange organisms highly adapted for survival in this harsh underwater landscape. This episode, we discuss the mysteries, past and present, of the Deep Sea.
Listen to Episode 117 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever else you can find it!
Several thousand living species – and many more fossils – are called “crabs,” but they don’t all share an evolutionary history. The crab-like body plan is a repeated trend in crustacean evolution, and there are differing opinions on what exactly counts as a “crab” and why natural selection keeps making them. This episode, we talk Crabs and Carcinization.
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