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Today’s crocs are iconic semi-aquatic predators, but their extended evolutionary history includes repeated ventures into land-based lifestyles. This episode, we explore the many faces of Terrestrial Crocs.
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 142 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Travel back in time to the Late Triassic, and the waters were home to animals you’d easily mistake for crocs. This episode, we discuss the fossil record, lifestyles, and uncanny croc-ness of Phytosaurs.
Listen to Episode 116 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever else you can find it!
Of all the reptiles to evolve marine lifestyles, only one were so strikingly specialized to earn the name “fish reptiles.” This episode, we discuss the long evolutionary history, extraordinary adaptations, diverse lifestyles, and perplexing extinction of Ichthyosaurs.
Listen to Episode 79 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you find your favorite podcasts!
Around the same time that the first dinosaurs were walking around, another group of reptiles was doing something no vertebrates had ever done before: taking flight. For more than 150 million years, they ruled the skies, and we’ve spent the last 200 years or so learning ever more about just how bizarre and fascinating they were. This episode, we talk Pterosaurs.
Listen to Episode 72 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or that other podcast place you like!
We’re no strangers to fascinating marine creatures on this podcast; we’ve tackled placoderms, whales, sharks, and mosasaurs. But weirder perhaps than all of those were a group of Mesozoic reptiles with large flippers, tiny tails, and heads that ranged from giant death traps to tiny noggins atop long necks. This episode, we dive into the Plesiosaurs.
Listen to Episode 60 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or that other podcast player you like!
Turtles are so weird and wonderful. They’ve been around since the Triassic Period, but right from the start, they went down an anatomical pathway that has made them unlike any other animal. They took their strange body shape and diversified into an incredible array of shapes and lifestyles. And despite a fairly good fossil record and plenty of genetic data, their evolutionary relationships remain mysterious. This episode, it’s all about Turtles.
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