Listen to Episode 246 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Most living crocodilian species are overall pretty similar in their appearance, but one group really stands out with their bulging eyes and incredibly slender snouts. This episode, we investigate just what’s going on with Gharials.
Listen to Episode 220 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
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.
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