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Tag: Reptiles

  • Episode 60 – Turtles

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    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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  • Episode 51 – Mosasaurs

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    The Mesozoic Era was home to many successful marine reptiles, but the best ones (that is to say, David’s favorites) were the carnivorous, fully-aquatic, extremely successful lizards of the sea: the Mosasaurs.

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  • Episode 3 – Snakes!

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    I’m sure there’s some kind of joke to be made here about “third time’s the charm” and “snake charmers,” but I don’t know what it would be.

    Anyway…

    The topic this time around… the diversity and evolution of Snakes!

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  • Episode 2 – Crocodilians Past and Present

    Second Episode!

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    We are now on Episode 2, and once again this blog post will have some extra links and information having to do with our most recent episode.
    This one was all about Crocodilians Past and Present. 

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