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Tag: Reptiles

  • Episode 79 – Pterosaurs

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    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.

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  • Episode 72 – Plesiosaurs

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    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.

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  • 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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