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| Episode 7: Marrella splendens | 30 août 2014 | 00:16:15 | |
Season 2: Enigmas; Episode 7: Marrella splendens; In paleontology, there is a word for fossil sites that seem to defy the laws of chance and nature: lagerstätten. This is the story of the most famous of the lagerstätte, a site only recognized for what it truly was decades after its discovery. This is the story of the Burgess Shale. | |||
| Mini-episode 2: Barinasuchus arveloi | 03 août 2014 | 00:13:39 | |
Mini-episode 2: Barinasuchus arveloi This episode topic was chosen by Mathieu Dechalain. The pseudosuchians ruled before the dinosaurs, but they didn't just disappear after the end-Triassic extinction event. This is the abridged story of the rest of their history, and how they adapted to life during the reign of dinosaurs and beyond. Like the podcast? Contribute to my patreon campaign!
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| Episode 6: Megalosaurus bucklandii | 01 juil. 2014 | 00:18:26 | |
Season 2: Enigmas; Episode 6: Megalosaurus bucklandii We take a lot for granted, including what we think we know about the world. Even the most familiar of prehistoric animals was once interpreted completely differently, and there is no telling if it won't change again. This is a story about the first dinosaurs to be called dinosaurs, and how we must always question what we know. Like the podcast? Contribute to my patreon campaign!
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| Mini-episode 1: Tyrannosaurus rex, Part 2 | 05 juin 2014 | 00:08:12 | |
Mini-episode 1: Tyrannosaurus rex, Part 2; Everyone knows T. rex. Everyone loves T. rex. But why? This is how our favourite prehistoric celebrity rose to fame, and how our view of dinosaur paleontology has changed in the last century. Like the podcast? Contribute to my Patreon campaign! Find my blog here. Find my Twitter here. | |||
| Episode 5: Tyrannosaurus rex, Part 1 | 13 mai 2014 | 00:17:01 | |
Season 1: Dynasties; Episode 5: Tyrannosaurus rex, Part 1; There have been many dynasties, but there is only one true king. But even kings start small. And even kings must die. The first part of a two-part season finale. | |||
| Episode 4: Arthropleura armata | 06 avr. 2014 | 00:18:23 | |
Season 1: Dynasties; Episode 4: Arthropleura armata; Humans have a troubled relationship with bugs. To be perfectly blunt, we don't like them very much at all. But at least they're small — easily crushed, swatted, and flicked away. This wasn't always the case. When the right conditions presented themselves 350 million years ago, bugs seized their chance to grow. And grow they did. | |||
| Episode 3: Shuvosaurus inexpectatus | 07 mars 2014 | 00:19:58 | |
Season 1: Dynasties; Episode 3: Shuvosaurus inexpectatus; Dinosaurs ruled the world for over 150 million years, but this doesn't mean they were the only ones vying for the throne. When a kingdom is passed to a new family, only one family member can be king — and dinosaurs had an older sibling. | |||
| Episode 2: Charnia masoni | 03 févr. 2014 | 00:12:35 | |
Season 1: Dynasties; Episode 2: Charnia masoni; One of the greatest mysteries of paleontology is centred around one of the simplest organisms ever to inhabit our planet, a member of an ancient dynasty that ruled a world we can only begin to imagine. | |||
| Episode 1: C. Megalodon | 08 janv. 2014 | 00:13:47 | |
Season 1: Dynasties Episode 1: C. Megalodon
A brief introduction, and then on to the fearsome mega-toothed shark — and how it changed paleontology forever. | |||