Terrible Lizards

How stiff were dinosaur tails? If you could find a complete skeleton of any dinosaur species, which would it be? Why are were dinosaurs so big if big sizes are evolutionary dead ends? It is the final ...

17 Mar 202156min

Following on from last week's look at how dinosaurs get named, in this (Patreon picked) episode Iszi and Dave turn to the issue of dinosaur relationships. How do palaeontologists put together family t...

10 Mar 20211h 2min

In this episode we take a look at the actual identification of dinosaurs. What makes a species a species and how does this apply to fossils that are a hundred million years old? From there we look to ...

3 Mar 20211h 5min

This week we have an extended interview and discussion with David Krentz on the public perception of dinosaurs and especially in film. David is a palaeoartist, but also works as a storyboard artist an...

24 Feb 202154min

Let's be honest, we've done quite well to have held off until half way through the third series before tackling this one, but there's been a Brachiosaurus in the room since the start of Terrible Lizar...

17 Feb 20211h 3min

Finally, a normal episode that both has a guest an is actually on dinosaurs. This time out we are on to the second dinosaur ever named – Iguanodon. Despite being one of the absolute originals and bein...

10 Feb 20211h 2min

No dinosaurs this week! Shock, horror! It was always going to happen sooner or later as Dave does a lot of work on pterosaurs as well as on dinosaurs and we've had some specific requests for a pterosa...

3 Feb 20211h 7min

No guest this week, just a lot of Dave talking. We've obviously mentioned his research at various times but never really focused on it before, but now a new and big paper has just come out on the famo...

27 Jan 202158min