Crocs vs Snakes - The Poll Returns
THE GREAT DEBATEIS BACK! By popular demand! Will and David agree on most things, but not this... Help us settle our long-running debate - choose a side! Head to Twitter, Facebook, or Patreon and cast ...
1 Mai 201814min
Survey Response and Q&A
Thanks to everyone who filled out our Listener Survey! In this bonus episode, we’re discussing the feedback we got on the survey and how we’re planning for the future of the podcast. And then we...
30 Apr 20181h 44min
Episode 33 - Ontogeny
Animals don’t start their lives as tiny copies of adults; there are all sorts of changes that a creature goes through from fertilization to birth and from newborn to mature. This development is called...
22 Apr 20181h 45min
Episode 32 - Naracoorte Caves, Australia
Over the past several hundred thousand years, Australia has witnesed numerous ice age cycles, ecosystems dominated by giant marsupials, the arrival of humans, the extinction of those giant animals, an...
8 Apr 20181h 33min
Episode 31 - The Ediacaran Biota
Before life as we know it, and before even the Cambrian Explosion, there was a time when the Earth was home to an assortment of strange squishy creatures so unusual that they defy most of our best att...
25 Mar 20181h 40min
Episode 30 - Prehistoric Poop
Everybody poops! Throughout the history of life on Earth, animals of all lifestyles have been littering the planet with little presents, and those few that fossilize become coprolites: unique time cap...
11 Mar 20181h 36min
Episode 29 - Placoderms, The Armored Fish
In the earliest millennia of vertebrate life on Earth, the seas were home to the placoderms, a diverse group of extinct armored fish whose evolutionary innovations set the stage for some of the most i...
25 Feb 20181h 41min
Episode 28 - Charles Darwin
Happy Darwin Day! In honor of Chuck's birthday (Feb 12), we are joined this episode by Dr. Sarah Bray of the Discovering Darwin podcast, to chat about the man whose research and writings laid the grou...
11 Feb 20181h 35min
