Palaeo After Dark
Episodes
Podcast 46 - Better Circles; A Rambling Conversation About Higher Taxa
30 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
After spending 2 hours fighting the internet (drinking the whole time), the gang finally starts recording a bit tipsy and ends the evening fairly wast...
Podcast 45 - Ethics in Kangaroo Journalism
16 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The gang stumbles their way through several papers about kangaroos, particularly focusing on a meat eating rat kangaroo. Also, stressed and annoyed at...
Podcast 44d - GSA 2014 Day 4; It's Magic
02 Nov 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James, Curt, Liam, Brendan, and Aly discuss talks from the final paleo sessions at GSA 2014, and Brendan makes an impassioned plea to conserve a vital...
Podcast 44c - GSA 2014 Day 3; Cat Coda
30 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
Amanda and the cat skype in to see what’s been going on at the Vancouver GSA 2014 meeting. Also, James’s brain is so broken that it makes a pun th...
Podcast 44b - GSA 2014 Day 2; Bloodborne Passages
28 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James, Curt, Liam, and Aly join up with biogeochemists Brendan and Charity to discuss some of the GSA 2014 paleontology talks, as well as the differen...
Podcast 44a - GSA 2014 Day 1; sdrawkcaB seibaB gnilliK nataS
26 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
James and Curt are joined by fellow paleontologists Liam and Aly to discuss paleo talks from the first day of the Geological Society of America Meetin...
Podcast 43 - Nontroversy; The Tale of the Dog-Paddling Spinosaurus
19 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discusses the new Spinosaurus material while also trying to completely alienate their audience, starting at jingoistic humor and ending with ...
Podcast 42 - Terror Birds and Captain Scarlett
05 Oct 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang concludes their marathon of prerecorded episodes with two papers about the biomechanics of the Terror Birds. We also talk a...
Podcast 41 - Hallucigenia; Eating Planets and Crapping Rainbows
21 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Palaeo After Dark, the gang discusses the complicated history of Hallucigenia, and somehow gets completely derailed into rambling c...
Podcast 40 - Treading Water; Let's Talk About Hippos
07 Sep 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang spirals into insanity while discussing a strange paper about hippo biogeography. Also, James discusses childhood cartoon tra...
Podcast 39 - Fractal Fronds; Ediacaran Ecology
24 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang discusses two papers that look at the ecology of the early life forms of the Ediacaran period. Also, James discusses the Ame...
Podcast 38 - Podcast Team VS The League of Sinister Papers
10 Aug 2014
Contributed by Lukas
This week, instead of picking papers with a similar theme the gang decided to talk about the craziest papers they could find. The end result: yetis an...
Podcast 37 - Derp Birds
27 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Palaeo After Dark, the gang discusses two papers that use morphometric analysis to test how strongly ecology imprints on evolution,...
Podcast 36 - Some of My Best Friends Are Plants
13 Jul 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we discuss a paper about using paleobotany to reconstruct paleoclimate, and then spin this discussion into a longer talk about ...
Podcast 35 - Horror on Podcast Island 3: Revenge of the Pocket Sauropod
29 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
What started as a simple conversation about the Island Rule and small sauropods quickly became a fight for survival as the internet itself rose up to ...
Podcast 34 - Godwin's Law
15 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang repeatedly violates Godwin's Law by comparing everything to the Nazis/Hitler. And they also discuss two papers which deal wi...
Podcast 33 - Hypocrisy
01 Jun 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang gets vitriolic about people getting vitriolic as they discuss the unexpected drama that ensued after a seemingly benign pape...
Podcast 32 - A Very Special Episode of Palaeo After Dark
18 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this very special episode of Palaeo After Dark, the gang wrestles with the controversial topic of fossil commercialization. Furthermore, tragedy st...
Podcast 31 - Filling the Bucket
04 May 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang has a conversation about the various factors affecting total global diversity and how these factors might affect patterns of...
Podcast 30 - That's Not Genocide; Human Hunting and Megafaunal Extinction
20 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang is all back in the same zip code and celebrate by having a long discussion on the origin and extinction of the large mammals...
Podcast 29 - Everything's Screwed; OR How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Mass Extinctions
06 Apr 2014
Contributed by Lukas
With thesis defenses on the horizon, the group looks to a comforting and familiar topic to escape their morose nerves; mass extinctions. Specifically,...
Podcast 28 - Obligatory Dinosaur Podcast
23 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the gang “gives the people what they want” by talking about two papers that look at a giant theropod dinosaur from the Iberian Pe...
Podcast 27 - Ichthyosaur Birthday Party
09 Mar 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In celebration of the podcast’s one year anniversary, the gang decides to discuss two papers about live birth in the fossil record. At least.... tha...
Podcast 26 - Let's Get This Over With Part 2, Foram Harder
23 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, the evil forces of internet lag and food coma conspire to destroy the podcast gang.... and evil pretty much succeeds. However, de...
Podcast 25 - #anomalocarissellouts
09 Feb 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In response to the slightest amount of "success", the gang immediately tries (and fails) to sell out the podcast with James and Curt racing to the...
Podcast 24 - We never should have podcasted about Wiwaxia
26 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
It seemed like such a good idea at the time. If only we had known that, despite our best intentions, we weren't prepared for the sheer insanity of ...
Podcast 23 - Pirates and Vikings
12 Jan 2014
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, it becomes painfully obvious that James has been escaping the terrible winter rain by playing a bunch of Assassin's Creed: Black F...
Podcast 22 - And the Curse of the 11% Beer
29 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
When the gang eagerly decides to drink a festive high alcohol content holiday beer while discussing how species are named, the three young scient...
Podcast 21 - In Your Box
15 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The gang discusses a paper about scientific error and spin that into a larger discussion on error and reproducibility in science in general. Also...
Podcast 20 - Chasing the Red Queen
01 Dec 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Palaeo After Dark we discuss Van Valen's Red Queen Hypothesis, as well as recent reviews of the concept. Meanwhile, James free...
Podcast 19 - Lagging Brains
17 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
The gang soldiers on against the horrible vexations of internet lag and losing an hour of recording to discuss a fascinating set of papers looking...
Podcast 18 - 'Live' from GSA!
03 Nov 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Having fixed the audio problems from the last podcast, the gang reconvenes at the Denver Geological Society of America Meeting to discuss the cool...
Podcast 17 - Jawsome
20 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
With everyone scattered across the country, the gang attempts to use the mystery box called the internet to still record a podcast... Things could ...
Podcast 16 - TUBE FEET!!!!!
07 Oct 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Palaeo After Dark, the group talks about an interesting and enigmatic fossil species from the Burgess Shale called Siphusauctum...
Podcast 15 - Game of Cats
22 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we discuss a paper about cats, specifically trying to use the shape of bones to estimate the preferred habitat of modern and fossi...
Podcast 14 - The #@$%
08 Sep 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Palaeo After Dark is the RAWEST, as we discuss the controversial primate Darwinius. Also James communicates telepathically, Ama...
Podcast 13 - Columbo Meets Gary Busey
25 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we desperately try to remain on topic as we talk about fossil beds with exceptional preservation.... We fail... Instead, James d...
Podcast 12 - "All" its "Descendents"
11 Aug 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss two studies that try to piece apart the effects that the ecological niche breadth (i.e. the range of habitats an animal...
Podcast 11 - Early Life is a Battlefield
28 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, we discuss evidence of some early single-cellular life, and James gives the group a passionate lesson in mathematics... ...
Podcast 10 - Adventures in Dating
14 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, while Randol is away Amanda gives the group a lesson in American History, Curt ruins illusions, and James fills the void with his ...
Podcast 9 - Diania solid
30 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week we talk about a controversial worm-like Cambrian fossil called Diania cactiformis that some think may be the ancestor of all arthropods...
Podcast 8 - References
16 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
On this week's episode, we discuss the science of ichnology (the study of trace fossils), and for some reason we can't stop making stupid pop cultu...
Podcast 7 - Fish Lizards
02 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Amanda writes Freddy Mercury slash fiction, Randol condones eating babies, James feeds the 5000, Curt has a conversation which only...
Podcast 6 - Space Ducks
19 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Randol invents a cat related song, James reinvents the story of the Ed Fitz, Amanda talks about space ducks, Curt cuts the entire ...
Podcast 5 - Pikaia Pikaia Pikaia
05 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Today we are joined by our pal Paula and talk about Pikaia, Pokemon... and poop.
Podcast 4 - Wreck of the E.F.
21 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast, Amanda spends the first four minutes talking about shipwrecks, James and Randol discuss their creepy new children's program...
Podcast 3 - Growing Pains
07 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast we discuss the importance of ontogeny and development in the evolution of new body forms. Also alimony.
Podcast 2 - Clocklike Clocks
24 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This week's podcast we eventually get to talking about Molecular Clock studies dealing with early divergence times and the colonization of land... ...
Podcast 1 - The Interpretive Dance
11 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
In which we eventually get to talking about interpretations of ambiguous fossils, and discuss a redescription of a strange fish.
Podcast 0 - Taphonomy is a Process
10 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Our pilot episode which originally was conceived as a companion piece to Palaeocast. Since this was our first run, we all apologize for the lack of...