Paleo Nerds
Episodes
Ep #97 Paleo Nerds Journey to the Galápagos Islands with Naturalist Guide Sandra Masaquiza
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
After a Galápagos trip with his partner Stephanie and paleontologist friends Lee and Ashley Hall, Dave realized the group was so impressed by their t...
Ep #96 Nannotyrannus vs. Juvenile T-rex Solved with James Napoli
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave review the evidence with James Napoli, co-author of the new research paper that resolves the long-standing debate over whether Nanotyrann...
Ep #95 From Fossils to Film and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist and SVP President Stuart Sumida about sail-backed synapsids, pelycosaurs, and the world before dinosa...
Ep #94 The Marvelous Mini-Monsters of Mazon Creek with Arjan Mann
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave discuss the amazing biota of the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte with Arjan Mann, Assistant Curator of Fossil Fishes & Early Tetrapods at th...
Ep #93 Cretaceous Kansas Geology with Kate Andrzejewski
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray gets schooled on the Cretaceous geology around the shores of Kansas Lake Kanopolis by paleontologist Kate Andrzejewski.Â
Ep #92 From Smok to Spinosaurus with Smithsonian Curator Hans-Dieter Sues
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave talk with Smithsonian paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues about the origins of reptiles, the rise of dinosaurs, and a lifetime unearthing Tr...
Ep #91 The Incredible Paleo Impressionist Art of Doug Henderson
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave explore the mind of paleo artist Doug Henderson exploring his techniques, inspirations, and the breathtaking body of work that re-imagine...
Ep #90 Fossil Fish, Antarctic Adventures and Teaching Anatomy with Kerin Claeson
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Troll shares morning coffee in his Ketchikan lounge room with Dr. Karin Claeson, exploring fish evolution, anatomy, development, and variability a...
Ep #89 Brachiopods Deserve Your Love with Dr. Susan Butts
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave learn all about Brachiopods, one of the hardy survivors of the Big Five extinctions, with Susan Butts, Director of Collections and Resear...
Ep #88 Unearthing Egg Mountain’s Dinosaur Nursery: Field Insights from Montana with John Scannella
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dave goes out on a dig at the famous Egg Mountain site in western Montana with Dr. John Scannella, curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockie...
Ep #87 Anvil Sharks, Lampreys & Ratfish with Head-Sprouting Teeth featuring Vertebrate Paleontologist Michael Coates
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave explore jaws, fins and fossil fish while tracing the deep origins of vertebrate life with Dr. Michael Coates, Vertebrate Paleontologist a...
Ep #86 Painting Prehistoric Worlds and Dinosaur Dreams with Mark Hallett
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave talk Sauropods, Smilodons, and Spielberg with artist and paleo visionary Mark Hallett, whose decades of work bring ancient worlds to life...
Ep #85 Mammoth Tusks, Gomphothere Shovels and Elephant Trunks with Advait Jukar
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave explore the history of all things Elephantidae, including Mammoths, Mastodons, and Gomphotheres, with Advait Jukar, delving into their sh...
Ep #84 Turning to Stone: Earthlings on a Dynamic Granite Planet with Marcia Bjornerud
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave go rock hunting through billions of years of Earth's history with Marcia Bjornerud, a structural geologist, inspirational author, and Pro...
Ep #83 Diggin' the Beasts of the Badlands
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave talk about the amazing fossils and strata found in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, where park ranger Mattison Shreero explains how...
Ep #82 The Ultimate Paleo Vlogger, That We Know Of
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave discuss the wide-reaching influence of one of YouTube's paleo stars, Lindsay Nikole, who has millions of followers and incredible outreac...
Ep #81 Paleo Nerds at Nebraska's Prairie Pompeii
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray takes a road trip with fellow Paleo Nerds to visit the great death assemblage, the "Rhino Pompeii", at the Nebraska Ashfall Fossil Beds State Hist...
Ep #80 Walking Egyptian Whales from the Sahara with Dr. Hesham Sallam
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave travels to Cairo, Egypt, for a fascinating interview with Dr. Hesham Sallam, Egypt's leading paleontologist and founder of the country's first Ve...
Ep #79 Teen Rex and the Triumph of Turtles with Tyler Lyson
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave come out of there shells to talk Turtles and the latest T-Rex discovery with Vertebrate Paleontologist Tyler Lyson.
Ep #78 The Business End of T-Rex with Pete Larson
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave unearth the past with paleontologist Pete Larson, discussing Pete's paleo-nerd journey, his early discoveries, his commercial fossil ente...
Ep #77 A Deep Dive Into the Paleostream with Artist Joschua Knüppe
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray interviews the amazingly prolific German artist Joschua Knüppe who can quick draw an accurate dinosaur while the whole world watches online!
Ep 76 The Perfect Piscatorial Fossils of Paris with Dr. Alan Pradel
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave flies across the pond and visits Dr. Alan Pradel, curator of fossil fishes at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France. Dr Pradel ...
Ep #75 The Fighting Finbacks of Seymour Texas with Chris Flis
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray travels to the Permian and trolls the halls of the Texas Whiteside Museum of Natural History with museum director Chris Flis.
Ep #74 Resurrecting Dinosaurs One Chip at Time with MOR's Cassi Knight
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dave expands his paleo knowledge with a visit to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, during their exciting Dino's and MOR conference, howev...
Ep #73 Talking Headgear and Spike Tooths with Ed "Dr. Pronghorn" Davis
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave learn about the amazing antlers and strange headgear of early hoofed mammals including today's Pronghorn Antelope along with more about ...
Ep #72 The Incredible Cretaceous Ceratopsians of Laramidia with Scott Sampson
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave double down with celebrated paleontologist, science communicator, and author, Scott Sampson. He’s the Executive Director of the Califor...
Ep #71 From Fins to Fingers and the Triumph of Our Fishapod Ancestors with Ted Daeschler
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave discuss the evolution of tetrapods and finding their 'fishapod' ancestor's fossils in the high Arctic and Antarctica with paleontologist ...
Episode #70 45 Million Years of Camel-Sheep-Pigs with Meaghan Wetherell
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave have a fun and very lively interview with Paleontologist and Science Writer, Meaghan Wetherell, an expert on the camel/sheep/pig like Ore...
Episode #69 Murderous Monster Mosasaurs ’n More with Mike Everhart
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave talk to Mosasaur expert and "Oceans of Kansas" author Mike Everhart about the marine reptiles that once swam in the ancient ocean where K...
Episode #68 Are we not fish?
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Paleo Nerd podcasts hosts, Ray Troll and Dave Strassman, have an engaging and fun conversation about life, paleontology, and the argument that we ...
Episode #67 Dinosaurs Outnumber Us with Steve Brusatte
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave have the most exciting discussion and eye-opening interview with the New York Times bestselling author and prolific paleontologist, Steve...
Episode #66 The 32 Mysterious Symbols of Ice Age Art with Genevieve von Petzinger
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave interview Genevieve von Petzinger, a paleo-anthropologist, speaker, author, and explorer who's been striving to unlock the mysteries of t...
Episode #65 Shaping Humanity and the Paleo Art of John Gurche
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave talk to John Gurche, one of the world’s leading paleoartists, especially of early hominins. John is a world-class sculptor, painter, dr...
Episode #64 Australian Megafauna Fossils and Outback Geology Down Under with Dr. Adam Yates
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dave is Down Under in Alice Springs, the red centre of Australia where he interviews Dr. Adam Yates to discuss the Geology of the Outback and the amaz...
Episode #63 Cool Crap that Died with JP Cavigelli & Russell Hawley
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave have a fun foursome conversation with the Casper Wyoming's Tate Geological Museum's master paleontologists, JP Cavigelli and Illustrator ...
Episode #62 The T-Rexpert Expert of the Tyrant King Dinosaur with Tom Holtz
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave chomp down on all things T-Rex, the King of dinosaurs with the king of paleontologists who studies them, the prolific and extremely inter...
Ep # 61 Bringing The Prehistoric Back to Life with Master Muralist Jay Matternes
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Ray talk to one of Ray's art heroes, the master muralist and anatomist Jay Matternes, the artist responsible for many of the iconic artworks ...
Episode #60 Sonic Signals Bouncing Off the Biggest Migration on Earth with Kelly Benoit-Bird
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Ray dive deep with Kelly Benoit-Bird to discuss the denizens of the not so deep, the Mesopelagics; the largest migration of vertebrates on pl...
Episode #59 Jasmina Wiemann: Better Paleo Through Modern Chemistry
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Ray's minds are blown by talking to molecular Paleobiologist, Jasmina Wiemann, who can now "see" into fossils more organic detail then ever b...
Episode #58 Hell Creek, Hell Yeah! Dave Digs Dinosaurs in Montana
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave interviews field and lab manager from the Museum of the Rockies, paleontologist, Lee Hall. Dave and his son, Carson, spent an amazing 6 days in t...
Episode #57 Two Paleo Podcasters walk into a den of Eurypterids
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Ray interview Dave Marshall, the host and founder of the first Paleontological Podcast, "Palaeocast Podcast", now in it's 10th successful yea...
Episode #56 Saving Ourselves From Ourselves with Kirk Johnson
20 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Ray talk again with their very first Paleo Nerds guest, Dr. Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History...
Episode #55 Dave and Ray didn’t go away
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ray and Dave talk about their latest adventures, Paleo News, and upcoming ideas for future guests.
Episode #54 A Dinosaur’s Leg and a Pterosaur Egg! Now it can be told. Robert DePalma Part Two
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Nerds coerce Robert DePalma to reveal the Tanis site discoveries he couldn't talk about in Part One. DePalma's Tanis site documents the actual d...
Episode #53 The Very Day the Asteroid (almost) Killed Our Planet with Robert DePalma Part One
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The nerds travel to the final day of the dinosaurs reign with paleontologist Robert DePalma and the legendary Tanis Site.
Episode #52: Your Mother Was a Vetulicolian and Your Father Smelt of Elderberries with Henry Gee
30 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Paleo Nerds cover the history of life on Earth with Nature Senior Editor Henry Gee
Episode #51 Botany, Bugs, and Beards with Dr. Ellen Currano
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The nerds reconstruct ancient ecosystems with Paleobotanist Dr. Ellen Currano
Episode #50: The Past is All We Ever Have with Ken Lacovara
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The nerds hit the prehistoric Jersey Shore with Ken Lacovara
Episode #49 Raptors red in tooth and claw with James Kirkland
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The nerds talk Utahraptors with Utah State Paleontologist Jim Kirkland.
Episode #48 The Ends of the World with Peter Brannen
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Author Peter Brannen just happened to be driving through Kansas so Ray flagged him down to ask him about The Ends of the World, his recent book on mas...
Episode #47 Locked in Time with Dean Lomax
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Dean Lomax sold his Star Wars collection to fund his paleontology dreams. While some may gasp, his investment certainly paid off - his book Locked...
Episode #46 The Colossal Wyoming Death Cave with Julie Meachen
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Natural Trap Cave is a sinkhole death trap that contains a pile of fallen mammals that spans over 100,000 years and Julie Meachen has been studyin...
Episode #45 The Coastal Fossil Finder with Kent Gibson
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
While installing his Cruisin' the Fossil Coastline exhibit at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, Ray had a chance to sit down with Kent Gibson who lent a very...
Episode #44 Polar Dinos and Super Crocs! with Greg Erickson
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Greg Erickson is a very well-rounded paleontologist: he's studied Super Crocs, arctic duckbills and even "dated" (well, aged...) the prehistoric celeb...
Episode #43 Interplanetary Paleontology with Kenneth Williford
08 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Paleo Nerds is truly out of this world! The Nerds talk to Kenneth Williford, Deputy Project Scientist for the Mars 2020 Perseverance m...
Episode #42 The Scariest Moments with Brian Skerry
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Skerry has logged over 10,000 hours underwater, capturing powerful images for National Geographic and has recently teamed up with James Cameron ...
Episode #41 A Gentleman’s Geology of Georgia with Cameron Muskelly
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Youtube star Cameron Muskelly joins the Nerds to talk about the geologic treasures of Georgia and the southern United States. Cam is a paleo encyclope...
Episode #40 Who Dung It? with Karen Chin
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Coprolites (or fossil poop to the layman) have come up repeatedly on the show so we are thrilled to finally have the Queen of Coprolites herself on th...
Episode #39 Hell Pigs: T. rex of the Tertiary with Scott Foss
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What had giant cheeks, protruding canines, dainty hooves and a giant, ridged back? The Hell Pig is almost like Frankenstein's monster, and Scott Foss ...
Paleo Nerds on Vacation
04 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dave and Ray both took advantage of their early vaccination status (the perks of being living fossils!) and got out for some traveling. Dave visited M...
Episode #38 A Dog’s Day at the Tar Pits with Mairin Balisi
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Nerds return to the La Brea tar pits, this time to talk carnivores with Mairin Balisi! She studies what the dogs of the tar pits ate throughout th...
Episode #37 Turning Trout into Salmon with Gerald Smith
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone familiar with Ray's art knows that fish are a focal point and salmon are central, so it's shocking that it's taken so long to have a salmon exp...
Episode #36 The Call of the Parasaurolophus with Ashley Hall
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ashley Hall has been obsessed with dinosaurs since she was a kid and now she spends her days educating the public at the Museum of the Rockies. She ma...
Episode #35 Painting the Living Science of Paleontology with William Stout
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Seeing dinosaurs on the silver screen made Bill Stout a Paleo Nerd, so it's only fitting that he started his art career illustrating movie posters. Hi...
Episode #34 One for the Bird Nerds with John Marzluff
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ravens and crows have their own form of complex communication amongst themselves, and John Marzluff has studied how these birds pass information on an...
Episode #33 The Sistine Chapel of Dinosaurs with ReBecca Hunt-Foster
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
ReBecca Hunt-Foster is the Park Paleontologist at the Dinosaur National Monument. Yes, she has the iconic park ranger hat, but she spends her time tra...
Season 3 is Coming Soon!!!
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This season brings a lineup that won't disappoint! There's something for everyone as Ray and Dave discuss ancient salmon, corvids, and "hell pigs" wit...
Episode #32 The Hot Blooded Dinosaur Revolutionary with Bob Bakker
21 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Bob Bakker is widely known as the "Dinosaur Heretic". Over his long career, he has revolutionized our understanding of dinosaur behavior and overt...
Episode # 31 The Tantalizing Truth about Trilobites with Sam Gon III
14 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sam Ohu Gon III, trilobite expert and Senior Scientist & Cultural Advisor for the Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi. Sam looks to traditional Hawaiia...
Episode #30 Diving into Hell’s Aquarium with Laura Wilson
07 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine time traveling back to the Western Interior Seaway AKA "Hell's Aquarium." Â It's a fitting nickname for the shallow marine environment, full o...
Episode #29 Fighting Anti-Science with Facts and Fossils with Don Prothero
31 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Prothero has written 48 books and counting! And he has repeatedly gone to bat for science, using the facts of the fossil record to disprove creati...
Episode #28 Mammoths, Mummies and Wolves (Oh My!) with Grant Zazula
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Zazula is a Paleo Nerd! His interest in archaeology is what attracted him to the Pleistocene and now he studies in the mighty Yukon, managing th...
Episode #27 A Crash Course on the Great Alaskan Terrane-Wreck with Connie Soja
17 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Connie Soja has extensively studied the paleontology of the Alexander terrane, a gigantic crustal fragment that underlies Ray's backyard of Southeast ...
Episode #26 Hunting for Sharks in a Dark National Park with JP Hodnett
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
JP Hodnett is a Paleo Nerd. But that's a given! He's a shark (and sauropod and cat) expert, so the Nerds get to go off the deep end, diving into incre...
Episode #25 Slothful Titans of the Tar Pits with Emily Lindsey
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emily Lindsey is a paleoecologist who's been fascinated with giant ground sloths since the beginning of her career. She is now a curator and excavatio...
Episode #24: Hunting Dinosaurs with a Camera with Louie Psihoyos
24 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Louie is a photographer and documentary filmmaker, so what's he doing on a podcast about paleontology?  Well, you can thank Jurrasic Park for that. ...
Episode #23 In the Valley of the Tiny Titanosaurs with Luis Chiappe
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Luis Chiappe is as famous for his barbecues as he his for his knowledge of prehistoric birds. Luis' discoveries include an incredible Sauropod nestin...
Episode #22 How to See a Forest in a Handful of Dirt with Regan Dunn
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Regan Dunn is a paleobotanist who's work has taken her all over the world and has landed her in the hottest paleontology site in Hollywood - the La Br...
Episode #21 Out of the Ooze, Evolved to Cruise with Neil Shubin
03 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Nerds get to talk Tiktaalik with esteemed evolutionary biologist and author Neil Shubin. Â Neil uses molecular biology and gene expression to fill...
Episode #20 How to Kill a Dinosaur with Holly Woodward
27 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Paleontologist Holly Woodward reads the microscopic stories left behind in dinosaur bones to tell characteristics like their age, sex, and general hea...
Episode #19 My Favorite Fossil is the Next One with Chuck Bonner
20 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ray joins his old friend Chuck Bonner in Kansas where Chuck's family has collected exquisite fossils now on display around the world.Â
Episode #18 Eons of Epic Epochs with Fossil Librarian Kallie Moore
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Nerds sit down with Kallie Moore, cohost of the PBS youtube show Eons and fossil librarian at the University of Montana. Â
Episode #17 I’ll Have the Dinosaur, Please! with Jack Horner, the REAL Dr. Alan Grant
06 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
World renowned paleontologist Jack Horner discusses bringing paleontology to the masses as the scientific advisor on the Jurassic Park franchise and h...
Season Two Teaser
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready for a second season of Paleo Nerds: A Prehistoric Podcast with David Strassman and Ray Troll. Interviews with Paleontologists, Scientists an...
Episode #16 Walking with Whales with Bobby Boessenecker
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Nerds have a whale of a time with Bobby Boessenecker. Modern whales actually evolved from walking mammals! But how exactly does a huuuuuuge blue...
Episode #15 Sleeping Through Extinction with Christian Sidor
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christian Sidor tells the Nerds all about the ancestry of mammals, including a little creature that hibernated through the Permian-Triassic extinc...
Episode #14 The Flight of the Cephalopods with Danna Staaf
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know we're in the middle of a Cephalopod Renaissance? Esteemed author Danna Staaf is ready to introduce you to our Squid Overlords!
Episode #13 Evolving Toward a Sense of Beauty with Carl Safina
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What's the difference between humans and animals? Who decided there was a difference? Maybe there's less of a difference than we thought...Â
Episode #12 Life Finds a Way... and Then Medea Kills It with Peter Ward
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Nerds sit down with one of life's great thinkers, Peter Ward. He currently studies Mass Extinctions but nautiloids and ammonites are an ongoing pa...
Episode #11 The Origin of Human Anatomy is in Old Dead Fish with John Long
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"You're a fish!"Â Turns out that's not an insult, it's the truth! Professor John Long will explain why this is true AND discusses the origins of sex!...
Episode #10: Comparative Science Fiction Anatomy with Gabriel Santos
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Santos is a nerd. But, hey, if you're listening to this podcast so are you! Â He's studied the paleoparadoxical Desmostylians, but now he uses...
Episope #9: All Birds are Dinosaurs but Not All Dinosaurs are Birds with Paleontologinista Jingmai O’Connor
09 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Paleontologista Jingmai O'Connor teaches the Nerds how to fly! Well, at least how dinosaurs evolved flight and eventually became the birds we live wit...
Episode #8: Know Your Prehistoric Marine Reptiles with Pat Druckenmiller
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The nerds try and impress Dr. Pat Druckenmiller with their knowledge of marine reptiles. The key word being try.
Episode #7: Using Lasers to Stare Into the Eyes of a Pterosaur with Tom Kaye
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tom Kaye uses lasers to see microscopic changes recorded in the rock surrounding fossils that reveal soft tissues, literally shaping what dinosaurs lo...
Episode #6: What Came First, the Shark or the Ratfish? with Dr. Dominique Didier
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Dominique Didier has touched and fondled more ratfish than anyone one, so what better person to discuss the evolutionary perfection and sex life o...
Episode #5: Beating Your Art to the Grave with Paleo Artist Gary Staab
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gary Staab leaps on snakes, wrestles caiman, taxidermies road kill, oh and sculpts massive dinosaurs, realistic sharks and celebrity mummies.
Episode #4: Cheating the Tooth Fairy with Leif Tapanila
05 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Leif Tapanila studies fossil invertebrates and clams, so why is he here to talk about Helicoprion (AKA the Buzz Saw Shark)? Turns out it's all Ray...
Episode #3: Smashing the Patriarchy like a Bone-Crushing Dog with STEMinist Amy Atwater
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As a paleontologist and science communicator, Amy Atwater has been challenging the conviction that all paleontologists look like Indiana Jones!
Episode #2: Channeling Your Childhood Superpower with Kirk Johnson
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Nerds talk to Dr. Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and long-time friend and collaborator of Ray's...
Episode #1: The Only Way to Know Where We’re Going is to Know Where We’ve Been.
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Troll and David Strassman swap childhood stories about becoming Paleo Nerds and reminisce about their most treasured finds in this exciting and re...