Trilobites with gills on their legs, pterosaurs with thumbs, burrowing Cretaceous mammals, and giant eurypterids highlight this episode. Also John Day Fossil Beds and La Brea Tar Pits open their visitor centers for the first time since the pand

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Lagerstätte Roundup: March 2021

Apr 4th, 2021 11m 1s

In this episode we look at interesting Lagerstätte articles released in March 2021. This includes a newly described, oldest Lagerstätte in South America, Paleozoic lamprey embryos, the first opabiniid discovered outside of Burgess Shale, a fail

Lagerstätte Roundup: February 2021

Mar 7th, 2021 12m 40s

In this episode we look at interesting Lagerstätte articles released in February 2021. This includes a new site designated in Morocco, a previously lost site rediscovered in Vermont, a new Paleozoic Spider, an amber full of fly larvae, and UV-i

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Lagerstätte Roundup: January 2021

Feb 7th, 2021 10m 6s

This is the start of a bonus series where I briefly summarize interesting Lagerstätten papers from the previous month. I look at a newly described Lagerstätte from France, an ammonite with preserved internal organs, a beautiful looking assassi

Naracoorte Caves: Australia's Megafauna

Jan 6th, 2021 40m 41s

In our last episode for Season 1, we get trapped at the World Heritage Site, Naracoorte Caves in southeast Australia! We'll learn about Australia's weird megafauna like the not-tapir-like-Marsupial Tapir and the hypercarnivore, Marsupial Lion,

Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 2)

Dec 23rd, 2020 40m 11s

We saw the environment now let's see the animals! Jehol has an amazing collection of animals including feathered tyrannosaurs, toothy birds, dinosaur-eating mammals, and more! Let's learn about all the weird citizens that lived in this Cretac

Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 1)

Dec 9th, 2020 42m 55s

The last thirty years has seen of flurry of amazing fossils of feathered birds and dinosaurs from Early Cretaceous China. The Jehol Biota has influenced our understanding on the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. For part 1, we'll explore the

Dominican Amber: The Forgotten Island Forest

Nov 25th, 2020 34m 1s

Step back into the Miocene and traverse the jungles of ancient Hispaniola! We'll look at the Dominican Amber and all its weird and wonderful inclusions including parasites, luckless stingless bees, wandering spiders, and a salamander that had

Amber 101

Nov 11th, 2020 21m 30s

Welcome to a crash course on amber! We answer crucial amber questions such as where does it come from? What's the difference between amber and copal? And can it preserve DNA?? And stay tuned next time cause we'll look at the Dominican Amber

Posidonia Shale: Giant Crinoids and Mother Ichthyosaurs

Oct 28th, 2020 42m 6s

Take a cruise on the Tethys Sea in Jurassic Germany! We explore the wonderful Posidonia Shale and learn about embryonic ichthyosaurs, hitchhiking crinoids, and hungry squids. And learn how one man changed the name of the fish-lizard game.The

Beecher's Trilobite Bed

Oct 13th, 2020 37m 41s

Our first Fossil-Lagerstätte takes us to New York where a seemingly unremarkable layer of shale shelters a remarkable group of fossils; pyritized trilobites. Uncover the truth of how these golden critters formed and why one man searched for 8

Introduction to Fossil Bonanza

Oct 13th, 2020 34m 33s

Hello and welcome to Fossil Bonanza! This episode serves as the introduction to the series and will go over what the podcast is about, what are Fossil-Lagerstätten, and who I am. We'll look at "tongue stones," discuss who gets fossilized and

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