Mar 17, 2021

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 episode of our third series and we put together just a few of the questions sent in from our Patreons and listeners.

We...

Mar 10, 2021

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 trees and work out which species or group is related to which other one? And how easy and reliable is it when most...

Mar 3, 2021

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 how dinosaurs get their names where things can go wrong when it comes to correctly identifying them. Our special guest...