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Lets head back to the beginning of life on land in the Silurian over 400 million years ago, before visiting the amazing sea creatures of the Cambrian 510 Million years ago. Species that appeared in this episode include: Cooksonia, Prototaxites, Vauxia gracilenta, Pirania muricata, Eiffelia globose, Thaumaptilon walcotti, Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Hallucigenia, Olenoides serratus, and Wiwaxia…
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One of the more whimsical names for a fossil site, come visit the Gogo formation of Western Australia as we go back 380 million years to visit a Devonian reef. Organisms that make an appearance include: stromataporoids, stromatolites, ammonites, Montecaris gogoensis, Conulariida, canthodians, tabulate coral, zooxanthellae, eurypterids, rugose coral, placoderms, and McNamaranspis kaprios.
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Want to know more about the Tully Monster from Mazon Creek? Listen in to hear the story of this strange creature.
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The Mazon Creek locality contains fossils from the Carboniferous that are 309 million years old. So come take a walk through this ancient river delta and coal swamp. Encounters in in this episode include: Psaronius sp., sphenopterids, Arthropleura cristata, Neuropteris sp., Alethopteris grandini, Gerarid, sphenophyllum sp., Calamites sp., Amphibamus grandiceps, Lepidodendron sp., Adelopthalmus mazonensis, Euproops…
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The movie Ice Age came out in 2002 and was a large part of the childhood of kids who were born in the 1990s. Set 20,000 years ago it gets some stuff right and some stuff wrong, so tune in for a bite sized breakdown of just what we see in the Ice Age movie.
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This episode we head to the Permian which lasted from 299 Million years ago to 252 Million years ago, and has been excellently preserved in the red beds of Texas, USA. Listen in as we discover the unique plants and animals of the Permian.
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There are a surprising amount of laws regarding fossils, so tune in as we go over a few of them.
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Continuing our trek back in time, we head to northern Argentina to visit the Ischigualasto Formation as it was in the Triassic 230 million years ago.
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The TV show La Brea just came to an end, lets take a look back at how accurately it portrayed Pleistocene flora and fauna.
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The Balabansai formation located in western Asia preserves fossils from the middle Jurassic 168-161 million years ago. So take a trip back in time to visit our world when it looked much different.
Fossil Fridays 