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TLS11E02 Dinos and Dragons

1 month ago | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

This month’s episode is a sort of follow-up to thatfrom the start of the year, looking at some of the more problematicareas of dinosaurs and palaeontology when it comes to onlinediscussions. There is an online fandom of dinosaurs that treatsthem like monsters or superheroes, and can fixate on what is andisn’t the biggest / strongest / fastest dinosaur and who could beatup who. Joining us to discuss this is Dr Mike O’Sullivan, apalaeontologist and self-professed member of several fandoms.
TLS11E01 Say My Name

2 months ago | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

Series 11, eh? We don’t think we, or anyone elsereading this, expected that. Nor did we expect issues with Dave’s microphone(apologies)… Still, here we are and with more dinosaur goodnesscoming. We say ‘coming’ because this episode is far less aboutdinosaurs and pterosaurs than usual, but more about the mechanismsof science.
TLS10E10 Uncovering Dinosaur Behaviour

Oct 30, 2024 | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

Dave has a new book out next week and it’s theculmination of several years work. Longtime listeners will know themajor themes already from the episode title – a lot of stuff in theliterature on dinosaur behaviour is badly framed, overstated,contradictory or contains major over extrapolations. Happily, youcan listen to all of this again as Dave goes into all of this andmore, what’s in the book, who it’s aimed at and what he’s trying toachieve with it.
TLS10E09 Mike Benton

Sep 25, 2024 | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

Last month we mentioned that legendarypalaeontologist Mike Benton had announced his retirement, but witha few quick emails, Dave was able to grab him for this month’sepisode. So, join Dave and Iszi as we have celebration of Mike’scareer and take him through his early interest in palaeontology,how he got his PhD, the death of Al Romer, rhynchosaurs, therise of dinosaurs, mass extinctions, fieldwork in Russia, endlessbooks, and his work on the colours of dinosaurs.
TLS10E07 The Megalosauroids

Jul 31, 2024 | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

The spinosaurs get all the love (OK, mostly hate) andattention when it comes to the megalosauroids, but they are but oneweird branch of this group of theropods. Sadly they have a similarproblem to the spinosaurs in that there are annoyingly few fossilsof them, and there’s very few people working on these animals.
TLS10E06 The Death of The Dinosaurs

Jun 26, 2024 | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

We have touched on the extinction that killed thedinosaurs plenty of times before over the various seasons of TL,but we have never really tackled it fully before. Finally, we arejoined by a real expert on this subject, Melanie During who is inthe process of finishing her PhD on this very subject. So preparefor not actually really any dinosaurs, but quite a lot of geologyand geochemistry to learn how the impact was so utterly devastatingand how we know.
TLS10E05 Live Dinosaur Questions

May 25, 2024 | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

Live edited recording at The Oxford Fire Station on25/05/2024. Live Anniversary Q&A for the OxfordPodcast FestivalIt’s the 4th (!)anniversary of the launch of Terrible Lizards and this came at aperfect time as Iszi and Dave got invited to do the recent podcastfestival in Oxford. So, while we have our usual end of seriesQ&QA episode in a few months, here we have an early one withquestions from out live audience.
TLS10E03 Dinosaur footprints

Mar 27, 2024 | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

Dinosaur footprints with PeterFalkinghamFootprints and trackways are an amazing source ofdata on how dinosaurs moved and what they did. But interpretingthese can be a real nightmare since it’s hard to work out theinteractions between a moving foot and the actual surface, or workout which species might have made which tracks.
TLs10E02 Coelophysis

Feb 28, 2024 | terriblelizards.libsyn.com | Iszi Lawrence

We don’t often delve into the Triassic since Dave isnot well versed in that time and the animals that were around then,but there were some very important animals that we’ve undulyoverlooked across the last 9 series. Happily, today we can redressa large part of that with this episode on Coelophysis. Known from hundreds of skeletons, it’s one of the best representeddinosaurs in the fossil record and yet it remains criminallyunderstudied despite the available data.
Blackbeard's Treasure

Feb 1, 2024 | audible.co.uk | Iszi Lawrence

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