Pals in Palaeo

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27. Found a Fossil with Sally Hurst Sep 18, 2024

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Adele chats with special guest Sally Hurst about the Found a Fossil project and what to do if you think you found an ancient relic or archaeological artefact in Australia!
Sally shares what it was like growing up in rural New South Wales, working at the National Dinosaur Museum, and how her love of archaeology, ancient Egypt and dinosaurs led her to science communication and surveying the Australian public.
Links:
Found a Fossil
Sally Hurst
Sally's Research Paper:
Found a fossil: improving awareness, engagement, and communication strategies for heritage discoveries
Scottish Fossil Code
Sally's Social Media:
Instagram @sallywagon
Instagram @foundafossil
TikTok
Twitter
YouTube
LinkedIn
Superstars of STEM

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26. Prehistoric Bayside - Live Sep 05, 2024

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Join Adele and friends of the show Ben Francischelli, Jake Kotevski, Ruairidh Duncan and Astrid O'Connor for our first ever live show recorded during National Science Week! The panel talks Prehistoric Bayside, PhD research topics, the fossils we'd love to find, and end with a Q&A session.

Links:

Prehistoric Bayside Virtual Museum

Megalodon's Graveyard Video

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Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

25. Haliskia with Kevin Petersen Jun 19, 2024

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Join Adele and special guest museum curator Kevin Petersen for a chat about Australia's newest pterosaur, Haliskia! Kev takes us through the discovery and preparation of the specimen, whilst Adele tackles the form, function and family grouping of this new species.
Plus why Kevin loves turtle fossils, and pterosaurs puking pellets.
Haliskia
100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea
Haliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia
Australian Geographic
100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea
CNN
New pterosaur species discovered by Australian farmer
ABC
New species of flying pterosaur reptile discovered in outback Queensland fossil dig
New Scientist
Australian pterosaur had a huge tongue to help gulp down prey
Cosmos Magazine
Most complete Australian pterosaur specimen, new species, found in Queensland
Links:
Random Fossil Fact
Fossils reveal that pterosaurs puked pellets
Like Owls, Some Prehistoric Flying Reptiles May Have Regurgitated Pellets
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs

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Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
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François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

24. Protemnodon with Isaac Kerr Jun 05, 2024

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Adele bounces off ideas with Dr Isaac Kerr to talk about extinct kangaroos! Isaac kicks things off by telling us about trips to New Guinea, the Smithsonian, American Natural History Museum and the NHM, photographing specimens and 3D scanning. We then hop into Protemnodon, discussing three new species, fieldwork in Lake Callabonna, and why fossil hunting is like fishing crossed with Christmas.
Isaac's Monograph
Systematics and palaeobiology of kangaroos of the late Cenozoic genus Protemnodon (Marsupialia, Macropodidae)
Flinders University
Giant kangaroos bounce back from the past
The Conversation
We found three new species of extinct giant kangaroo – and we don’t know why they died out when their cousins survived
ABC News
Flinders University researchers identify three new species of extinct kangaroo

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Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
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The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

23. Fossil Replicas with Nathan Phillips May 22, 2024

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Adele's joined by special guest Nathan Phillips, a self-confessed dinosaur nerd and Australian Age of Dinosaurs alumni who's a pro at making moulds and casts of fossils! We chat about tools of the trades, how to make fossil replicas, why it makes science more accessible and some of the most challenging specimens Nathan's worked with.
Plus a quick random fossil fact on the mythological 'Chimera' and what the term means in the world of paleontology.
Sauropod Teeth, Pinkysil and SEM:
Sauropod dinosaur teeth from the lower Upper Cretaceous Winton Formation of Queensland, Australia and the global record of early titanosauriforms
QM Blog:
Know your dinosaur bones
Field Museum's Replicas
Seeing Double: How The Field Museum Makes Fossil Casts
Naracoorte Caves
Wellington Caves
Australian Age of Dinosaurs
Palaeontology at Flinders University

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Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

22. Moa Footprints with Kane Fleury May 08, 2024

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Adele speaks with special guest Kane Fleury, curator of Natural Science at Tūhura Otago Museum in Dunedin, New Zealand! Kane talks us through what steps were taken to move a fossil trackway made by the Moa, a famous flightless bird - plus extra info on avian extinctions in Aotearoa affecting the Adzebill and Haast's Eagle.
We also touch on trilobite conga lines, Locked in Time by Dr Dean Lomax, and Māori using moa bones as tools and musical instruments.
Links:
@kane.fleury on Instagram
@KaneFleury on Twitter
Tūhura Otago Museum on Twitter
Tūhura Otago Museum
Moa Footprints Paper:
The moa footprints from the Pliocene – early Pleistocene of Kyeburn, Otago, New Zealand
RNZ Article on Moving the Moa Footprints
South Island's first moa footprints are millions of years old - study
TVNZ News covering the Moa Footprints:
Fossilised moa footprints spill secrets of the past | Seven Sharp
Māori moa and extinction in Aotearoa New Zealand:
Dead as the moa: oral traditions show that early Māori recognised extinction
New Zealand Birds Online - South Island Giant Moa
Random Fossil Fact:
Collective behaviour in 480-million-year-old trilobite arthropods from Morocco
Trilobite Fossils Show Conga Line Frozen for 480 Million Years
Trilobite Fossil Shows Animals Have Stood in Line for Hundreds of Millions of Years

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Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
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The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

21. Ornithopods and Whales with Ruairidh Duncan Apr 24, 2024

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Adele’s joined by special guest Ruairidh Duncan to talk about ornithopod dinosaurs and whales! We reminisce about the 90s and get nostalgic over the Natural History Museum in London, get the facts on herbivores from the Cretaceous coast and dive into the mysterious world of mysticetes AKA baleen whales AKA moustached whales!
Plus info on Mammalodon, Basilosaurus, Ambulocetus and early whale evolution. We also chat about Janjucetus, Ruairidh’s study specimen, a puppy faced cetacean with big ol’ eyes from the Late Oligocene (25 million years ago).
Links:
@ruairidhduncan on Instagram
@inxcetus on Twitter
Ruairidh's work on ornithopod jaws
Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity
Victorian Ornithopod Dinosaurs
Meet the diverse group of plant-eating dinosaurs that roamed Victoria 110 million years ago
Janjucetus
Janjucetus hunderi - Museums Victoria Collections
Janjucetus Nominee for Victoria's State Fossil Emblem
Janjucetus Hunderi Explained - New York Institute of Technology

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Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse

The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

20. Zygomaturus with Jac O'Connor Mar 27, 2024

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Join Adele and digital necromancer Jac O'Connor on a deep dive into Zygomaturus! The so-called 'marsupial rhino' AKA a honking huge megafauna and close cousin of Diprotodon.
Plus hot takes on scientific papers, science communication, the dark side of nomenclature and how giant ground sloths accidentally brought the avocado to South America.
Jac O'Connor on Instagram @palaeojac

Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
Online Store
Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse

The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

19. Trilobites with Alyssa Fjeld Mar 13, 2024

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Join Adele and special guest Alyssa Fjeld as they explore everyone's favourite extinct arthropods, Trilobites (AKA sea cockroaches)!
We compare moulting in bugs to levelling up in a video game, discuss the advantages of having a punk phase and how building a segmented body is like playing with Lego.

Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
Online Store
Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse

The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

18. Pelagornis with Ben Francischelli Feb 28, 2024

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Adele banters with Ben Francischelli aka A Fool's Experiment about the lost world of Beaumaris to talk about the prehistoric Pelagornis, a giant bird with a pseudo teeth.
Plus tangents on short-faced kangaroos and other megafauna, mass death assemblages, the megalodon, and Ben's favourite, Livyatan, a macropredator sperm whale inspired by the mythical sea serpent and the misadventures of Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands.

Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
Online Store
Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse

The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic

Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy

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