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A podcast about things that used to be alive. With Gavin, Mike, and Fia.
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Gavin goofed on the schedule, so we'll see you in 2026! From Mike, Fia, and I, happy holidays!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
There are a lot of slices of Earth's history. Almost none are as short or as recent as the Pliocene Epoch. How similar was it to today? How many tusks did the elephants back then have? How much did Earth's orbit wiggle? Let's find out!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Humans have domesticated hundreds of species of animals, plants, and fungi. But what does that mean exactly? And are we alone in our ability to control other animals? Let's find out!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Mike tells us about a variety of things that don't actually exist, from ancient times to the American Revolution, to his mute button.Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Fia's on vacation, Mike's busy, and Gavin's sick. Next episode coming 11/12.Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Jane Goodall is one of the most famous scientists and activists of my lifetime. Sadly, she passed away a few weeks ago, so Gavin thought that this would be a good time to talk about her life, her legacy, and her contributions to not just how science thinks about animals, but how we think about ourselves.Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Wood is the most useful material that humans have ever discovered. We use it for everything from paper, to houses, to fire. But what is it? Where did it come from? Let's find out!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Mammals are (in Gavin's biased opinion) the best vertebrates, but some are mammals are weirder than others. Monotremes are without a doubt the weirdest mammals and it's not even close. But what are they? Who are they? And why do they wear hats to disguise themselves from mad scientists? Let's find out!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Since Gavin ('s wife) just had a baby, he thought it would be a fitting time to do an episode about birth! Live birth is a thing that mammals are most famous for, but a *ton* of other animals do it too, in lots of different ways! Let's learn about them!Timestamp to bypass the administration news: 15:21Article about the recent anti-science activity at the CDC: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/mass-layoffs-resignations-major-vaccine-policy-timeline-turmoil/story?id=125056783Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Quick update on why there wasn't an episode this week! TL;DR Gavin, Liz and their new baby were traveling and Gavin got his dates wrong. But he got to go to the Pokemon World Championships!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Fia takes the wheel today and tells us all about some cool research she's working on about how noisy the oceans are!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Gavin and Liz watch through the new-and-improved(?) Walking With Dinosaurs series! Was it good? How does it compare to the original? How many baby dinosaurs get eaten? Let's find out!Episode Links:AP Article about the EPA: https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-trump-reorganization-science-research-acf0ad3a649f940e138b2a917169405fAP article about PBS's funding getting cut: https://apnews.com/article/pbs-npr-budget-cuts-trump-republicans-b0044285659ab708e23eb2dc2f3eabfaWatch the new Walking With Dinosaurs on PBS: https://www.pbs.org/show/walking-with-dinosaurs/Watch the original Walking With Dinosaurs on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/walking-with-dinosaursDonate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
For many reasons, BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs was really important to Gavin becoming a paleontologist. Now, BBC is making a new-and-improved Walking With Dinosaurs series! In this episode Gavin and his wife Liz watch through the original to see if it holds up after 26 years of scientific discovery and CGI improvements.Watch the original Walking With Dinosaurs on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/walking-with-dinosaursDonate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donateFia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Palaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Today we're learning about the *very simple* topic of brains! What are they? Where did they come from? Why do baby humans have squishy heads? Let's find out!Fia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donatePalaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Today we're looking at a weird regional food from where Gavin, Mike, and Fia grew up; the Salt Potato! What's a Salt Potato? How salty is it? What does that have to do with geology? Let's find out!Fia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Paper about job prospects in paleontology: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/employment-in-paleontology-status-and-trends-in-the-united-states/0DB62FC9BFAFC73D2D36E8BAA31B7769?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwY2xjawKRo_VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFrdVJVV1dXU3RMTzZmVXI2AR531uqZCr_D7YHknrhk_t5zxalxw8bOWHKeugXzmNMRaOdCQMI6WKmKdGQsqA_aem_4GTCKjlHgl4ElfH2YoF-ggDonate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donatePalaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Mike takes the wheel this episode to teach us about a potentially cursed seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Don't fly on small aircraft, please.Fia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Paper about job prospects in paleontology: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/article/employment-in-paleontology-status-and-trends-in-the-united-states/0DB62FC9BFAFC73D2D36E8BAA31B7769?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwY2xjawKRo_VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFrdVJVV1dXU3RMTzZmVXI2AR531uqZCr_D7YHknrhk_t5zxalxw8bOWHKeugXzmNMRaOdCQMI6WKmKdGQsqA_aem_4GTCKjlHgl4ElfH2YoF-ggDonate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donatePalaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
How does something go from being a dead thing on the ground to a fossil in the ground? Let's find out through the secret magic of taphonomy!Fia just published a new paper! Check it out here: https://peerj.com/articles/19346/Administration Science News 1: https://eos.org/research-and-developments/trump-blocks-funding-for-epa-science-divisionAdministration Science News 2: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07052025/trump-administration-cuts-sea-ice-data-center/Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donatePalaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Mike is away so Gavin and Fia take some time to appreciate some marine invertebrates! Isopods (or pill bugs, or roly polies, or potato bugs) are a neat group of arthropods that do a lot of important (and also creepy) things, so let's talk about them!Donate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donatePalaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
This episode was supposed to be about isopods, but capitalism got in the way with dire wolf news from the company Colossal Biosciences. So are dire wolves "de-extincted"? What's the deal with these wolves? Let's talk about it!Hank Green's video about the "dire wolves": https://youtu.be/Ar0zgedLyTw?si=5ApMQYefufD03AidDonate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donatePalaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new some paleontology D&D stuff: https://youtu.be/0n7FfTmcaRU?si=CqeuBjO5x1ElXIXJTopic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
Mike and Fia are away this week, so Gavin in joined by his wife Liz to discuss flowers!Timestamp to bypass the sadness: 10:37John Green's video reading the first chapter of his tuberculosis book: https://youtu.be/CCbDdk8Wz-8?si=iSFgfvaywj6FVyyhDonate to Archive.org if you can: https://archive.org/donatePalaeocast Gaming Network video Gavin made about the new Pokemon Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIgFW91jPXcFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeadPodcast_Topic form: https://forms.gle/cpu8ETF4P6ABZADe7Guest Form: https://forms.gle/YjuoGC8yUuAnfGNx9Leave us an audio message: https://anchor.fm/dead-podcast/messageYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKAuMrj_7PUI0GqU9QQnhg
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I appreciate that you are doing your best to cover plants! one correction: vascular (tracheophyte) plants have the sporophyte as the dominant form. hence, an apple tree is actually diploid rather than haploid. the inverse is true for non-vascular plants (mosses, liverworts, and hornworts), which have the haploid hametophyte as dominant.