Pals in Palaeo

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: improvi...

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: Ben's episode Jake's episode Ruairidh's episode Astrid's episode Prehistoric Bayside Virtual Museum Megalodon's Graveyard Video Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo Host: Adele Pentland @pal...

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 pteros...

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 Prote...

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: Sauropo...