HI YALL!! it’s been a minute! (and sorry the sound quality is so janky!!) but i’m back and todays episode is not about a dinosaur. nope. it’s about a pterosaur! and pteranodon to be exact!!! we talk everything from sharks to oceans that don’t exist anymore to silly things in the geology building at my college. so i hope you have fun!! thanks for listening! Sources: Goto, Y., Yoda, K., Weimerskirch, H., & Sato, K. (2020). Soaring styles of extinct giant birds and pterosaurs (p. 2020.10.31.354605). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.31.354605 Hone, D. W. E., Witton, M. P., & Habib, M. B. (2018). Evidence for the Cretaceous shark Cretoxyrhina mantelli feeding on the pterosaur Pteranodon from the Niobrara Formation. PeerJ, 6, e6031. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6031 Padian, K. (1983). A Functional Analysis of Flying and Walking in Pterosaurs. Paleobiology, 9(3), 218–239. Witton, M. (2010). Pteranodon and beyond: The history of giant pterosaurs from 1870 onwards. Geological Society of London Special Publications, 343, 313–323. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP343.19

hello!!! todays episode is an epic one, and perhaps a surprise… ITS NOT EVEN A DINOSAUR!!! it’s a sloth! let’s get to it!!! Christian De Muizon, H. Gregory Mcdonald, Rodolfo Salas & Mario Urbina (2004) The evolution of feeding adaptations of the aquatic sloth Thalassocnus, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24:2, 398-410, DOI: 10.1671/2429b Amson, E., de Muizon, C., Laurin, M., Argot, C., & de Buffrénil, V. (2014). Gradual adaptation of bone structure to aquatic lifestyle in extinct sloths from Peru. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 281(1782), 20140192. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0192 Tejada, J. V., Flynn, J. J., MacPhee, R., O’Connell Tamsin, C., Cerling, T. E., Lizette, B., Capuñay Carmen, Natalie, W., & Popp, B. N. (2021). Isotope data from amino acids indicate Darwin’s ground sloth was not an herbivore. Scientific Reports (Nature Publisher Group), 11(1)http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97996-9 Bustos, D., Jakeway, J., Urban, T. M., Holliday, V. T., Fenerty, B., Raichlen, D. A., Budka, M., Reynolds, S. C., Allen, B. D., Love, D. W., Santucci, V. L., Odess, D., Willey, P., McDonald, H. G., & Bennett, M. R. (n.d.). Footprints preserve terminal Pleistocene hunt? Human-sloth interactions in North America. Science Advances, 4(4), eaar7621. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar7621 Politis, G. G., Messineo, P. G., Stafford, T. W., & Lindsey, E. L. (n.d.). Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas. Science Advances, 5(3), eaau4546. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau4546

hello everyone!! today we chat about the microraptor! an amazing, shiny, lizard eating chicken!!! i hope you love this episode as much as i do!!

today we get into talking about (my favorite dinosaur) the parasaurolophus!! we will talk everything from diet to injuries to snorkels in this week's episode.

thank you to jefferson ashby for editing and producing this week's episode!

hello people! this is the first episode of my podcast, which will probably just be about various dinosaurs/prehistoric animals and such. hope you enjoy!!