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Pals in Palaeo
Adele Pentland
31 episodes
6 months ago
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...
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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: improvi...
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Earth Sciences
Science,
Life Sciences
Episodes (20/31)
Pals in Palaeo
27. Found a Fossil with Sally Hurst
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 FossilSally HurstSally's Research Paper:Found a fossil: improving awaren...
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11 months ago
1 hour 39 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
26. Prehistoric Bayside - Live
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 episodeJake's episodeRuairidh's episodeAstrid's episode Prehistoric Bayside Virtual MuseumMegalodon's Graveyard VideoThis episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the wo...
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11 months ago
1 hour 1 minute

Pals in Palaeo
25. Haliskia with Kevin Petersen
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. Haliskia100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland seaHaliskia peterseni, a new anhanguerian pterosaur fro...
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1 year ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
24. Protemnodon with Isaac Kerr
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 Protemno...
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1 year ago
1 hour 23 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
23. Fossil Replicas with Nathan Phillips
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 din...
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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
22. Moa Footprints with Kane Fleury
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@KaneFle...
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1 year ago
55 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
21. Ornithopods and Whales with Ruairidh Duncan
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 b...
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1 year ago
1 hour 48 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
20. Zygomaturus with Jac O'Connor
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 @palaeojacThis episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the world and see the best museums, meet experts and even dig ...
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1 year ago
1 hour 21 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
19. Trilobites with Alyssa Fjeld
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.This episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the world and see the best museums, meet experts and even dig up real dinosaurs. For more info visit dinosaurtrips.com and email zach@dinosa...
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1 year ago
1 hour 22 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
18. Pelagornis with Ben Francischelli
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.This episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the...
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1 year ago
57 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
17. Thylacoleo with Aaron Camens
Adele’s joined by special guest Dr Aaron Camens from Flinders University to talk about the original drop bear and so-called marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex! We talk about combining fossils with footprints and bite marks to get the facts on the ankle-biting hunting tactics of this ambush predator, its weird opposable thumbs, and the roles of climate change and First Nations peoples in the megafauna mass extinction. Plus a teaser for National Science Week involving ABC Catalyst with mechani...
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1 year ago
56 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
16. Fossil Eagles and Vultures with Ellen Mather
Adele chats with expert Dr Ellen Mather about ancient aves from Australia, and her work on extinct eagles and vultures from the Pleistocene period! We also touch on the pecking order of scavenging birds, crawling through caves to collect fossils, the hunting tactics of avian apex predators and how straighter wing bones let an animal soar above the competition. This episode of Pals in Paleo uses a sound effect that requires attribution. It can be found at this link: https://freesound.org...
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1 year ago
1 hour

Pals in Palaeo
15. Genyornis with Phoebe McInerney
Adele’s joined by special guest from Flinders Palaeo Lab Phoebe McInerney to talk about magnificent mihirungs and the giant flightless bird Genyornis! We chat about pivoting to paleontology after physiotherapy and dance, falling in love with birds and fieldwork at Lake Callabonna. We get the gossip on killer cassowary kicks, stomach stones and why Genyornis is the original horrible goose and earned the nickname demon duck of doom!Plus a plug for the Death By Birding podcast live show an...
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1 year ago
1 hour 29 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
Jurassic Park with Travis Holland
Adele’s chats with special guest, Dr Travis Holland about Jurassic Park! We talk about the film 30 years on, how it changed the public perception of dinosaurs, especially theropods like Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor and Dilophosaurus (for better or worse), and how JP made terrible lizards into movie monsters. Plus the secret ingredient to good science fiction, Spielberg and Crichton's representation of women, and sciencey stuff including blood-filled mosquitoes in amber, the com...
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1 year ago
1 hour 5 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
14. Caiuajara with Lucas Canejo
Join Adele and special guest Lucas Canejo to talk about the toothless pterosaur Caiuajara!We take a trip through an ancient animal graveyard, discover dinosaurs in the desert, discuss bizarre head shapes and about the secret life of winged reptiles. Plus thoughts on fieldwork, trading teaching for fossils and volunteer work with Museu Nacional, the National Museum of Brazil.This episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the world and see the best museums, meet experts and even dig ...
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1 year ago
54 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
13. Diamantinasaurus with Sam Beeston
Adele's partner in crime is the palaeo formerly known as Samantha Rigby and fellow Australian Age of Dinosaurs alumni! We revisit Winton in outback Australia to chat about sauropods, bones behaving like bubble wrap, bounding baby dinosaurs, and the advantages of 3D scanning. Plus a quick random fossil fact on Dippy the Diplodocus starring as a Krayt dragon on Tatooine in Star Wars. This episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the world and see the best museums, m...
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1 year ago
1 hour 32 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
12. Trilophosuchus with Jorgo Ristevski
Crikey! Adele takes a trip in time to the Late Oligocene to Middle Miocene (25 - 13.5 million years ago) to explore fossil crocs with special guest Dr Jorgo Ristevski. We hear about the adorable but extinct Trilophosuchus, other fossils from the Riversleigh World Heritage Site, as well as Quinkana. Plus a tangent on Gunggamarandu aka the river boss and largest extinct croc ever discovered in Australia Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeoHost: Adele Pentland @palaeodelOnline StoreTranscriptsThe P...
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1 year ago
46 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
11. Fossil Skinks with Kailah Thorn
Join Adele and Dr Kailah Thorn, the Australian lizard queen on an odyssey through the fossil skink record! We discuss the indestructible shingleback lizards, fieldwork at Lake Frome, lizards bulldozing through fields of flowers and the biggest skink from Australia, Tiliqua frangens aka the mega chonk.Plus facts on Proegernia mikebulli, the the oldest skink ever found in Australia and an ancestor to the modern bluetongue from the Oligocene (25 million years old), as well as Egernia gillespieae...
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1 year ago
1 hour 36 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
10. Megaraptors with Jake Kotevski
Adele’s joined by special guest and theropod fanboy Jake Kotevski to talk about megaraptors! We talk about pursuing palaeontology after genetics, T rex tattoos, digging with Dinosaur Dreaming and building the Bass Coast Dinosaur Trail. Plus weird Jurassic Park trivia involving Arnold Schwarzenegger, the controversy surrounding Nanotyrannus and info on the Cretaceous dinosaurs Australovenator and Maip macrothorax.This episode is brought to you by Dinosaur Trips! Explore the world and see the b...
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1 year ago
1 hour 29 minutes

Pals in Palaeo
Jurassic World Dominion with Gummmydragon
Join Adele and special guest Cella Siegelman aka Gummmydragon for a review of Jurassic World Dominion! We compare the dinosaurs from Dominion with Prehistoric Planet, talk Therizinosaurus claws, hype up the importance of palaeoart, plus the impact of the Jurassic Park series. Hold onto your butts! GummmyDragon Instagram GummmyDragon ShopGummmyDragon Kickstarter LinksFunctional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual ungualsClimatic constraints on t...
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1 year ago
1 hour 32 minutes

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...