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Weird & Dead
Amy Atwater and Meaghan Wetherell
32 episodes
5 days ago
A podcast about evolution's most embarrassing and bizarre stories as told by two very gossipy paleontologists. Amy and Meaghan happily dish the details on everything from fossilized dinosaur butts to the secret drama behind naming new species. Time for the hottest tea from prehistory!
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A podcast about evolution's most embarrassing and bizarre stories as told by two very gossipy paleontologists. Amy and Meaghan happily dish the details on everything from fossilized dinosaur butts to the secret drama behind naming new species. Time for the hottest tea from prehistory!
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Earth Sciences
Science
Episodes (20/32)
Weird & Dead
Ep 309: Freaky Fingers, the Return

Evolution continues to be disgusting as we dive into the multipurpose functionality of Aye Aye and Striped Possum fingers. 

CW: Boogers, Aye Ayes just generally, cursing, and somehow puppy play (you know, the kink that Google apparently thinks Meaghan has)

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5 days ago
38 minutes 21 seconds

Weird & Dead
Freaky Fingers Pt 1

Sometimes evolution isn’t just weird, it’s weirdly indecisive. Let’s talk about the multipurpose mishaps that led to Iguanodon’s hoof-knife-tentacle combo and the extending butterknife palms of Pandas. Now with fixed audio featuring also Amy!


CW: jokes about dildos, sex acts, and rude hand gestures. Cursing. Discussion and mockery of Meaghan’s current ganglion cyst. We do call extra fingers weird or freaky, but this is specific to animals and does not cover polydactyly or humans.

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2 weeks ago
51 minutes 48 seconds

Weird & Dead
Worms & Dead

There is a worm that has fins and an Elizabethan collar of venomous fangs. It looks like someone glued false lashes to a tiny translucent manatee, and it might be the reason that clams are starting to kill people. Let's talk about arrow worms!


CW: Swearing. Jokes about penises. Impacts of modern climate change.

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1 month ago
49 minutes 29 seconds

Weird & Dead
Birds That Make Milk

Some birds (and thus, dinosaurs) make milk in a special part of their throat called the crop. Let's talk crop milk, crop cheese, shrimp smoothies, and why pterosaurs were pink.

CW: a befowling of milk and cheese as concepts. Gagging noises. Eating of roadkill (theoretical). Swearing.


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2 months ago
46 minutes 20 seconds

Weird & Dead
Fossil Rodents of Unusual Size

Or rather, unusually interesting size. To some. Let's talk giant beavers and the biggest rodent of all time, Josephoartigasia.

CW: Body shaming of big rodents (not us!), cursing, statistics.


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2 months ago
51 minutes 19 seconds

Weird & Dead
The Glory of Gonopods

From crazy three-legged millipede fossils to the sexy club hands of spiders, this episode is all about where arthropods put their genitals. Specifically, their chins and feet. Videos and images are on our website weirdanddead.com!

CW: Spiders and other arthropods. Cursing. Sex acts only a millipede could dream up.


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2 months ago
48 minutes 43 seconds

Weird & Dead
Radioactive Dinos

Dinosaurs and horses and Amy loudly shouting out radioactive elements to antagonize her husband, oh my! This episode covers the perils lurking behind locked and poorly ventilated cabin doors - specifically, radioactive bones.

CW: Cursing, cancer and theoretical nastiness caused by radioactive poisoning, Chernobyl, Meaghan's stuffed up nose


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3 months ago
44 minutes 30 seconds

Weird & Dead
Bloat & Float

Ankylosaurs, ichthyosaurs and nonexistent narcissistic krakens! Let's talk about why Ankylosaurs are found upside down, and what really happened at Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park. Time to bloat up & float along.

CW: Cursing, Pseudoscience, Dead Animals & Decay


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3 months ago
42 minutes 49 seconds

Weird & Dead
Fossil Urine

Time to discuss yet another body secretion that you probably didn't think could fossilize. Urine marks, urine that became rocks, and rocks that formed in urine - we've got it all, baby!

 

CW: Body fluids, cursing, turtles doing horrible physiological things, animal death


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4 months ago
48 minutes 58 seconds

Weird & Dead
Bonus Episode: Chameleons
Thanks for an excellent first year! Here’s a bonus episode where Amy demonstrates she’s learned more about Chameleons since we started (kinda). Images are on weirdanddead.com CW: Cursing
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9 months ago
28 minutes 22 seconds

Weird & Dead
Bonus Episode: Rugose Corals
Meaghan loses her mind about how gross rugose corals are. Try evolving something that doesn’t involve genetically manipulating your babies, you lonely jellyfish-emulating losers. CW: cursing. Gagging noises.
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10 months ago
26 minutes 58 seconds

Weird & Dead
Dino Sex
It may not have happened in lakes but it certainly did happen – so how? Let’s dive into fossilized cloacas, theoretical genitals, and the impracticalities of sexing a dinosaur. CW: sexual content, genitalia, brief discussions of nonconsensual sex between animals, Nanotyrannus, making fun of old white men
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12 months ago
56 minutes 3 seconds

Weird & Dead
Fossil Frenemies
From friends to enemies to roommates (to lovers??), we discuss classic examples of animals found fossilized together, how that happens, and how some of the interpretations are… a stretch. CW: Animal death, dead babies, lubed holes, incest, cursing
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1 year ago
54 minutes 45 seconds

Weird & Dead
The Burgess Shale
500 some million years ago the world was full of ‘abnormal shrimp’ and ‘blunt feet’ and other animals that defy comprehensible definitions. In this episode we talk all about the mind-boggling biology and bizarre geology of the Cambrian. CW: Drug references, cursing, dead animals, cavalier jokes at the expense of white men, dick jokes
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1 year ago
49 minutes 7 seconds

Weird & Dead
Fossil Forensics
Bones are sick – and this time, we mean it literally. From infected bite marks to the ever-prevalent markings of tuberculosis, we’re talking about the signs of illnesses and injuries in fossils and what they tell us about the lives (and deaths) of these animals. CW: Cancer, infections and pus, injuries, animal suffering
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1 year ago
56 minutes 35 seconds

Weird & Dead
Trunks, Snoods, and Other Floppy Face Flesh
Did Diplodocus have a trunk? Did T. rex have a wobbly turkey neck? This week’s episode is all about fleshy face flaps and their uses, and how to detect them in the fossil record. CW: Animal death, cursing, making fun of dinosaurs, urine
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1 year ago
1 hour 4 minutes 9 seconds

Weird & Dead
Polar Dinosaurs
There were dinosaurs in Antarctica and Alaska – but what did it look like when they lived there? Was it cold? Was it dark? Did they stay there year round? Also, Meaghan learns how magnets work (finally). CW: cursing, death of people and animals
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1 year ago
52 minutes 32 seconds

Weird & Dead
The Baculum and the Baubellum
Sometimes boners have actual bones! This episode is all about the evolution, use, and occasional loss of/damage to genital bones in both male and female animals. CW: Cursing, genitalia, brief mention of non-consensual sexual behavior in animals
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1 year ago
53 minutes 53 seconds

Weird & Dead
Fossil Brainz
How much do we really know about the brains of ancient animals? In this episode we dive into the fantastic world of endocasts, aka, brain impressions! CW: soft tissue, cursing, Nanotyrannus, brief mention of the Nazis in regards to Tilly Edinger
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1 year ago
44 minutes 41 seconds

Weird & Dead
Lingering Fingerlings and Dexterous Dingalings (Vestigial Structures)
Today we’re answering the big questions, like why do whales have hips when they don’t have legs? And why did Tyrannosaurus rex have such tiny tiny arms? CW: Genitalia, cursing, discussion of unwanted sexual contact in whales
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1 year ago
56 minutes 20 seconds

Weird & Dead
A podcast about evolution's most embarrassing and bizarre stories as told by two very gossipy paleontologists. Amy and Meaghan happily dish the details on everything from fossilized dinosaur butts to the secret drama behind naming new species. Time for the hottest tea from prehistory!