Fossil Bonanza
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsFossil Bonanza focuses on amazing fossil sites from around the world called Fossil-Lagerstätten. Each episode will focus on a fantastic fossil site like La Brea Tar Pits or Naracoorte Caves. We will discover amazing fossils, reconstruct ancient ecosystems, and learn the hidden truths about our ancient world.
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Episodes
Lagerstätte Roundup: April 2021
May 09, 2021 05:00 - 10 minutes - 7.41 MBTrilobites with gills on their legs, pterosaurs with thumbs, burrowing Cretaceous mammals, and giant eurypterids highlight this episode. Also John Day Fossil Beds and La Brea Tar Pits open their visitor centers for the first time since the pandemic started. Finally, the Hauff Museum in Holzmaden Germany is going through financial trouble so if you can support them here at this link. https://gofund.me/0fa63950
Lagerstätte Roundup: March 2021
April 04, 2021 23:00 - 11 minutes - 7.61 MBIn this episode we look at interesting Lagerstätte articles released in March 2021. This includes a newly described, oldest Lagerstätte in South America, Paleozoic lamprey embryos, the first opabiniid discovered outside of Burgess Shale, a failed cephalopod predation attack, an oviraptorid brooding on its nest, and a manta ray-like, planktivorous shark. All links to papers on the Fossil Bonanza Twitter account.
Lagerstätte Roundup: February 2021
March 07, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutes - 8.75 MBIn this episode we look at interesting Lagerstätte articles released in February 2021. This includes a new site designated in Morocco, a previously lost site rediscovered in Vermont, a new Paleozoic Spider, an amber full of fly larvae, and UV-induced, florescent fossilized leaves. All links to paper on the Fossil Bonanza Twitter account.
Lagerstätte Roundup: January 2021
February 07, 2021 22:00 - 10 minutes - 6.99 MBThis is the start of a bonus series where I briefly summarize interesting Lagerstätten papers from the previous month. I look at a newly described Lagerstätte from France, an ammonite with preserved internal organs, a beautiful looking assassin bug, and talk briefly about the evolution of Dire Wolves.
Naracoorte Caves: Australia's Megafauna
January 06, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBIn our last episode for Season 1, we get trapped at the World Heritage Site, Naracoorte Caves in southeast Australia! We'll learn about Australia's weird megafauna like the not-tapir-like-Marsupial Tapir and the hypercarnivore, Marsupial Lion, Thylacoleo, and why so many of their bones are found in these caves.
Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 2)
December 23, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBWe saw the environment now let's see the animals! Jehol has an amazing collection of animals including feathered tyrannosaurs, toothy birds, dinosaur-eating mammals, and more! Let's learn about all the weird citizens that lived in this Cretaceous paradise.
Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 1)
December 09, 2020 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBThe last thirty years has seen of flurry of amazing fossils of feathered birds and dinosaurs from Early Cretaceous China. The Jehol Biota has influenced our understanding on the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. For part 1, we'll explore the history of it, look at the earliest flowering plants, and learn why Jehol has been nicknamed the "Mesozoic Pompeii."
Dominican Amber: The Forgotten Island Forest
November 25, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBStep back into the Miocene and traverse the jungles of ancient Hispaniola! We'll look at the Dominican Amber and all its weird and wonderful inclusions including parasites, luckless stingless bees, wandering spiders, and a salamander that had a real bad day.
Amber 101
November 11, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBWelcome to a crash course on amber! We answer crucial amber questions such as where does it come from? What's the difference between amber and copal? And can it preserve DNA?? And stay tuned next time cause we'll look at the Dominican Amber in all its golden glory.
Posidonia Shale: Giant Crinoids and Mother Ichthyosaurs
October 28, 2020 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBTake a cruise on the Tethys Sea in Jurassic Germany! We explore the wonderful Posidonia Shale and learn about embryonic ichthyosaurs, hitchhiking crinoids, and hungry squids. And learn how one man changed the name of the fish-lizard game. The theme song, "Fossils," and interlude "Aquarium" by Saint-Saëns, and "Gymnopédie" and "Gnossienne" by Satie were provided by MusOpen.
Posidonia Shale: Giant Crinoids and Mother Ichthyosaurs
October 28, 2020 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MBTake a cruise on the Tethys Sea in Jurassic Germany! We explore the wonderful Posidonia Shale and learn about embryonic ichthyosaurs, hitchhiking crinoids, and hungry squids. And learn how one man changed the name of the fish-lizard game. The theme song, "Fossils," and interlude "Aquarium" by Saint-Saëns, and "Gymnopédie" and "Gnossienne" by Satie were provided by MusOpen.
Beecher's Trilobite Bed
October 13, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBOur first Fossil-Lagerstätte takes us to New York where a seemingly unremarkable layer of shale shelters a remarkable group of fossils; pyritized trilobites. Uncover the truth of how these golden critters formed and why one man searched for 8 years of his life looking for them. The theme song, "Fossils," and interlude "Aquarium" by Saint-Saëns and "Gymnopédie" by Satie were provided by MusOpen.
Introduction to Fossil Bonanza
October 13, 2020 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBHello and welcome to Fossil Bonanza! This episode serves as the introduction to the series and will go over what the podcast is about, what are Fossil-Lagerstätten, and who I am. We'll look at "tongue stones," discuss who gets fossilized and who doesn't, and understand why some fossil sites are so fantastic they reshape our perceptions of the ancient world. The theme song, "Fossils," and interlude "Aquarium" by Saint-Saëns and "Autumn" by Vivaldi are provided by MusOpen.