Pals in Palaeo
Adele Pentland
Join PhD student and Palaeontologist Adele Pentland, and explore the Form, Function and Family Groupings of Fossils from across geologic time
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16. Fossil Eagles and Vultures with Ellen Mather
Pals in Palaeo
02/01/24 • 58 min
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.
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Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
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Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
15. Genyornis with Phoebe McInerney
Pals in Palaeo
01/16/24 • 88 min
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 and why dinosaurs get respiratory infections like their avian cousins.
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
Jurassic Park with Travis Holland
Pals in Palaeo
01/02/24 • 64 min
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 complexity of cloning, de-extinction of the Pyrenean ibex, and the whethe or not T rex had a toothy grin or luscious lips.
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
14. Caiuajara with Lucas Canejo
Pals in Palaeo
12/19/23 • 53 min
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.
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
13. Diamantinasaurus with Sam Beeston
Pals in Palaeo
12/05/23 • 90 min
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.
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
10. Megaraptors with Jake Kotevski
Pals in Palaeo
10/24/23 • 87 min
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.
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
Jurassic World Dominion with Gummmydragon
Pals in Palaeo
09/26/23 • 91 min
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!
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Functional space analyses reveal the function and evolution of the most bizarre theropod manual unguals
Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
Online Store
Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
9. Savannasaurus with Stephen Poropat
Pals in Palaeo
09/05/23 • 63 min
Adele is joined by sauropod expert Dr Stephen Poropat to about talk Savannasaurus elliottorum, the species he names in 2016! Recorded after a big day of dinosaur digging, we explore the Cretaceous of Queensland and get the facts on one of Australia's chonkiest titanosaurs.
Hear how a dinosaur obsessed kid who brought his Apatosaurus to the nativity became an expert in palaeontology. Plus how to spot the difference between Savannasaurus and Diamantinasaurus, and honouring the memory of palaeontologist Mary Wade.
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
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Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
8. Hallucigenia
Pals in Palaeo
08/22/23 • 43 min
Join palaeontologists Adele Pentland and Dr Martin Smith on a fossil fever dream through the Cambrian!
This episode we discuss the spicy noodle Hallucigenia (an inch long worm with spikes, claws and Cthulhu tentacles), family ties to the velvet worms and frolic through the famous Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.
Plus de-extinction of 32,000 year old Pleistocene plants from Siberia, revived by raiding a prehistoric squirrel pantry for frozen fruits.
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
Online Store
Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
25. Haliskia with Kevin Petersen
Pals in Palaeo
06/18/24 • 72 min
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 pterosaur from the late Early Cretaceous of Australia
Australian Geographic
100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea
CNN
New pterosaur species discovered by Australian farmer
ABC
New species of flying pterosaur reptile discovered in outback Queensland fossil dig
New Scientist
Australian pterosaur had a huge tongue to help gulp down prey
Cosmos Magazine
Most complete Australian pterosaur specimen, new species, found in Queensland
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Random Fossil Fact
Fossils reveal that pterosaurs puked pelletsLike Owls, Some Prehistoric Flying Reptiles May Have Regurgitated Pellets
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs
Pals in Palaeo @palsinpalaeo
Host: Adele Pentland @palaeodel
Online Store
Transcripts
The Pals in Palaeo Cover Art
Jenny Zhao Design @jennyzdesign
Crumpet Club House@crumpetclubhouse
The Pals in Palaeo Theme Music
Hello Kelly @hellokellymusic
Podcast Producer + Editor
Jean-César Puechmarin @cesar_on_safari
Podcast Editor
François "Francy" Goudreault @hellofrancy
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FAQ
How many episodes does Pals in Palaeo have?
Pals in Palaeo currently has 31 episodes available.
What topics does Pals in Palaeo cover?
The podcast is about Animals, Life Sciences, Geology, Earth Sciences, Podcasts, Education, Science and Paleontology.
What is the most popular episode on Pals in Palaeo?
The episode title '15. Genyornis with Phoebe McInerney' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Pals in Palaeo?
The average episode length on Pals in Palaeo is 64 minutes.
How often are episodes of Pals in Palaeo released?
Episodes of Pals in Palaeo are typically released every 14 days.
When was the first episode of Pals in Palaeo?
The first episode of Pals in Palaeo was released on May 6, 2023.
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