Best Iszi Lawrence Podcasts (2024)

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TLS10E04 Dinosaurs of the Antarctic 1:10:06

19d ago1:10:06

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We all know about how common dinosaurs can be in places like Europe, Argentina, the US, China and Mongolia, but they have turned up in dozens and dozens of countries and on every continent, including Antarctica. Unsurprisingly, it’s a very tough place to work, it costs a ton of money, and there are not that many dinosaurs to be found, but they are …

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TLS10E03 Dinosaur footprints 1:00:26

2M ago1:00:26

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Dinosaur footprints with Peter Falkingham Footprints and trackways are an amazing source of data on how dinosaurs moved and what they did. But interpreting these can be a real nightmare since it’s hard to work out the interactions between a moving foot and the actual surface, or work out which species might have made which tracks. At the forefront …

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TLs10E02 Coelophysis 55:50

2M ago55:50

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We don’t often delve into the Triassic since Dave is not well versed in that time and the animals that were around then, but there were some very important animals that we’ve unduly overlooked across the last 9 series. Happily, today we can redress a large part of that with this episode on Coelophysis. Known from hundreds of skeletons, it’s one of …

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TLS10E01 200 years of dinosaurs 48:18

3M ago48:18

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The year 2024 is the 200th anniversary of the naming of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus. While ‘Dinosauria’ wouldn’t be coined till 1842 (so we have a fair wait before that anniversary kicks in, and doubtless will be marked with another major celebration) it is a great time to take stock of where we are in dinosaur palaeontology. So obviously a go…

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TLS09E12 The Dinosaur who must not be named! 52:35

4M ago52:35

52:35

Stegosaurus with Dr Susie Maidment THE TIME HAS COME. For ages Dave, for very Dave reasons refused to cover one dinosaur. Now, we find out all about it with an expert in the field. Last year's mystery xmas present to all of you who support us now for everyone. Patrons will get an video bonus episode. You can follow Susie Maidment https://twitter.co…

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TLS09E11 The Bite Stuff 48:18

5M ago48:18

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Longtime listeners will be familiar with the fact that Dave has spent a lot of time looking at and working on various bites marks on dinosaur bones left by the carnivorous theropods. These can tell us an enormous amount about who was doing what to whom and what it can mean for the ecology and behaviour of both the herbivores that were bitten and th…

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TLS09E10 Dino Docs! 51:59

7M ago51:59

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Dinosaur documentaries are booming again so it’s time to blow the lid on some insider secrets of how these get made. (Alternative description: Dave complains for an hour about being messed around by TV companies and ignored by the very producers and directors who hired him for his advice on the models and scrip they are working on). Dave and Iszi s…

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TLS09E09 Odd ideas in palaeontology 55:13

8M ago55:13

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Odd ideas in palaeontology Palaeontology as a scientific field is beyond popular in the media and with the public but that also means it draws a lot of attention from those with, let’s call them, questionable ideas. And no group gets more of this stuff than the dinosaurs and the animals of the Mesozoic. This time out, Iszi and Dave discuss the worl…

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TLS09E08 Mega Questions Episode 1:00:08

8M ago1:00:08

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It is the mega questions episode! Due to Dave etch-a-sketching everything in his life, making things like access to the internet an unusual hurdle, we decided to do answer as many questions we could in an hour. We didn’t manage to run out of questions. Big thanks to Trisha, Sophia, Matt, Roy, Harris, Marcus, Noah, Jay, Aurous Azhdarchid, Rachel, Ri…

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TLS09E07 Elvis is extinct! 49:54

10M ago49:54

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Petrodactyle and Pterosaur Growth Dave has had a productive year for pterosaur papers and now two are out in quick succession(!) so get ready for a double-whammy podcast of him rolling his eyes when Iszi mentions flappy-flaps and he’s trying to be serious. Anyway, first up is a new large pterosaur from southern Germany with a massive bony crest on …

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TLS09E06 Utah Rapture 58:08

11M ago58:08

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This week a ‘what I did on my holidays’ from Dave, though it wasn’t a holiday and he dug a hole in Utah and looked at a ton of museums and quarries. The Morrison Formation is a legendary slice of dinosaur history with a huge number of famous sites, important fossils, and features animals like Diplodocus, Allosaurus and Stegosaurus. After far too ma…

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TLS09E05 A Sternum talking to 54:47

12M ago54:47

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Pterosaurs flew! No big shock there, but obviously flight places major constraints and selective pressures on the skeleton. This should mean all pterosaurs have standard, not-that-varied flight anatomy (in the same way most walking animals have similar leg anatomy). It turns out an absolutely critical part of the pterosaur is both basically all but…

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0106 Phone calls from the past 30:06

12M ago30:06

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Iszi and Julia speak to Finn Kennedy of Applied Stories to discuss the process behind bringing imagined voices from across time to life as part of the Eternal Telephone audio drama project. Please share your comments and feedback about the podcast! You can talk to us on Twitter @britishmuseum using the hashtag #BMUntold or email friends@britishmuse…

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0105 The Benioff Oceania Programme 29:54

12M ago29:54

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Curator of Oceania Alice Christophe chats to Iszi and Julia about the collaborative work undertaken with Pacific communities to transform the understanding, care and curation of collections from Hawaiʻi and Rapa Nui currently physically at the museum. Please share your comments and feedback about the podcast! You can talk to us on Twitter @britishm…

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0104 The International Training Programme 29:19

12M ago29:19

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Iszi and Julia meet with programme manager Claire Messenger and alumni to explore the importance of international collaboration for museums and heritage sites, and the ways in which a global network of professionals can provide support, resources, and innovative perspectives for these institutions. Please share your comments and feedback about the …

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0103 Lending a helping hand: The world of object loans 29:54

12M ago29:54

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Have you ever wondered how objects are moved to and from the Museum? Hear from Loans registrar Chris Stewart as he shares the intricate process of borrowing and lending cherished objects. Please share your comments and feedback about the podcast! You can talk to us on Twitter @britishmuseum using the hashtag #BMUntold or email friends@britishmuseum…

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0102 Inside the Iraq scheme and Girsu project 37:35

12M ago37:35

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Iszi and Julia sit down with curator Sébastien Rey and archaeologist Rana Zuhair to find out more about the highly successful scheme designed to prepare Iraqi colleagues for the immense challenges facing the archaeological heritage of their country. Please share your comments and feedback about the podcast! You can talk to us on Twitter @britishmus…

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TLs09E04 Don't Mamention the neck 49:12

1y ago49:12

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Sauropods in general don’t get the love they should on Terrible Lizards because, well, Dave doesn’t know that much about them (and everyone knows theropods are best anyways). However, there’s more than a couple that are both well-known enough in general and Dave know a bit about them that we can talk for a decent amount of time. Step forward the lo…

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TLS09E03 Dinosaur Displays 52:57

1y ago52:57

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This is an area we have definitely covered before but it’s one of perennial interest and keeps coming round with new studies, how can we tell what ancient animals were doing with weird features. More specifically, how do claims that this feather, or sail, or frill, or claw were used as a display feature stack up? Can we really work out what dinosau…

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TLS09E02 Dinosaurs News 56:37

1y ago56:37

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Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have been a hit in the media for about as long as palaeontologists have been digging them up. But even in the modern age of digital communication, there is almost always an intermediate (and often several) between a palaeontologist and their audience when it comes to communicating about these animals. Whether…

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TLS09E01 Displaying Dinosaurs 56:48

1+ y ago56:48

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We are into series 9 now and still going, though starting with this episode, in a bid to be more consistent and less panicked about completing series and the gaps between, we’re moving to being a monthly podcast. So no end in sight yet for all you dinosaur (and sometimes pterosaur) lovers. Anyway, we’re kicking off by talking about arguably the mos…

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TLS08E08 Were T.Rex 70 percent bigger? 52:13

1+ y ago52:13

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The end of the series is our favourite - we answer your questions! A massive thank you to our patrons who contributed the questions. Go to patreon.com/terriblelizardds for a bonus episode out next week. Do keep in touch #terriblelizards @iszi_lawrence @dave_hone Buy Dave's Book - How fast did T.Rex Run/The future of Dinosaurs. Look out for iszi's c…

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TLS08E07 Chewing Triceratops with Ali Nabavizadeh 56:52

1+ y ago56:52

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Dinosaur jaws and feeding with Ali Nabavizadeh We started with theropod feeding but what about the herbivores? This week we’re joined by Ali Nabavizadeh who specialises in the jaws and teeth of the ornithischian dinosaurs and how these work and how this plays into their feeding ecology. This gives Dave ample opportunity to ask vexing questions abou…

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TLS8E06 Biomechanics of Dinosaur Motion 52:57

1+ y ago52:57

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Although we looked at some biomechanical work earlier this series, this time we get into the real depths of how dinosaurs moved. John Hutchinson joins us with tales of galloping crocodiles and white dots on elephants in an effort to understand how these animals move as part of his work on dinosaur locomotion. We talk about how Jurassic Park cheated…

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TLS08E05 Sauropodcast 54:45

1+ y ago54:45

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Some dinosaurs haven’t had enough love on here (though some get what they deserve, I mean, who even likes Stegosaurus?) and chief among them are the sauropodomorphs. However, this week we make a belated and desperate attempt to correct that by talking to Paul Upchurch for an hour. One of the world’s leading experts on these herbivorous giants, he t…

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TLS08E04 The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs 54:35

1+ y ago54:35

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Crystal Palace Dinosaurs with Mark Witton We have covered palaeoart here from time to time and the process of producing images of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life (as both technical illustrations and more creative life reconstructions) but one of the most important of these gets far too little attention. In the 1800s life size replicas of dozen…

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TLS08E03 British Iguanodontids 49:30

1+ y ago49:30

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British iguanodontids with Joe Bonsor We have touched on Iguanodon before as one of the earliest named dinosaurs and an animal with some interesting relatives and famously spiky thumbs but they never really got the attention that they should have done (from us at least). Enter Joe Bonsor who is finishing off his PhD on these very animals and trying…

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TLS08E02 Black Market fossils and Ornithocheirid pterosaurs 1:00:30

1+ y ago1:00:30

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Following up on the previous series where pterosaurs dominated, we had to sneak in a bit more of them here. Dave has always had an aversion to the toothy ornithocheirids as while so many of them turn up in 3D (unlike pretty much all other pterosaurs) they also have a horrific taxonomic history and they are a nightmare to deal with. Happily, Taissa …

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TLS08E01 Tyrannosaurus Bites 57:55

1+ y ago57:55

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Theropod jaw biomechanics with Manabu Sakamoto We are still going! We are back and like last series, we’re taking a bit of a different tack to the previous ones and here we are having experts on every episode in a desperate attempt to make up for Dave’s quite profound lack of knowledge in numerous areas of dinosaur biology. With that in mind, we st…

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TL Bonus Jurassic pterosaur: Dearc Sgiathanach 49:20

1+ y ago49:20

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The new series will start on the 12th of October! If you would like to support us and get our bonus episodes sooner - please consider becoming a patron on patreon.com/terriblelizards. Pterosaurs living during the Jurassic period were thought to have been relatively small, but a stunning new skeleton shows otherwise. Natalia Jagielska has helped des…

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0101 Handle with care: conserving Beirut's shattered glass 29:26

1+ y ago29:26

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The first in a new series, this episode of British Museum Untold sees Dr Julia Farley and Iszi Lawrence discover how explosions have affected objects, from bomb damage at the Museum during the Second World War, to the 2020 explosion in Beirut. They meet expert conservators, curators and archivists to find out how these objects have been painstaking…

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TLS07E08 Did Pterosaurs Squawk? 1:03:48

2y ago1:03:48

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If you could give the paleontology field NASA's budget what would you do with it? Ever used laser-stimulated fluorescence? How do pterosaurs sleep? Was was Irritator challengeri? When did birds wiggle their hips? How can you tell if species shared an environment? Is there any evidence for intra-specific fighting amongst Pterosaurs? PLUS MORE! We've…

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TLS07E07 How Science Works 1:09:25

2y ago1:09:25

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How science works In another in the increasingly long line of topics we probably should have covered quite a few series ago, this week we are addressing some of the fundamentals of what science actually IS. How does it all work really, and what is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory, and how confident can we be about dinosaur research …

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TLS07E06 Working with dinosaurs 58:05

2y ago58:05

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This is perhaps the question that gets asked the most and so it’s time to address it properly (well, we are 7 seasons in, we were going to get to it sooner or later). So this week we are talking about routes into palaeontology and all that involves, from ‘classic’ academic roles as a researcher at a university or museum, though to science writers, …

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TLS07E05 Pteranodon 58:53

2y ago58:53

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Perhaps the best known, and most often misrepresented, pterosaur is Pteranodon. It has become the archetypal pterosaur and is always in the background of every Mesozoic scene (especially with T. rex) to let you know that the pterosaurs are out there. But aside from being quite big and having a funky headcrest (like all the best pterosaurs do) it’s …

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TL0704 Anurognathids 1:05:29

2y ago1:05:29

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From the very biggest to the smallest, anurognathids were the little fuzz balls of pterosaurs that barely reached 1m wingspan as adults. They were bat-like hawkers, catching insects on the wing with their giant gapes and tiny teeth. Although rare, like the azhdarchids we have recently had a flurry of finds and accompanying research on them which me…

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TLS07E03 Azhdarchids 56:26

2y ago56:26

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If most people know one thing about pterosaurs (well one correct thing rather than them being flying dinosaurs or bird ancestors) it’s that they got really big. At the top end they hit over 10 m in wingspan and probably over 250 kg, massively bigger than the largest flying birds (living or extinct). And all the real giants belonged to one group – t…

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TLS07E02 Pterosaurs in Motion 1:01:27

2y ago1:01:27

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It’s hopefully not a surprise at this point that pterosaurs were fully powered and capable fliers and that they were not passive gliders or could only get airbourne through jumping off of cliffs. While we do talk about flight here, it’s not like that is all pterosaurs could do so we cover their abilities on the ground (and in trees) and take-off, a…

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TLS07E01 Pterodactylus 1:04:45

2y ago1:04:45

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We’ve run out of dinosaurs (stega what now?) and so thanks to popular demand (well, Dave’s demand) we’re doing (almost) an entire series on pterosaurs! Everyone’s favourite Mesozoic flying reptiles (well, Dave’s favourite) are getting a series to spread their wings. We start with the namesake of the clade, Pterodactylus itself and something of the …

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TL BONUS Dinosaur Education 58:26

2y ago58:26

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This is a bonus episode previously released to our patrons on Patreon. If you want to support us, and get more content please visit patreon.com/terriblelizards. Terrible Lizards is, at least in theory, there for dinosaur lovers of all ages and backgrounds, but podcasting is just one way to communicate with the public about dinosaurs and it’s probab…

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TLS06E08 Dancing Dinosaurs and Bat Noses 54:59

2y ago54:59

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The Questions episode! Untapped fossils, bad evolution, therapod bites, spaniel ears, courtship dances and MORE! Big thanks to everyone who sent in their questions. Martin, Glen, Mathew, Sam, Kim (https://kimralls.co.uk/), Gutza, Robbie, John, Marlon aaaand John. We will be back in the summer - please do support us on Patreon, where we will be addi…

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TLS06E07 The Future of Dinosaurs 58:06

2y ago58:06

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The Future of Dinosaurs No guest this week as Dave manages to ramble on for an entire hour on his own again (well, Ok, Iszi helps him ramble). To be fair, he’s got a new book out and since its 80 000 words of dinosaur ideas we thought we should cover it and it was never easily going to fit into 40 minutes. What’s this amazing [citation needed] new …

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TLS06E06 Alvarezsaurs 1:05:41

2y ago1:05:41

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Alvarezsaurs From a micro dinosaur to the very smallest, this time out we’re looking at the little alvarezsaurs which include the smallest of the non-avian dinosaurs and with several species that were the tiniest yet found in the Mesozoic. Dr Steve Cross joins us to analyse a popular work of dinosaur fiction. Dr Steve Cross is a an incredible consu…

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TLS06E05 Evolution 59:36

2y ago59:36

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Evolution In one way it’s more than a bit late to only talk about evolution when we are 6 and a bit series into Terrible Lizards and this should arguably have been episode 1 in series 1 but here we are. Evolution is the foundation for modern biology and the understanding that species and lineages change over time and also how that happens allows us…

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TL S06E04 Microraptor 1:03:22

2y ago1:03:22

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We’ve already mentioned Gigantoraptor this series so let’s get down to the other end of the etymological scale and look at Microraptor. This little dromaeosaur was one of the first fully feathered dinosaurs to be found and is famous for its ‘four wings’ with long flight feathers on the legs and the arms. There’s loads of good specimens of this anim…

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TLS06E03 Dinosaur Diets 53:18

2y ago53:18

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At various times in previous episodes we have talked about what various dinosaurs ate and bits of data about diet, but this time we’re going to take a more systematic look at how palaeontologists work out the diet of ancient animals. We go through the obvious ones like sharp teeth and finding bits of stuff inside them to microscopic traces of damag…

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TLS06E02 Oviraptorosaurs 1:09:57

2y ago1:09:57

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Back to dinosaurs so you can relax (though the pterosaurs will return next series). This time out, we are going with the oviraptorosaurs - and note the long name, it’s not just oviraptors we are covering. As is common, the one famous member of this group tends to hog the limelight and not everyone knows about the others even if these days Gigantora…

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TLS06E01 Rhamphorhynchus 1:01:43

2+ y ago1:01:43

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Series 6? That can’t be right. Surely this is 3 or 4 or something, 5 at the outside. Blimey. Anyway, we are back and we have new episodes though we are cheating already by starting with a pterosaur and talking about the greatly underappreciated Rhamphorhynchus. As the only vaguely well-known long-tailed pterosaur it is shown in the background of ev…

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TLS06E00 Series 6 Trailer 1:15

2+ y ago1:15

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A slightly silly intro to series 6 of Terrible Lizards, a podcast about dinosaurs which will be starting on Wednesday 9th of February 2022. (The guest on this clip is Dr Steve Cross).By Iszi Lawrence and Dave Hone

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TLS04 Bonus Histology 41:02

2+ y ago41:02

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We talk to Yara Haridy who has just completed her PhD on the histology of dinosaurs and other reptiles. On the podcast we normally just talk about whole bones and skeletons (or at least the bits of them that are preserved) but there is an enormous amount of information that is preserved in the fossilised cellular structures of these. Fossil bones a…

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