Special Episode: Dean’s new book Prehistoric Pets

For this special episode, Jason and Dean decided to keep things simple by discussing Dean's new book Prehistoric Pets, which at the time of publication has just been released. It's a pop-up book investigating the evolutionary history of seven popular pets, ideal for three to seven year olds (and eight to fifteen year olds, and …

Episode 7: Common Misconceptions

For episode 7, Jason and Dean decided to keep it lighthearted after the previous lengthy episode, by chatting about some of the misconceptions they commonly encounter as palaeontologists, particularly focusing on dinosaurs. You can listen to the episode below, on our PodBean page, or on the usual streaming sites including iTunes and Spotify. https://onthefossilrecord.podbean.com/mf/play/wtkdjn/Common_Misconceptions_edit.mp3 We …

Episode 6: Palaeontology and the Media

Episode 6 is finally here and we decided to keep things light by chatting about palaeontology's relationship with the media. It's a huge topic for which we barely scratched the surface, leaving a lot out, and it has become our longest episode (even after some aggressive editing). You can listen to it here: https://onthefossilrecord.podbean.com/mf/play/cbrapw/Episode_6_-_Palaeo_and_the_Media_final_edit.mp3 As …

New Logo!

Just two days ago, we published our fifth episode where we discussed horseshoe crabs and our (now old) logo. Jason quite quickly designed and made that logo towards the start of the year and based it on a particular horseshoe crab fossil which Dean described in 2012. He wanted something recognisable and personal, you can …

Episode 5: Horseshoe Crabs and Our Logo

After a long delay since our last episode in July, Episode 5 is finally here. In this one, Dean and Jason chat about one of their favourite animal groups, the humble horseshoe crabs, why they were chosen for the podcast's logo, and why that particular horseshoe crab was chosen. This episode was originally recorded as …

Episode 4: Jurassic Park

What happens when you take two dinosaur-loving kids, sit them down with two palaeontologists, two passionate science communicators and a wannabe film critic, and ask them to discuss one of their favourite films - Jurassic Park? Well, that's sort of what you get when Jason and Dean sit down to talk about Jurassic Park and its impact. …

Special Episode: The new dinosaur Hesperornithoides

This is a special breaking news episode of On the Fossil Record podcast, where Dean gets to talk about some newly published research he's been involved with and has the chance to say all sorts of things he wouldn't normally get to say in an average interview, just like with our first episode back in February about his work …

Episode 3: Amber and Copal

For episode 3 of the On the FOSSIL Record podcast, we were inspired by some of the very impressive recent finds in amber. If you haven't already, please check out episode 2 where we looked at the Cambrian Explosion and episode 1 where we discussed some of Dean's recent research on Protoichthyosaurus. We also recently released the first OtFR …

Video: OtFR goes fossil hunting in Doncaster

This podcast began back in January when Jason had a university assignment which involved making a short science podcast and asked Dean to help him out. A month later, episode one was released to the public to share the podcast with the world (well, the people who might want to listen). Since then, episode two …

Episode 2: The Cambrian Explosion

For episode 2 of the On the FOSSIL Record podcast, we decided to talk about one of Jason's favourite subjects - the Cambrian Explosion. There's an awful lot which could be said about the Cambrian Explosion which we just couldn't fit in, especially not with our free-flowing format, so don't be surprised if we come back to …