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Terrible Lizards

By: Iszi Lawrence and David Hone
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  • Terrible Lizards is a podcast about Dinosaurs with Dr David Hone and Iszi Lawrence.
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  • TLS10E03 Dinosaur footprints
    Mar 27 2024

    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 of solving some of these issues and working out what we can and can’t meaningfully day about dinosaur tracks is Professor Peter Falkingham at Liverpool John Moores University. So today he joins us to talk about chasing birds across mud, literal books made of fossil dinosaur footprints and using X-rays to work out how dinosaurs moved. There’s so much in here and you’ll never walk across a beach again without looking back at your own tracks.

    Links:

    COME SEE US LIVE!: https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/terrible-lizards-podcast/

    Pete’s website: peterfalkingham.com

    An article based on Pete’s work with a load of videos of his stuff

    https://www.aws.amherst.edu/museums/naturalhistory/dinosaur-tracks

    Pete’s YouTube channel with loads of videos of his projects

    https://www.youtube.com/@PeterFalkingham

    Please do support us by giving us a review and you can unlock extra content on patreon https://www.patreon.com/terriblelizards

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    1 hr
  • TLs10E02 Coelophysis
    Feb 28 2024

    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 the best represented dinosaurs in the fossil record and yet it remains criminally understudied despite the available data. As one of the earliest theropods, it is perhaps archetypal of the lineages came later, but as so often happens, a bunch of questionable taxonomic decisions and referrals over the decades has left the animal in a bit of a mess. Here to help clear that up is Skye McDavid, scientific illustrator and independent researcher who has put far more time into sorting out the problems of Coelophysis than most would deem wise and joins us to share her wealth of knowledge.

    Links:

    Skye’s hub on her website with links to her art, socials etc. https://www.skyemcdavid.com/links

    Please support us on patreon and unlock extra content!

    https://www.patreon.com/terriblelizards

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    56 mins
  • TLS10E01 200 years of dinosaurs
    Jan 31 2024

    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 good idea is this, that the Natural History Museum in London organised a major international meeting for this, and Dave went along. So in this episode of our (yes, really) 12th series, Dave reports back to Iszi on what was going down at the conference and looks back on 200 years of dinosaur-ing and forwards to what’s coming soon of the back of the meeting.

    Thank you for your support:  www.patreon.com/terriblelizards

    Link to our live show on 25/05/2024 at Oxford's Old Fire Station https://oldfirestation.org.uk/whats-on/terrible-lizards-podcast/

    Links:

    A shot of the original Megalosaurus jaw and some skull bits: https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2010/11/04/more-of-megalosaurus/

     

    And the famous Crystal Palace reconstructions of the first dinosaurs:

    https://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/crystal-palace-dinosaurs/

     

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    48 mins

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Dynomite

Great stuff. Knowledgeable and funny co-hosts. Up to date information on new discoveries, new theories, etc. I enjoyed the insights into how paleontology actually works as a science.

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