Episodes

  • Ep #75 The Fighting Finbacks of Seymour Texas with Chris Flis
    Jun 26 2024

    Ray travels to the Permian and trolls the halls of the Texas Whiteside Museum of Natural History with museum director Chris Flis.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Ep #74 Resurrecting Dinosaurs One Chip at Time with MOR's Cassi Knight
    May 24 2024

    Dave expands his paleo knowledge with a visit to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, during their exciting Dino's and MOR conference, however, Dave finds a professional Paleo Nerd, Cassi Knight, who's gem of a job is rarely publicized in the museum world.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Ep #73 Talking Headgear and Spike Tooths with Ed "Dr. Pronghorn" Davis
    Apr 24 2024

    Ray and Dave learn about the amazing antlers and strange headgear of early hoofed mammals including today's Pronghorn Antelope along with more about the giant Spike Toothed Salmon.

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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Ep #72 The Incredible Cretaceous Ceratopsians of Laramidia with Scott Sampson
    Mar 20 2024

    Ray and Dave double down with celebrated paleontologist, science communicator, and author, Scott Sampson. He’s the Executive Director of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California and is widely known as "Dr. Scott the paleontologist" on the PBS television series, Dinosaur Train

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Ep #71 From Fins to Fingers and the Triumph of Our Fishapod Ancestors with Ted Daeschler
    Feb 21 2024

    Ray and Dave discuss the evolution of tetrapods and finding their 'fishapod' ancestor's fossils in the high Arctic and Antarctica with paleontologist Ted Daeschler.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode #70 45 Million Years of Camel-Sheep-Pigs with Meaghan Wetherell
    Jan 24 2024

    Ray and Dave have a fun and very lively interview with Paleontologist and Science Writer, Meaghan Wetherell, an expert on the camel/sheep/pig like Oreodonts and more recently new discoveries from the Holocene/Pleistocene Epochs.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode #69 Murderous Monster Mosasaurs ’n More with Mike Everhart
    Dec 29 2023

    Ray and Dave talk to Mosasaur expert and "Oceans of Kansas" author Mike Everhart about the marine reptiles that once swam in the ancient ocean where Kansas is today.

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Episode #68 Are we not fish?
    Nov 22 2023

    The Paleo Nerd podcasts hosts, Ray Troll and Dave Strassman, have an engaging and fun conversation about life, paleontology, and the argument that we are truly fishes, physically and metaphorically.

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    48 mins