Fossil Bonanza Podcast
1) Naracoorte Caves: Australia's Megafauna
In our last episode for Season 1, we get trapped at the World Heritage Site, Naracoorte Caves in southeast Australia! We'll learn about Australia's weird megafauna like the not-tapir-like-M...Show More
2) Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 2)
We saw the environment now let's see the animals! Jehol has an amazing collection of animals including feathered tyrannosaurs, toothy birds, dinosaur-eating mammals, and more! Let's learn ...Show More
3) Jehol Biota: The Mesozoic Pompeii (Part 1)
The last thirty years has seen of flurry of amazing fossils of feathered birds and dinosaurs from Early Cretaceous China. The Jehol Biota has influenced our understanding on the evolution of birds fr...Show More
4) Dominican Amber: The Forgotten Island Forest
Step back into the Miocene and traverse the jungles of ancient Hispaniola! We'll look at the Dominican Amber and all its weird and wonderful inclusions including parasites, luckless stingless be...Show More
5) Amber 101
Welcome to a crash course on amber! We answer crucial amber questions such as where does it come from? What's the difference between amber and copal? And can it preserve DNA?? And stay tuned ...Show More
6) Posidonia Shale: Giant Crinoids and Mother Ichthyosaurs
Take a cruise on the Tethys Sea in Jurassic Germany! We explore the wonderful Posidonia Shale and learn about embryonic ichthyosaurs, hitchhiking crinoids, and hungry squids. And learn how one man c...Show More
7) Beecher's Trilobite Bed
Our first Fossil-Lagerstätte takes us to New York where a seemingly unremarkable layer of shale shelters a remarkable group of fossils; pyritized trilobites. Uncover the truth of how these golden cri...Show More
8) Introduction to Fossil Bonanza
Hello and welcome to Fossil Bonanza! This episode serves as the introduction to the series and will go over what the podcast is about, what are Fossil-Lagerstätten, and who I am. We'll look at ...Show More