Episode #95, From Fossils 🦴 to Film 📽 and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida, is out now!
Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist Stuart Sumida about his work advising filmmakers and animators on how animals should move and behave.
🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...
THANK YOU!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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Episode #95, From Fossils 🦴 to Film 📽 and the Science of Motion with Stuart Sumida, is out now!
Ray and Dave talk with vertebrate paleontologist Stuart Sumida about his work advising filmmakers and animators on how animals should move and behave.
🔊 Listen now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/stua...
We are devastated to learn about the passing of the great palaeontologist Hans Sues.
May his legacy live on through all that knew him and the students he mentored. Our thoughts are with his family at this incredibly difficult time 💔.
🔊 www.paleonerds.com/podcast/hans...
We had so much fun on our newest episode #94 with Dr. Arjan Mann!
For all of you 🪼 Mazon Creek 🌿 fossil enthusiasts, we recommend picking up The Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek (1997) edited by Charles W. Shabica and Andrew A. Hay.
🔊 To learn more, listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
This week's guest, Dr. Arjan Mann, is THE MAN ⛏️.
Not only is he a brilliant paleontologist, but he competes in Military Saber and Longsword HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) tournaments in Canada and the US.
🔊 Learn more about Arjan in episode #94:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
We had so much fun on our newest episode #94 with Dr. Arjan Mann!
For all of you 🪼 Mazon Creek 🌿 fossil enthusiasts, we recommend picking up The Fossil Fauna of Mazon Creek (1997) edited by Charles W. Shabica and Andrew A. Hay.
🔊 To learn more, listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
This week's guest, Dr. Arjan Mann, is THE MAN ⛏️.
Not only is he a brilliant paleontologist, but he competes in Military Saber and Longsword HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) tournaments in Canada and the US.
🔊 Learn more about Arjan in episode #94:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
Happy #FossilFriday!
Meet #Onychodus, one of the Devonian’s strangest swimmers 🦈✨.
This weird prehistoric fish was a lobe-finned predator armed with a dramatic tusk-whorl—a pair of long, curved teeth that jutted from the front of its lower jaw like built-in spears. Effective? Almost certainly.
📷 Publication:
Andrews, Mahala, et al. "The structure of the sarcopterygian Onychodus jandemarrai n. sp. from Gogo, Western Australia: with a functional interpretation of the skeleton." Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 96.3 (2005): 197-307.
🔊 To learn more, listen to episode #94 with Arjan Mann:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
📷 Ray's awesome drawing of Onychodus the whorl toothed lobe finned fish.
Since then, fossils of different Onychodus species have been discovered in Australia, England, Norway, and Germany, revealing that this tusked fish wasn’t a local oddball—it was a world traveler, cruising ancient seas across much of the planet.
30.01.2026 16:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Onychodus lived during the Devonian Period, roughly 374–397 million years ago. Its fossil story began in 1857, when paleontologist John Strong Newberry described scattered teeth found in Ohio. Those teeth turned out to belong to a much bigger global mystery.
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Happy #FossilFriday!
Meet #Onychodus, one of the Devonian’s strangest swimmers 🦈✨.
This weird prehistoric fish was a lobe-finned predator armed with a dramatic tusk-whorl—a pair of long, curved teeth that jutted from the front of its lower jaw like built-in spears. Effective? Almost certainly.
Meet the MAZON CREEK MASTER! ⛏️
Paleontologist Arjan Mann’s research 📝 and passion 💕 for early vertebrates is perfect for his role at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, where he works with some of the most important fossil collections in the world. ⬇️ [THREAD]
🎉 Hey, paleo nerds!!! Episode #94 is OUT! 🎉
In this week's episode, Ray and Dave discuss the amazing biota of the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte with Arjan Mann, Assistant Curator of Fossil Fishes 🐟 & Early Tetrapods 🦎 at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
A well preserved limbless tetrapodomorph belonging to the group Aistopoda. This particular species is known as Phlegethontia, and this fossil shows well preserved soft tissue impressions.
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📷 L-R: Arjan showing an early snake-like creature named Infernovenator.
A well-preserved hatchling lobe-finned fish known as Esconichthys.
Mazon Creek nodule containing part and counterpart of a stunning temnospondyl amphibian: Amphibamus grandiceps.
These fossil nodules are split by patient paleontologists who use the freeze-thaw 🥶 method which slowly reveals the fossils inside.🔊
Learn more and listen to episode #94 now! www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
Arjan works on the beautiful ~309 million year old fossils from the Mazon (may-zahn) Creek Formation, which preserves WHOLE SKELETONS and soft bodied animals of early chordates 🪱, jellyfish 🪼, early lobe-finned fish 🐟, Tully monsters, and MORE.
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Meet the MAZON CREEK MASTER! ⛏️
Paleontologist Arjan Mann’s research 📝 and passion 💕 for early vertebrates is perfect for his role at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois, where he works with some of the most important fossil collections in the world. ⬇️ [THREAD]
🎉 Hey, paleo nerds!!! Episode #94 is OUT! 🎉
In this week's episode, Ray and Dave discuss the amazing biota of the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte with Arjan Mann, Assistant Curator of Fossil Fishes 🐟 & Early Tetrapods 🦎 at the Field Museum in Chicago.
Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/arja...
Are ✨️YOU✨️ a paleo nerd ⛏️?
Paleo Nerds is a podcast for paleo nerds BY paleo nerds (and really anyone who loves natural history, dinosaurs 🦕, fossils 🐚, and geology 🪨)!
We're available wherever you listen to podcasts and with 93 episodes in, we aren't stopping now!
Listen now! paleonerds.com
There will be a test!
🔊 Visit the website and study up by listening to the latest episode featuring Kate Andrzejewski: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/kate...
Ray came up with this mnemonic phrase to help you remember the names of the Kansas Cretaceous formations 🌊🐚⛏️:
Paleo Nerds Can Get Great Data from Kansas Cretaceous (Pierre Shale, Niobrara, Carlile Shale, Greenhorn Limestone, Graneros Shale, Dakota Formation, Kiowa Shale, Cheyenne Sandstone)...
🎉 NEW EPISODE 🎉 and the last of 2025!
In this adventurous episode, Ray gets schooled on Cretaceous geology around the shores of Kansas’ Lake Kanopolis by paleontologist and paleo nerd, Kate Andrzejewski.
🔊 Listen now to episode #93:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/kate...
🎉 Happy first #FossilFriday of the new year! 🎉
Swipe 👉 to see the evolution (ontogeny is more like it!) of this week's guest, paleontologist for the Kansas Geological Survey, Kate Andrzejewski.
Learn about the fossils and geology of Kansas' 🌊🐚 in episode #93: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/kate...
📸: 1. Ray, Kate, and Brad Howe talking about the cool rocks they're about to explore. 2. Kate standing on ancient wave ripples of a Cretaceous shore. 3. Kate clambering up the slopes of Kanopolis Lake. 4. Kolbe and Kate Andrzejewski on the Cretaceous shores of Kanopolis Lake.
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Exploring is more FUN ⛏️ with paleo nerds! Ray ventured out with Kate Andrzejewski from the Kansas Geological Survey, to see what they could see in the Cretaceous Kansas sea 🌊!
📖:
Geology of the Kanopolis Lake Area (2003)
www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications...
🔊: www.paleonerds.com/podcast/kate...
🎉 NEW EPISODE 🎉 and the last of 2025!
In this adventurous episode, Ray gets schooled on Cretaceous geology around the shores of Kansas’ Lake Kanopolis by paleontologist and paleo nerd, Kate Andrzejewski.
🔊 Listen now to episode #93:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/kate...
