Paleo Nerds Podcast

Happy Theropod Appreciation Day 🦃, aka Thanksgiving! We're thankful for ALL of YOU - our listeners, who make this podcast so much fun to make. THANK YOU!!!

Listen to the newest episode with paleontologist and cat-lover 🐈‍⬛️🐾, Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues!

🔊 Listen now:
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Most importantly, Hans really likes cats.

Hans holding a cast of a baby Triceratops skull.

Did you know? Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues named several of your favorite dinosaurs 🦖 including Anzu, Saurornitholestes, and Zephyrosaurus?

He has a genus of pachycephalosaur named for him--Hansuessia!

📸: Hans holding a cast of a baby Triceratops skull.

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Episode #92 - are you ready!?

Ray and Dave talk with Smithsonian paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues about the origins of reptiles, the rise of dinosaurs, and a lifetime unearthing Triassic treasures from around the world.

🔊 Listen now:
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Doug Henderson's use of background and lighting when creating paleo art is unmatched.

A pod of Mixosaurs, Triassic icthyosaurs, ply southern high latitude seas in moonlight🌙.

🔊 Listen to Episode #91 - out now!
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You know paleo artist Doug Henderson's 🎨 dinosaurs, but he is a brilliant illustrator of ALL things prehistoric! Check out his 'stem mammals'!

To hear more about Doug's inspiration, techniques, and more, listen to episode #91:

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Episode #91 is here and you won't want to miss this one!

Ray and Dave explore the mind of paleo artist 🎨 Doug Henderson and chat techniques, inspirations, and his breathtaking body of work that re-imagines ancient worlds.

🔊 Listen now:
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Happy #TheropodThursday! Theropods🦖 are a hot topic in the news today with a new publication about the validity of #Nanotyrannus!

🎨 Two Albertosaurus feast on hadrosaur on a sandbar in Montana 80 mya.

🔊 Listen to this week's episode with Doug Henderson now!
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Doug Henderson's use of background and lighting when creating paleo art is unmatched.

A pod of Mixosaurs, Triassic icthyosaurs, ply southern high latitude seas in moonlight🌙.

🔊 Listen to Episode #91 - out now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/doug...

I highly recommend Paleo Nerds podcast.

It's Halloween week 🎃 and we just dropped Episode #91 with paleo artist Doug Henderson!

🔊 Listen to Episode #91 now:
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📸: Two dead Einiosaurs drowned during a stream crossing 🌊, the animals’ carcasses will eventually decompose, scattering their remains.🦴

Episode #91 is here and you won't want to miss this one!

Ray and Dave explore the mind of paleo artist 🎨 Doug Henderson and chat techniques, inspirations, and his breathtaking body of work that re-imagines ancient worlds.

🔊 Listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/doug...

📸: L: Kerin measuring King Salmon at the Herring Cove salmon hatchery in Ketchikan with Tessa Frost who works as a research & evaluation manager at the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association.

R: Kerin collecting Sockeye heads at the E. C. Phillips fish processing plant in Ketchikan.

Something is FISHY 🐟 around here...and it's our latest episode with Dr. Kerin Claeson!

Learn how Disney World inspired her to become a paleontologist, what causes salmon to change so drastically during spawning, and so much MORE.

🔊 Listen to Episode #90 now!
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Episode #90 is out 🎉! Ray shares morning coffee ☕️ in Ketchikan with Dr. Karin Claeson, exploring fish evolution 🐟, anatomy, development, and variability across deep time.

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Ep #90 Fossil Fish, Antarctic Adventures and Teaching Anatomy with Kerin Claeson | Paleo Nerds Ray shares morning coffee in Ketchikan with Dr. Kerin Claeson, exploring fish evolution, anatomy, development, and variability across deep time.

This week's guest, Kerin Claeson, was the lead author on the paper along with Brian Sidlauskas, our own Ray Troll, Ed Davis and Zabrina Prescott on the PLOS ONE paper.

Listen to EPISODE #90 with Kerin Claeson now!
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The authors discovered that the fish's conical 'fangs' in the upper jaw pointed sideways, not downward like sabers, helping us better understand the behaviors and morphology of this fascinating extinct fish. (Figure from Claeson 2024).

We LOVE 💕 Ray's depiction of Oncorhynchus rastrosus, the giant spike toothed salmon, created for their 2024 scientific paper. [THREAD ⬇️]

Listen to this if you like fish. Listen to this if you don't like fish! Really cool interview with my fishy friend Kerin Claeson. You'll learn a lot.

Ep #90 Fossil Fish, Antarctic Adventures and Teaching Anatomy with Kerin Claeson | Paleo Nerds Ray shares morning coffee in Ketchikan with Dr. Kerin Claeson, exploring fish evolution, anatomy, development, and variability across deep time.

Why? What causes these changes? Learn more about modern AND prehistoric salmon in EPISODE #90 with the awesome Dr. Kerin Claeson:

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Believe it or not, this photo shows 📸 the same sex and species, but the one on the bottom is in its spawning phase of life!

Male salmon develop a hooked bottom jaw called a "kype" and form a hump on their back along with drastic color changes and MORE. Both sexes ♂️ ♀️ undergo change.

Would you believe within mere WEEKS 🗓, the skull of a Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) will DRASTICALLY change morphology, or shape? [THREAD ⬇️]

Apologies! Kerin* is the correct spelling!

Episode #90 is out 🎉! Ray shares morning coffee ☕️ in Ketchikan with Dr. Karin Claeson, exploring fish evolution 🐟, anatomy, development, and variability across deep time.

🔊 Listen now:
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/keri...

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Thank you for sharing! That's wonderful to hear. Art 🎨 is powerful!

📸 Art conservators assess the condition of “The Age of Reptiles. Photos: peabodyevolved.yale.edu/a-new-perspe...

🔊 Learn more in episode #89 with Dr. Susan Butts:
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📖 Read more:
news.yale.edu/2019/12/02/p...

a large black monster is standing on top of a cliff . ALT: a large black monster is standing on top of a cliff .

Fun fact: The T. rex on the mural’s left side influenced the design of Godzilla, the atomic-powered sea monster that made its motion picture debut in 1954.

📍Want to see it for yourself? You can view the mural now at the Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut.

The work earned Zallinger the 1949 Pulitzer Fellowship in Art. In 1953, Life magazine published the entire painting in a foldout.