YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast Where did Pterosaurs come from?

Exciting news! Fossil files is now available on YouTube!
So, if like me, you like to listen to podcasts while you work you have another opinion.

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The Fossil Files In “The Fossil Files”, a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss ...

A brand new Fossil Files podcast (@thefossilfiles.bsky.social) on pterosaurs, lagerpetids and climate modelling is out now here: fossils.libsyn.com and on all your favourite podcast platforms. In it, we spend a lot of time discussing how it is easy to say 'lager' but hard to say 'lagerpetid'.

YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast Where did Pterosaurs come from?

Where Pterosaurs came from has always been a bit of a mystery: they just sort of turn up in the Triassic. In this week's @thefossilfiles.bsky.social Susie and I cover a cool new study on ecology & origins of pterosaurs & weird relatives in Triassic climates. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCU2...

Climate drivers and palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors combine fossil occurrence data, phylogenies and climatic niche modelling to explore the palaeobiogeography of early pterosaurs and their non-flying close relatives, the lagerpetids.

Paper: Foffa et al 2025 Nature. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Where did Pterosaurs come from? The Fossil Files · Episode

Our new is episode out today!

In it Susie and Rob discuss the origins of pterosaurs and how environmental changes influenced their evolution.

Available now from Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts

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Climate drivers and palaeobiogeography of lagerpetids and early pterosaurs - Nature Ecology & Evolution The authors combine fossil occurrence data, phylogenies and climatic niche modelling to explore the palaeobiogeography of early pterosaurs and their non-flying close relatives, the lagerpetids.

Our next episode is out on the 5th August, join us then to talk about the origins of Pterosaurs!
Here’s a little sneak peak!

If you want to check out the paper it’s here
Climate drivers and palaeobiogeography of
lagerpetids and early pterosaurs Foffa et al 2025 Nature
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Prof. Susannah Maidment JSP Editor-in-Chief

Welcome to our new co-Editor-in-Chief Prof. Susannah Maidment

Susannah is a renowned expert on the palaeobiology of bird-hipped ‘ornithischian’ dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum, London

🦕Read about her amazing work: buff.ly/4AfhohB

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We’re moving to a two-week upload schedule so our next episode will be on the 5th of August!
In it we’ll be discussing the origins of Pterosaurs.

Here’s a little sneak peak - come for the science, stay for the jokes? 💀

Paper: Foffa et al 2025 Nature doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02767-8

YouTube video by Rob Sansom Pterosaur controversies: where did they come from? #paleontology #TheFossilFiles #dinosaur

In which Susie and I explore controversies over Pterosaurs and their origins - new @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode out on Tuesday www.youtube.com/shorts/QrkR8...

🚨 NEW! Episode #88 is out! 🚨

Dr. John Scannella, the John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology at @museumoftherockies.bsky.social, discusses the famous Egg Mountain area—the world’s first 🏆 site where dinosaur embryos were discovered!

🔊 Listen now!
www.paleonerds.com/podcast/john...

As a little Friday treat check out our latest episode discussing past and present fossil collectors!

Or if you fancy something else dive in to our back catalogue where we explore soft tissue preservation, de-extinction and more!

How does private collecting impact palaeontology as a field? Susie and Rob discuss as part of our newest episode.
Available now and perfect for a lunch time listen!

New Episode out today 🚨
Were Neanderthals the first fossil collectors? How does private fossil collecting impact palaeontology as a science?
Out now on Spotify, apple, or wherever you find your podcasts.

Paper and image credit: Navazo Ruiz et al. 2024. Quaternary doi: 10.3390/quat7040049

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Today we be fosslin’

New soft tissue preservation suggests some ichthyosaurs were using “stealth” technology when hunting. Our first @thefossilfiles.bsky.social episode on plesiosaur soft tissues and swimming might need an update!

Those in need of entertainment this #FossilFriday might be interested in our new podcast @thefossilfiles.bsky.social wherein Susie and I gossip about new palaeo discoveries

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Perhaps our episode slamming de-extinction of Dire wolves as a scam went too early @thefossilfiles.bsky.social because as much as I would love to see a Moa IRL, this is way beyond pie in the sky

The Fossil Files In “The Fossil Files”, a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss ...

New episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social podcast just dropped! This time, Rob and I discuss some rain-splattered footprints from 350 million years ago, and whether they were made by our oldest ancestor... Available on all your favorite podcast platforms
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Our amniote ancestors have been captured walking the rain, millions of years earlier than expected. Susie and I discussed the fossils and their implications in latest episode of @thefossilfiles.bsky.social ‪

Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution - Nature Analysis of a fossil trackway from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia shows prints of toes with claws, suggesting that the origin of amniotes was at least 35–40 million years earlier than pr...

Paper: Long, J.A., Niedźwiedzki, G., Garvey, J. et al. Earliest amniote tracks recalibrate the timeline of tetrapod evolution. Nature 641, 1193–1200 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New episode!
Footprints in the rain push our evolutionary timeline back by 40million years?

Our palaeontologiists Susie and Rob discuss these amazing fossils from Australia and what they might mean. Avalible now on Spotify or where ever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/4bXd...

The Fossil Files In “The Fossil Files”, a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss ...

New Fossil Files podcast out today where @fossilrob.bsky.social and I discuss THAT DIRE WOLF PAPER and also how old my worst underwear is. Listen now on all your favourite podcast platforms, and give us a follow @thefossilfiles.bsky.social fossils.libsyn.com

New Episode out today!
Susie and Rob discuss Dire Wolves and ask Is de-extinction a scam?

Available on Spotify, Apple and wherever else you get your podcasts from

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Why not ease in to Monday by listening to our hosts try and keep it together while discussing dinosaur poo and how/if we can use it to get an insight in to early dinosaur evolution

Spotify link open.spotify.com/episode/41qY...
Also available wherever else you get your podcasts from!

Photograph of a small dinosaur skeleton posed horizontally running on its hind legs. It’s about the size of a Labrador dog.

Fig 1 from the paper. Above is an illustration of the skeleton with the legs and arms (and others) in green to show what material is known. Below is an illustration of what it would have looked like. A small browny/green dinosaur balancing on its back legs

Front page of the paper. It reads: ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE @ Open Access Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae, a neornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of the western USA Susannah C. R. Maidment M and Paul M. Barrett Published: 25 June 2025 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.242195

For #fossilfriday what else but the dinosaur Enigmacursor mollyborthwickae!
Newly described by one half of our podcast @tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @profpaulbarrett.bsky.social

On display in all its glory at the Natural History Museum in London

Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

I just listened to this for the first time since Rob edited it. We're funny. We make loads of poo jokes. You're going to like it. Give us a follow: @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

⚠️We are excited to share a paleo-themed podcast – The Fossil Files. You can find the episodes by following the links below ⬇️

🔹https://open.spotify.com/show/2jWWagtwG6SfNDpAkO0Zq4?si=cdba594913664fe2
🔹https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-fossil-files/id1820424819
🔹https://fossils.libsyn.com