Fossils and Fiction is a podcast of conversations about the culture and science of palaeontology and prehistoric life, featuring palaeontologists, creators, authors, experts, and fans.
Latest Episodes
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Episode 62: Dinosaurs on Mars
A supermarket tabloid once ran a front page reading “Space Probe Finds Dinosaurs on Mars.” That issue ended up pinned to the wall of the Montana dig trailer in Jurassic Park — and it’s the starting point for a wander through everything that connects palaeontology and space. Travis and Alyssa cover the 1992 Weekly World…
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Episode 61: It’s a Kronosaurus Eat Ichthyosaur World
A three-course food web from the Cretaceous seas of Queensland: a Platypterygius australis ichthyosaur that had been snacking on fish, cephalopods and pterosaurs — before it, in turn, got chewed on by a Kronosaurus queenslandicus. Travis and Alyssa dig into what the bite marks and gut contents tell us about who was eating whom in…
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Episode 60: Remembering Sam Neill, the Dinosaur Man
Dr Jake Kotevski didn’t become a palaeontologist because of a fossil. He became one because of Sam Neill. In this tribute episode, Travis and Alyssa talk with Jake about Alan Grant’s quiet, unglamorous masculinity, the “sense of wonder” the movie chose over the book’s horror, and why Grant’s evolution across three films (and an unfortunate…