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Fossil Fails: Weird ideas about how and when Mammoths were "Snuffed Out" YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

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When did mammoths go extinct? Did they sneeze themselves to death as a result of allergies? We take a look at some 'massive' fossil fails in the latest episode: Weird ideas about how and when mammoths were "snuffed out"

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In our latest episode, Ray and Dave review the evidence with Dr. James Napoli @jgn-paleo.bsky.social, co-author of the new research paper 📝 that resolves the validity of #Nanotyrannus 🦖.

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Enjoyed learning about fossil bumholes this week with Rob and Suzie. Officially my favourite science podcast*

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In which Susie and I try not to giggle about fossil butt holes and silly looking dinosaurs

25. A dinosaur covered in porcupine spines & the earliest fossil cloaca YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

@tweetisaurus.bsky.social and @fossilrob.bsky.social take a look at these new finds and there implications and try not to giggle about butt holes in the newest episode of The Fossil Files.
Out today, on YouTube or where ever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNQe...

Jaw dropping fossil integument news: this new Iguanodontian was rather improbably covered in porcupine-like spines and this Permian trace fossil captures the earliest known cloaca

We talked about this incredible new lagerstatten in the latest #FossilFiles podcast. You can listen to Rob's take on it here youtube.com/@palaeo_sans... or wherever you get your podcasts @thefossilfiles.bsky.social

The Ediacaran Aquarium: insights from the Nilpena Ediacara National Park 1T-F Marine Ecosystem (Ediacara Member, Rawnsley Quartzite) The Ediacaran Period, spanning 635–538 million years ago, marks a pivotal phase in life’s evolutionary history, showcasing early multicellular animal life. The remarkable fossil bed, 1T-F, from the...

That would be great. The Ediacaran is full of weird and wonderful things. Not exactly what you asked for but this paper has some lovely examples in www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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24. How and when did animals first appear? Extraordinary new fossils from China YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

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Around the same time and place, a new Burgess Shale type bonaza was discovered with a host of lovely and weird Cambrian critters

These are typical Ediacaran weirdos such as Eoandromeda and rangeomorphs, preserved in a new site in China with Burgess Shale-Type preservation, much more typical of Cambrian times

It has always been difficult to properly understand the Cambrian explosion because the fossil preservation windows are limited and change at the beginning of Cambrian.
But take a look at this!

Aww very nice coverage of our paper. For some context I spent four years going through the 1000 of specimens from the bonebed and STILL find something new and interesting every time I go through it 😂

Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade - Nature A skeleton of the alvarezsauroid Alnashetri cerropoliciensis—representing a highly complete alvarezsauroid skeleton from South America—provides evidence on the evolution of the peculiar anatomy and mi...

Makovicky, P.J., Mitchell, J.S., Meso, J.G. et al. Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade. Nature (2026). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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23. Squishy fishies and horned Hungarian dinosaurs: Fossils hidden in plain sight YouTube video by The Fossil Files Podcast

This week we cover Fossil Files' own papers,
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2nd by @tweetisaurus.bsky.social, @richardjbutler.bsky.social @stevebrusatte.bsky.social and others, out now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=RriR...

Was the solution to palaeo mysteries hidden right in front of our faces? High powered X-ray analyses of Silurian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 fossils reveals cryptic 👁️ & 🦴 of early vertebrates, whilst new discoveries in Cretaceous 🇭🇺 find the missing European ceratopsians. Find out more in this week's new episode!

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