Episode 94: Live at TetZooCon
Recorded LIVE at TetZooCon 2024. The audience laughter is real!
Jan 22, 2025
Tetrapod Zoology Podcast - Tetrapod Zoology
Darren Naish and John Conway talk all things tetrapod, and some things not.
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Episode 93: Darren Naish Presents "Badgerman vs Dogman"
In this long awaited episode, TetZooCon, and dogmen, dogmen, dogmen, and… badgerman.
Aug 14, 2024
Episode 92: Mosasaurs, Mosasauroids, Mosasaurids, Mosasaurines
In this bumper episode, Darren has lots of news from the world of Darren (but sadly no fat-bottomed rodents), TetZooCon , and Mosasaurs!
Nov 17, 2023
Episode 91: Marine Reptiles Episode VI, The Return of the Weirdos
Our long-awaited second episode on Mesozoic marine reptiles — the saga continues with Triassic Weirdos, which is a term you shouldn’t use. Also with some ranting about certain birds are dinosaurs deniers (again).
Jun 27, 2023
Episode 90: Special Secret Surprise
Listen for great secret surprise!
May 25, 2023
Episode 89: Marine Reptiles Episode V, The Crocs Strike Back
Crocs, crocodiles, crocodyles, crocodylomorphs, crocodylomorphoformes,and non-crocodylilian crocodylomorphoformes!
Apr 13, 2023
Episode 88: Marine Reptiles Episode IV, No Hope
… of getting through all the Mesozoic marine reptiles in less than an hour. Tune in to the next episode for the thrilling conclusion… possibly.
Mar 14, 2023
Episode 87: Frogs!
In this episode: frogs. And for those who don’t like frogs: frogs.
Mar 02, 2023
Episode 86: Scythe Isn't Everything
In this episode, spinosaur brains, ankylosaur throats, and scythes or reapers or claws or something.
Feb 23, 2023
Episode 85: Big Small Cats
This week on the podcats, we talk about wild cats, specifically big cats and small big cats in urban and suburban areas.
Feb 16, 2023
Episode 84: The Resurrection
Darren and John return! … to discuss the books Mesozoic Art, A History of Painting (With Dinosaurs) and bringing back the Dodo.
Feb 07, 2023
Episode 83: Fossil Podcats
Recent excavations in the vicinity of John’s hard disk have yielded a fossilised podcast from the Late 2021 period. Enjoy the retro stylings!
Jul 28, 2022
Episode 82: Totally a New Whale
In this episode, fossils of the Kimmeridge clay, naughty fossils from Brazil, Ubirajara , Darren's new book, Dinopedia. Cladistics (sigh), domed-headed nose-pickers, and how they use them, a New Whale™, G̡͉̼̱̳͖͕̱̦͊r̼͕̺̃̾͑ͩ̕e̴̻͙͕͍̺͔͒n͙͍̭̘̲̭͔̆̍͑͢ͅd̛͕̪̠̞̩̰ͦͯe̘̣̖̮͒͢ͅl̴̫͖͉͎̃ͣ͊̐i̶͇͇͓̭̳͚̹͒͑̇u̧͍͉̺̠̅̎ş̖̞̬̦̻̺̼ͭ ̨̜̤̃͗̑̚ͅmͯ͏͎̪͍̙͇̮͖̤o̹͇͙̺ͧ̉̒̽͞r̡̬͍̺̹̰̘͙ͦd͈͖͕̦̦̓̓̕ã̧̞̳x̘̪̱̝͍͌̋ͩ͜ , and cladistics headaches again. Oh my.
Apr 09, 2021
Episode 81: Seeing Thylacines in the Thylacine Seeing Scene
In this rapid-fire episode, TetZoom Con, Alien Worlds, John's 3Dish T. rex heads and the state of their lips, a discussion on eyes and taphonomy, science writing and stupid rules (never use black, kids!), Freddie the seal and free-running dogs. And finally a main event: Thylacine persistence.
Mar 29, 2021
Episode 80: Achievable Evolutionary Goals
In the eight-oh, FU on Romancing the Stone and Carnotaurus, John's art, Greg Paul again, and Alien Worlds. And for the main event: the Scansoriopterygidae - dead ends that sucked at the evolutionary goal of flying, or, you know, animals adapted to their environment? You decide! TetZoo(m)Con is at on the 12th of December, save the date.
Nov 24, 2020
Episode 79: Abelisaurine Abelisaurid Abelisaur
In this triple-A episode, abelisaurians, including Carnotaurus , and long discussion on soft tissue preservation. We also discuss the topic of a book Darren is writing, the grey popular and semi-technical literature on dinosaurs, and its impact on dinosaur science.
Oct 30, 2020
Episode 78: Romancing the Past and Present
In this episode, Alan Feduccia’s “Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs: Forays in Postmodern Paleontology“ (no, we don’t get the title either), painting sauropods, reminiscing on Dinosaurs Past and Present (again). Monsters of the Deep and cryptozoology hoaxes. And finally, what we’ve all been waiting for: naked pterosaurs!
Oct 22, 2020
Episode 77: There are Not Enough Sauropod Dinosaurs
In this episode, FU from our listeners, also, news from world of Darren and John: 'how to be a science writer', Goldenose, Darren’s ZSL talk, SuperDinosaur. I News from World of News: Persiophis , bats vs birds, tails of Spinosaurus , and our main event: there are not too many sauropod dinosaurs, fool!
May 07, 2020
Episode 76: Shiny and Stinky
In this almost brand-new episode: News from the World of News, Asteriornis the wonderchicken, Dineobellator the velociraptorine, and a stem-anthropoid from Peru. In News from World of Darren and John, Monsters of the Deep, photoluminescence paper, and TetZooCon 2020. What’s New at TetZoo covers Occuludentavis , the passing of Clack and Carroll, and the fact that there are not too many sauropods. And finally, Leakey's aposematic hypothesis, and non-standard takes on hominin evolution....
Apr 14, 2020
Episode 75: From the Palaeolithic (AKA 2019)
Enter the Time Machine to a time when Darren and John discuss topics from, like a billion years ago in News From the World of News. Topics include Nessie eDNA, a scathing book review, and PopPalaeo.
Mar 25, 2020
Episode 74: Fat-bottomed Rodents
We’re back! In our stunning return, in which we clearly still know how to podcast good and do other stuff good too, we discuss The Summer of The Gulls, the silk road and the rodents therein, TetZooCon and The Dark Crystal.
Sep 17, 2019
Episode 73: Green Eggs and Eggs
Episode 73, some news about tyrannosaurs (YAWN) and then eggses and eggses and eggses. I hope you like eggs.
Apr 30, 2019
Episode 72: Loch Ness Monster Special
A very special episode, dedicated to everyone’s favourite living plesiosaur, Nessie.
Feb 28, 2019
Episode 71: New New New!
NEWs from world of news: pterosaur 'feathers', Sobrarbesiren, scavenging snowshoe hares, and whatever happened to the Kabomani tapir? NEWs from the world of Darren and John: TetZooCon 2018, Crystal Palace, ZSL book event, ARC-BHS meeting, PopPalaeo Dec 2018, and Darren in China NEW at TetZoo: sungrebe pouches, tetrapteryx, and sauropod life appearance.
Feb 06, 2019
Episode 70: Back in the House
In this zombie episode from September: the formidability of cape buffalo, plesiosaur necks, and the domesticability of dinosaurs.
Jan 28, 2019
Episode 69: The SpecZoo Podcats
In this less farty episode, FU, white-eyes (again) and Jinfengopteryx. News World o' News: Junzi the gibbon, Chinese hominins at 2.2 Ma, and books books books. A Cash 4 Question (no we don't do those anymore) on bovids and domestication. And our main event: Speculative Zoology.
Jul 25, 2018
Episode 68: Yes it Farts
We have a new enemy, the SquaMates Podcast . News from Darren and John: John's new superhero/Pokemon crossover fanart, BTCon2018, the Eotyrannus monograph, TetZooCon. News from World of News includes, Loch Ness eDNA, Foro is a touraco, Summerside, Kram, and Ahmed human gait study, leading to a discussion of variation within humans.
Jul 11, 2018
Episode 67: Stupid Successful Frog
In this ramshackle episode, FU: how to pronounce generic names for cheetahs. News from World of Darren and John: Darren needs to leave SciAm (give hime money!), Jurassic World and Lego, trees, magpies, and abstract expressionist dinosaurs (yes you need them). News from World of News (da da dah!): Rashid et al. pygostyle paper, Electrorana a stupid successful frog, which wasn't even actually electric. Also, pterosaurs in amber... or art they? No they're not... unless... Popular tat: 25 years of J...
Jun 21, 2018
Episode 66: Giant Man-Babies
In this episode, FU on white-eyes, liberal left and anti-vaxxers, CTO not TCO or was the TCO not CTO? News from the World of "Science and Books": After Man new edition, is the giant cheetah really a cheetah, and sweaty wolverines. News from World John and Darren: sexual selection conference, Ford vs Naish, Dinosaurs HTLE 2nd edition cover. A long-lost (and still lost but remembered) Cash for Question! A new segment: Darren Summarises TV and Film, including Lost in Space, Cloverfield Paradox, and...
Jun 12, 2018
Episode 65: The Glands of Time
In this episode, John finds his mute switch, News from World of News: giant Rhaetian ichthyosaurs, Dracula pterosaur, Art Bell, and the final (maybe?) Cash for Questions; Aurochs, glands, and finding things.
Apr 24, 2018
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