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The culture and science of palaeontology with @slyssabits.bsky.social and @travish.co

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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 09/09/2026
Episode 62: Dinosaurs on Mars
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Episode 62: Dinosaurs on Mars
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 09/09/2026
Episode 61: It's a Kronosaurus Eat Ichthyosaur World
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Episode 61: It's a Kronosaurus Eat Ichthyosaur World
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 19/08/2026
A marine reptile ate a flying reptile. Then a bigger marine reptile ate that one. Cretaceous food chain, no notes. Plus, our feature interview with Shannon Bourke from Canberra's National Dinosaur Museum. New episode: It's a Kronosaurus Eat Ichthyosaur World 🦴🌊 In your feeds now.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 17/08/2026
Episode 60: Remembering Sam Neill, the Dinosaur Man
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Episode 60: Remembering Sam Neill, the Dinosaur Man
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 28/07/2026
Dr Jake Kotevski didn't become a palaeontologist because of a fossil. He became one because of Sam Neill. New episode out now.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 31/05/2026
Episode 59: Who's our Jeff Goldblum?
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Episode 59: Who's our Jeff Goldblum?
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 27/05/2026
Alyssa reunites with her old geology professor — and somehow ends up arguing for putting a Compsognathus in her backpack. Episode 59 is out now. We talk geology education, the decline of geoscience programs, and why UT Chattanooga owns a cave. In your pod feeds now.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 19/05/2026
Episode 58: Secrets of the Sea Monsters with Dr Dean Lomax
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Episode 58: Secrets of the Sea Monsters with Dr Dean Lomax
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 28/04/2026
Episode 57: Queensland Dino Week Road Trip
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Episode 57: Queensland Dino Week Road Trip
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 22/04/2026
We're road tripping across Queensland for Queensland Dino Week. Hitting your podcast feeds... now! rss.com/podcasts/fos...
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 19/03/2026
A rare letter by Mary Anning is going to auction, and Lyme Regis Museum wants to buy it www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Palaeontologist Mary Anning 'sick of fossils', letter suggests
The collector's discoveries helped shape scientific understanding of prehistoric life.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 25/02/2026
Episode 56: The Cliffs of Lyme Regis
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Episode 56: The Cliffs of Lyme Regis
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 22/01/2026
Episode 55: The Crisis in Geoscience
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Episode 55: The Crisis in Geoscience
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 27/11/2025
Unfortunately we are cancelling our live event planned for Adelaide tomorrow
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 23/11/2025
Learn all about Wellington Caves in the newest episode of Fossils and Fiction now in your favourite podcast player
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 19/11/2025
Episode 54: The dinosaur mysteries
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Episode 54: The dinosaur mysteries
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 14/11/2025
Live recording of Fossils and Fiction at Suburban Brew (Adelaide) on November 29. Palaeontologists Aiden Couzens and Matt Herne join our panel to talk about Australia's oddest fossils. The show begins with Professor Flint's Palaeojam followed by Fossils live! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1964100016...
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 06/11/2025
Hype levels rising
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 06/11/2025
For fossil-loving folk in Adelaide at the end of the month (maybe there's a conference or something 😉), we're hosting some live pods over pints and pizza www.eventbrite.com/e/live-palae...
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 28/10/2025
Episode 53: The deals with seals
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Episode 53: The deals with seals
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 28/10/2025
Episode 53: The deals with seals
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Episode 53: The deals with seals
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Your Sunday read! In 2010, a scientist argued that 2.1 billion-year-old African specimens showed complex life appearing far ahead of schedule. In doing so, he's run headlong into a very difficult question: How on earth do you prove it? My cover story (!) for @sciam.bsky.social! 🧪
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These Enigmatic ‘Fossils’ Could Rewrite the History of Life on Earth
Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once
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Richard Butler @richardjbutler.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Back in June we were back on the Oxfordshire “dinosaur highway”, excavating more dinosaur tracks with our teams from the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford & Liverpool John Moores. The BBC have a story out today about our work at the site: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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In the footsteps of giants - BBC News
One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quary near Bicester, in Oxfordshire, England.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 12/10/2025
Help fund art and science on the iconic sauropod family group Diplodocoidea experiment.com/projects/rea...
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Reassessing the evolutionary family tree and biogeography of the iconic sauropod group Diplodocoidea
We are working on a special open-access volume dedicated to the famed diplodocoid sauropods (like Diplodocus). We aim to publish several papers describing their anatomy, osteology, evolutionary…
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?
Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2025. The bodies of the adults have large blocks of colour, without prominent stripes.Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2019. The body of the stag has a dark stripe extending from the shoulder to the thigh.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 12/10/2025
October 12 marks the start of Earth Science Week across Australia. Explore the resources provided by Geoscience Australia at www.ga.gov.au/about/earth-...
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 06/10/2025
Episode 52: Opening up palaeontology
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Episode 52: Opening up palaeontology
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
New at the Terrible Lizards Podcast, a discussion between Iszi, Dave and me on the contents of ANCIENT SEA REPTILES, now out in softback ... terriblelizards.libsyn.com/tls11e09-anc...
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Terrible Lizards: TLS11E09 Ancient Sea Reptiles
Long time listener and second time guest Darren Naish joins us to talk about marine reptiles. While Darren is best known for his work on dinosaurs and pterosaurs, he has fingers in a huge number of ve...
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Rachel Ignotofsky @rachelignotofsky.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Fun Fact: Trilobites evolved eyes made out of hard calcite minerals. These little crystal eyes fossilize beautifully! Art from my new book: DINOSAURS 🦕 where I illustrate all prehistoric life! Preorder book here: a.co/d/7X856do #paleoart #fossiladdict #evolution #sciart #dinosaurs
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 31/08/2025
Artist Zev Landes is responsible for some iconic modern Australian palaeo-art, but maybe he doesn't like the field at all? Find out in the newest episode of Fossils and Fiction, now in your feeds rss.com/podcasts/fos...
A man with long hair and a green shirt crouches behind a cartoon trilobite holding a microphone above the words "Zev Landes Doesn't Like Paleontology"
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 19/08/2025
It's Book Week in Australia. If you're looking for Dino books for young readers, check out our interview with Bronwyn Saunders, author of "Diprotodon: A Megafauna Journey" www.fossilsfiction.co/2024/03/28/e...
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Episode 29: Diprotodon with Bronwyn Saunders – Fossils & Fiction
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 18/08/2025
Dinosaur dance floors and ancient sharks. What a combo! Followed up by 'Would you Rather?' rss.com/podcasts/fos...
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 14/08/2025
Episode 49: One Big Shark
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Episode 49: One Big Shark
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Kiwis at twilight. A coloured lithograph by Joseph Wolf depicting 'Mantell's Apteryx', published in Zoological Sketches, vol. 1 (1861). The book's images were based on animals in the vivarium of the Zoological Society of London in Regent's Park.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 29/07/2025
Episode 48: That is one big pile of Poozeum
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Episode 48: That is one big pile of Poozeum
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 22/07/2025
Discover megalodon and other ancient ocean giants with palaeontologist Ben Francischelli youtu.be/TkAkdk1YPgQ
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SaurianCYH @sauriancyh.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Eyes like heaven Infernodrakon hastacollis #paleoart #sciart
Two Infernodrakon on an open field covered by ferns during sunset, one glides low in the air, the other chases behind on the ground.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 18/07/2025
In this episode, @markwitton.bsky.social offers thoughts on AI, how to support palaeo-art and more. Plus @travish.co fails miserably in a game of guess that fossil.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 18/07/2025
Episode 47: King Tyrant vs AI
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Episode 47: King Tyrant vs AI
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 09/07/2025
Review: The Mutated Mess of Jurassic World Rebirth
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Review: The Mutated Mess of Jurassic World Rebirth
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Hot damn, the Palaeontology in Public book by @chrismanias.bsky.social is the subject of an article in @theguardian.com, following a theme in recent Jurassic World films that the public are bored with dinosaurs. (Fact: Chris has not watched a single JP sequel!) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on the public’s dinomania: passion for palaeontology endures through the ages | Editorial
Editorial: From blockbuster movies like Jurassic World Rebirth to documentary series, the appetite for these ancient creatures appears inexhaustible
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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you edit me correctly, for small snippets of time I sound like I know what I'm talking about... (Full interview: www.fossilsfiction.co/2025/06/15/e... Thanks to @fossilsfiction.co for inviting me onto their show!)
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Episode 46: Mark Witton’s Palaeoart – Fossils & Fiction
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Dragons of Wales @dragonsofwales.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
One is the brains, the other is the muscle.
Digital illustration: a jungle clearing in the middle of which lies a huge dinosaur (Tarbosaurus, a close relative of T. rex). Its head is raised up, and on the tip of its snout a small brown bird is perching, seemingly unafraid. Close up of the previous image, showing the bird perched on Tarbosaurus’ snout.
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 19/06/2025
How do you balance science with storytelling when animating pterosaurs, or sauropods? Just ask @markwitton.bsky.social
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 15/06/2025
Episode 46: Mark Witton's Palaeoart
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Episode 46: Mark Witton's Palaeoart
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 13/06/2025
Palaeontologist+palaeoartist+nice guy @markwitton.bsky.social talks about his new book King Tyrant and more, in your podfeeds now
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 25/05/2025
Episode 45: T. rex: the Asian king?
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Episode 45: T. rex: the Asian king?
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.
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James Pascoe @jamespascoe.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So for this Fossil(andfiction) Friday here’s a few pics relating to one of the questions that came up from @slyssabits.bsky.social during our chat about how actual palaeontologists and Palaeoartists respond to the things I get up to 😅 Podcast link below podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Smiling rogue, braided of beard, jaunty of angle, holding up a display of Dinosaurs Smiling professor holding two Dinosaurs Dave Hone holding a Baryonyx and he’s even happier now Spurs have won a trophy Luis Rey holding two Dinosaur Prints
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Fossils & Fiction @fossilsfiction.co · 21/05/2025
Remember when Adele Pentland introduced us to Australia's remarkable pterosaur fossils? From Haliskia to Ferrodraco and more, revisit one of our most popular episodes to take flight into Australia's prehistoric skies! www.fossilsfiction.co/2024/07/03/e...
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