Tetrapod Zoology Podcast - Tetrapod Zoology
Darren Naish and John Conway talk all things tetrapod, and some things not.
- Update frequency
- every 24 days
- Episodes
- 92
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Episode 94: Live at TetZooCon
Recorded LIVE at TetZooCon 2024. The audience laughter is real!
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!
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 deni…
Episode 89: Marine Reptiles Episode V, The Crocs Strike Back
Crocs, crocodiles, crocodyles, crocodylomorphs, crocodylomorphoformes,and non-crocodylilian crocodylomorphoformes!
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.
Episode 87: Frogs!
In this episode: frogs. And for those who don’t like frogs: frogs.
Episode 86: Scythe Isn't Everything
In this episode, spinosaur brains, ankylosaur throats, and scythes or reapers or claws or something.
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.
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.
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!
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…
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 bla…
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 …
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-techn…
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 Pres…
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, bat…
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…
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.
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, TetZooCo…