Tetrapod Zoology Podcast - Tetrapod Zoology

Episode 46: Large and Lissamphibious John Conway and Darren Naish In this question-tastic episode, Darren and John are back with amphibians (or lissamphibians?), the birthing habits of metriorhynchids, melanosomes in birdy dinosaurs, sperm whales, and small dinosaurs (or lack thereof).  Download here .

Episode 45: Extinction Time John Conway and Darren Naish In this extinction-filled episode, Nanotyrannus, Schmanotyrannus,  the frog problem, the survival of non-avian dinosaurs past the M/C extinction time, and Darren and John's dinosaur movies plots. Also, TetZooCon 2015 - get your tickets here . Download here .

Episode 44: Jurassic World Special John Conway and Darren Naish John and Darren discuss Jurassic World . Spoilers! It's no good. Darren: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ John: ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Download here .

Episode 43: Independent Blob Dog John Conway and Darren Naish In this late episode, Darren and John discuss the Romanian find of century, dinosaur premaxillary genetics, and Yee chee, or Yee kwee, or something. Also, Cash for Questions!: is Canine Transmissible Venereal Tumour a tetrapod? and Africa as a Pleistocene remnant. Download here .

Episode 42: Chaos Reigns John Conway and Darren Naish In this crazy mixed up episode Darren leaves out all the juicy bits from his trip to Romania,  pterosaurs landing, domesticated horses in sub-saharan Africa, and the evolution of beaks in dinosaurs. Also the return of Brontosaurus , and the return of paraphyletic taxonomy. Trailers are discussed by Darren, scoffed at by John. Als...

Episode 41: Forward-Staring Goats John Conway and Darren Naish Brace yourselves listeners, as we MOVE THE SEGMENTS AROUND. First up is Cash for Questions! with the gait of synapsids, the homology of scales, and  Myotragus and the giant Minorcan lagomorphs.  News From World of Darren & John includes the new short-necked azhdarchid and News From World of News include a new tapir,...

Episode 40: Darren Heard an Owl, John Saw a Dog in a Jumper, but No One has Seen a Monkey Playing a John Conway and Darren Naish It’s the big four-oh, and FU is a complete mess: Red Letter Media guy, Rio 2, How Big is Texas (bigger or smaller than France !), Spotted owlet. News from World of Darren & John includes the news from The Scholarly Research of the Anomalous Conference, and...

Episode 39: #Batfacts #Podcats John Conway & Darren Naish In this #batfacts episode, FU Darren, Rio stars a cockatoo, more  #Batfacts and other #hashtags: #BuildaBetterFakeTheropod and #TetZooNameGame.  News From World of News includes #SaveDippy, Finding Bigfoot UK, Jurassic snakes, Hume’s owl revelation, and shock of the century, a new tapir! Cash for questions...

Episode 38: A Not Too Shabby Podcarts John Conway and Darren Naish In this not to shabby episode, FU on Planet of the Apes, Darren talks to school kids, Scholarly Research of the Anomalous Conference , FROGS, Tet Zoo 9th birthday. News from world of news is Darren's take on Conquest of the Skies David Attenborough series (not too shabby). Cash for Questions! include why archosa...

Episode 37: Dawn of the Planet of the Non-Homo sapiens Apes John Conway and Darren Naish In this Best Dinosaur episode, FU includes cassowaries, ‘Labrodon’, liberal Hollywood, and gull feet. News from Darren & John includes Darren the cruisemeister, Big Book, what’s at Tet Zoo, FROGS, Tet Zoo's birthday, and no news from John. News from World of News  whips by with the two minute rule in...

Episode 36: The Fifth Dimension is LURVE John Conway & Darren Naish In this time-dilated episode, FU on hyenas, new in cassowaries, seals vs porpoises, Alanqa jaws, and giant Chinese nothosaurs. Cash for Questions! include the fossil bias of unusual specimens, and why gulls stare at their feet. Our Popular Tat section is on Jurassic World , and  Interstellar ; and&nbs...

Episode 35: Even the least doggy of dogs look like doggy-dogs John Conway & Darren Naish In this shockingly normal-length episode, we have more FU on freediving, how to Patreonise Darren , Archelosauria, Vintana  the gondwanathere, and Cartorhynchus . Our C4Q this episode is about the possible switcheroo of hyenas and dogs in their cursorial and borophagian ways. Also...

Episode 34: What the Hell? John Conway In this thrilling and unbelievably long episode, FU dumbass Darren! Lungs & diving, Star Wars screwup again, re-wilding & ecotourism, and a plethora of other things Darren got wrong. News from World of Darren & John includes the Shanklin croc, multituberculates, and the Tet Zoo wiki . Cash for Questions! include "what the hell is going on over the...

Episode 33: Uncle Darren Loves Animals John Conway and Darren Naish John and Darren launch into followup, which is mostly about how big legs are or aren't. News of the world of Darren and John and also News include our palaeoart article , Darren’s lament, kangaroos that didn't hop or did, podcats reviewed at Li’L Box Big Universe , and the Chickensaurus Event (#chickensaurus).  Cash for...

Episode 32: Episode 32: Waddling with Spinosaurs John Conway and Darren Naish So, I'm uploading this from an internet cafe in Malta, so I can't listen, and I can't for the life of me remember what's in this episode. Safe bet: some dinosaurs, pterosaurs, Cash for Questions! and some terrible movie. Am I close? Download here .

Episode 31: Oh Noah, not Rodent Teeth! John Conway and Darren Naish After a month long hiatus, Darren and John return, with this overlong, self-important, dull and portentous episode. News from the World of News includes the best and worst of teeth at the SVPCA, deer-cow hybrids (or as we call them "cows"), Transylvanian pturtles, some expert FU on antlers. Cash for Questions includes the sauropod...

John Conway Episode 30: Live in the pub, wobbles, falls over Live Google Hangouts are hard. Too hard for us. After the technical collapse of the Google Hangout, we decided to record locally and put up what we had. Recording locally is hard too (apparently), and much of it was lost. Finally, the batteries in our laptops died, and that was that.  However, we did manage to record some followup (...

John Conway & Darren Naish Episode 29: Superheroes Hate Genetics Episode 29 includes, are new tapirs really new?, a TetZooCon round up, a quick discussion of and many a cash for question. Questions include the usefulness to eve-devo to palaeontology, the advantage of antlerage, why pterosaurs are better than birds, and the confusing mess of ratite biogeography.  John make a valiant attempt to...

John Conway & Darren Naish Episode 28: Sideways Nipply-Things Darren and John cover some followup, including the usual unbelievably stupid mistakes Darren makes about little ratty things, and John's bungling at TetZoo Tech leading to everyone's email not being read over the last couple of months. We then whip through some News from the World of News including nothosaur tracks, Australian newts, an...

John Conway Episode 27: Godzilla! Godzilla! Godzilla! Darren and John discuss a Sussex big cat, the eating of a great white shark, punching in the face,  Deinocheirus , and the Angeac dinosaur. Such pointless banter stops for the main event: GODZILLA. Thoughts and spoilers on three Godzilla films  (1954, 1998, 2014). Surprise! Darren and John disagree. Darren Godzilla (1954) ★★★★★ G...

John Conway and Darren Naish Episode 26: Only a Swingin' Cat would try a Muppet Rap Episode 26 is here, beamed direct from TetZoo Tech to your brain. Tetrapodcats Dr. Darren and JC.co lay down some News from the World of News, with tapirs, ratites, Amazonian dromomerycines, and more. Listeners drop some Cash for Questions!, with spec zoo classic mashups, and why cats just can't get into the groove...

John Conway Episode 25: Mysterious Mammals In episode 25, Darren and John discuss news from the world of TetZoo, TetZooCon ,  Gagagon ,  Crash bandicoot (if that is its real name), the new tyrannosaur, and  Aplestosuchus.  Cash for Questions! are on the Pleistocene extinction, and non-mammalian synapsids – so  many, so mysterious. Tickets for TetZooCon can be booked here ....

John Conway and Darren Naish Episode 24: If I told you to say Niche, would you Switch? In this thrilling episode: John was taken in by an obvious shoop of a president on a moose, Darren's new bird paper, Alligators, plesiosaur snouts, new hupehsuchians and tapirs, and chickens. Cash for Questions! include a confused followup on Toxoplasma , the point of tails or lack thereof, survivors of the M/C...

John Conway & Darren Naish Episode 23: Does Toxoplasma Make You Like Podcats? In this endless (droning) episode, Darren and John stick to the outline. Much follow up, the intelligence of moose, many Cash for Questions!, including our confused ramblings on Toxoplasma , the best bit of evolution - when we stopped all being fish, and the decline (or not) of pterosaurs. Such Shaun of the Dead , and ot...

John Conway and Darren Naish Episode 22: Bergmann's Fool! In this annoying episode, Darren speaks to us from underwater to tell us about the new tapir and theropods, and John gets annoyed with  Bergmann's Rule. Cash for Questions! includes flightless bats, and the cuteness of babies that are not your own species. Apologies for the audio quality in this episode, Darren's new laptop doesn't wor...