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 deniers (again).
Episode 90: Special Secret Surprise
Listen for great secret surprise!
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™, G̡͉̼̱̳͖͕̱̦͊r̼͕̺̃̾͑ͩ̕e̴̻͙͕͍̺͔͒n͙͍̭̘̲̭͔̆̍͑͢ͅd̛͕̪̠̞̩̰ͦͯe̘̣̖̮͒͢ͅl̴̫͖͉͎̃ͣ͊̐i̶͇͇͓̭̳͚̹͒͑̇u̧͍͉̺̠̅̎ş̖̞̬̦̻̺̼ͭ ̨̜̤̃͗̑̚ͅmͯ͏͎̪͍̙͇̮͖̤o̹͇͙̺ͧ̉̒̽͞r̡̬͍̺̹̰̘͙ͦd͈͖͕̦̦̓̓̕ã̧̞̳x̘̪̱̝͍͌̋ͩ͜, and cladistics headaches again. Oh my.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
The PodCats Transcript Project, Episode 1
For years we’ve been threatening to release transcripts of the podcast episodes. Today, that project reaches the start of what might be seen as what could be the seed of the spark that starts this possibility becoming an eventuality one day. Yes, here’s a TRANSCRIPT FOR EPISODE ONE OF THE TETZOO PODCAST, originally released in February 2013. It was very kindly transcribed by Mark The Fish (if that is his real name)… kidding, he’s called Mark E. Evans… and we owe him a huge dept of gratitude. So here it is…
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.
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, TetZooCon and The Dark Crystal.
