Episode 39: Could you fight a Meg?

Join hosts Alyssa and Travis as they welcome palaeontologist Colin Boisvert for a chat about Allosaur diversity, sauropod niche partitioning and more. Colin offers an insider’s look at the challenges and excitement of studying dinosaurs, from complex taxonomies to ecological mysteries. The episode takes a fun turn with a special segment where listeners help name the show’s mascots, and the hosts figure out how to (hypothetically) fight prehistoric animals.

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Colin Boisvert X/Twitter: https://x.com/colin_boisvert

Colin Boisvert Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colinboisvert1/

Barker, C. T., Handford, L., Naish, D., Wills, S., Hendrickx, C., Hadland, P., Brockhurst, D., & Gostling, N. J. (2024). Theropod dinosaur diversity of the lower English Wealden: Analysis of a tooth-based fauna from the Wadhurst Clay Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Valanginian) via phylogenetic, discriminant and machine learning methods. Papers in Palaeontology, 10(6), e1604. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1604

Zev Landes https://www.zevlandes.com/

Access the episode transcript here.