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Fossil Fridays

Caroline Siegert

Follow your guide through time Caroline Siegert, as she takes you back in time to visit different fossil sites when they were still alive.

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17:14

Messel Part 2

Fossil Fridays ·

2025/10/17

In this episode return back 47 million years to the Messel Pit in Germany for part 2 of 3. Organisms encountered in this episode include: Orb Weaver Spider, Heterohyus nanus, Magnolia, Araciphyllites, Caladiosoma, Pygomelissa luteria, Arecocaryon messelensis, Gekko, Cyclanthus messelensis, Protognathinus spielbergi, Parargornis messelensis, Phragmites oeningensis, Archaeoarmatus messelensis, Rhynchaeites messelensis, Juncitarsus merkeli, Buxolestes piscator, Toricellia […]

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32:17

Messel Pit

Fossil Fridays ·

2025/07/26

In this episode head back 47 million years to visit the Messel Pit in Germany. Organisms encountered in this episode include: Asplenium, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, Nuphaea engelhardtii, Tetraedron minimum, Lutetiospongilla heili, Viviparis, Cyclurus kehreri, Anguilla ignota, Atractosteus strausi, Amphiperca multiformis, Chelotriton robustus, Allaeochelys crassesculptata, Euroemys kehreri, Neochelys franzeni, Paleoamyda messeliana, Podozamites eocaenica, Eopelobates wagneri, Hassiacosuchus haupti,

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28:47

Top Ten Scariest Fossil Creatures

Fossil Fridays ·

2025/06/21

Ever thought about the scary creatures other than dinosaurs that roamed the earth in the past? Check out my top ten list. Creatures mentioned in this episode include: Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis, Parapuzosia seppenradensis, Elasmotherium sibiricum, Arthropleura, Livyatan melvillei, Daeodon shoshonensis, Titanoboa cerrejonensis, Deinosuchus riograndensis, Hatzegopteryx thambema, Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, Boverisuchus, and Langstonia.

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26:20

John Day Formation

Fossil Fridays ·

2025/05/02

In this episode head back 30 million years to visit the John Day Formation in Oregon, USA. Organisms encountered in this episode include: Metasequoia, Polypodium, Pinus johndilyensis, Rubus, Platanus, hypertragulidae, Hydrangia, Ulmus, Fraxinus, Fagus pacifica, Toxicodendron wolfei, Quercus consimilis, Protosciurus rachelae, Vitis, Nuphar, Equisetum, Nimravid, Betula angustifolia, Alnus, Menispermum, Cornus, Paleocastor, Miohippus, Temnocyon, Terminalia, Acer, […]

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27:30

Ahl al Oughlam

Fossil Fridays ·

2025/03/08

Step back in time nearly 3 million years to the end Pliocene outside of Casablanca Morocco to visit the Ahl al Oughlam locality. Species featured in this episode include; Sivatherium, Agapornis atlanticus, Plioperdix, Kolpochoerus, Theropithicus, Struthio asiaticus, Geronticus, Lupulella, and early hominins.

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14:07

What Jurassic Park got right and wrong

Fossil Fridays ·

2025/02/07

Ever wondered how accurate Jurassic Park really is? Well, it depends on when you ask that question. Tune in for a look back at what we believed was right and wrong then, and what we know now.

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28:35

Hanson Formation

Fossil Fridays ·

2025/01/03

Welcome to the bottom of the world as we visit the Hanson formation located on the mainland of Antarctica and travel back 190 million years to the early Jurassic. Species that appeared in this episode include members of Polypodiales, Bennettitales, Pines, Pterosaurs, Dipteridaceae, Corystospermaceae, Marchantites, Equisetites, Tritylodontidae, Cupressaceae, Sauropodomorph, Matoniaceae, Voltziales, Theropods, and Auraucariaceae.

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Visiting the Silurian and Cambrian

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/08/03

Lets head back to the beginning of life on land in the Silurian over 400 million years ago, before visiting the amazing sea creatures of the Cambrian 510 Million years ago. Species that appeared in this episode include: Cooksonia, Prototaxites, Vauxia gracilenta, Pirania muricata, Eiffelia globose, Thaumaptilon walcotti, Anomalocaris, Opabinia, Hallucigenia, Olenoides serratus, and Wiwaxia […]

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Gogo Formation

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/07/13

One of the more whimsical names for a fossil site, come visit the Gogo formation of Western Australia as we go back 380 million years to visit a Devonian reef. Organisms that make an appearance include: stromataporoids, stromatolites, ammonites, Montecaris gogoensis, Conulariida, canthodians, tabulate coral, zooxanthellae, eurypterids, rugose coral, placoderms, and McNamaranspis kaprios.

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Fossil Friday Bites – The Tully Monster

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/06/28

Want to know more about the Tully Monster from Mazon Creek? Listen in to hear the story of this strange creature.

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5:45

Fossil Friday Bites – Ice Age the movie

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/05/18

The movie Ice Age came out in 2002 and was a large part of the childhood of kids who were born in the 1990s. Set 20,000 years ago it gets some stuff right and some stuff wrong, so tune in for a bite sized breakdown of just what we see in the Ice Age movie.

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31:59

The Red Beds of Texas

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/05/04

This episode we head to the Permian which lasted from 299 Million years ago to 252 Million years ago, and has been excellently preserved in the red beds of Texas, USA. Listen in as we discover the unique plants and animals of the Permian.

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5:36

Fossil Friday Bites – Fossil Laws

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/04/19

There are a surprising amount of laws regarding fossils, so tune in as we go over a few of them.

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Ischigualasto Formation

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/04/06

Continuing our trek back in time, we head to northern Argentina to visit the Ischigualasto Formation as it was in the Triassic 230 million years ago.

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25:08

Balabansai Formation

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/03/01

The Balabansai formation located in western Asia preserves fossils from the middle Jurassic 168-161 million years ago. So take a trip back in time to visit our world when it looked much different.

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5:23

Fossil Friday Bites – Politics and Paleontology

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/02/16

Politics can play a surprising large role in paleontology, and one of the easiest to track of these is in China. So tune in for a look at how politics has affected Chinese paleontology.

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36:35

Hell Creek

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/02/02

Hell Creek in Montana has fossils from the end Cretaceous around 66 million years old including some of the most iconic dinosaurs in the US as well as plants, mammals, reptiles, and aquatic invertebrates.

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3:48

Fossil Friday Bites – Fossil Guinea Pig

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/01/19

Let’s talk about a giant fossil guinea pig.

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31:11

Seymour Island, Antarctica

Fossil Fridays ·

2024/01/05

Seymour Island, Antarctica has fossils from the late Cretaceous through the Eocene which gives a unique perspective of what the southernmost continent may have been like.

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6:45

Fossil Friday Bite – The earliest flowering plant

Fossil Fridays ·

2023/12/15

The age of the earliest flowering plant is still a huge topic of debate. Let’s talk about some of the possible oldest fossil flowering plants.

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