Tetrapod Zoology Podcast - Tetrapod Zoology
Zoology, Vertebrate Palaeontology, and Other Nerderies
John Conway & Darren Naish · John Conway
Show overview
Tetrapod Zoology Podcast - Tetrapod Zoology has been publishing since 2013, and across the 13 years since has built a catalogue of 94 episodes. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-GB-language Science & Medicine show.
The show is still active — the most recent episode landed 3 months ago, though releases have slowed compared with earlier in the run. The busiest year was 2014, with 21 episodes published. Published by John Conway.
From the publisher
Darren Naish and John Conway talk all things tetrapod, and some things not.
Latest Episodes
View all 94 episodesEpisode 95: It's Been Haolong?
A year and a half of of catchup! TetZooCon regenerates into DinoCon, 20 years of TetZoo, Haolong, Spinosaurus (URG!) , and much more meandering and tangentiality.
Episode 94: Live at TetZooCon
Recorded LIVE at TetZooCon 2024. The audience laughter is real!
Episode 93: Darren Naish Presents "Badgerman vs Dogman"
In this long awaited episode, TetZooCon, and dogmen, dogmen, dogmen, and… badgerman.
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 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!
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.