About this podcast
Follow your guide through time Caroline Siegert, as she takes you back in time to visit different fossil sites when they were still alive.
Fossil Fridays is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://fossilfridays.com/
Episodes
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- Tendaguru Formation · 20 minTravel back with me 150 million years as we visit the Jurassic Tendaguru Formation located in modern day Tanzania. Species appearing in this episode include: Glyptostroboxylon…
- Fossils and Mythology · 17 minHave you ever wondered how fossils may have inspired your favorite myth? Lets dive into the intersection between myth and paleontology. Want to learn more about this topic? Check…
- Yixian Formation Part 2 · 21 minTravel back in time 125 million years with me as we continue our visit to the Cretaceous Yixian formation. Species appearing in this episode: Leefructus mirus…
- Yixian Formation Part 1 · 20 minTravel back in time 125 million years with me as we visit the Cretaceous Yixian formation. Species appearing in this episode: Cladophlebis, Cretaceonobius fossilis, Thujoxylon…
- The real visits behind fossil fridays · 16 minEver wondered how much of the intros are based on real experiences? Listen in for a behind the scenes look at some of the real experiences that inspired these episodes. Grube…
- Wannagan Creek Part 2 · 22 minWelcome back to the Wannagan Creek fossil site and the Paleocene. Jump back in, to finish exploring the Paleocene and to find your way home. Fossils appearing in this episode…
- Wannagan Creek Part 1 · 21 minWelcome to the Wannagan Creek fossil site that preserves a snapshot of the Paleocene 60 Million Years Ago. Fossils appearing in this episode include: Taxodium olriki, Equisetum…
- Messel Part 3 · 20 minWelcome back for the final installment of our saga into the Messel Pit. This incredible Eocene locality has been a doozy, and I can’t wait to see it for myself next month. So…
- Messel Part 2 · 17 minIn 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…
- Messel Pit · 32 minIn this episode head back 47 million years to visit the Messel Pit in Germany. Organisms encountered in this episode include: Asplenium, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, Nuphaea…
- Top Ten Scariest Fossil Creatures · 29 minEver 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…
- John Day Formation · 26 minIn 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…
- Ahl al Oughlam · 28 minStep 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…
- What Jurassic Park got right and wrong · 14 minEver 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…
- Hanson Formation · 29 minWelcome 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…
- Visiting the Silurian and Cambrian · 26 minLets 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…
- Gogo Formation · 27 minOne 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…
- Fossil Friday Bites – The Tully Monster · 5 minWant to know more about the Tully Monster from Mazon Creek? Listen in to hear the story of this strange creature. Fossil Fridays is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes…
- Fossil Friday Bites – Ice Age the movie · 6 minThe 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…
- The Red Beds of Texas · 32 minThis 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…
