01/24/2024
Ep #70 45 Million Years of Camel-Sheep-Pigs
Ray and Dave have a fun and very lively interview with Paleontologist and Science Writer, Meaghan Wetherell, an expert on the camel/sheep/pig like Oreodonts and more recently new discoveries from the Holocene/Pleistocene Epochs.
Ep 70 with Meaghan Wetherell
LINKS
If you’re interested in model airplanes, here’s a website to buy them
And more model Airplanes
Trailer to “Gorgo” the Sci-Fi Film from 1960
Gorgosaurus’s last meal
Meaghan Wetherell’s web page
Oreodonts!
For your tongue-tied pleasure, Merycoidodontoidea is pronounced “Mare-ee-coy-doe-don-toy-dea””
Agriochoerus, and early Oreodont
John Day Fossil Beds, Oregon
Pyroclastic flow vs Lahar
Amy Atwater, previous guest on Paleo Nerds
The scary Hell Pigs the Entelodonts!
The Zygomatic Arch
Pus-faced Promerycochoerus Oreodont
Animals with trunks, (Not the suitcase kind)
Star Wars looking creature, the real Saiga Antelope
The little deer with a tiny trunk the Dik Dik
Those poor short legged Rhino’s, the Teleoceras, who died from Marie’s Disease at Ashfall Fossil Beds, NE
The Paisley Caves, Oregon, a treasure trove of Human origin in North America
Very technical research paper on Pleistocene Megafauna extinctions and yes, Meaghan’s name IS on this paper.
Australian Aboriginies co-existed with Megafauna for at least 17,000 years
Mary Annings revenge “Weird and Dead” Podcast which is LIVE NOW!!!
Meaghan’s time travel South American wish list and very hard to say, the trunked mammal, the Litopterna
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis The longest word in the English Dictionary
MUSIC
Garbo by Whiskey Class
Luminescent Tie-Dye by The Amish Robots
Blueberry by The Amish Robots
Seconds in a Life time by Russell Wodehouse