Paleo Nerds

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Rating
4.8
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134 reviews
This podcast has
74 episodes
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Date created
2020/07/10
Average duration
67 min.
Release period
39 days

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Alaskan artist, Ray Troll, and his friend, ventriloquist David Strassman, host exciting interviews with paleontologists, scientists and fellow paleo nerds from around the world.

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Ep #71 From Fins to Fingers and the Triumph of Our Fishapod Ancestors with Ted Daeschler
2024/02/21
Ray and Dave discuss the evolution of tetrapods and finding their 'fishapod' ancestor's fossils in the high Arctic and Antarctica with paleontologist Ted Daeschler.
Episode #70 45 Million Years of Camel-Sheep-Pigs with Meaghan Wetherell
2024/01/24
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.
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Episode #69 Murderous Monster Mosasaurs ’n More with Mike Everhart
2023/12/29
Ray and Dave talk to Mosasaur expert and "Oceans of Kansas" author Mike Everhart about the marine reptiles that once swam in the ancient ocean where Kansas is today.
Episode #68 Are we not fish?
2023/11/22
The Paleo Nerd podcasts hosts, Ray Troll and Dave Strassman, have an engaging and fun conversation about life, paleontology, and the argument that we are truly fishes, physically and metaphorically.
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Episode #67 Dinosaurs Outnumber Us with Steve Brusatte
2023/11/01
Ray and Dave have the most exciting discussion and eye-opening interview with the New York Times bestselling author and prolific paleontologist, Steve Brusatte.
Episode #66 The 32 Mysterious Symbols of Ice Age Art with Genevieve von Petzinger
2023/09/27
Ray and Dave interview Genevieve von Petzinger, a paleo-anthropologist, speaker, author, and explorer who's been striving to unlock the mysteries of the world's oldest symbols.
Episode #65 Shaping Humanity and the Paleo Art of John Gurche
2023/08/30
Ray and Dave talk to John Gurche, one of the world’s leading paleoartists, especially of early hominins. John is a world-class sculptor, painter, draughtsman extraordinairre, and author. He’s an artist/scientist who doesn’t blur the line between science and art.
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Episode #64 Australian Megafauna Fossils and Outback Geology Down Under with Dr. Adam Yates
2023/06/14
Dave is Down Under in Alice Springs, the red centre of Australia where he interviews Dr. Adam Yates to discuss the Geology of the Outback and the amazing Australian Megafauna! Dr. Yates is the senior curator of Earth Sciences at the Museum of Central Australia in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.
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Episode #63 Cool Crap that Died with JP Cavigelli & Russell Hawley
2023/05/24
Ray and Dave have a fun foursome conversation with the Casper Wyoming's Tate Geological Museum's master paleontologists, JP Cavigelli and Illustrator Russell J. Hawley
Episode #62 The T-Rexpert Expert of the Tyrant King Dinosaur with Tom Holtz
2023/02/22
Ray and Dave chomp down on all things T-Rex, the King of dinosaurs with the king of paleontologists who studies them, the prolific and extremely interesting Thomas R. Holtz Jr.!
Ep # 61 Bringing The Prehistoric Back to Life with Master Muralist Jay Matternes
2023/01/25
Dave and Ray talk to one of Ray's art heroes, the master muralist and anatomist Jay Matternes, the artist responsible for many of the iconic artworks seen in the Time-Life Books and National Geographic Magazine. He painted six HUGE murals over the course of 15 years that adorned the walls of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Episode #60 Sonic Signals Bouncing Off the Biggest Migration on Earth with Kelly Benoit-Bird
2022/12/28
Dave and Ray dive deep with Kelly Benoit-Bird to discuss the denizens of the not so deep, the Mesopelagics; the largest migration of vertebrates on planet Earth.

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4.8 out of 5
134 reviews
Fj40s rule 2024/01/25
Really fun podcast
Super fun podcast. The guests are awesome and it makes pretty complex scientific concepts accessible to everyone!
DHOLMQ 2023/03/03
The BEST Podcast of it’s kind
I found this podcast about a year ago while coincidentally, in process to move to Newport, Oregon & I found the episode, cruising the fossil coastline...
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Dangerpace 2023/06/12
Good show bad politics
I enjoy hearing everything about things paleo. They say that opinions are not facts yet they act as if their opinions are facts. Stick to dino's. Also...
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rexmcgeezer 2023/03/03
Good
A good podcast- love it- but why are you so bent on disproving creationism? I don’t believe in traditional creationism myself, but also think that it ...
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I’m Hear 2023/02/24
Paleo Nerds
I discovered Paleo Nerds last month and binged on it. So very well done by two very talented guys deftly interviewing a range of different expert scie...
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Aggaziz 2022/12/26
A whole new world of fun!
I’m just absolutely thrilled about this podcast! For me, paleo started as a kid with my Dad and I gluing some glacial worn rocks, in the assemblage of...
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DinoBodhi 2022/11/04
I LOVE THIS SHOW
I’ve been a paleo nerd for most of my life (about 11 years), and I absolutely LOVE this show, I’m glad they are still putting out episodes.
MW6992 2021/12/29
Great podcast but what happened to it?
Love the show but can’t find info on why they stopped? Praying they’ll come back and continue!!!
Z Spence 2021/12/23
Fantastic Podcast
As a person who has always been interested in dinosaurs, fossils, and pretty much anything prehistoric, this podcast has been a great listen and conti...
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ttphilos 2021/09/07
Laid back access to the paelo world
I wanted some easy access to learn more about our Earth history and fossil hunting, so I searched for a podcast and this one hit the spot! Ray Troll i...
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