{"podcast":{"title":"The Fossil Files","slug":"the-fossil-files-7375611","podcast_index_feed_id":7375611,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/583670/rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/Fossils","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/9/9/f/3/99f352ecbfc60de0d959afa2a1bf1c87/logo4-20250704-h86q14pd0t.jpg","author":"Robert Sansom","episode_count":40,"summary":"In \"The Fossil Files\", a pair of palaeontologists delve into the latest discoveries from the world of palaeontology and seek to bring fossils to back to life. Each episode, Susie and Rob will discuss an interesting new research paper ranging from topics of what dinosaurs ate, how plesiosaurs swam, where we came from, and the science of de-extinction. Whilst doing so, we peek under the hood of how the science of palaeontology is done and how research gets to see the light of day. It is for anybody interested in palaeontology and past life whether that is students, researchers themselves, or simply the fossil-curious - we laugh as we learn, and hope you will too. Episode guide at https://fossils.libsyn.com/ Bonus content at Patreon https://patreon.com/FossilFiles","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T12:18:38.080077+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611"},"episode":{"title":"17. Will palaeontologists go extinct? AI & the future of palaeo","slug":"17-will-palaeontologists-go-extinct-ai-the-future-of-palaeo","published_at":"2025-12-02T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611/17-will-palaeontologists-go-extinct-ai-the-future-of-palaeo","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611","url":"https://a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee.libsyn.com/will-palaeontologists-go-extinct-ai-the-future-of-palaeo","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee/episode_17_AI_edited_28_11_2025_13.42_desript.m4a?dest-id=5062010","summary":"Artificial Intelligence seems to be changing everything, everywhere, all at once. But how will the science of studying the very old be transformed by the technology of the new? In this episode Susie and Rob take a look at the risks and opportunities for palaeontology with the application of AI: palAIontology. Can we use AI to find, identify, and classify fossils? The paper's discussed this week are: \"Artificial intelligence in paleontology\" by Congyu Yu and colleagues published in Earth Science Reviews May 2024 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2024.104765 and \"Early humans and the balance of power: Homo habilis as prey\" by Marina Vegara-Riquelme and colleagues published in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences in September 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15321","meta_description":"Artificial Intelligence seems to be changing everything, everywhere, all at once. But how will the science of studying the very old be transformed by the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2939,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fossil-files-7375611/episodes/17-will-palaeontologists-go-extinct-ai-the-future-of-palaeo/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611/17-will-palaeontologists-go-extinct-ai-the-future-of-palaeo.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}