{"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":"18. Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte. part 1","slug":"18-dinosaurs-were-doing-fine-before-the-asteroid-with-steve-brusatte-part-1","published_at":"2025-12-16T03:18:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611/18-dinosaurs-were-doing-fine-before-the-asteroid-with-steve-brusatte-part-1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611","url":"https://a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee.libsyn.com/18-dinosaurs-were-doing-fine-before-the-asteroid-with-steve-brusatte-part-1","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee/Episode_18_Brusatte_pt_1.m4a?dest-id=5062010","summary":"Around 66 million years ago an enormous asteroid barreled into the earth and wiped out icthyosaurs, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs*. Debate has raged back and forth as to whether the dinosaurs were already in decline before this mass extinction or were still going strong. This week, Susie and Rob are joined by Prof. Steve Brusatte to take a look at what vertebrates were doing just before the asteroid hit. We discuss his new paper on fossil vertebrates from New Mexico, its implications for scenarios of dinosaur evolution and extinction, and what is life is like for a working palaeontologist, digging up Cretaceous fossils. This week's paper is \"Late-surviving New Mexican dinosaurs illuminate high end-Cretaceous diversity and provinciality\" by Andrew Flynn, Steve Brusatte and colleagues, published in Science in October 2025. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adw3282 *except birds of course. Widescreen artwork by Natalia Jagielska","meta_description":"Around 66 million years ago an enormous asteroid barreled into the earth and wiped out icthyosaurs, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs*. Debate has raged back and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2371,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fossil-files-7375611/episodes/18-dinosaurs-were-doing-fine-before-the-asteroid-with-steve-brusatte-part-1/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-7375611/18-dinosaurs-were-doing-fine-before-the-asteroid-with-steve-brusatte-part-1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}