{"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":"The First Fossil Puke: What It Reveals About Permian Predators","slug":"the-first-fossil-puke-what-it-reveals-about-permian-predators","published_at":"2026-04-21T16:48:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611/the-first-fossil-puke-what-it-reveals-about-permian-predators","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611","url":"https://a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee.libsyn.com/the-first-fossil-puke-what-it-reveals-about-permian-predators","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee/episode_29_sick_edited.m4a?dest-id=5062010","summary":"Fossilised vomit can provide direct, yet disgusting, evidence of past ecosystems and interactions between long extinct organisms. This week we take a look at \"the earliest terrestrial regurgitalite\" from the early Permian of Germany. This prehistoric puke helps us to reconstruct who was eating what, including the Dimetrodon , the famous sail-backed synapsid. This week's paper is \"Early Permian terrestrial apex predator regurgitalite indicates opportunistic feeding behaviour\" by Arnaud Rebillard and colleagues, published in Scientific Reports in February 2026. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02929-8 Another 'paper' we mention is \"Unusual Arrangement of Bones at Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada\" by Mark McMenamin published in 21st Century Science & Technology in 2012 (no doi). Another that we mention but couldn't remember the title of was \"Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivory\" by Arjun Mann and colleagues https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02929-8 Wide screen art by Sophie Fernandez.","meta_description":"Fossilised vomit can provide direct, yet disgusting, evidence of past ecosystems and interactions between long extinct organisms. This week we take a look…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1832,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fossil-files-7375611/episodes/the-first-fossil-puke-what-it-reveals-about-permian-predators/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/the-first-fossil-puke-what-it-reveals-about-permian-predators.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}