{"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 Fossil Files is one year old: The best bits so far","slug":"the-fossil-files-is-one-year-old-the-best-bits-so-far","published_at":"2026-06-16T04:12:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611/the-fossil-files-is-one-year-old-the-best-bits-so-far","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-fossil-files-7375611","url":"https://a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee.libsyn.com/the-fossil-files-is-one-year-old-the-best-bits-so-far","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/a94020de-22e2-432b-af22-019fdb3026ee/Episode_35_Aniversary.mp3?dest-id=5062010","summary":"The Fossil Files is one year old! Thank you everbody for your support! To mark the occasion, Susie and Rob take a look back at the last year and put together some of their favourite moments to highlight the best of The Fossil Files (so far) The episodes covered are: Episode 10. Fossil Fails: A Precambrian beehive and dinosaurs on the moon (September) Episode 3. Is de-extinction a scam? (July) Episode 6. Where did Pterosaurs come from? (August) Episode 12. Cretaceous zombie ants (October) Episode 9. The Spicomellis special (September) Episode 5. Were Neanderthals the first fossil collectors? (July) Episode 19. Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte (December) Episode 17. AI & the future of palaeontology (December) Episode 2. Dinosaur poos from Poland (June) Episode 20. Back-breaking and baby making, the disturbing bedroom habits of hadrosaurs (January) Episode 28. How to get a Species of Human Named after you (March) Episode 32. Were giant super intelligent octopuses the top predators of the Cretaceous? (May)","meta_description":"The Fossil Files is one year old! Thank you everbody for your support! To mark the occasion, Susie and Rob take a look back at the last year and put toget…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2017,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-fossil-files-7375611/episodes/the-fossil-files-is-one-year-old-the-best-bits-so-far/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-fossil-files-is-one-year-old-the-best-bits-so-far.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}