Look at the various animals on Earth – or rather, look just behind them – and you’ll see a vast variety of tails! Tails and tail-like structures are often simple extensions of the body, and yet they’ve been adapted and modified into many shapes with many functions, and because they’re often so important to an animal’s lifestyle, they can be especially useful for paleontologists trying to understand ancient animals. In this episode, we’ll discuss definitions, diversity, functions, and fossils of tails.
In the news: drought fossils, early fish jaws, early fish fins, and paleontology video games.
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Patron question: 01:53:30
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Episode 83 - Coelacanths
Episode 82 - Trilobites
Episode 81 - Metamorphosis
Episode 80 - Mary Anning
Episode 79 - Pterosaurs
DragonCon 2019 Paleontology Hour Panel
Episode 78 - Exaptation
End of the Year Q&A 2019
Episode 77 - Fins to Feet: The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Episode 76 - Horse Evolution
...But We Digress - Pokemon Paleontology
Episode 75 - The Great Oxidation Event
Episode 74 - South America
Episode 73 - Trees
Spook-E - Chimeras
Episode 72 - Plesiosaurs
Spook-E - Hydras
Spook-E - Gorgons
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