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They lived along our ancestors and were very much like them - but then vanished from history. What is the story of the genus Paranthropus and its three fascinating species?

ALEXIS WILLIAMS is a PhD student in the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University and studies the fossil record as a way of understanding the evolutionary history of the African hominin, Paranthropus.

MARK from Evolution Soup talks with Alexis about this group of hominids, their amazingly huge teeth, and reasons why they may have gone extinct.


LINKS FOR ALEXIS WILLIAMS:

Got a question about Paranthropus? Email Alexis at [email protected]

Instagram: @awilliams9772

Alexis Williams https://anthropology.columbian.gwu.edu/alexis-williams

Meet Your Exotic, Extinct Close Relative
BY BERNARD WOOD, ALEXIS WILLIAMS https://www.americanscientist.org/article/meet-your-exotic-extinct-close-relative

The Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology https://cashp.columbian.gwu.edu/

Twitter: @gwCASHP

George Washington University: https://www.gwu.edu/


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In 1983, an exquisitely-preserved fossil of a new species of primate, Darwinius masillae, was unearthed in Germany's Messel Pit. The media hailed the 47-million-year-old specimen as the missing link.

Is Darwinius (aka 'Ida') the so-called missing link between primates and humans, the earliest human ancestor ever found?

SERGI LÓPEZ-TORRES is a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Anthropology who researches the early stages of primate evolution as well as the paleobiology and functional morphology of other closely related groups to primates. His work on Ida has turned up some unexpected results.

MARK from  Evolution Soup discusses all things Darwinius with Sergi, focusing on her most likely placement on the human family tree...

Link to original video interview: https://youtu.be/Vu3qouBsCUM

#primates #ida #darwinius


LINKS FOR SERGI LÓPEZ-TORRES:

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sergi_Lopez-Torres

TWITTER: @S_LopezTorres 

Researcher at
@IPaleoPAN
| Res. Assoc.
@AMNH
| PhD from
@UofT



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Hobbits were REAL? Really? Actually ... yes.

DR KAREN BAAB is a biological anthropologist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anatomy at Midwestern University, Arizona and her main interests are the extinct relatives of humans and what the shape of hominin brains can tell us. Dr Baab has also led a series of studies of the "Hobbits" of Flores Island, Indonesia.

MARK from Evolution Soup talks with Dr Baab about these fascinating hominins, their strange origins, and why they are so small compared to other hominins of the time.

#hobbit #homofloresiensis #evolution




ORIGINAL VIDEO LINK: https://bit.ly/3rkoKHr




LINKS FOR DR KAREN BAAB:

SITE: http://www.karenbaab.com/

RESEARCHGATE: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Karen-Baab




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What is race and ethnicity?

KATE KELLER is a biological anthropologist who teaches introductory biological anthropology and human variation classes to undergraduates. She enjoys taking difficult, controversial, or esoteric topics and explaining them in accessible, fun, and relatable ways.

What is race and ethnicity? Is 'race' even a thing?

MARK from Evolution Soup talks with Kate about the concept of race and ethnicity, how race has been viewed in the past, and what the biology tells us.

Link to original video interview: https://youtu.be/QyG3T3eNnc4

LINKS FOR KATE KELLER:

INSTAGRAM: @bonesandbioanth / @bonesandbioanth https://bit.ly/2ZKfPk3

NEW! Twitter: https://twitter.com/BonesandBioanth

WEBSITE: http://bonesandbioanth.com/

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/bonesandbioanth

Have questions in bioanth? Contact Kate at #askabioanth.


SEE ALSO:

Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSPNVunyFQ&t=0s

Natural History Museum London: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/


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How and why did reptiles start to fly?

Dr Corwin Sullivan is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. Along with studying the origin of birds and flight, Dr Sullivan researches the diversity, evolution and functional morphology of fossil vertebrates, especially dinosaurs.

How did feathers evolve? Why did feathered dinosaurs take to the air & how did they figure that out?

MARK from Evolution Soup talks all things birds, flight & feathers with Dr Sullivan in a fully illustrated by the art of PBS Eons contributor, Julio Lacerda (thank you to Julio for his kind permission to use his amazing work!).

#birds #dinosaurs #evolution




LINK TO ORIGINAL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/blHyY01x58s



LINKS FOR CORWIN SULLIVAN:

Twitter: @AncientAnatomy

http://jurassicfoundation.org/
http://jurassicfoundation.org/corwin-sullivan/

University of Alberta: http://uab.ca/

Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum: https://dinomuseum.ca/

BOOK: From Fish To Human: The March Of Vertebrate Life In China (Chinese Edition): https://amzn.to/2YTUa8L

SEE ALSO: The Origin of Dinosaurs with Michael Hudgins: https://bit.ly/3bS778m


Michael Hudgins: @SM_N_Hudgins


JULIO LACERDA (PALEO ARTIST):

Websites:
https://www.paleoart.tumblr.com
https://www.deviantart.com/julio-lacerda/gallery
https://www.facebook.com/art.julio.lacerda/

Twitter @JuliotheArtist
Insta: @lacerda.julio


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Were the Dire Wolves seen on Game of Thrones simply myth?

ANGELA PERRI BA (Hons), PhD is an archaeologist based at Durham University, UK. Her research focuses on the nature of human-environmental interactions by analyzing early relationships between humans, animals, climate, and landscapes.

MARK from Evolution Soup discusses the reality of Dire Wolves - real carnivores that lived in the Americas from 250,000 years ago. How big were they? What canids were they related to? And what does a recent DNA study reveal about these fascinating extinct creatures? The answers may surprise you!

#GOT​ #wolf​ #direwolf​

LINKS FOR ANGELA PERRI:

Website: Durham Uni Profile https://bit.ly/3hXiNZU​

Twitter https://twitter.com/arperri​

Durham University: https://www.dur.ac.uk/​

Paleo Barn: Palaeo-Barn, the home of the Wellcome Trust Palaeogenomics & Bio-Archaeology Research Network at Oxford University. https://www.palaeobarn.com/​

La Brea Tarpits Museum: https://tarpits.org/​


David Ian Howe & Ethnocynology: @ethnocynology / https://www.davidianhowe.com/ethnocyn...​


DIRE WOLF ART:

Sergio De la Rosa

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A deep dive into dating methods, dinosaurs, and Deep Time with paleontologist, Michael Hudgins!

Michael is a systematics and evolution masters student studying palaeontology at the University of Alberta, Canada and his main research centers on late Cretaceous primitive bird-hipped dinosaurs known as Thescelosaurs, and the prehistoric creatures of the Triassic period.

Last interview, Mike explored the origin of dinosaurs but today he dives deep into the age of the earth and everything on it and how we can know for certain how old everything really is.

What about radiometric dating? Is it reliable for dating fossils? How about the age of the moon? And what does Mike say to those people who claim they have found evidence of a young earth?

Original video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2TimrWup0Q


LINKS FOR MICHAEL HUDGINS:

Instagram:
- @Paleo_michael

Twitter:
- The Lab’s twitter: @AncientAnatomy
- Personal: @SM_N_Hudgins

The Origin of Dinosaurs: https://youtu.be/W-R4wTXGGKY

University of Alberta, Canada: http://uab.ca


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Dumb as a Dodo - or was the extinct flightless bird actually smart?

EUGENIA GOLD  is an Assistant Professor in the Biology Department of Suffolk University Boston, USA and currently a postdoctoral researcher & instructor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences. Eugenia has researched the extinct Dodo by analyzing its brain to determine its intelligence.

MARK from Evolution Soup talks to Eugenia about all things Dodo - including its closest living relative, history of its interaction with humans, and myths surrounding why it went extinct.

#dodo #evolution #extinct #birds

Original video interview: https://youtu.be/iF9TqizZjjw


LINKS FOR EUGENIA GOLD:

SITE: https://www.eugenia-gold.me/

Twitter: @drneurosaurus


Children's Book 'She Found Fossils':

Amazon US: https://amzn.to/2YR2rcP
Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3fLFuhJ

Twitter: @shefoundfossils


Bilingual blog for kids (English and Español): DrNeurosaurus http://www.drneurosaurus.com/

Suffolk University Boston: https://www.suffolk.edu/

Sketchfab (3D dodo skeleton & more)
https://www.suffolk.edu/

Boston Science Museum: https://www.mos.org/

New England Aquarium: https://www.neaq.org/

Official Mauritius Tourism Site: https://www.tourism-mauritius.mu/

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Dodo cartoon: https://www.chrismadden.co.uk/

Can We Clone the Tasmanian Tiger? Evolution Soup interview: https://youtu.be/m8VORE95D7s



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ARIEL MARCY - is an evolutionary biologist and educational game designer at the University of Queensland. During her PhD, Ariel will start to untangle the question of why marsupials are less diverse than placentals by studying Australian rodents.

MARK from Evolution Soup connects with Ariel from her home in Brisbane to talk marsupials, rodents, evo-devo ... and games! Ariel has created the educational game GO EXTINCT which teaches evolutionary relationships through a fun, Go Fish game experience.

LINK TO ORIGINAL VIDEO INTERVIEW: https://youtu.be/bYMxZjqUn40

#evolution #marsupials #science


LINKS FOR ARIEL MARCY:

Twitter: @aemarcy


'GO EXTINCT!' GAME (PLEASE SUPPORT!):

Go Extinct! https://bit.ly/2UIz7Ui

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Ariel guests on The Skeptic Zone podcast to talk Go Extinct! https://apple.co/2AzUIaS


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What was enigmatic dinosaur Spinosaurus really like?

NIZAR IBRAHIM is a vertebrate paleontologist and comparative anatomist based at the University of Detroit Mercy (USA), where he is an Assistant Professor of Biology teaching courses in anatomy and evolution.

Over the last decade Nizar has led several paleontological expeditions to Africa's Sahara desert and has recently come to world attention when he and his team uncovered the elusive tail of the 100-million-year-old Spinosaurus  - a fossil which changed everything we thought we knew about this amazing predator from the Cretaceous.

MARK from Evolution Soup catches up with Nizar and talks about his thrilling expeditions, the history and mystery surrounding Spinosaurus, and even asks him his thoughts on Jurassic Park 3!

#dinosaurs #paleontology #spinosaurus

Original Video Interview: https://youtu.be/QCIWvDd5zFU


LINKS FOR NIZAR IBRAHIM:

SITE: https://www.nizaribrahim.net/

TWITTER: @NizarIbrahimPhD

National Geographic: http://nationalgeographic.com/

TED talk 'How We Unearthed the Spinosaurus': https://bit.ly/2yRmY86



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