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The Fossil Files

Science

The Fossil Files

Robert Sansom and Susannah Maidment

Why did T. rex have such small arms? Revealed

June 29, 2026 8:27pm 48 min

Tyrannosaurus rex is perhaps the most famous dinosaur and maybe even the most famous fossil animal. It has long been a source of curiosity as to why is has such small arms though. What could the possible function be? Thi...

Digging for dinosaurs and the battle against poaching: Susie reports from the field [Preview]

June 22, 2026 10:55pm 9 min

Digging up dinosaur fossils is a complicated and unpredictable business. But how does it feel to be one of the scientists on the ground doing the exploring? What can you do when you are in a race to find dinosaur fossils...

The Fossil Files is one year old: The best bits so far

June 15, 2026 11:12pm 33 min

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 F...

The Mysterious Devonian Giant that may be an unknown branch of life

June 08, 2026 9:54pm 40 min

400 million years ago, before the rise of forests, the land was covered in mossy carpets, loomed over by weird 8 meter tall columns called Prototaxites. These weird giants have long been thought to be some sort of fungus...

Were giant super intelligent octopuses the top predators of the Cretaceous?

May 25, 2026 8:54pm 44 min

Cretaceous oceans have long been accepted as a dangerous place full of massive mosaurs and other predators. Now some new fossils from Japan have upended this with the suggestion that the "top dog" was not any vertebrate,...

Aliens burning coal? [bonus preview]

May 11, 2026 9:30pm 8 min

Are we alone? For decades a global effort has been made to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), but have we been looking in the wrong place? A new paper suggests that we should be looking for advanced technol...

How can we reconstruct the sense of smell of extinct organisms?

May 05, 2026 11:19am 36 min

Smell defines so much of animal's life from finding a mate, to tracking down food sources and avoiding predators. Genetics and behaviour can offer us rich insights for modern organisms, but what about extinct organisms? ...

The First Fossil Puke: What It Reveals About Permian Predators

April 21, 2026 11:48am 30 min

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 Permia...

How to get a Species of Human Named after you [Preview]

April 13, 2026 11:09pm 13 min

Getting a fossil species named after you is an unsual way to acheive quasi immortality, especially so for a species of human. In this preview of our second bonus episode we take a look at the weird, and often tragic live...

Fossil Fails: Weird ideas about how and when Mammoths were "Snuffed Out"

April 06, 2026 11:00pm 38 min

How and when did mammoths go extinct? This week we take a look at two bizarre mammoth related "fossil fails". The first is some unexpected results from from the "adopt-a-mammoth" scheme, a fascinating citizen science pro...

How to become a palaeontologist [Preview]

March 30, 2026 9:33pm 12 min

How and when and why do you become a palaeontologist? Biology, Geology, something else? Childhood, undergraduate, PhD? Susie and Rob discuss the different routes and offer their advice and experiences. This is a preview ...

25. A dinosaur covered in porcupine spines & the earliest fossil cloaca

March 22, 2026 10:45pm 31 min

The idea that dinosaurs were all scaley beasts got a massive challenge in 2000s when a variety of feather-like structures were found in fossils in China and other places. An even greater diversity of weird coverings have...

How and when did animals first appear? Extraordinary new fossils from China

March 11, 2026 8:27am 52 min

What (and when) is an animal? They are thought to have first arrived about 500 million years ago and immediately underwent an explosive diversifcation at the beginning of the Cambrian. When and how this important event t...

Squishy fishies and horned Hungarian dinosaurs: Fossils hidden in plain sight

February 23, 2026 7:35pm 48 min

Sometimes the answer to palaeontological mysteries can actually be right in front of our faces, if only we know how, or where, to look. This week we take a look a two cases by the Fossils Files' own Susie, Rob and Jane. ...

22. The dawn of dangerous seas in the Triassic

February 09, 2026 7:02pm 33 min

Life nearly died 252 million years ago in a mass extinction at the end of the Permian. It was long thought that it took 10s of millions of years into the Triassic for life to recover and get back to a 'new normal'. That ...

Lead Poisoned Apes and Our Human Origins

January 26, 2026 9:00pm 42 min

Lead is a well known pollutant affecting human health over the course of our urbanisation and industrialisation. But what about before this? Analysis of a range of fossil hominid teeth from the Pleistocene reveals that l...

20. Back-breaking and baby making, the disturbing bedroom habits of hadrosaurs

January 12, 2026 8:08pm 47 min

Having large body sizes conferred all sorts of advantages on dinosaurs, but it potentially made breeding a bit complicated. This week we take a look at some weird pathologies in fossil hadrosaurs (duck billed dinosaurs a...

19. Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte. part 2

December 22, 2025 7:00pm 31 min

Part 2: Around 66 million years ago an enormous asteroid barrelled into the earth and wiped out  ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs*. Debate has raged back and forth as to whether the dinosaurs were already in decli...

Dinosaurs were doing fine (before the asteroid), with Steve Brusatte. part 1

December 15, 2025 9:18pm 39 min

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 ...

Will palaeontologists go extinct? AI & the future of palaeo

December 02, 2025 1:00am 48 min

Artificial Intelligence seems to be changing everything, everywhere, all at once. But how will the science of studying the very old be transformed by the technology of the new? In this episode Susie and Rob take a look a...

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