Humans aren’t the only members of the animal kingdom that work hard to impress and attract a mate. Often, guys battle it out in front of a desirable girl – hissing, flapping, ramming each other with horns. When the competition is over, the girl either accepts or rejects the boy. In this episode of Sciworks […]
Shawn Fitzmaurice
The Carolina Butcher : 2-legged Crocodile Ancestor before the Dinosaurs *
Crocodiles and their ancestors were around a hundred million years before the dinosaurs. One of the largest of the early crocodile family was discovered right here in North Carolina. It has been investigated and described by Dr. Lindsay Zanno, Director of the Paleontology and Geology lab at the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, and […]
The Dinosaurs in your Back Yard – SciWorks Radio Podcast
Dinosaurs are still here, and they’re an incredibly successful species. Ok, what about the fact that earth was hit by an asteroid 65 million years ago, resulting in the extinction of the dinosaurs? Three decades of evidence have forced us to re-think the story: Sixty-five million years ago, an astroid collided with Earth, resulting in […]
Investigating the Purpose of Female Beauty in Animals *
In this episode of Sciworks Radio, Shawn spoke with Dr. Courtney Fitzpatrick, former postdoctoral fellow at Duke University and a co-author of a paper in the journal Evolution investigating the purpose of female animal beauty. And it’s not as straightforward as you might expect. Male animals are often more “attractive” than their female counterparts – […]
Blue-Footed Boobies’ Struggle To Survive in the Galapagos
Winner of the National Science Foundations’s Science 360 Best Science Podcast Award, 2014. The Galapagos islands are famous for their association with Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution by natural selection. But the islands also have species who live there, but did not evolve there; Blue-Footed Boobies for example. Interestingly, they might be relying […]
A New Dinosaur Discovery
Yes, we’re still discovering new dinosaurs! In this podcast, learnabout a new dinosaur discovered by paleontologist Doctor Lindsay Zanno of the Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, North Carolina. A predator, carnivore, 2-legged animal, Siats Meekerorum may have looked and behaved a lot like a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but it lived in a much earlier time […]