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The episode discusses two papers on the functional morphology of ancient animals, focusing on Ediacaran taxa and Oviraptor nesting strategies.

The gang discusses two papers about the functional morphology of ancient groups of animals. The first paper is a review of how the life position of rangeomorph ediacaran taxa have been reconstructed, and the second paper conducts an actualistic experiment of Oviraptor nesting strategies. Meanwhile, Curt gets activated, James doesn't die, and Amanda relishes in details. Up-Goer Five (James Edition): The group look at two papers that focus of understanding how things are long dead lived. The first paper talks about strange things that might have either lived standing up or lying down at the bottom of the water which is big and you can not drink. It is hard to tell how these things lived because there are not any around today and so instead we need to look at their form and how they are found in the rock. Most of the things seem to have lived how we thought but one actually was lying down rather than standing up. The second paper looks at how big angry animals without hair kept their round babies and helped them grow by making a form in the ground like they used and putting round babies in it. They looked at how the round babies did by themselves and how they did with a warm bag on…

People in this episode

Hosts: James Lamsdell, Amanda Falk, Curtis Congreve

Topics covered

• functional morphology
• Ediacaran taxa
• Oviraptor nesting strategies
• ancient animals
• paleontology

Keywords

• Ediacaran
• Oviraptor
• functional morphology
• paleontology
• ancient animals

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Determining the mode of life of Ediacaran rangeomor

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