Podcasts about taphonomy

What is the science of taphonomy?

Forensic scientist Dr Xanthe Mallett on her work analysing skeletal remains, investigating cases of wrongful conviction and studying the decomposition of the human body (CW: contains references to death and crime) 

Dr. Daniel J. Wescott is the director of the forensic anthropology center at Texas State University, where the largest decomposition facility or ‘body farm' is housed. He joins Crime Redefined to describe the fascinating and stomach-turning research that is changing what we know about the human decomposition process.  Hosted by Dion Mitchell and Mehul Anjaria.  A Zero Cliff Media production.  

Olá, bio-ouvinte! No novo episódio do nosso podcast, vamos dar início à minissérie sobre Paleobiologia! Vamos começar viajando pelo tempo geológico com as mudanças que ocorreram no planeta e como se formaram os fósseis.    CONTATOS cartinhas@biologiainsitu.com.br Instagram, Facebook e LinkedIn: @biologiainsitu Twitter e TikTok: @bioinsitu APOIO Apoie pela Orelo em "Fazer parte"! Pix: cartinhas@biologiainsitu.com.br CRÉDITOS Coordenação: Bruna Canellas, Cristianne Santos, Heloá Caramuru, Ricardo Gomes e Vitor Lopes. Pesquisa de pauta: Vanusa Gatteli e Viviane Turman. Revisão científica: Isabela Mayara e Nadja Lopes. Roteirização: Ana Victória. Revisão textual: Sueli Rodrigues. Locução: Renata Santos e Ricardo Gomes. Direção: Vitor Lopes. Edição e mixagem de áudio: Ricardo Gomes. Arte de capa: Larissa Castro.   REFERÊNCIAS ALLISON, Peter A.; BOTTJER, David J. (ed.). Taphonomy: process and bias through time. Londres: Springer, 2011. 603 p. Disponível em: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/bafykbzacebhklfn4x73alfj4wd2ef7ctoe4idkqdpxn6ef6qzgksrb7bgi5la?filename=%28Aims%20%26%20Scope%20Topics%20in%20Geobiology%20Book%20Series%2032%29%20Peter%20A.%20Allison%2C%20David%20J.%20Bottjer%20%28auth.%29%2C%20Peter%20A.%20Allison%2C%20David%20J.%20Bottjer%20%28eds.%29%20-%20Taphonomy_%20Process%20and%20Bias%20Through%20Time-Springer%20Netherlands.pdf. Acesso em: 15 mar. 2023 ANELLI, L.E.; LEME, J.M.; OLIVEIRA, P.E.; FAIRCHILD, T,R. 2020. Paleontologia. Guia de aulas práticas, uma introdução ao estudo dos fósseis. Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Geociências. Disponível em: https://didatico.igc.usp.br/fosseis/processos-de-fossilizacao. Acesso em: 12 mar. 2023. A História do planeta contada pelas rochas. Disponível em: https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/a-historia-do-planeta-contada-pelas-rochas/. Acesso em: 3 mar. 2023.  A primeira fratura. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 mar. 2023.  Biostratigraphy | Palaeontology and life history. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 3 mar. 2023.  BUCK, P. V. et al. A new tetrapod ichnotaxon from Botucatu Formation, Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian), Brazil, with comments on fossil track preservation on inclined planes and local paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 466, p. 21–37, 15 jan. 2017.  BUSS, L. W.; SEILACHER, A. The Phylum Vendobionta: a sister group of the Eumetazoa? Paleobiology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 1–4, ed 1994. Dinossauros - Materiais Didáticos. , 10 ago. 2020. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 mar. 2023 CASATI, Rafael. Tafonomia: o estudo de como se formam os fósseis. O estudo de como se formam os fósseis. 2023. Instituto de Geociências da Universidade de São Paulo. Disponível em: https://didatico.igc.usp.br/tafonomia-o-estudo-fosseis/. Acesso em: 11 mar. 2023. CASTRO, Ana Flávia. Chapada do Araripe: conheça a riqueza cultural e histórica do cariri. Metrópoles. Brasília, 30 abr. 2021. p. 1-9. Disponível em: https://www.metropoles.com/vida-e-estilo/turismo/chapada-do-araripe-conheca-a-riqueza-cultural-e-historica-do-cariri?amp. Acesso em: 11 mar. 2023. CUNHA, Lucca; FRANCISCHINI, Heitor. Museu de Paleontologia Irajá Damiani Pinto: fósseis. 2023. UFRGS. Disponível em: https://www.ufrgs.br/museupaleonto/?page_id=735. Acesso em: 15 mar. 2023. FÓSSIL. In: Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, 2023. Disponível em https://dicionario.priberam.org/Fóssil. Acesso em 14 de março de 2023. GRADSTEIN, F. M. et al. Geologic Time Scale 2020. [s.l.] Elsevier, 2020. Há 200 milhões de anos, mudanças climáticas foram essenciais para dinossauros espalharem-se pelo planeta. Jornal da USP, 11 jan. 2023. Disponível em:  . Acesso em: 10  mar. 2023 HOLZ, Michael; SIMÕES, Marcello G.. Elementos Fundamentais de Tafonomia. Porto Alegre: Ufrgs, 2002. 231 p. Disponível em: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcello-Simoes/publication/309122335_Elementos_Fundamentais_de_Tafonomia/links/57ffd98c08aec3e477eac69d/Elementos-Fundamentais-de-Tafonomia.pdf. Acesso em: 11 mar. 2023. INSTITUTO VIRTUAL DE PALEONTOLOGIA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO (IVP-RJ) (Rio de Janeiro). Parque Paleontológico de São José de Itaboraí. 2023. Disponível em: http://www.ivprj.uerj.br/parquepaleontologicoitabora.html. Acesso em: 12 mar. 2023. International Commission on Stratigraphy. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 mar. 2023.  Jornal da USP ano XXI n.751. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 mar. 2023.  KELLER, Thiago. ‘Mundo Perdido': conheça 5 espécies de dinossauros encontradas no Brasil. 2022. Disponível em: https://ndmais.com.br/meio-ambiente/mundo-perdido-conheca-5-especies-de-dinossauros-encontradas-no-brasil/. Acesso em: 12 mar. 2023. KERBER, B. B. et al. O registro fossilífero de metazoários ediacaranos na América do Sul e suas implicações nos estudos sobre origem e complexificação da vida animal. Geologia USP. Série Científica, v. 13, n. 3, p. 51–64, 1 set. 2013. LEVIN, Harold L.. Time and Geology. In: LEVIN, Harold L.. The Earth Through Time. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1978. Cap. 5. p. 123-147. Disponível em: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1801376W/The_earth_through_time?edition=key%3A/books/OL4564379M. Acesso em: 18 fev. 2023. MARSOLA, J. No labirinto dos arcossauros. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 mar. 2023. O lugar dos insetos na biodiversidade. Jornal da USP, 16 fev. 2023. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 12 mar. 2023 O'NEIL, J. et al. Neodymium-142 Evidence for Hadean Mafic Crust. Science, v. 321, n. 5897, p. 1828–1831, 26 set. 2008.  Pedaço de um supercontinente. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 mar. 2023.  PEDROSA, M. S. [UNESP. Mudanças ambientais e extinções durante o Eon Fanerozoico. Alma, p. 175 f., 13 dez. 2018. Pré-Cambriano - Materiais Didáticos. , 6 ago. 2020. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 2 mar. 2023. TAFONOMIA. In: Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa, 2023. Disponível em https://dicionario.priberam.org/tafonomia. Acesso em 14 de março de 2023. Tempo Geológico – Museu de Paleontologia Irajá Damiani Pinto. , [s.d.]. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 3 mar. 2023. Uma breve história da escrita. [s.d.]. Disponível em: . Acesso em: 3 mar. 2023. What Was the Biggest Dinosaur? What Was the Smallest? Disponível em: . Acesso em: 13 mar. 2023. WILLIAMS, F.M. (2016). Geological Time. In: Understanding Ethiopia. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02180-5_2 YORK, D.; FARQUHAR, R. M. Earth's Age and Geochronology. Oxford, New York: Pergamon Pr, 1972.  

Way back in episode 64, we discussed the Caged Graves in Catawissa, PA, and how those were most likely installed to keep out Resurrectionsist from Ohio. Today we finally get to tell the tale of these brazen folks that caused so much consternation from Michigan all the way to Philadelphia. Our featured music today is from Haldol with their song " Taphonomy". Our promo is for Autumn's Oddities Podcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/missionspooky/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/missionspooky/support

The gang goes back to their favorite hypothetical deathtrap amusement park, Penguin Deathland. They discuss two papers that look at the taphonomy of penguin fossil deposits and what they can tell us about ancient environments and the processes that can break down bone. Meanwhile, James loves old movie cliches, Amanda upsets the natural order, and Curt enjoys totally real colors.   Up-Goer Five (Amanda): Today our friends talk about animals with no hair that usually can fly but these can't fly. These are found on an small place surrounded by water that is very cold. These animals lived during the ice age so they are only sort of rock at this time. The first paper looks at numbers of these animals and other stuff all together in one place. The paper shows that there were places where there were baby animals long ago where there aren't any now. It also shows that there were some tiny animals with no rock parts that suck blood that are not on these small places today. But it is possible that some of these tiny animals were brought in later by people. The second paper looks at how things that are green things and sometimes good to eat not-animals that are living together are hurting the rock parts of these animals with no hair that can usually fly but can't. It turns out that the things that are green things living together with sometimes good to eat not-animals might be very good at hurting the rock parts of these animals, and we can actually see exactly what that looks like and so can tell if we see this in rock parts that would be much much older.   References: Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina, et al.  "Taphonomy of two Holocene penguin taphocoenoses in Potter Peninsula,  South Shetland Islands, Antarctica." Historical Biology (2022): 1-18. García, Renato, Carolina Acosta  Hospitaleche, and Gonzalo Márquez. "Biodeterioration of Antarctic fossil  penguin bones caused by lichens from the Eocene La Meseta Formation." Polar Biology 44.12 (2021): 2243-2254.

For links to every news story, all of the details we shared about Caenagnathus, and our fun fact check out https://iknowdino.com/Caenagnathus-Episode-417/Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more.Dinosaur of the day Caenagnathus, A large oviraptorosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada.In dinosaur news this week:Presentations from the Dinosaur Macroevolution/Macroecology session of SVP 2022The Soft Tissues and Taphonomy talks from SVP 2022 For 75 years The Folio Society has been turning books into works of art. They currently have special editions of Jurassic Park, The Lost World, and most recently The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs includes 32 pages of fossil photos, an 8-page full-colour gatefold illustration, and a large two-sided fold-out colour map. Get the perfect gift for the Dino-lover in your life at foliosociety.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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An introduction to forensic taphonomy and the research of the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER). Forensic taphonomy is the study of human remains from the time of death to the time of discovery, and AFTER is a facility researching what happens after death with the help of donors who have given their bodies for scientific research.

An introduction to forensic taphonomy and the research of the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER). Forensic taphonomy is the study of human remains from the time of death to the time of discovery, and AFTER is a facility researching what happens after death with the help of donors who have given their bodies for scientific research.

Bolca is a site of exceptional preservation of fossils (termed a konservat lagerstätte) located close to Verona, Italy. This 50 million year old limestone was deposited in the Eocene Epoch and contains over 500 species of plants, arthropods terrestrial vertebrates and most notably a lot of fish! The preservation at Bolca is so detailed that even the external colouration of the skin and internal anatomy of many of these fossils can be seen. Exploring the taphonomy (the processes that occur to a body between death and discovery) and palaeoecology (how fossil organisms lived and interacted with other organisms and their surroundings) of some of the fish from Bolca is Dr Valentina Rossi from University College Cork, Ireland. In this episode, we look at how colour patterns are preserved in a fossil moonfish and look at what that can tell us about how the species lived.

In this episode Nicole tells us all about the processes of decomposition and body farms. She explains which environmental and non-environmental processes can affect a body and what we can learn from in a forensic setting. Rebecca then tells us all about the Redhead Murders that happened along highways in the United States.  She explores the investigative processes, similarities and differences between victims, and what investigators know about potential suspects. This episode is super informative so make sure to listen in!!Listener's discretion is advised as there is discussion of: dismemberment and decomposition.Interested in learning more about when WTF releases new episodes, contests, and more? Make sure to give us a follow on:Facebook and Instagram @WhattheForensics For more details about the hosts, episode details, sources, and images related to each episode, check out our website at https://www.whattheforensics.ca/

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Dr. Chadwick talks about how Creationists need to be careful and accurate in their research, especially to avoid another Paluxy River fiasco. See Dr. Chadwick explain how fossils are formed, intelligent design in the fossil record, and his new taphonomy dinosaur bonebed model!

Shari L. Forbes is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Forensic Thanatology at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR). She is the Director of the first human taphonomy facility in Canada for Recherche en Sciences Thanatologiques [Expérimentales et Sociales], also referred to as REST[ES]. She is an advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) and has a deep commitment to the implementation of EDI values in academia. She has encouraged young adults to become engaged in science through her roles as an Ambassador for the Sydney Science Festival, the National Youth Science Forum, and Science Rendezvous.Prof. Forbes' research investigates the chemical processes that occur in soft tissue decomposition. Her research aims to increase the knowledge base relating to decomposition chemistry to identify an accurate biochemical signature for estimating time since death. She has studied these processes in terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric environments throughout Australia, Canada and the USA. Her current research focuses on identifying an accurate chemical profile of decomposition odour using advanced chemical instrumentation. Her research assists police canine units to enhance their training protocols for cadaver-detection dogs deployed to forensic and mass disaster investigations. Her expertise is regularly requested to assist police with locating and recovering buried or concealed evidence, including human remains, drugs, explosives, weapons, and currency. [biography taken from Shariforbes.com]Audio played:"What happens to your body after you die" by Science Insider"The Story of Ada Lovelace" produced by the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)"Visiting the Brewarrina First Traps" produced by Now-ness.

It wouldn’t be outlandish to state that many a fossil collection has started with the acquisition of an ammonite. Their planispiral shells (termed a conch) are instantly recognisable and since that conch was originally composed of the relatively hard mineral aragonite, they better lend themselves to the fossilisation process. But how much do we actually know about the animal that produces the conch? We might be able to make superficial inferences based on comparisons with the modern Nautilus, but ammonites are actually closer related to squid and octopuses. So could you recognise an ammonite without its shell? Prof. Christian Klug of the University of Zurich has recently described just that: a naked ammonite. In this episode, we learn about ammonite soft body anatomy and sink our teeth into the mystery of how this ammonite lost its shell.

Phew, what a conversation, ssssooo much info laid out there for you Cave Dwellers. I want to Thank Alan for sticking around longer than the 30 minutes I ask, as well as all the other guests I have Interviewed to this point that gave their personal time up to The Neanderthal Mind to help and make this podcast, something I hope my Community loves. So, Cave Dwellers, I would love to hear from you about how you feel the podcast is going. Is it what you were expecting? Are there things I can do differently to make this any better? If I don't hear from you, I can only assume that I am giving you what you want from The Neanderthal Mind. I will take all criticism that you give, and try to mold the show to your liking, but, I can't promise I will be able to do everything, everyone wants me to do, so please, email the show at theneanderthalmind@gmail.com, and go to the somewhat of a website theneanderthalmind.com, and leave me some messages. Until next time Cave Dwellers…. Here are the links to Alan VanArsdale:https://store.bookbaby.com/book/human-fossil-record-and-classification Facebook Group Denisovan Link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/DenisovanFacebook Group The into Africa Theory of Human Evolution Link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheIntoAfricaTheoryFacebook Group Archaic Human Club link:https://www.facebook.com/groups/Archaic Human Club

The Soom Shale is an Ordovician lagerstätte in the Western Cape of South Africa. Whilst it lacks the diversity of organisms seen in other lagerstätten, such as the Burgess Shale or Chengjiang, it more than makes up for it in the fidelity of preservation. The taphonomic pathway to the fantastic preservation in the Soom Shale is long and complex, reliant not only on local conditions, but also ties into global climatic events. It’s vitally important when interpreting fossils to understand the taphonomy as it provides so much context as to what you can see in fossils and, as equally important, what you can’t. Joining us for this episode is Prof. Sarah Gabbott, a taphonomist from the University of Leicester, UK.

PalaeoParty! is a biweekly interactive podcast about palaeontology. In today's episode we chat with Dr Orla Bath Enright, a Postdoctoral researcher at Lusanne University, Switzerland. Orla talks us through the disgusting and smell world of experimental taphonomy (learning how fossils form). We learn how she uses flume tanks (think giant washing machines) to recreate ancient underwater landslides! We also talk about the Burgess Shale, a famous fossil site in Canada that preserves fossils of soft-bodied animals that are over 500 million years old. Orla can be found on twitter @BathEnright. Each week we invite a new palaeontologist guest to join our hosts, Dr Emma Dunne, Dr Chris Dean and Dr Thomas Clements, as we laugh about weird fossils, odd science and whatever else pops into their brains! PalaeoParty! is unlike other podcasts because we live stream each episode on Twitch so you can chat and ask our guests questions in real time! Find our schedule at our website: https://palaeoparty.weebly.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/palaeoparty/message

The gang discusses two papers about unique taphonomic conditions. One paper describes how these strange “train wrecks” of crinoid columnals might have formed, and the other paper models how bone jams in Dinosaur National Park could have formed. Meanwhile, James’s computer has a flux capacitor, Amanda mishears the best new BBC crime drama, and Curt enjoys the chance to talk about Nathan Fillion vehicles.   Up-Goer Five (Amanda Edition):  Today our friends talk about animals with hard parts on their insides. Some of these animals have long arms with lots of parts and look like they sit on sticks. Others have many inside hard parts in place along their backs, and that is where they get their names. The animals with the long arms with lots of parts sometimes break into small pieces when they die. Usually they break into lots of little single round things, or they are very quickly covered up and are found all put together. But sometimes they break into big pieces that look like a train ran into another train. This paper talks about why they do that. They have long, strong bits of stuff like what is found on your knee. This stuff does not break down so easy and sometimes that is why you get these bigger pieces. The other paper looks at animals with hard parts inside their bodies put in a place along their backs, and what happens when these animals die and their hard parts come together in a moving water place. This paper does this by making tiny ones of the hard parts and putting them in a not-real moving water place. They find that these hard parts easily stick together and it explains why some of the these hard parts look the different ways they do once the animals are dead.     References:  Donovan, Stephen K. "Train crash crinoids revisited." Lethaia.   Carpenter, Kenneth. "Use of scaled dinosaur bones in taphonomic water flume experiments." Die Naturwissenschaften 107.3 (2020): 15-15. 

The gang discusses two very different papers that are sort of united together based upon the importance of taphonomy. First, they look at a paper about how the ways in which conodont elements are preserved can affect our understanding of their evolution. Second, they talk about the recent finding of exceptionally preserved therizinosaur dinosaur nesting sites. Meanwhile, Amanda finds herself dealing with a failing webcam, Curt enjoys burying the lede, and James is never wrong unless he wants to be.   Up-Goer Five (Curt Edition): Our friends talk about how the ways that things wear down can really change how we understand our past. First, they look at these things that are like teeth but are not and are part of this very old group of animals that are aunt or uncle to a lot of animals that have hard parts in their backs which live today. Some of these old animals that have not teeth have changes through time in their not teeth. The bottom of these not teeth appears to disappear in the animals we find which are closer to today. However, this paper finds new animals that show maybe the bottom of these teeth have not actually disappeared, but instead it turns out that this bottom part is very easy to break off. This is important because it means that the not teeth may still have some deep relationship to how actual teeth teeth form. Next, our friends look at the places where big angry animals would lay bag like things that hold babies, here after we will call them sit places. A big question has been if these big angry animals liked to find sit places close to each other or far away. It is hard to tell this in the past because we can't always be sure all of the sit places were used at the same time. This paper find a single red line that runs across all of the sit places, which allows the people who wrote the paper to say that all of the sit places were probably used at the same time. Also, the number of babies that didn't die is a lot like the number of babies that don't die in animals who also find sit places together today. So it looks like these big angry animals probably shared sit places.   References: Tanaka, Kohei, et al. "Exceptional preservation of a Late Cretaceous dinosaur nesting site from Mongolia reveals colonial nesting behavior in a non-avian theropod." Geology(2019).   Souquet, Louise, and Nicolas Goudemand. "Exceptional basal-body preservation in some Early Triassic conodont elements from Oman." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2019). 

Research underway at the University of Technology, Sydney's AFTER facility is yielding some surprising new findings about how bodies decompose in the Australian bush. Supplied by UTS, Author provided (No reuse)On the outskirts of Sydney, in a secret bushland location, lies what’s officially known as the Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research (AFTER). In books and movies, it’d be called a body farm. Maiken Ueland at the AFTER facility run by UTS. Supplied by UTS, Author provided Taphonomy is the study of how an organism breaks down after death. Research underway at the University of Technology Sydney’s AFTER facility is yielding some surprising new findings about how bodies decompose in the Australian bush. And here’s an astonishing detail: until AFTER opened in Sydney in 2016, there was no facility like it in the southern hemisphere. Most of the world’s taphonomic research came from the US, meaning we were missing vital clues relating to how Australian weather, bugs and climate conditions affect the way a human body decomposes in the bush. Today on our podcast, Trust Me, I’m An Expert, we take you on a journey to AFTER. The facility’s interim director, Maiken Ueland, and PhD student Samara Garrett-Rickman share with us: some of the unexpected findings emerging from AFTER on determining time since death; why AFTER researchers prefer not to use the term “body farm”; how the stages of decomposition work a process of “mummification” that research suggests may be unique to Australian bushland conditions; what the TV shows get wrong about forensic science; why it’s harder to bury a body than most people think; what investigators look for to spot a clandestine grave; And if you’re interested in finding out more about how to donate your body for such research, you can start here. Looking for odours at the AFTER facility, run by UTS. Anna Zhu, Author provided (No reuse) New to podcasts? Podcasts are often best enjoyed using a podcast app. All iPhones come with the Apple Podcasts app already installed, or you may want to listen and subscribe on another app such as Pocket Casts (click here to listen to Trust Me, I’m An Expert on Pocket Casts). You can also hear us on Stitcher, Spotify or any of the apps below. Just pick a service from one of those listed below and click on the icon to find Trust Me, I’m An Expert. Additional audio Kindergarten by Unkle Ho, from Elefant Traks. Backyard by David Szesztay from Free Music Archive Images UTS/Anna Zhu

Fossilisation of organic material was long thought to result in the complete loss of original content. However in the last 20 years, several high-profile publications reported the discovery of proteins, blood vessels, blood cells and even DNA. But for as long as these arguments have existed, so too has a counterargument as to the validity of the discoveries. In this episode, we're joined by Dr Evan Saitta of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, lead author of a recent paper seeking to discover and evaluate the preservation of putative original organic materials within dinosaur bones.

SHOW NOTES:  Smith & Vinson's Official Website (https://www.smithandvinson.com/) Jennifer Taylor @ Smith & Vinson (https://www.smithandvinson.com/attorney-profiles/jennifer-taylor/)   Jennifer Taylor on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jentaylor2615) Smith & Vinson on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SmithandVinson) Smith & Vinson on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SmithandVinson/) "Vanished: Amelia Earhart" was recorded in its entirety by the Zoom H1N microphone. Get yours here. (https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zoom-h1n-handy-recorder) A special thank you to Chris Cogswell of the "Mad Scientist Podcast" (https://www.themadscientistpodcast.com/) for recording tonight's exit script.  EXHIBITS Project’s Exhibit 1: TIGHAR’s log of post-lost radio signals (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Brandenburg/signalcatalog.html) Project’s Exhibit 2: “The Post-Lost Radio Signals, (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Brandenburg/PostLossSignals/PostLossRadioAnalysis/PostLostRadioAnalysis.pdf) ” an analysis of the signals written by TIGHAR and released in 2018 Project’s Exhibit 3: Selected entries from Betty Klenck’s diary (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Notebook/notebook.html) Project’s Exhibit 4: TIGHAR Earhart Project Research Bulletin #82 - “The Bevington Object: What’s Past is Prologue.” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/82_BevingtonAnalysis2/82_BevingtonObjectNewAnalysis.html) Project’s Exhibit 5: Photos of Artifact 2-2-V-1. (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/71_RiddleOf22V1/71_Riddle22V1.html) Project’s Exhibit 6: Photos of Artifact 2-3-V-2. (https://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/12_2/obj11.html) Project’s Exhibit 7: Photos of USALite Flashlight. (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/2018/11/usalite-flashlight-manufactured-between.html) Project’s Exhibit 8: Photos and Analysis of the woman’s compact (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/2012/09/artifacts-of-seven-site-compact.html) from Dr. Tom King’s Blog. Project’s Exhibit 9: Analysis of the Freckle Cream Jar (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/2012/06/that-freckle-cream-jar.html) from Dr. Tom King’s Blog. Project’s Exhibit 10: The Chater Report. (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Chater_Report.html) Project’s Exhibit 11: Fred Hooven’s 1982 Report. (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Hooven_Report/HoovenReport.html) Project’s Exhibit 12: 1940-41 Telegram Transcriptions including Gerald Gallagher’s Notations and Dr. D.W. Hoodless’s Report “The Bone Files” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones_Chronology.html) (TIGHAR, 1997). Project’s Exhibit 13: 1998 TIGHAR’s Analysis of Hoodless’s Report - “Amelia Earhart’s Bones and Shoes? Current Anthropological Perspectives on an Historical Mystery” (https://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1998Vol_14/bonesandshoes.pdf) (Burns, et al., 1998) Project’s Exhibit 14: 2015 Cross & Wright’s Response to the 1998 Analysis - “The Nikumaroro bones identification controversy: First-hand examination versus evaluation by proxy - Amelia Earhart found or still missing?” (https://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/handle/10454/7286) (Cross & Wright 2015) Project’s Exhibit 15: 2018 Jantz’s Response to Cross & Wright’s Analysis - “Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative Techniques" (http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/fa/article/view/525/519) (Jantz, 2018) Project’s Exhibit 16: Anthropology: The Four Subfields (https://revelpreview.pearson.com/epubs/pearson_scupin_aagp/OPS/xhtml/ch01_sec_01.xhtml) (Pearson, n.d.) Project’s Exhibit 17: Norwich City Crewman Analysis - “Lost Norwich City Crewmen: Potential Sources of the Human Remains Discovered on Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro Island) in 1940” (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/) (Kenton Spading, January 2019) Defense Exhibit 1: Sextant Box Analysis - “The Origin of the Nikumaroro Sextant Box” (http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html) (Kada, October 2018) Defense Exhibit 2: “The World Flight, Second Attempt: The Final Flight; Part 1: Lae to Midpoint” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Worldflight/finalflight1.html) (Dr. Randall S. Jacobson) Defense Exhibit 3: “Range Study Lockheed Electra Bimotor Airplane” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Report_487/Report487.pdf) (Kelly Johnson) Defense Exhibit 4: Statement by Ric Gillespie concerning fuel consumption. (https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,1737.msg38274.html#msg38274) Defense Exhibit 5: Video of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s takeoff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntkOyDanuRw&feature=youtu.be) from Lae, New Guinea Defense Exhibit 6: Taphonomy and Coconut Crabs (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/46_Crabexperiment/46_crabexp.html) (TIGHAR’s Dr. Karen Burns, 2003) ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES What is FORDISC? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORDISC) DNA Preservation in Water - “Effects of Different Types of Water on the Degradation Rate of Human DNA in Bone and Tissue” (https://www.newhaven.edu/_resources/documents/academics/surf/past-projects/2014/ema-graham-paper.pdf) (Graham & Adamowicz, 2014) “Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History” (https://books.google.com/books?id=qNkBDlueIxUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Silencing+the+Past:+Power+and+the+Production+of+History&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilw5SLobTiAhVkRN8KHQq7Dt4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Trouillot, 1995) Methods in Identifying Skeletal Material - “New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification” (https://books.google.com/books?id=jhdHDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=biological+profile+in+forensic+anthropology&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGsozdm7TiAhVurlkKHTJoD1cQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Latham, Bartelink, & Finnegan, 2018) Archaeological Documentation Methods - “Archaeology and Forensic Death Investigations” (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03374524) (Haglund, 2001) YouTube video on Taphonomy and Coconut Crabs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KDOz7Bv7JQ) TIGHAR Website (https://tighar.org/) TIGHAR Forum (https://tighar.org/smf/index.php?topic=454.0) Tom King’s Website (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/) “The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree.” (https://www.propublica.org/article/with-photo-analysis-fbi-lab-continues-shaky-forensic-science-practices) (Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, Jan. 17, 2019).  

SNOW NOTES Smith & Vinson's Official Website (https://www.smithandvinson.com/) Jennifer Taylor @ Smith & Vinson (https://www.smithandvinson.com/attorney-profiles/jennifer-taylor/)   Jennifer Taylor on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jentaylor2615) Smith & Vinson on Twitter (https://twitter.com/SmithandVinson) Smith & Vinson on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/SmithandVinson/) "Vanished: Amelia Earhart" was recorded in its entirety by the Zoom H1N microphone. Get yours here. (https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zoom-h1n-handy-recorder) A special thank you to the ladies at the "Do You Even Podcast" (https://doyouevenpodcast.wordpress.com/)   podcast for recording tonight's exit script.  EXHIBITS Project’s Exhibit 1: TIGHAR’s log of post-lost radio signals (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Brandenburg/signalcatalog.html) Project’s Exhibit 2: “The Post-Lost Radio Signals, (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Brandenburg/PostLossSignals/PostLossRadioAnalysis/PostLostRadioAnalysis.pdf) ” an analysis of the signals written by TIGHAR and released in 2018 Project’s Exhibit 3: Selected entries from Betty Klenck’s diary (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Notebook/notebook.html) Project’s Exhibit 4: TIGHAR Earhart Project Research Bulletin #82 - “The Bevington Object: What’s Past is Prologue.” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/82_BevingtonAnalysis2/82_BevingtonObjectNewAnalysis.html) Project’s Exhibit 5: Photos of Artifact 2-2-V-1. (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/71_RiddleOf22V1/71_Riddle22V1.html) Project’s Exhibit 6: Photos of Artifact 2-3-V-2. (https://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/12_2/obj11.html) Project’s Exhibit 7: Photos of USALite Flashlight. (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/2018/11/usalite-flashlight-manufactured-between.html) Project’s Exhibit 8: Photos and Analysis of the woman’s compact (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/2012/09/artifacts-of-seven-site-compact.html) from Dr. Tom King’s Blog. Project’s Exhibit 9: Analysis of the Freckle Cream Jar (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/2012/06/that-freckle-cream-jar.html) from Dr. Tom King’s Blog. Project’s Exhibit 10: The Chater Report. (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Chater_Report.html) Project’s Exhibit 11: Fred Hooven’s 1982 Report. (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Hooven_Report/HoovenReport.html) Project’s Exhibit 12: 1940-41 Telegram Transcriptions including Gerald Gallagher’s Notations and Dr. D.W. Hoodless’s Report “The Bone Files” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Bones_Chronology.html) (TIGHAR, 1997). Project’s Exhibit 13: 1998 TIGHAR’s Analysis of Hoodless’s Report - “Amelia Earhart’s Bones and Shoes? Current Anthropological Perspectives on an Historical Mystery” (https://tighar.org/Publications/TTracks/1998Vol_14/bonesandshoes.pdf) (Burns, et al., 1998) Project’s Exhibit 14: 2015 Cross & Wright’s Response to the 1998 Analysis - “The Nikumaroro bones identification controversy: First-hand examination versus evaluation by proxy - Amelia Earhart found or still missing?” (https://bradscholars.brad.ac.uk/handle/10454/7286) (Cross & Wright 2015) Project’s Exhibit 15: 2018 Jantz’s Response to Cross & Wright’s Analysis - “Amelia Earhart and the Nikumaroro Bones: A 1941 Analysis versus Modern Quantitative Techniques" (http://journals.upress.ufl.edu/fa/article/view/525/519) (Jantz, 2018) Project’s Exhibit 16: Anthropology: The Four Subfields (https://revelpreview.pearson.com/epubs/pearson_scupin_aagp/OPS/xhtml/ch01_sec_01.xhtml) (Pearson, n.d.) Project’s Exhibit 17: Norwich City Crewman Analysis - “Lost Norwich City Crewmen: Potential Sources of the Human Remains Discovered on Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro Island) in 1940” (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/) (Kenton Spading, January 2019) Defense Exhibit 1: Sextant Box Analysis - “The Origin of the Nikumaroro Sextant Box” (http://gardnerghost.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-origin-of-nikumaroro-sextant-box.html) (Kada, October 2018) Defense Exhibit 2: “The World Flight, Second Attempt: The Final Flight; Part 1: Lae to Midpoint” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/ResearchPapers/Worldflight/finalflight1.html) (Dr. Randall S. Jacobson) Defense Exhibit 3: “Range Study Lockheed Electra Bimotor Airplane” (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Documents/Report_487/Report487.pdf) (Kelly Johnson) Defense Exhibit 4: Statement by Ric Gillespie concerning fuel consumption. (https://tighar.org/smf/index.php/topic,1737.msg38274.html#msg38274) Defense Exhibit 5: Video of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s takeoff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntkOyDanuRw&feature=youtu.be) from Lae, New Guinea Defense Exhibit 6: Taphonomy and Coconut Crabs (https://tighar.org/Projects/Earhart/Archives/Research/Bulletins/46_Crabexperiment/46_crabexp.html) (TIGHAR’s Dr. Karen Burns, 2003) ADDITIONAL SHOW NOTES What is FORDISC? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORDISC) DNA Preservation in Water - “Effects of Different Types of Water on the Degradation Rate of Human DNA in Bone and Tissue” (https://www.newhaven.edu/_resources/documents/academics/surf/past-projects/2014/ema-graham-paper.pdf) (Graham & Adamowicz, 2014) “Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History” (https://books.google.com/books?id=qNkBDlueIxUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Silencing+the+Past:+Power+and+the+Production+of+History&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwilw5SLobTiAhVkRN8KHQq7Dt4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Trouillot, 1995) Methods in Identifying Skeletal Material - “New Perspectives in Forensic Human Skeletal Identification” (https://books.google.com/books?id=jhdHDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=biological+profile+in+forensic+anthropology&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGsozdm7TiAhVurlkKHTJoD1cQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q&f=false) (Latham, Bartelink, & Finnegan, 2018) Archaeological Documentation Methods - “Archaeology and Forensic Death Investigations” (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03374524) (Haglund, 2001) YouTube video on Taphonomy and Coconut Crabs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KDOz7Bv7JQ) TIGHAR Website (https://tighar.org/) TIGHAR Forum (https://tighar.org/smf/index.php?topic=454.0) Tom King’s Website (https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blogspot.com/) “The FBI Says Its Photo Analysis Is Scientific Evidence. Scientists Disagree.” (https://www.propublica.org/article/with-photo-analysis-fbi-lab-continues-shaky-forensic-science-practices) (Ryan Gabrielson, ProPublica, Jan. 17, 2019).  

Las Hoyas is a Early Cretaceous lagerstätte (site of special preservation) located close to the city of Cuenca, Spain. In this episode, we welcome Ángela Delgado Buscalioni and Francisco José Poyato-Ariza, both from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, to discuss the details of this remarkable site. Angela and Francisco have recently edited a comprehensive overview of the Las Hoyas site. Like most lagerstätten, Las Hoyas is most famous for its vertebrate fossils, but what other taxa can we find there? What was the palaeoenvironment like? And which processes have governed the preservation of the fossils?

Las Hoyas is a Early Cretaceous lagerstätte (site of special preservation) located close to the city of Cuenca, Spain. In this episode, we welcome Ángela Delgado Buscalioni and Francisco José Poyato-Ariza, both from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, to discuss the details of this remarkable site. Angela and Francisco have recently edited a comprehensive overview of the Las Hoyas site. Like most lagerstätten, Las Hoyas is most famous for its vertebrate fossils, but what other taxa can we find there? What was the palaeoenvironment like? And which processes have governed the preservation of the fossils?

00:00:00 - Bev and Abe are back from Antarctica and are back on the show! Ryan had to give a guest lecture on echinoderms, which happens to be a thing Bev knows a lot about. So our first segment is dedicated to getting Abe up to speed on these weird marine animals. 00:40:05 - Talking about sea creatures gives one a powerful thirst. This episode we sate our thirst in three ways. Bev opts for a Squishy apple and cherry cider, Abe keeps it nautical with a Dorado DIPA, and Ryan can't wait to enjoy a Pliny the Elder Abe gave him. 00:47:28 - Now that we all know what echinoderms about we can talk about Bev's actual research! For her Masters, she wanted to figure out how brittle stars were (or weren't) being preserved in the fossil record. She tells us just how she got it done, and you can read the paper she published about her work too! (Lots of cool figures in that paper, be sure to check them out!) 01:13:54 - PaleoPOWs are a lot like echinoderms, only occasionally edible. Ryan begins by plugging his crowdfunding effort to do some sloth research. Next up, Abe has an e-mail from Rebecca abut a nephew who wants to be a volcanologist. He suggests junior ranger programs at National Parks, geology summer camps, and some cool resources over at kids.gov. Beverly has an e-mail form Bennet T. in response to our time zone and metric talk from episode 226. She gives us her take and explains how things like this work in Antarctica. Ryan wraps things up with a new recurring donation from Denise N. Thanks, Denise!   Thanks for listening and be sure to check out the Brachiolope Media Network for more great science podcasts!   Music of this week's show: Anthropology rap - Community Beauty Is Only Skin Deep - The Temptations Eldorado 1997 - Manu Chao Dissolve - Jonathan Coulton

In this episode we revisit the topic of taphonomy by discussing two papers that deal with actualistic taphonomy studies. Also, Amanda butchers potatoes, Curt becomes morbid, and James's humor gets progressively bluer as the night goes on to the surprise of no one.   References Briggs, Derek EG. "The role of decay and mineralization in the preservation of soft-bodied fossils." Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 31.1 (2003): 275-301. Bartley, Julie K. "Actualistic taphonomy of cyanobacteria: implications for the Precambrian fossil record." Palaios (1996): 571-586.

V tomto podcaste budeme hovoriť o tom, ako Curiosity našla na Marse oblasť so zvýšeným obsahom metánu, nakoľko (a či vôbec) nám škodia amalgámové ploby a o rôznych lotériách. Takisto vyhodnotíme predpovede, ktoré sme sa pokúšali vysloviť pre rok 2014 a zase si skúsime voľačo tipnúť pre rok 2015. TémyZdroje Intro Čo značí zvýšený obsah metánu na Marse? Škodia nám amalgámové plomby? Treba podávať lotériu? Predpovede z minulého roka a pre rok 2015 Fakt a fikcia Outro NASA Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars Habitability, Taphonomy, and the Search for Organic Carbon on Mars Zubný kaz Mercury poisoning Dental amalgam controversy Exposure or Absorption and the Crucial Question of Limits for Mercury Amalgam (dentistry) Mars Orbiter Mission Lima Call for Climate Action Puts World on Track to Paris 2015 Bad luck to blame for two-thirds of cancer cases Nictitating membrane Seahorse

One of the longest-ranging and outwardly primitive-looking groups of animals on the planet are the Medusozoa. In consisting of around 95% water, it may be surprising to know that there is a fossil record of jellyfish, however how does one differentiate their fossils from other abiotic sedimentary structures when both look like sub-spherical blobs?   In this episode we speak to Graham Young, Curator of Geology and Paleontology at The Manitoba Museum, Canada, who addressed the identification of jellyfish fossils in a recent paper Young & Hagadorn 2010 The fossil record of cnidarian medusae.

One of the longest-ranging and outwardly primitive-looking groups of animals on the planet are the Medusozoa. In consisting of around 95% water, it may be surprising to know that there is a fossil record of jellyfish, however how does one differentiate their fossils from other abiotic sedimentary structures when both look like sub-spherical blobs? In this episode we speak to Graham Young, Curator of Geology and Paleontology at The Manitoba Museum, Canada, who addressed the identification of jellyfish fossils in a recent paper Young & Hagadorn 2010 The fossil record of cnidarian medusae.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology are this year holding their annual conference in the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles. The SVP were formed in 1940 by thirty-four paleontologists, the society now has more than 2,300 members representing professionals, students, artists, preparators and others interested in vertebrate paleontology. It is organised exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, with the object of advancing the science of vertebrate paleontology. At this event, we’re aiming to continue our daily reports, following on from our coverage of GSA, bringing all those who can't attend a flavour of the conference.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology are this year holding their annual conference in the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles. The SVP were formed in 1940 by thirty-four paleontologists, the society now has more than 2,300 members representing professionals, students, artists, preparators and others interested in vertebrate paleontology. It is organised exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, with the object of advancing the science of vertebrate paleontology. At this event, we’re aiming to continue our daily reports, following on from our coverage of GSA, bringing all those who can't attend a flavour of the conference.

Our pilot episode which originally was conceived as a companion piece to Palaeocast. Since this was our first run, we all apologize for the lack of pop filters. Otherwise, enjoy the discussion of taphonomy which begins with burying my corpse in the backyard and only gets weirder from there.   If you have any questions, comments, or concerns send them to:   palaeoafterdark@gmail.com    Also a sincere shout out to Palaeocast (www.palaeocast.com).   Cheers, Curt

KOKU'da bu hafta: Kanuni Sultan Suleyman (Seliman); Olumun biyolojik aciklamasi; "Cihan Padisahi"nin makatina sokulan pamuk, once neye batirildi?; Curume (dekomposizyon) nedir ve neden kokuludur? Ceset ne zaman kokmaya baslar?; Kanuni'nin cenazesi oldukten kac gun sonra gomuldu? 1? 3? 5? 15? 25? 35?; Rigor Mortis; Cenaze yikanirken kullanilan kokulu maddeler; Taphonomy nedir?; Zerdust dininde cenazeler gomulur mu, yoksa yakilir mi?; Portekiz, Ispanya, Hollanda, Ingiltere baharat ugruna Hint'e sefer yapti da, ya Osmanli?