Welcome to Paleo Bites, the weekly podcast hosted by Matthew Donald where we make dumb jokes, reference pop culture, derail like crazy, and oh yeah, discuss and rate dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Each episode Matthew and a rotating set of guest co-hosts talk about a different genus of primeval critter, explain basic stats, exchange plenty of banter, barely fact-check, and at the end, rate the creature one out of 65 million for any reason, including but not limited to sexiness, mana,…
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(image source: https://a-z-animals.com/animals/polacanthus/ ) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Ben O’Regan discuss Polocanthus … barely. Just a headsup, there’s a lot of tangents in this one, and there’s even more in the unedited version, which you can find on the Patreon. Fun times! This show is so professional. From the Early Cretaceous, this 16-foot nodosaurid had multiple spikes; many,…
(image source: https://paleontologyworld.com/sites/default/files/styles/Mapusaurus_0.png ) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Stephen Curro discuss Mapusaurus , a dinosaur with a name that sounds like Borat describing a dinosaur made out of his crap. “Mah poo saurus!” Except it’s actually named for the indigenous Mapuche people in South America, so stop making crass jokes like that, you racist.…
(image source: https://www.britannica.com/animal/sea-cow ) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Joel Rick discuss Hydrodamalis gigas , a manatee but big. Well, technically it was more closely related to dugongs, but y’all don’t know what those are and manatees get more clicks. From the Late Pleistocene to the Early Holocene, this 30-foot sirenian was a big player in the Ice Age and made it all…
(image source: https://www.deviantart.com/spinojp/art/Palaeophis-colossaeus-drinking-915269375 ) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Allen Brooks discuss Palaeophis , a literal sea serpent that was the biggest water snake to ever exist. Titanoboa who? That's what I thought. From the Early Paleocene to the Late Eocene, this 35-foot snake looked at the mosasaurs from the period past and was like…
(image source: https://dinosaurpictures.org/Plateosaurus-pictures ) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Ben O’Regan discuss Plateosaurus , a biggish bipedal herbivore and perhaps the biggest Triassic dinosaur, although not the biggest Triassic land animal as that goes to something like Lisowicia or Sillosuchus or some crap. From the Late Triassic, this 30-foot basal sauropodomorph has a name…
(image source: https://www.sci.news/othersciences/anthropology/danuvius-guggenmosi-07779.html ) Host Matthew Donald and guest co-host Stephen Curro discuss Danuvius , an ape that might have been the missing link between swinging through the trees, walking on the ground, and walking on two legs. That’s a lot of links we found in one animal. From the Early Miocene, this 3-foot-tall hominid basically…
(image source: https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2023/05/17/news/new_series_of_prehistoric_planet_brings_dinosaurs_back_to_life-3281275/ ) In this fifth episode of Paleo Paleo Bites, where the show takes a month off releasing new episodes so Matthew Donald can rebuild a backlog of episodes to release later (I’ve got holiday plans, okay?! Leave me alone, you Krampus!) and digs up older episodes…
(image source: https://www.thoughtco.com/ornithopod-dinosaur-pictures-and-profiles-4043320 ) In this fourth episode of Paleo Paleo Bites, where the show takes a month off releasing new episodes so Matthew Donald can rebuild a backlog of episodes to release later (I got a life outside this show, believe it or not!) and digs up older episodes to rerelease and keep the weekly content consumers happy,…
(image source: https://pixels.com/featured/albertosaurus-mohamad-haghani.html ) In this third episode of Paleo Paleo Bites, where the show takes a month off releasing new episodes so Matthew Donald can rebuild a backlog of episodes to release later (this show has been consistent for over half a decade at this point, give me a break) and digs up older episodes to rerelease and keep the weekly…
(image source: https://jurassicdna.com/dino-tracker/orkoraptor/ ) In this second episode of Paleo Paleo Bites, where the show takes a month off releasing new episodes to Matthew Donald can rebuild a backlog of episodes to release later (it takes a lot to keep the weekly release of this show going for 6+ years!) and digs up older episodes to rerelease and thus keep the algorithm gods satisfied,…
