1 Lecture 0 Introduction to Vertebrate Paleontology
2 Lecture 1 How to Grow a Vertebrate?
3 Lecture 2 Amphioxus, the Quintessential Chordate
4 Lecture 3 Our Ancestry with Sea Squirts
5 Lecture 4 How to Grow a Brain and Backbone. Neural Crest Cells
6 Lecture 5 Three Hypotheses on the Origin of Chordates
7 Lecture 6 Owen's Body Plan and the Fossils of Chengjiang
8 Lecture 7 How fossils are made?
9 Lecture 8 Where to Look for Fossil Vertebrates?
10 Lecture 9 Fossils and the Geological Time-Scale
11 Lecture 10 Why do Vertebrates Look that Way? Functional Morphology
12 Lecture 11 What is a Cladogram?
13 Lecture 13 Early Fish and the Origin of Bone, Scales and Teeth
14 Lecture 14 When Fish Lacked Jaws
15 Lecture 15 Living Fish Without Jaws: Hagfish and Lampreys
16 Lecture 16 Origin of Jaws in Fish
17 Lecture 17 Fossil Armored Fish and Other Primitive Jawed Fish
18 Lecture 18 Origin of Bony Fish, Early Actinopterygians
19 Lecture 19 The Evolution of Fish Jaws and Fish Tails
20 Lecture 20 The Difference between Lung Fish and Coelacanths
21 Lecture 21 How Vertebrates Conquered the Land
22 Lecture 22 The First Tetrapods
23 Lecture 23 Early Amphibians of the Paleozoic
24 Lecture 24 Its all in the Backbone, Vertebra in Early Tetrapods
25 Lecture 25 Jaw Muscles in Early Tetrapods and Amphibians
26 Lecture 26 The Origin of Frogs and Salamanders
27 Lecture 27 The Reptile Skull
28 Lecture 28 The Reptile Skeleton
29 Lecture 29 The Origin of the Extraordinary Egg
30 Lecture 30 Holes in the Skull: Temporal Fenestrae Patterns
31 Lecture 31 Who are the Early Anapsid Reptiles?
32 Lecture 32 Who are the Early Diapsid Reptiles?
33 Lecture 33 Who are the Early Synapsid Reptiles?
34 Lecture 33a A Closer Look at Dicynodonts
35 Lecture 35 Key Traits of Archosauromorpha: A new group of Diapsid Reptiles
36 Lecture 36 Breathing in Archosauromorphs
37 Lecture 37 Triassic Archosauromorphs
38 Lecture 38 Ankle Bones: Crurotarsi vs. Avemetatarsalia
39 Lecture 39 Curotarsians of the Triassic and Beyond
40 Lecture 40 Triassic Marine Reptiles
41 Lecture 41 How Triassic Reptiles Became Fast
42 Lecture 42 Where did the Dinosaurs come from?
43 Lecture 43 Prehistoric Sharks
44 Lecture 44 How Sharks Conquered the Oceans
45 Lecture 45 The Radiation of Ray-Fin Fish and the Skulls of Mimipiscis and Amia
46 Lecture 46 Fossil Fish Scales
47 Lecture 47 The Great Feeding Innovation in Fish
48 Lecture 48 The Modern Fish: Neopterygii and the Arrival of the Teleostei
49 Lecture 48a The Fossil Record of Trout
50 Lecture 49 Saurischian vs. Ornithischian Dinosaurs
51 Lecture 49a- A New Dinosaur Tree?
52 Lecture 50 Overview of Saurischian Dinosaurs
53 Lecture 50a How Tyrannosaurus rex became king of the dinosaurs
54 Lecture 50b Zophia’s Monster: Deinocheirus
55 Lecture 51 Overview of Ornithischian Dinosaurs
56 Lecture 51a The Story of Stegosaurus
57 Lecture 52 Thermoregulation in Dinosaurs
58 Lecture 53 Feathered Dinosaurs
59 Lecture 54 Pterosaurs Prehistoric Dragons
60 Lecture 54a Anahanguera Brazil's Pterosaurs
61 Lecture 55 The Origin of Turtles
62 Lecture 55a A new fossil in the origin of turtle debate
63 Lecture 56 The Turtles: Pleurodires vs. Cryptodires
64 Lecture 57 The Fossil Record of Lizards
65 Lecture 58 The Origin of Snakes
66 Lecture 59 Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs
67 Lecture 60 The Skeleton of Archaeopteryx
68 Lecture 61 The Origin of Flight in Birds
69 Lecture 62 Mesozoic Birds
70 Lecture 63 How did Birds Survive the K-T Extinction?
71 Lecture 64 The Fossil Record of Cenozoic Birds
72 Lecture 64a Fossil Turkeys!
73 Lecture 65 Cynodonts: Between Reptile and Mammal
74 Lecture 65a Baby Kayentatherium
75 Lecture 66 Evolution of the Mammal Ear
76 Lecture 67 The Origin of Chewing in Mammals
77 Lecture 68 Morganucodon: The First True Mammal?
78 Lecture 69 The Fossil Record of Multituberculates and Monotremes
79 Lecture 70 The Tribosphenic Molar
80 Lecture 71 Why are there so many Marsupials in Australia?
81 Lecture 71a Have you ever heard of Taeniodonts?
82 Lecture 72 What is an Afrothere?
83 Lecture 73 Mastodons and Mammoths
84 Lecture 74 The Mystery of Bat Origins
85 Lecture 75 The Evolution of Shrews and Moles
86 Lecture 76 The Evolution of Rodent Jaws
87 Lecture 76a The Fossil Record of Hamsters
88 Lecture 77 How to Distinguish the astragulus bone of perissodactyls and artiodactyls.
89 Lecture 77a Hyopsodus: Why Common Fossils are Important
90 Lecture 78 Fossils and the Origin of Whales and Dolphins
91 Lecture 78a - What is Andrewsarchus?
92 Lecture 79 Extinct and Living Perissodactyla
93 Lecture 80 Meat Eating Mammals: Creodonts and Carnivores
94 Lecture 80a Hyainailouroidea Creodonts: a post-Eocene group
95 Lecture 80b: Fossil Record of Dogs, Foxes and Wolves
96 Lecture 81 Who Killed the Mega Mammals?
97 Lecture 81a What Killed the Mega Mammals? Update!
98 Lecture 82 The First Primates
99 Lecture 83 Primate Noses: Fossil Strepsirrihini and Haplorhini
100 Lecture 84 Why are there so Many Lemurs in Madagascar?
101 Lecture 85 The First Monkeys
102 Lecture 85a Rooneyia: An enigmatic fossil primate from Texas.
103 Lecture 86 Fossil Apes
104 Lecture 87 Ardipithecus and the Origin of Bipedial Walking in Humans
105 Lecture 88 Australopithecus, Paranthropus and Homo
106 Lecture 89 When did Early Humans Leave Africa?
107 The Story of Triceratops
108 The Mysterious Extinction of Multituberculates