Weird & Dead
Amy Atwater and Meaghan Wetherell
4.8from 67 ratings
- 45
- Episodes
- 4
- Transcribed
- 67
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 41K
- YouTube views
About Weird & Dead
A podcast about evolution's most embarrassing and bizarre stories as told by two very gossipy paleontologists. Amy and Meaghan happily dish the details on everything from fossilized dinosaur butts to the secret drama behind naming new species. Time for the hottest tea from prehistory!
- Publisher
- Amy Atwater and Meaghan Wetherell
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 24 Jan 2024
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
4 of 45 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Silly Scaly Trees (Butt Rot Part 1)
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Evolution of the Beaver Butt
10 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Evolution of the Skunk Butt
Inside a recent episode
Silly Scaly Trees (Butt Rot Part 1)
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So they are kind of spreading out a little bit as the plant grows. But it is kind of a three and three, a bilateral symmetry. And synchisodendron has one on each side for the branches. They're not going spiraling around the tree. It would have literally been like a tea if you were going to hang Christ on one of them. This was the tree. This was the place. Wow. That is very weird. That's very strange. It is very weird. Like an antler. Yeah. Yeah. And that bilateral symmetry, it extends to, you said that one's forking? Right. Yeah. The forks. The forks are the, that's the bilateral symmetry right there in play. […]
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- YouTube views
- 40,938
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 67 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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- Quality
- 64
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 95
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