Fossils – How Life Turns to Stone

Podcast: Talking Science · Stavros kinnas

Opublikowano: 2026-10-06

Turning into a fossil is far rarer than a museum full of skeletons might suggest - it takes a specific, unlikely sequence of chance and chemistry, and most living things that have ever existed left no trace at all. This episode looks at how life occasionally turns to stone, how scientists work out how old that stone actually is, and what two remarkable Australian sites reveal about deep time. You'll come away understanding why fossilisation is so rare, the difference between permineralisation, moulds, casts and trace fossils, what makes an exceptional fossil site a Lagerstätte, how f...