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In this episode we talk to\xa0J\xf8rn Hurum, Associate Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Natural History Museum Oslo, Norway.\xa0\xa0J\xf8rn has varied research interests including dinosaurs and mammals (being one of the team of researchers who described\xa0Darwinius masillae,\xa0more commonly known as 'Ida'), but perhaps his most productive work has been with the Spitsbergen Jurassic Research Group. The Jurassic sediments of the Svalbard archipelago, north of mainland Norway, are rich in fossils of marine reptiles.