It’s finally here! The first episode of SquaMates, the totally serious herpetology podcast, hosted by Mark D. Scherz, Gabriel Ugueto, and Ethan Kocak! In this first episode, we introduce you to the show and its format, then cover all of herpetological history, and then discuss all reptiles and amphibians ever. Show References: Caruso, N. & Rabaiotti, D. (2018) Does it fart? The definitive field guide to animal flatulence. Quercus, 144 pp. Cope, E.D. (1895) The classification of the Ophidia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 18, 186–219. Duellman, W.E. & Trueb, L. (1986) Biology of Amphibians. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Feng, Y.-J., Blackburn, D.C., Liang, D., Hillis, D.M., Wake, D.B., Cannatella, D.C. & Zhang, P. (2017) Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences of the USA, 114, E5864–E5870. 10.1073/pnas.1704632114 Irisarri, I., Baurain, D., Brinkmann, H., Delsuc, F., Sire, J.-Y., Kupfer, A., Petersen, J., Jarek, M., Meyer, A., Vences, M. & Philippe, H. (2017) Phylotranscriptomic consolidation of the jawed vertebrate timetree. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1, 13709–1378. 10.1038/s41559-017-0240-5 Trueb, L. (1968) Cranial Osteology of the Hylid Frog, Smilisca baudini. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, 18, 11–35. Trueb, L. (1973) Bones, frogs, and evolution. In: Vial, J.L. (Ed.) Evolutionary biology of the anurans: Contemporary research on major problems. University of Missouri Press, USA, pp. 65–132. Trueb, L. (1993) Patterns of Diversity in the Lissamphibian Skull. In: Hanken, J. & Hall, B.K. (Eds.) The Skull, Volume 2: Patterns of Structural and Systematic Diversity. University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, USA, pp. 255–343. Wollenberg Valero, K.C., Garcia-Porta, J., Rodríguez, A., Arias, M., Shah, A., Randrianiaina, R.D., Brown, J.L., Glaw, F., Amat, F., Künzel, S., Metzler, D., Isokpehi, R.D. & Vences, M. (2017) Transcriptomic and macroevolutionary evidence for phenotypic uncoupling between frog life history phases. Nature Communications, 8, 15213. 10.1038/ncomms15213 Yan, F., Lü, J., Zhang, B., Yuan, Z., Wei, G., Mi, X., Zou, D., Xu, W., Chen, S., Wang, J., Xie, F., Wu, M., Xiao, H., Liang, Z., Jin, J., Wu, S., Xu, C., Tapley, B., Turvey, S.T., Papenfuss, T.J., Cunningham, A.A., Murphy, R.W., Zhang, Y. & Che, J. (2018) The Chinese giant salamander exemplifies the hidden extinction of cryptic species. Current Biology, 28, R590–R592. 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.004