Episode Details

Today we’re exploring the world of the Boonie Bears, China’s biggest animation brand. In the sixth feature film, the bears _Blast into the Past—_30 thousand years, to be exact, to a time when dinosaur skeletons dotted the landscape and humans were at war with wolves... and giants pandas took their name literally, and rainbow terror birds defied the physics of flight, and cavemen punched lava bombs out of the air with their bare hands!

Links

• Watch Boonie Bears: Blast into the Past on YouTube
• Eucladoceros (the bush-antlered deer)
• Homotherium
• Megacerops... or Brontops, or Brontotherium
• Phorusracids (terror birds)
• Kumar et al. (2017) The evolutionary history of bears is characterized by gene flow across species
• Wu et al. (2022) High-precision U-series dating of the late Pleistocene – early Holocene rock paintings at Tiger Leaping Gorge, Jinsha River valley, southwestern China
• Fu et al. (2025) Denisovan mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus of the >146,000-year-old Harbin cranium
• Callaway (2021) Oldest DNA from a Homo sapiens reveals surprisingly recent Neanderthal ancestry

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