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Back to SearchEpisode 58 - The Bone Wars
Season 1 Episode 82
It was the late 1800s, and paleontology was just getting started in the Americas. Two prolific and passionate scientists, Edward Drinker Cope and Oth…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 57 - Evolution of Flowering Plants (Angiosperms)
Season 1 Episode 81
Look who's back - our favorite paleobotanist, Aly Baumgartner!
And that means it’s time for more plants! As you may have noticed, the world around yo…
7 years, 2 months ago
Sloth Chat Livestream 2018
Episode 80
In April 2018, we hosted this Sloth Chat Livestream!
Following up from Episode 24 (Sloths), we were joined by sloth scientists Ryan Haupt and Robert …
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 56 – The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory
Season 1 Episode 79
One of the main themes of this podcast is the evolutionary history of life. This concept is familiar to all of us today, but our current understandin…
7 years, 2 months ago
Episode 55 - The "Sixth Extinction" (Modern Biodiversity Crisis)
Season 1 Episode 78
Usually, when we talk about mass extinction, we’re referring to events long past. But scary levels of extinction are a fact of our current world, as …
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 54 - Alfred Russell Wallace
Season 1 Episode 77
Happy Darwin Day! Last year around this time, we were joined by Dr. Sarah Bray to discuss the life and times of Charles Darwin. This time, Sarah join…
7 years, 3 months ago
Episode 53 - The Baculum (Penis Bone)
Season 1 Episode 76
It's been called the most diverse of all bones. It comes in an incredible variety of shapes and sizes, living and fossil, scattered across the mammal…
7 years, 4 months ago
Episode 52 – Sounds of the Past (Fossil Bioacoustics)
Season 1 Episode 75
What did dinosaurs sound like? How did extinct animals make and use sound? Like most behaviors, noises don’t fossilize, but there is some tantalizing…
7 years, 4 months ago
End of the Year Q&A 2018
Episode 73
Happy New Year! Big thanks to everyone who's supported us throughout the year, and big thanks to everyone who submitted questions to our Q&A! Here…
7 years, 5 months ago
Episode 51 - Mosasaurs
Season 1 Episode 74
Many times in the history of life on Earth, reptiles have returned to the oceans. There were three famous groups of marine reptiles during the Mesozo…
7 years, 5 months ago