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Silver Screen Science - The Lost World: Jurassic Park (2/5)
Season 1 Episode 42
Part 2 of 5!
Each Saturday in June, we’re re-watching all of the Jurassic Park movies and chatting about the science in a series of “science reviews.…
7 years, 11 months ago
Episode 36 - Reefs
Season 1 Episode 41
In this episode, we’re examining the incredible formation of reefs! Not just coral – reef systems have been built by many different organisms over Ea…
8 years ago
Silver Screen Science - Jurassic Park (1/5)
Season 1 Episode 40
Part 1 of 5!
By the end of June, there will be five Jurassic Park films! So for each of the five Saturdays this month, we’re re-watching all of the m…
8 years ago
Episode 35 - De-extinction
Season 1 Episode 39
It's time for another extinction episode!
Is extinction truly forever? Could something like Jurassic Park actually be possible? If so, should we do i…
8 years ago
Episode 34 - Ancient DNA
Season 1 Episode 38
Only a few decades ago, the idea of pulling DNA from long-dead organisms was the stuff of science fiction, but the field of ancient DNA is now totall…
8 years, 1 month ago
Crocs vs Snakes - The Poll Returns
Episode 37
THE GREAT DEBATEIS BACK!
By popular demand!
Will and David agree on most things, but not this... Help us settle our long-running debate - choose a si…
8 years, 1 month ago
Survey Response and Q&A
Episode 36
Thanks to everyone who filled out our Listener Survey!
In this bonus episode, we’re discussing the feedback we got on the survey and how we’re pla…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 33 - Ontogeny
Season 1 Episode 35
Animals don’t start their lives as tiny copies of adults; there are all sorts of changes that a creature goes through from fertilization to birth and…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 32 - Naracoorte Caves, Australia
Season 1 Episode 34
Over the past several hundred thousand years, Australia has witnesed numerous ice age cycles, ecosystems dominated by giant marsupials, the arrival o…
8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 31 - The Ediacaran Biota
Season 1 Episode 33
Before life as we know it, and before even the Cambrian Explosion, there was a time when the Earth was home to an assortment of strange squishy creat…
8 years, 2 months ago