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Two paleontologists-turned-science-communicators chatting about the diversity of life: past and present!
Earth is a very flammable world. The combination of heat, oxygen, and burnable plants makes fire a constant feature of our planet. Many mode...
Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore science on the big screen and beyond. This year, we’re taking a tour through cinematic...
Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore science on the big screen and beyond. This year, we’re taking a tour through cinematic...
The world is full of food, but in order to make the most of it, living organisms need to be able to break it down and extract the useful nut...
Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore science on the big screen and beyond. This year, we’re taking a tour through cinematic...
For most of the Cenozoic Era, South America was home to an incredible group of predatory birds called phorusrhacids, which included some of...
Creatures of the night! The world is a different place in the dark, and a whole array of organisms have adapted to being most active outside...
Welcome ... to Pok-É! This year is the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, so we’re picking some of our favorite Legendary Pokémon an...
One of the benefits our Patrons can receive is a personalized mini-episode on an animal of their choice! Every now and then, we throw them t...
Some bones are only skin deep! In many species of reptiles, mammals, and amphibians, bones called osteoderms develop within the skin, servin...
Welcome ... to Pok-É! This year is the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, so we’re picking some of our favorite Legendary Pokémon an...
Welcome ... to Pok-É! This year is the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, so we’re picking some of our favorite Legendary Pokémon an...
In the mid-to-late 20th Century, dinosaurs received a major makeover in their scientific and popular image. This episode, Riley Black takes...
Welcome ... to Pok-É! This year is the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, so we’re picking some of our favorite Legendary Pokémon an...
Welcome ... to Pok-É! This year is the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, so we’re picking some of our favorite Legendary Pokémon an...
The Cenozoic Era was home to many unusual ancient mammals, but few so strange as the “gorilla-horses,” the ungulates that swapped their hoov...
All plants need water, but some take it to the extreme. This episode, Dr. Aly Baumgartner joins us to explore the many life strategies of pl...
From deep-sea trenches to your home garden, gastropods (snails and slugs) are among the most diverse and successful groups of animal life in...
Happy New Year! Please enjoy our annual question-answering marathon, now longer than ever! Thank you so much to everyone who listens, shares...
Of all the highly successful and capable flying insects in the world, few are as successful or capable as those in the order Diptera. This e...
Today, bony animals are some of the most diverse organisms on Earth, but it wasn’t always that way. This episode, we explore what features d...
Nearly 400 million years ago, an unusual group of fish gave rise to the first land-dwelling vertebrates. Since then, their descendants have...
The dome-headed dinosaurs are some of the most iconic ancient reptiles, but they’re surprisingly unexplored compared to other dinos. This ep...
In this special guest episode of Silver Screen Science, we're joined by Sabrina and Garret of I Know Dino to discuss the science and scienti...
Welcome … to Cute-E! During our Spook-E series, we speculate on the evolution of monsters from myth and popular media, but we leave out fict...
Generally speaking, it’s not a good idea to mess with ants. But several lineages of animals have evolved to be ant-eating specialists. This...
Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. Spook-E Season is back! All throughout October, we pick monsters from myth and media and speculate ho...
Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. Spook-E Season is back! All throughout October, we pick monsters from myth and media and speculate ho...
Located in southeastern Alberta is a stretch of gorgeous badlands that are home to some of the world’s absolute best Late Cretaceous fossils...
Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. Spook-E Season is back! All throughout October, we pick monsters from myth and media and speculate ho...
Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. Spook-E Season is back! All throughout October, we pick monsters from myth and media and speculate ho...
The faces of vertebrate animals are often soft and full of teeth, but there is a common alternative. Birds, turtles, and many more groups ha...
Dodos are probably the single most famous case of recent human-induced extinction. First documented in the late 1500s and extinct within a c...
Forests are among the most widespread and diverse biomes on our planet. This episode, we’re joined by our favorite paleobotanist, Dr. Aly Ba...
Most vertebrate animals on land get around on all fours, but some of us have committed to two-legged locomotion. This episode, we explore th...
Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. As our cells constantly divide and reproduce and replicate our DNA, errors and inconsistencies dev...
On the outside, shrews might seem like standard tiny mammals, but their anatomy and lifestyle are highly specialized. This episode, with hel...
Lizards are extremely good at becoming snake-shaped. A long body with small or absent limbs is a shape that has evolved dozens of times acro...
Today’s crocs are iconic semi-aquatic predators, but their extended family tree features lots of land-dwelling cousins. This episode, we tak...
For over 100 million years, North America and Asia have been connected over the Pacific Ocean through a region called Beringia. The comings...
Take a deep breath and appreciate for a moment the organs that let you do it so efficiently. Lungs are an invaluable tool for life out of th...
Bears are among the most charismatic and impressive mammals. They have large bodies, very flexible lifestyles, and an extensive fossil recor...
Just about every body of water on Earth, from oceans to puddles, is home to an ecosystem of tiny drifting organisms. This episode, we discus...
Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore how science is portrayed on the big screen. This year, we’re focused on one recurring f...
With several thousand living species, ferns are the second most diverse vascular plants around today, after angiosperms. Ferns are also abun...
Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore how science is portrayed on the big screen. This year, we’re focused on one recurring f...
Silver Screen Science is our series where we explore how science is portrayed on the big screen. This year, we’re focused on one recurring f...
Evolution just loves a nice pair of oversized canines, especially on mammalian predators. Saber-toothed animals have shown up over and over...
Our high-level Patreon supporters get to request a topic for their very own mini-episode! For the sixth time, we’ve put the latest bunch tog...
Leave a carcass or a log or a pile of poop out in the wild long enough and it will break down into its component parts. Decomposers are an o...