Episode 6: New Species—of cockroach from Tasmania (and they’re huge!)!
Shasta Henry, a Ph.D. candidate in entomology in the Discipline of Geography and Spatial Science at the University of Tasmania, is my guest! We discuss the significance of the name given to this new s...
23 Feb 202134min
Episode 5: New Species-- actually, 403 (yes, 403!!) new species of braconid parasitoid wasps from Costa Rica!
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Michael Sharkey, is a Professor Emeritus. He talks to us about his paper published February 2nd in ZooKeys wherein he describes 403—yes, 403!!!—new species of braconid ...
16 Feb 202128min
Episode 4: New Species-- of Happy Face spiders in Hawaii!
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Rosemary Gillespie, is a professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, professor in the Division of Insect Biology, and Director of the Essig Museum of Entom...
9 Feb 202132min
Episode 3: New Species-- a 60 million year old fossil "alligator" from Texas, USA!
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Adam Cossette, is a vertebrate paleontologist and an Assistant Professor of Anatomy working in the College of Osteopathic Medicine at the New York Institute of Technolo...
2 Feb 202129min
Episode 2: New Species-- daddy long legs from New Caledonia!
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Gonzalo Giribet, is an invertebrate biologist working at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, where he is Curator of Invertebrates and Professor of Organismic ...
26 Jan 202129min
Episode 1: New Species-- or new genus? Tiny frogs from Southeast Asia!
Our guest for this episode, Dr. Mark Scherz, is one of the authors of a recent paper about a new genus (!!) of tiny frogs, Nanohyla, from Southeast Asia, the "pygmy narrow-mouthed frogs." We learn ab...
20 Jan 202134min
