Episode 9: New Species—17 of them—of ant-like spiders from the Afrotropical region.
Episode 9: New Species—17 of them—of ant-like spiders from the Afrotropical region. Ruan Booysen is a Ph.D. student at Free State University in South Africa. He talks to us about his recent paper publ...
16 Mar 202126min
Episode 8: New Species—of daddy longlegs named after a Warhammer 40k character, a Twitter challenge for listeners, and new genera and families!
Dr. Shahan Derkarabetian is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He talks to us about his upcoming paper to ...
9 Mar 202131min
Episode 7: New Species—of slime-producing hagfishes, including the “ghost” hagfish, from the Galapagos Islands!
Dr. Doug Fudge, an Associate Professor in the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University where he heads the Comparative Biomaterials Lab, is our guest for this episode. He talks to...
2 Mar 202133min
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
