Episode 150 - Stegosaurs
Stegosaurus is one of the all-time most famous and recognizable dinosaurs, but it wasn’t alone! Its whole extended family, the stegosaurs, were medium- to large-sized herbivorous dinosaurs sporting an...
16 Okt 20221h 56min
Spook-E - Displacer Beasts
Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. October is here, and that means it’s time for Spook-E! Each episode throughout this month, we’re choosing a monster and discussing how it – or something like it ...
15 Okt 202247min
Spook-E - Owlbears
Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. October is here, and that means it’s time for Spook-E! Each episode throughout this month, we’re choosing a monster and discussing how it – or something like it ...
8 Okt 202239min
Episode 149 - Ants
In our modern world, ants are so ubiquitous that it’s difficult to image our planet without them, so successful that they shape the environments around them despite their tiny size, and so diverse tha...
2 Okt 20222h 2min
Episode 148 - Gliding
Powered flight is hard, and evolution has only produced it a few times. Gliding, however, is much easier and much more common. In fact, there is an astonishing diversity of gliding organisms to be fou...
18 Sep 20222h 30min
Episode 147 - Genetics
For many years, scientists pondered the question: how and why do offspring inherit traits from their parents? And key to the answer to that question is another question: what determines an organism’s ...
4 Sep 20222h 6min
Episode 146 - The Jurassic-Cretaceous Transition
Every period of geologic time is distinguished by its own environmental and ecological features, and every boundary between time periods is characterized by change. The boundary between the Jurassic P...
21 Aug 20221h 41min
Episode 145 - Photosynthesis
We live in a solar-powered world. Photosynthesis is the process by which some organisms (notably plants and cyanobacteria) harness the energy of sunlight to power their own metabolism, in the process ...
7 Aug 20222h 41min
