Episode 59 - Bats
Many groups of life have conquered the land and water, but only four times in evolutionary history has life taken to the air. The most recent group to achieve flight are bats. Their combination of fli...
21 Apr 20191h 58min
Episode 58 - The Bone Wars
It was the late 1800s, and paleontology was just getting started in the Americas. Two prolific and passionate scientists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, among the earliest prominent fo...
7 Apr 20191h 57min
Episode 57 - Evolution of Flowering Plants (Angiosperms)
Look who's back - our favorite paleobotanist, Aly Baumgartner! And that means it’s time for more plants! As you may have noticed, the world around you is absolutely full of flowers. Angiosperms have d...
24 Mars 20191h 54min
Sloth Chat Livestream 2018
In April 2018, we hosted this Sloth Chat Livestream! Following up from Episode 24 (Sloths), we were joined by sloth scientists Ryan Haupt and Robert McAfee to answer audience questions about sloths, l...
20 Mars 20191h 23min
Episode 56 – The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory
One of the main themes of this podcast is the evolutionary history of life. This concept is familiar to all of us today, but our current understanding of evolution is the culmination of a very long hi...
10 Mars 20191h 45min
Episode 55 - The "Sixth Extinction" (Modern Biodiversity Crisis)
Usually, when we talk about mass extinction, we’re referring to events long past. But scary levels of extinction are a fact of our current world, as well. So much so that current events have been labe...
24 Feb 20192h 21min
Episode 54 - Alfred Russell Wallace
Happy Darwin Day! Last year around this time, we were joined by Dr. Sarah Bray to discuss the life and times of Charles Darwin. This time, Sarah joins us again to discuss his colleague and natural sel...
10 Feb 20192h 2min
Episode 53 - The Baculum (Penis Bone)
It's been called the most diverse of all bones. It comes in an incredible variety of shapes and sizes, living and fossil, scattered across the mammalian family tree. It's called the baculum, the os pe...
27 Jan 20191h 49min
