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From deep-sea trenches to your home garden, gastropods are among the most diverse and successful animals in Earth history. This episode, we explore the incredible evolutionary story of Snails and Slugs.
Listen to Episode 233 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
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 episode, we explore the unique features and dynamic evolutionary history of Flies and Mosquitoes.
Listen to Episode 232 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Today, bony animals are some of the most diverse organisms on Earth, but it wasn’t always that way. This episode, we explore what modern and fossil species have to tell us about Vertebrate Origins.
Listen to Episode 231 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Ever since an unusual group of fish gave rise to the first land-dwelling vertebrates, their descendants have been returning to the water. This episode, we explore the many evolutionary paths of Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates.
Listen to Episode 229 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Generally speaking, it’s not a good idea to mess with ants, but some animals have made a whole lifestyle out of it. This episode, we discuss the deep history and repeated evolution of Myrmecophagy (Ant-Eating).
Listen to Episode 228 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Take a trip to Alberta, Canada and you can visit a vast stretch of badlands that contains some of the world’s absolute best fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period. This episode, we explore the deep history and discoveries of Dinosaur Provincial Park.
Listen to Episode 227 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
The famous faces of birds and turtles are just some of the examples of the many times animals have evolved tough, toothless snouts. This episode, we explore the diversity and evolution of Beaks.
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Put together a whole lot of trees, a certain amount of heat and precipitation, and a variety of animals and plants, and you’ve got one of the most important biomes on Earth. This episode, Aly joins us to explore the diversity and evolution of Forests.
Listen to Episode 223 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Evolution is made possible by the variation that builds up in genomes due to generations of errors, interference, and alteration of DNA. This episode, we explore the science and study of Mutations.
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