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As the world’s continents have shifted and changed shape over time, so have the oceans. This episode, we discuss the history and study of the various iterations of one of Earth’s most famous ancient body of water: The Tethys Sea.
Listen to Episode 169 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Snakes have adapted surprisingly well to marine life, evolving a host of aquatic adaptations several times across many millions of years. This episode, we discuss the repeated evolution of Sea Snakes.
Listen to Episode 166 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
You’ll only find them living in Australia and New Guinea, and when you do, you might be surprised at the strange features that set them apart from all other mammals, like the fact that their babies hatch from eggs. This episode, we discuss the unique features and puzzling evolution of Monotremes.
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Listen to Episode 165 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Faced with the problem of dispersing seeds, flowering plants developed special seed-carrying structures that are perhaps most familiar to you from your visits to the grocery store. This episode, we discuss the evolution, functions, and incredible diversity of Fruit.
Listen to Episode 164 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Earth’s deep history is filled with dramatic cases of changing climates, shifting continents, and evolutionary leaps and bounds, but between roughly 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, things were seemingly stable. This episode, we explore the many mysteries of the so-called “Boring Billion.”
Listen to Episode 162 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Slimy, worm-shaped, and poorly-understood, they’re the most mysterious of the modern amphibians, and they’re full of bizarre surprises from their heads to their butts. This episode, we explore Caecilians.
Listen to Episode 161 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
We all do it. Well, all of us humans do it. When it comes to other organisms, it gets complicated. Actually, it’s complicated for humans, too. This episode, we discuss the whos, hows, and mysterious whys of Sleep.
Listen to Episode 160 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
One of the best fossil sites in the world is a former mining site in Germany. It preserves an exceptional record of an Eocene ecosystem, including thousands of exquisitely preserved fossil specimens. This episode, we discuss the history and discoveries of The Messel Pit.
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