Listen to Episode 186 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
They’re among the world’s most recognizable and charismatic birds, and they’ve evolved to become some of the most effective aerial predators on Earth. This episode, we discuss the diversity and evolution of Owls.
Listen to Episode 139 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Lots of animals scavenge from time to time, but very few do it full-time. This episode, we explore the incredible adaptations and ancient history of some of nature’s most extraordinary carrion-eaters, Vultures.
Listen to Episode 108 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app!
You might think that the ocean is no place for a bird, yet one group of birds has done remarkably well as marine divers. Their success is evident in their surprising diversity and wide geographic range both in modern times and over the past 60 million years. This episode, we talk about Penguins.
Listen to Episode 37 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast source!
This episode, our topic is one of the most detailed and exciting stories of evolutionary origin in the fossil record, one of the most historically fascinating questions in paleontology, and the single most requested topic from our listeners: The story of the Evolution of Birds.
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