Listen to Episode 225 on Podbean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
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 215 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
They’re an extraordinarily diverse group of plants, famous in the fossil record and in our modern world. This episode, we discuss the modern and ancient variety of Ferns.
Listen to Episode 205 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Not all plants rely on the sun. Some steal the nutrition they need from other photosynthesizers. This episode, we explore the diversity and evolution of Parasitic Plants.
Listen to Episode 195 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
They are the main photosynthesizing organs of plants and the basis for ecosystems all over our green planet. This episode, we discuss the diversity and evolution of Leaves.
Listen to Episode 185 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
These plants are so well-adapted for arid habitats that they’re practically synonymous with deserts. This episode, we explore the diversity, special adaptations, and mysterious evolution of Cacti.
Listen to Episode 175 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Herbivores, pathogens, and parasites all present problems for plants, but the plants aren’t just sitting there passively. This episode, we discuss the incredible (and sometimes terrifying) diversity of Plant Defenses.
Listen to Episode 173 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Devouring and digesting plants is no easy task, so it’s amazing how many groups of animal life have evolved that very habit, and even more amazing how integral these organisms are to ecosystems on Earth. This episode, we discuss the history and evolution of Herbivores (Plant-Eaters).
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 155 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
For many millions of years, cone-bearing plants and their relatives were among the most successful and important plants on Earth. In some places, they still are, such as the coniferous forests of the Northern Hemisphere. This episode, Aly joins us again to discuss the diversity and history of Gymnosperms.
Listen to Episode 145 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
We live in a solar-powered world. This episode, we discuss the process that provides the energy that every organism on the planet relies on, as well as the oxygen that characterizes the atmosphere that allows life as we know it to thrive: Photosynthesis.
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