In honor of the Texas Memorial Museum's 83rd birthday, and on a less uplifting note, to draw attention to the dire financial situation it's currently experiencing, please enjoy this re-release combining my two episodes on Texan paleontology and reconstructing behavior from fossils. The stories featured here center on the museum and its invaluable collections, and if you're inspired to make your voice heard, there's a petition circulating on Change.org. If you're a Texas voter, you have an even better opportunity to make your voice heard by contacting your legislature and urging them to support one of the most important institutions for preserving and celebrating the natural heritage of the Lone Star State.
Conifers - trees with cones and needles - are important to cultures across the globe. This time of year many of us are bringing...
Heading up mountains throughout the Northwest is a great way of seeing how temperature and precipitation can determine which conifer species lives where, but...
On this episode we continue our journey along the path of the Missoula Floods. Having encountered the giant lake that caused them, we now...
