We break from our usual format this episode to bring you several short stories told by paleontologists at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting, which has gone virtual this year. Some of these stories focus on a particular fossil or site and what it tells us about life through time, but several are more about how fossils inspire us and led us to careers in paleontology.
In our first full-length episode we join Dr. Win McLaughlin of Pomona College and visit Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous Central Asian country that has been...
The dense rainforests of the Oregon Coast Range, Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and British Columbia's Vancouver Island are an ideal habitat for western red cedar....
The first forests we visit in this series are the lowland forests around the Salish Sea, home of Douglas firs, western hemlocks, and western...