During the most recent Ice Age, floods of an almost unimaginable size swept across northwestern North America, changing the face of the landscape, stoking one of the liveliest debates in the history of geology, and shaping the region's history and culture in surprising ways. In this first of three episodes, we'll explore western Montana, where the floods - and the study of them - began.
At the same time the first modern geologists and biologists were arguing about the meaning of the distant past, Victorian architects were engaging in...
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...
In our very first episode, I introduce some of the stories about the natural world and how we understand it told by my home...