The identification and naming of new species may not be the most glamorous field of biology, but every species' name tells a story about that species itself and baout the person that named it. In this episode we head to New England to explore the stories behind dinosaur names and why they're important. We start with one of the most famous of all dinosaurs in Yale's Peabody Museum, then head upstream with paleontologist Tara Lepore where two smaller and lesser known dinosaurs that recently went head-to head to be named Massachusetts' state dinosaur.
In this episode, we continue or exploration of sites in Texas' Hill Country that illustrate how fossils can reveal the behavior of extinct species....
From Crater Lake to Mt. Rainier, the forests of the central Cascades Range are alive with animals, plants, and fungi, all of which are...
In this episode, we travel to London to follow the story of Charles Darwin in the years between his return to England following his...