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 the second part of our trip through Mexico City and the link between science and art in Mexican history, we travel back through...
The Hill Country of central Texas is rich in fossils from the age of dinosaurs to the Ice Ages, and these fossils have been...
If you're interested in how grasslands and the animals that live in them have evolved together over millions of years, Nebraska is one of...
