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.
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...
During the most recent Ice Age, floods of an almost unimaginable size swept across northwestern North America, changing the face of the landscape, stoking...
Join me for my first new episode in years as we travel to the Driftless Area at the border of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and...