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 the best places in the world to visit. One of the reasons that we know as much as we do about this evolutionary epic are the many volcanoes upwind of Nebraska. Join me and Dr. Nick Famoso as we discuss how eruptions and the ash they emit help us understand the age of the Great Plains and, in one very remarkable case, captured and preserved a single moment in time.
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...
Ninteenth Century France was a political powderkeg, a landscape of radical revolutions and imperial power-grabs. Its art was no less volatile, and while we...
In the final episode of our exploration of the Missoula Floods, we travel to the Columbia River Gorge and the Willamette Valley, where the...
