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Mike, Gavin, and Fia
Gavin is joined by a pair of great scientists from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to talk about helicopter science, and how to do international science ethically.
Madagascar Ankizy Fund website: www.ankizy.org
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Our usual episode is postponed until next week due to some scheduling hang ups with the guests for the episode. But! My best-good-friend Tug reached out with a great question about presidents and dinosaurs.
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Hawks, eagles and their other predatory bird relatives are some of the most iconic and charismatic birds in the world. Let's take a look at what makes them cool, and what we know about how they got that way!
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Gavin takes Mike and Fia through the very American history of the largest natural history museum in the world; the National Museum of Natural History, aka The Smithsonian.
Lookup whether your favorite museum has Native American remains that it needs to return home: https://projects.propublica.org/repatriation-nagpra-database/
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Audio issues aside, Fia tells us about a great preservation area that she's been working in to collect data for her Ph.D! NCAP (or the Nature Coast Aquatic Preserve to its friends) is an area on the Gulf side of Florida with lots of unique biology and even some cool geology!
News link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/04/240410112736.htm
Links from Fia:
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https://publicfiles.dep.state.fl.us/CAMA/plans/Nature-Coast-AP-Management-Plan.pdf
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https://www.aquaticpreservesociety.com/
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https://floridadep.gov/NatureCoastAP
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https://dev.seacar.waterinstitute.usf.edu/datadiscovery/programs/matrix?MA=Nature%20Coast
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With Mike and Fia away for the week, Gavin talks with Dr. Nathan Smith from Bucknell University about the coolest little creatures on the planet; ants.
Nate's page on Bucknell's website: https://www.bucknell.edu/fac-staff/nathan-smith
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Gavin takes a field trip to the dentist, so let's talk about those bones* in your mouth!
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The largest animals to ever exist live among us right now! Let's learn about them!
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Gavin takes us through the next slice of Earth's history on our list: the Eocene Epoch! Fia also teaches us about Batman.
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CONTENT WARNING This episode discusses a public suicide of an elected official in the 1980's.
Mike really takes us on a ride for this episode. Meanwhile Gavin complains about home ownership.
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Every field of study has an origin story. Today we share the story of one of the founders of modern geology; James Hutton.
Last episode I challenged myself to find an important figure in the history of geology who wasn't a horrible racist, and I did!
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Growing up is an awkward experience for everyone. Luckily, we didn't have to grow any extra legs or have the entire left side of our body become our mouth!
Today we learn about how growing up works across the animal kingdom, and how we tell if a fossil animal is fully grown or not.
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Herbivores are often seen as less interesting than carnivores. However, they have to go through a wide array of challenges just to get nutrition from their food without it killing them. Let's learn about how they do it!
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We all know the story of how the dinosaurs became extinct. But what happened afterward? Mike, Gavin, and Fia take a closer look at the post-extinction world of the Paleocene!
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Fia talks us through starting a PhD program and how it differs from her experience with her Master's degree!
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Have a great Thanksgiving (in the US anyway)! We'll be back next week.
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Everyone loves geckos! From large insurance companies, to tropical residents all over the world, geckos are a really well-liked group of lizards. But boy, are they weird. Let's learn about them!
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This past weekend Gavin presented his Master's thesis at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! In this episode we talk about what it's like to present at an academic conference, and some of the cool research shown at SVP this year.
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What does it mean to be human? Well from a taxonomic standpoint, it means that you're in the genus Homo. But what really makes us, us? Let's talk about the history of our genus.
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Human evolution is a marvelous collection of data. We understand human evolution better than basically anything else in paleontology. How did we get such bad backs? Why do we see faces on pieces of toast? It's all in our evolution, so let's take a closer look!
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JFK was famously assassinated in November 1963. But did you know that other people were shot along with him? Let's hear from Mike a bit of their stories.
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Tails, the famous side-kick of Sonic The Hedgehog. Also a body part ubiquitous to vertebrate animals. What are they even used for anyway? Let's find out!
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Science costs money. In many cases, entirely too much money. In a surprise twist of episode topics, Gavin, Mike and Fia talk about their student loan situations, how the American higher education system is going to decrease the quality of science done in the U.S., and how college tuition will soon be over $100,000 per year.
Episode of The Weeds mentioned in the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2SvnOvfCfDSouj8UiAuEm6?si=60b98ab7db944d61
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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was a world-famous geologist, ichthyologist, early paleontologist, glaciologist, and racist. He was foundational in our understanding of fish, and also the Ice Age, and also to the white-supremacist movement in America. Let's learn about his scientific legacy, and how he ruined his legacy with racism.
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One group of birds stands above all the others...literally! Ratites are a group of (mostly) giant and flightless birds found all across the world. Why did they give up the freedom of the skies for the difficulties of life on the ground? Let's find out!
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While Gavin is vacationing and Fia is grinding out grad school, Mike tells us about a trailblazing (literally) pioneer in backpacking; "Grandma" Emma Gatewood.
Couldn't find the book for free on Google Books, sorry friends!
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We all love oxygen. It's what allows us to breathe, and to make energy from the food we eat. However, long, long ago, oxygen was a deadly poison that killed anything that it touched. How did oxygen go from a death cloud to Gavin's favorite element? The Great Oxidation Event!
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This is it. The big one. Well....the 3rd biggest one. What am I talking about? Mass extinctions of course! Today we talk about the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction, the global catastrophe that killed many species and inspired many movies.
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Gavin and Mike wanted to enjoy a holiday, so we're postponing this episode until next week.
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Cats are everyone's favorite weird little guys. But now that Gavin has FOUR extra weird little guys running around his house, he decided to learn more about them and share with you!
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Cephalopods (Squid, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus) are one of the most bizarre groups of animals on the planet. They also have simultaneously one of the best, and one of the most terrible fossil records. Let's learn about these weirdos in today's episode!
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Humans have been launching stuff into space for nearly a century. Some of that stuff includes dogs. Mike tells us the tail of Laika, the Soviet space dog, the first animal to orbit around Earth, who paved the way for future space dogs, and space people.
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Everyone knows that there's 365 days in a year, and 24 hours in a day. Or are there??? In this impromptu episode, Gavin tells Mike about how time gets funky throughout the geologic record.
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Episode Links:
- Article 1 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/fossilized-coral-calendar-changes-leap-day/471180/
- Article 2 https://newatlas.com/science/dinosaurs-shorter-days-longer-years-fossil-shells/
- Bivalve Paper https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019PA003723
- NASA Animation https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/429/the-moons-orbit-and-rotation/
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The oldest natural history museum in North America, the Academy of Natural Sciences, is near where Gavin lives, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Some students from Gavin's university took a trip to the Academy for a class this semester, and Gavin tagged along to meet Dr. Ted Daeschler. Dr. Daeschler works on the evolutionary transitions from fish with fins, to land-dwelling animals with limbs, and he was nice enough to join us this episode for an interview!
Dr. Daeschler's website: http://clade.ansp.org/vert_zoology/people/daeschler/?_gl=1w9snbo_gaMjA4MjA0MDE5LjE2Nzk0NDgzODE._ga_6KJ1PNLE19*MTY3OTQ0ODM4MS4xLjAuMTY3OTQ0ODM4MS42MC4wLjA.
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Life is busy, so episode 108 is postponed until next week! Thanks for your patience!
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The Jurassic Period is famous for many reasons. Having a Mass Extinction at the end isn't one of them. But should it be?
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Some animals live more simply than others. In today's episode we talk about the simplest animals of them all; the sponges. From tubes within tubes, to little glass needles, sponges are both more simple and more complex than you might think!
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We never really know what Mike will deign to bring us in our Mike Takes The Wheel episodes. Today we talk about Broken Arrows, which are much scarier than they sound, and why we're never actually safe from nuclear armageddon.
Links from Mike:
- https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0c5889f/broken-arrows-the-accidents-that-could-end-the-world
- https://www.atomicarchive.com/almanac/broken-arrows/index.html
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Theropod dinosaurs are likely the most talked about group of dinosaurs, and probably the most talked about group of (sort of) extinct animals. In today's fairly technical episode, we learn about the group, their history, and their evolution!
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Today we look back at one of the founders of many fields of biology, as well as a major figure in paleontology; Georges Cuvier. Having survived the French Revolution, he quickly becomes one of the most revered scientists in the world. It's not all good news from Cuvier though. Don't meet your heroes kids.
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Grasses seem like the most bland type of plant don't they? They're everywhere, but never really exciting. WRONG! In this episode, Gavin shares the wonder of grasses and how they shape nearly everything about the world around us.
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The continent with the weirdest wildlife is a bit of a toss up between South America and the topic of today's episode; Australia! What makes it so weird? Why does it have so many pockets? Also...Gavin's wife Liz subs in for Fia today because of finals week!
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When you learn about the history of paleontology, you mostly learn about stuff that white people did starting around 1700 or so. However, humans have had a relationship to fossil for MUCH longer than that. Let's explore how different cultures from around the world have thought about fossil through time!
Source Links:
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259953021_Fossils_and_Folklore?enrichId=rgreq-995c270aadfce65998cc3b079c5ba37c-XXX&enrichSource=Y292ZXJQYWdlOzI1OTk1MzAyMTtBUzoxMDQ1NTE0NDkzNjY1MjlAMTQwMTkzODQxNjMyOA%3D%3D⪙=1_x_2&_esc=publicationCoverPdf
- https://theconversation.com/how-we-know-that-ancient-african-people-valued-fossils-and-rocks-110321
- http://nomegallery.com/chapter/fossil-legends-of-the-first-americans-by-adrienne-mayor/
- https://www.nps.gov/subjects/fossils/pre-1492-ad-fossils-native-people.htm
- https://interactive.wttw.com/prehistoric-road-trip/stops/examining-the-history-of-fossil-collection-from-native-american-lands
- https://interactive.wttw.com/prehistoric-road-trip/video
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https://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Mayorwhosebones.pdf
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100 episodes is a big milestone, and as such, we want the episode to be perfect, so we're taking an extra week to make sure that happens!
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The weirdest animals are sometimes the most familiar. In the case of reptiles, that's the turtles! Everyone knows what a turtle is...except scientists! Find out what we DO know about them in this week's episode!
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4 Mass Extinctions down...1 to go. Following the near-total destruction that was the end-Permian mass extinction, life had to rebound somehow. Unfortunately for everyone but the dinosaurs, that rebound lead life straight into another mass extinction 50 million years later. Let's learn about it!
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Bats are the symbol of spooky season, but is it deserved? Let's learn about bats, their relatives, and how they need our help!
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Fossil collecting is a hobby for many people around the world, but how legal is it? That depends where in the world you live! How legal is it to collect fossils where you live? Maybe you'll find out in today's episode about international fossil laws!
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Mike takes the wheel once again to teach Gavin about the music of their childhoods...oh and also some extended members of the Kennedy political dynasty.
Happy National Fossil Day!
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Gavin, Mike and Fia talk about the most interesting group of lizards; Snakes! Why don't they have legs? Why don't they have two lungs? Why are people afraid of them? Let's talk about it.
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Gavin and Mike talk to one of Gavin's former professors, Dr. Robert Darling (Dr. Bob), about the Adirondack Mountains! Mike spent the summer hiking in and around them, and wanted to learn more about them, so we brought in an expert!
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Gavin teaches Mike about the exploding wonders of the planet; volcanoes.
Episode Links:
- End-Ordovician Extinction Possibly Caused by Volcanism
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Connections Between Mas Extinctions and Large Igneous Provinces
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Mike is back from the wilderness, and just in time to join Fia to learn about Antarctica, the most extreme continent.
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Fia tells Gavin about the recent climate-related struggles of a Native American tribe near where she does her field work, and how well-intentioned actions can be taken advantage of.
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Of all the times that life on Earth collectively bit the dust, one bite of dust rises above them all. In this episode, Gavin teaches Fia about the worst mass extinction of complex life on Earth, and how we might be racing to match it today.
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The highest-grossing movie of all-time is getting a sequel this year, and has A TON of really cool biological concepts in it, so Gavin and Fia talk about James Cameron's Avatar, and all of it's bioluminescent glory.
Links to More Information About Pandora:
- Archived copy of the Survival Guide to Pandora: https://archive.org/details/avatarconfidenti00mari/page/105/mode/1up?view=theater
- Short article published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution: https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/fulltext/S0169-5347(10)00108-4
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Fia and Mike are both out this week, so Gavin has one of his coworkers, Dr. Lorelei Curtin, explain how we study the climate of the ancient past!
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Quick update on the episode that would normally be going up today; instead it's going up on Friday.
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Gavin tells Fia about our hairy, climbing cousins, and how chimps are monkeys actually. Fia teaches Gavin about weird, flat fishes.
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In honor of Shark Week, Gavin teaches Fia about the cousins of sharks; the rays and skates. Oh, and also banjos.
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Gavin finishes teaching Fia about state fossils; Mike has returned to the wilds of New York; and Fia teaches Gavin about a mystery fish that she found during her field work.
Ubirajara fossil returned to Brazil
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Mike's back! And just in time for Gavin to teach him and Fia about state fossils, how some states put in more effort than others (looking at you Florida...), and how local politics can be fun actually.
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Fia and Mike are away, so Gavin invites some grad school friends to talk about the funky stuff that islands do with their animals.
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Gavin teaches Fia about the giant forests, salamanders, and insects of the the Carboniferous Period. Fia teaches Gavin about the most naked fish in the Gulf, the Naked Gobi.
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Fia tells Gavin about her Master's Thesis project; Mike tells us about his summer adventures.
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Gavin and Fia talk about the new (and hopefully last) movie in the Jurassic Park franchise; Jurassic World: Dominion.
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Gavin teaches Mike and Fia about how the fossil record is both better and worse than you think it is. An also how it's like Swiss cheese. Fia teaches Mike and Gavin about Blue Crabs.
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Gavin and his wife try not to run out gas on their cross country adventure. Only one them succeeds.
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Gavin Teaches Mike About The Rock Cycle
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Mike teaches Gavin and Mike abut Buffalo Soldiers and their complex legacy.
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Gavin teaches Mike and Fia how fish first learned to walk on land.
Two papers referenced in the episode:
- https://evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s12052-009-0119-2#Fig1
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Gavin teaches Mike and Fia about the collections and the history of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
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Gavin teaches Fia and COVID Mike about the extinction(s)? at the end of the Devonian Period, one of the "Big 5" mass extinctions. Fia teaches Gavin about how cool cypress trees are.
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Gavin teaches Fia about the nemesis of animals: the plants!
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Fia takes the wheel for the first time and teaches Mike and Gavin about a cool piece of Louisiana swamp culture.
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Gavin and Mike review the 2002 movie Ice Age together IN PERSON!!!
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Gavin tells Mike and Fia about Brachiopods; the Wish .com version of clams.
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Gavin and Mike welcome new co-host Fia to the podcast.
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Gavin teaches Mike and New Co-Host Fia about Nicolas Steno
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Gavin teaches Mike about the supposed "most boring" Period of geologic history, the Silurian.
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Gavin's old professor Darrin teaches us why camels are actually cool.
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Gavin interviews Jeremy B. Roberts about the events that unfolded after dinosaur tracks on federal lands were damaged by construction outside Moab, Utah.
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Mike teaches Gavin about a man who more people should know about; Paul Farmer.
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Gavin depresses Mike about Amber
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Gavin teaches Mike the difference between crocodiles and alligators, and a lot of other stuff along the way.
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Gavin teaches Mike about those little hooks that your cat uses to ruin the sofa, bear claws (both literal and pastry), and giant dinosaur scythes.
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Gavin teaches Mike about the the Ordovician Extinction, and why it sort of didn't matter.
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Gavin teaches Mike why we name things what we do, how language doesn't work if we don't, and why everything is fish.
Download Nussaibah Raja and Emma Dunne's new paper while you can: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01608-8
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Gavin and Mike discuss one of the best bad movies of our time
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Gavin tells Mike about Manatees and Mike gets confused.
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Gavin and Mike look back on and say goodbye to this podcast's biggest mistake
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Mike and Gavin talk about a nerd that saved some lives
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Mammals were crushed under the feet of our dinosaur oppressors until the big rock came and liberated us. Or so you've been told. In this one Gavin debunks that notion and teaches us why our vision kinda sucks.
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Sources:
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- Interesting Blog Article About Mesozoic Mammals More Comprehensive Than The Above One
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Every paleontologist who has interacted with the public has been asked the same question; "How do I become a paleontologist?" For our 1-year anniversary, we listen to eight different paleontologists about how they became paleontologists and some advice for if you want to become one as well.
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Gavin teaches Mike about that time the earth was a snowball. Or, and hear me out here, a slushball.
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- YouTube Video That Does This Better And Shorter
Gavin Teaches Mike about the defining event of the last 550 million years; the Cambrian Explosion! Was it that big of an explosion, or was it more of a pop?
Check out those weird Cambrian critters:
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Yes, there's really science in Pokemon.
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Gavin teaches a very tired Mike what a cow is
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Gavin teaches Mike about the "The Piltdown Man" hoax.
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Gavin teaches Mike about Rhinos, including disappointing facts facts about how many rhinos have horns.
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Gavin teaches Mike about poop and how useful it can be when it becomes a fossil.
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Gavin teaches Mike what evolution is, and Mike learns he's wrong about many things.
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Mike teaches Gavin about an interesting man by the name of Robert Smalls.
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Gavin talks to Mike about his new job and the laws around it
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Gavin teaches Mike about Plesiosaurs
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Mike and Gavin discuss cryptozoology and the many offshoots of it.
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Gavin teaches Mikes about the science and history of plate tectonics.
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Gavin teaches Mike about the La Brea Tar Pits.
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Mike tell Gavin about Jeannette Rankin, the first women to serve in the House of Representatives.
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Gavin and Mike talk about a Disney movie from a few decades ago. Mike is sad Gavin is leaving New York.
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Gavin tells Mike how we went from land dwelling animals to mammals.
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Gavin and Mike are joined by number 1 fan of the pod and long time friend Fia to talk about reefs and not just the coral kind.
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In the best episode we've ever recorded, Gavin and Mike are joined by Dr. Emma Dunne and Nussaïbah Raja to discuss the history and effects of colonization on the field of paleontology.
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- The Dinosaur Artist
- Fossil Legends of the First Americans
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Without an episode on climate change, Gavin tells Mike about the closest thing this planet has ever experienced to our current climate situation. Mike is bit of a downer, and wanted to talk about Fahrenheit for some reason.
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In honor of Shark Week, Gavin teaches the world about sharks. Mike enjoys the hell out of himself.
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Gavin tells Mike why his favorite dinosaur is awesome. Mike agrees.
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Gavin teaches Mike about Pterosaurs. They are weird.
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Mike teaches Gavin about Moses Fleetwood Walker, the second black major league baseball player, and everything that comes along with him.
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You've heard of fossil fuels, but Gavin breaks down what we're actually talking about when we use that term.
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Elephants are weird. Gavin will prove that over the next hour or so.
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Where Gavin teaches Mike why Lizards are a mess.
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Gavin is back in New York and wanted to celebrate.
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Where Gavin tells Mike why the term "Living Fossils" is bad and shouldn't be used.
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Where Mike and Gavin talk about how old time on earth is, and why it's that old. Also, dating!
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Where Gavin teaches Mike why things fly, and why we can't.
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Where Gavin and Mike discuss a decade old paper about whether we are currently living through a mass extinction, and why Gavin is skeptical to say the least.
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Gavin was busy, so Mike made an episode about one of his favorite dead people, Gouverneur Morris. (Update listen to beginning of episode 60 for some new information on Gouverneur Morris.)
- The Wildest Founding Father Of Them All
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Where Gavin has a masters degree, and then he and and Mike talk about grad school in general.
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Where Gavin goes full horse girl.
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Where Gavin blows Mike's mind for an hour straight on South America
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Where Mike and Gavin talk about National Parks and why they're awesome. Also some government stuff thrown in.
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Gavin teaches Mike about the inside world of how science gets published and how gross it can be.
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Some recent news changes our perspective on the dino derriere. What an episode.
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Gavin has gotten the approval of his advisor to defend his thesis to a group of angry scientists.
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The conclusion (for now) of our 3 part series on Gavin's time in the field.
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Gavin is back with more stories of being out in the field.
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Gavin has unfinished business, so Mike has allowed another 60 minutes for him to get to the present day.
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Where Gavin and Mike try to cover the last 600 million years of earth's history, and are able to actually cover some percentage of that.
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Where Gavin and Mike talk how to bring animals back to places where they used to live.
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Where Gavin and Mike discuss the epic rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.
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When Gavin and Mike discuss the different categories of vertebrates, and Mike is usually wrong.
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Where Mike and Gavin discuss Gavin's early field work experiences, as well as why field work is important and the problems it presents.
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- Your Local Museum!
- A great resource to find volunteer opportunities by state
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of the movie that changed Gavin's field of science to this day.
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An episode where we learn a brief history of dinosaurs, and discuss why they aren't around anymore (sort of).
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In the first episode of I Wish You Were Dead, we learn how science can suck, we get to know our resident expert Gavin, and we see why he doesn't want to be called an expert.
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