Episodes

  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    Apr 8 2025
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A journalist writing a book about mass extinction needs a lot of help. Many very knowledgeable, generous, and patient people lent their time and expertise to this project.
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    17 mins
  • THE THING WITH FEATHERS

    THE THING WITH FEATHERS
    Apr 8 2025
    CHAPTER XIII THE THING WITH FEATHERS Homo sapiens “Futurology has never been a very respectable field of inquiry,” the author Jonathan Schell has written.
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    17 mins
  • THE MADNESS GENE

    THE MADNESS GENE
    Apr 8 2025
    CHAPTER XII THE MADNESS GENE Homo neanderthalensis The Neander Valley, or, in German, das Neandertal, lies about twenty miles north of Cologne, along a fold in the Düssel River, a sleepy tributary of the Rhine.
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    20 mins
  • THE RHINO GETS AN ULTRASOUND

    THE RHINO GETS AN ULTRASOUND
    Apr 8 2025
    CHAPTER XI THE RHINO GETS AN ULTRASOUND Dicerorhinus sumatrensis The first view I got of Suci was her prodigious backside.
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    15 mins
  • THE NEW PANGAEA

    THE NEW PANGAEA
    Apr 8 2025
    CHAPTER X THE NEW PANGAEA Myotis lucifugus The best time to take a bat census is the dead of winter.
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    14 mins
  • ISLANDS ON DRY LAND

    ISLANDS ON DRY LAND
    Apr 8 2025
    CHAPTER IX ISLANDS ON DRY LAND Eciton burchellii BR-174 runs from the city of Manaus, in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, more or less due north to the Venezuelan border.
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    19 mins
  • THE FOREST AND THE TREES

    THE FOREST AND THE TREES
    Apr 8 2025
    CHAPTER VIII THE FOREST AND THE TREES Alzatea verticillata “Trees are stunning,” Miles Silman was saying.
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    28 mins
  • DROPPING ACID

    DROPPING ACID
    Apr 8 2025
    CHAPTER VII DROPPING ACID Acropora millepora Half a world away from Castello Aragonese, One Tree Island sits at the southernmost tip of the Great Barrier Reef, about fifty miles off the coast of Australia.
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    20 mins