Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution.
October is here, and that means it’s time for Spook-E! Each episode throughout this month, we’re choosing a famous monster and discussing how it – or something like it – might evolve under the rules of evolution and natural selection, pulling inspiration from organisms of the real world. This year’s theme: monster plants.
This episode, we face a more modern monster, star of page and screen. Can we invoke natural processes to develop a plant that haunts humans and strikes with a deadly lash? Our creatures to create this time: triffids.
Featuring special guest, Dr. Aly Baumgartner, our favorite paleobotanist!
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The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome.
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Episode 124 - Snowball Earth
Spook-E - Animated Trees
Spook-E - People-Eating Plants
Episode 123 - Spiders
Episode 122 - Plate Tectonics
Episode 121 - Brains
Episode 120 – Tyrannosaurs
Episode 119 - India
Episode 118 - Trace Fossils
Episode 117 - Crabs and Carcinization
Episode 116 - Ichthyosaurs
Silver Screen Science - Anaconda (1997)
Silver Screen Science - Lake Placid (1999)
Episode 115 - Biomes
Episode 114 - Polar Life
Episode 113 - Paleoclimate
Episode 112 - Caves
Episode 111 - Eusociality
Silver Screen Science – Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Episode 110 - Mazon Creek Fossil Beds
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