Mythical Monsters in the Ground

Hello and thank you for tuning in to another episode of Polar Times!

In this episode, our host Henrietta talks to Christie Grekul and Dr Grant Zazulaabout all things Beringia, palaeontology, archaeology and museums. Christie is the Manager of the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre and Grant is Manager of the Yukon Government Palaeontology Program. They both live and work in city of Whitehorse in the Canadian Yukon, and between them know everything there is to know about Beringia–the land bridge that once connected Siberia to the Yukon. Staytuned for mammoth fossils, a mummified wolf pup, and to find out what Thomas Jefferson has to do with giant ground sloths...

To learn more about the Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre and their amazing science-communication work, visit their website here: https://www.beringia.com/

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Episode edited by Damien Ringeisen

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

Music: “Scuba” by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA