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This is the Science Podcast for August 28th, 2025.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

First this week, staff writer Rodrigo Perez-Otega joins us to talk about a mega fauna, mega-find, that rivals the LaBreya tarpits. In addition to

revealing tens of thousands of bones from everything from dire wolves to an ancient human, the site

yielded the first DNA from mammoths that

lived in a warm climate. Next on the show, news intern Nazifa Ahmed talks with researcher

Kimberly Prather about detecting both air and water pollution around the Tijuana River and the

steps needed for cleanup. Finally, books host Angela Saney talks with philosopher Susanna Monso about her book,

Playing Possum, How Animals Understand Death.

When I hear mammoths, I don't think hot and humid.

I think frosty and cold.

But researchers have actually uncovered a huge cache of mammoth fossils just outside Mexico City,

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