Ep. 482 - Walnuts Above the Arctic Circle?

In Defense of Plants Podcast

In Defense of Plants

Science & Medicine, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 14 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The High Arctic is not a place you go looking for forests today. It is extremely harsh, cold, and nearly void of most forms of plant life. However, that has not always been the case. The Eocene Epoch was a period where Earth was much hotter than it is today and forests flourished at the poles. This is also when much of the flora we know and love today was just getting its start. Join me and Dr. Jim Basinger as we explore what some incredibly rare fossil deposits are teaching us about forests above the Arctic Circle. This episode was produced in part by Robert, Thomas, Valerie, Joan, Mohsin Kazmi Photography, Cathy, Simon, Nick, Paul, Charis, EJ, Laura, Sung, NOK, Stephen, Heidi, Kristin, Luke, Sea, Shannon, Thomas, Will, Jamie, Waverly, Brent, Tanner, Rick, Kazys, Dorothy, Katherine, Emily, Theo, Nichole, Paul, Karen, Randi, Caelan, Tom, Don, Susan, Corbin, Keena, Robin, Peter, Whitney, Kenned, Margaret, Daniel, Karen, David, Earl, Jocelyn, Gary, Krysta, Elizabeth, Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts, Pattypollinators, Peter, Judson, Ella, Alex, Dan, Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Indefensive Plants podcast
0:03.7	of Indefensive Plants.com.
0:05.2	What's up? This is your host Matt. Welcome to the show.
0:07.2	How is everyone doing this week?
0:09.0	I'm doing great because we are time traveling back to the EEO scene
0:12.2	some 45 million years ago to look at a snapshot of what
0:15.7	forests were doing in the high Arctic.
0:18.1	Yeah that's right, forests in the high Arctic.
0:20.5	Our world was a vastly different place back then and what we would recognize as our modern floor today was just getting started and the fossils that are coming out of this location that we're talking about today are an incredible insight into what was going on back then.
0:33.7	Joining me is Dr. Jim Basinger, who has spent a lot of time in the
0:37.8	high Arctic trying to understand these ancient forests and what they mean for
0:41.3	plant evolution as we know it today.
0:44.0	But conversations like this don't happen without your support,
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0:58.2	But most importantly, you're helping conversations like this happen each and every week.
1:02.0	I couldn't be doing it without my patrons
1:03.5	so thank you to everyone that is kicked in thus far. But that is entirely enough out of
1:07.8	me so without further ado here's my conversation with Dr. Jim Basinger. I hope you
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