Skeptic Check: Monster Mashup

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Monsters don’t exist. Except when they do. And extinction is forever, except when it isn’t. So, which animals are mythical and which are in hiding? Bigfoot sightings are plentiful, but real evidence for the hirsute creature is a big zilch. Yet, the coelacanth, a predatory fish thought extinct, actually lives. Today, its genome is offering clues as to how and when our fishy ancestors first flopped onto land. Meanwhile, the ivory-billed woodpecker assumes mythic status as it flutters between existence and extinction. And, from passenger pigeons to the wooly mammoth, hi-tech genetics may imitate Jurassic Park, and bring back vanished animals. Guests: • Donald Prothero – Paleontologist, geologist, former professor at Occidental College, co-author of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids • Chris Amemiya – Biologist and geneticist at the University of Washington and the Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle • John Fitzpatrick – Ornithologist and director, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University • Ben Novak – Visiting biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, lead coordinating scientist of “The Great Comeback” at the Revive and Restore project, Long Now Foundation First released December 9, 2013. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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