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Hello and happy new year. Welcome to 2026 on the ancients. It's going to be a good one. We've got some awesome episodes already lined up.

Our January schedule is done. We've recorded it all and cannot wait to share those episodes with you.

But we are kicking off 2026 and the new year with one of my favourite ever episodes over the five years, five and a half years that we've been doing the

podcast. And actually, this is an episode that so many of you have found deep in the ancients

archive and you've been requesting time and time again that we get this guest back on

at every opportunity. You want more of this guest. He's none other than Dr. Henry G.

The brilliant Dr. Henry G., who we have now had on since doing this first interview with him

all those years ago, we've had him on several times since because he is a fan favourite,

he's funny, and he makes these stories that we cover with him going millions

of years back into prehistory. He makes them really interesting and easy to follow. Big complex

topics as well. And we did quite a big topic for our first ever interview with Henry G.

We covered hundreds of millions of years

of history of life on earth, the origins of life on earth, going from the earliest single cells

at the bottom of the deepest, darkest oceans, to the rise of animals with backbones, the first

fish, fossil fish with backbones to plants and trees and

animals taking to the land, ultimately to the rise of the dinosaurs. Henry covers all of this

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