Scientists

Interview series

Conversations we're setting up now

Every creature here is built from real research. This interview series is still being planned — I'm reaching out to paleontologists, botanists, marine biologists and physicists to ask what we actually know, and where the honest guessing starts. None of these have been recorded yet.

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Reaching out to guests

What we actually know about mammoth diets

A paleoecologist on what a Pleistocene giant would really want for breakfast.

Researching

Why the Carboniferous grew everything so large

Oxygen, plants, and the insects that came with them.

Looking for a guest

Speculative biology: what comes after us

How researchers reason about animals ten million years from now.