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04/24/2024

Ep #73 Talking Headgear and Spike Tooths with Ed "Dr. Pronghorn" Davis

Ray and Dave learn about the amazing antlers and strange headgear of early hoofed mammals including today's Pronghorn Antelope along with more about the giant Spike Toothed Salmon.

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Ep #73 Talking Headgear and Spike Tooths with Ed "Dr. Pronghorn" Davis

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The Cooper Center’s vast collection of whale bones and marine mammals
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Ed Davis’s UC Berkeley professor Anthony Barnosky
A primitive Late Pliocene cheetah, and evolution of the cheetah lineage (Africa, not North America)
North American Puma or Cougar
Body water conservation through selective brain cooling by the carotid rete
Sexual selection has shaped many extreme adaptations that help organisms find mates
Female Pronghorns Choose Mate Based on Substance as Well as Show
The American Pronghorn and its Ancient Relatives
The extinct Irish Elk with the 12’ antlers, the Megaloceros
The “Pizzley Bear” a Polar-Grizzly hybrid
Giraffid “ossicones”, weird living skin and tissue bone horns
The short necked forest giraffe the Okapi
More on Ossicones
The strange Slingshot antler of Synthetoceras
Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s Thomas Condon Collection
Thomas Henry Huxley, the English biologist who specializes in comparative anatomy
Wooly Mammoth De-extinction project
How to crack a safe on Ed’s Youtube
Instagram Irish Elk Gal

 

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Deep Time by Russel Wodehouse
Slipstream by Don Kenoyer
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Cosmic Lunch by Ray Troll

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