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Come Dig Up Some Flora-Fossils with Riley Black and Bethany Brookshire
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Featured: RILEY BLACK, When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest RomanceA favorite author returns! Once again featuring the marvelous Riley Black, author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, whose latest book takes a long look at prehistoric plants! It’s so rare that we see this type of book, one that gives us the actual landscape of history. Fossils plants allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory. Each petrified leaf and root show us that dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, and even humans would not exist without the evolutionary efforts of their leafy counterparts. It has been the constant growth of plants that have allowed so many of our favorite, fascinating prehistoric creatures to evolve, oxygenating the atmosphere, coaxing animals onto land, and forming the forests that shaped our ancestors’ anatomy. It is impossible to understand our history without them. Join us as we travel back in time to prehistoric seas, swamps, forests, and savannas where critical moments in plant evolution unfolded. Ask Riley questions, live! Scramble with us up the Tree of Life—with another of out alum, Bethany Brookshire (author of PESTS). Two authors for the price of one! Maybe we can get two cocktails. Hmm… A VIP event, only on the Peculiar Book Club! (Join Patreon to be live with us!)
Episode was recorded live May 9, 2025.
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