Natural history for the end of the day. Remarkable animals, plants, fossils, and vanished worlds, told calmly enough to fall asleep to and richly enough to stay awake for. Follow closely, let your attention drift, or fall asleep and pick the story up again when you return.
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Latest Episodes
The Saber Teeth in the Asphalt: Los Angeles and the Cat Built Around a Bite
The famous teeth of Smilodon only worked because the rest of the cat worked with them. La Brea’s extraordinary fossil record reveals the jaws, shoulders, forelimbs, pr...
The Dragon That Was a Rhinoceros: Klagenfurt and the Horn That Cleared the Snow
A fossil skull in Klagenfurt was once taken for the remains of a dragon and helped shape the city’s famous fountain. Give that skull its body back, and it becomes a wo...
The Small Mammoths of the Channel Islands: What Happens When Giants Live on an Island Budget
Mammoths reached California’s Channel Islands by swimming. Once there, generations of giants became something very different: adult mammoths scarcely taller than a per...
A Leaf That Digests: Darwin and the Sundew
Charles Darwin became fascinated by a tiny sundew growing on English heathland. Its glittering leaves open into a remarkable plant mechanism: a leaf that can trap, sen...
The Giant Bird at the Airport: Charleston and the Largest Wings in the Sky
A giant fossil bird turned up during construction at Charleston International Airport. With a wingspan of about twenty-one feet, Pelagornis sandersi opens a journey in...