Tag: Amazon
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PBS Eons: When the Amazon Flowed Backwards
There's a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about the Amazon River. What did life look like when the Amazon watershed flowed backwards? How did its direction shape the evolution of life around it? And what force could have possibly been strong enough to up-end one of the world’s mightiest rivers between then…
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PBS Eons: How a Mass Extinction Event Created the Amazon
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons over on Youtube. This one is about the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous and how it helped to create the Amazon rain forest. The Amazon rainforest of South America is a paradise for flowering plants. But long ago, the landscape that we now…
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The FM’s Emily Grasle Meets a Pregnant Bat and the World’s Largest Spider
If you haven’t seen “The Brain Scoop” on youtube, head on over here and and check it out. In the latest show, she’s searching for bats and finds a huge spider in the Amazon. Emily is the Chief Curiosity Correspondent of the Field Museum in Chicago. Always an interesting show. They post new show pretty regularly…
