Episode 44: Do direwolves dream of extinct sheep?

Visit the ‘La Brea of the East’ with us. Shay Maden from Gray Fossil Site and Museum tells us about the history and importance of this amazing Tennessean lagerstatten. And, we can’t help but chat about the controversial claims by Colossal Biosciences that they have resurrected the dire wolf.

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Check out:

• Gray Fossil Site https://gfs.visithandson.org/
• Dinosauria Season 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRXB67fcXZA
• Paleo Pines https://paleopines.com/
• Pint of Science https://pintofscience.com.au/

Access the transcript.

#ColossalBiosciences #conservation #deExtinction #direWolf #GrayFossilSite

Wonderful to see my colleague at the #GrayFossilSite, Laura Emmert, profiled in @nature! There are few specimens that we excavate that are as technically challenging to get out of the ground and put back together as our large herbivores (#rhino #mammut). She does a fantastic job!

#Paleontology #scienceworks #careers

Me and my rhino: a relationship five million years in the making:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04510-w

Introduction. I'm the head curator at the #GrayFossilSite, #ETSU. I do #paleontology of #quaternary #mammals like extinct #proboscideans (mastodons...err... #Mammut). #Bison and #mammoth too, but only on Thursdays.

I'm fascinated with the #paleoecology of places around me--whether #GreatPlains and #prairies or high elevation #Appalachian #GrassyBalds.

My past life in #archaeology pops up quite often, especially the origins of North American #dogs and #megafaunal #extinctions.