Sunday 14th October, 2012

Nick Crumpton—zoologist, co-editor of BlueSci Films, freelance journalist, occasional beard-haver and ukulelist—joins the show to talk primarily about long-dead mammals.

• Half-life of DNA
• 100-Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Found in Amber
• High morphological variation of vestibular system accompanies slow and infrequent locomotion in three-toed sloths
• Ice Age's Scrat Discovered
• Bathtime for Baby Sloths
• The Mammoth Trilogy
• Innerspace
• I Shrink, Therefore I Am
• The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

Tracklist

• John Williams – Theme from Jurassic Park
• David Byrne & St. Vincent – Ice Age
• PVT – In The Blood
• Here We Go Magic – Collector

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