Blake Smith, Ben Radford, and Dr. Karen Stollznow welcome historian of science Dr. Brian Regal of Kean University in New Jersey to discuss what Darwin’s theory of natural selection did — and didn’t — do to the werewolf. Dr. Regal is an assistant professor for the history of science, technology, and medicine, with a Ph.D. in American intellectual history. His research into […]
🎙️ Blake Smith, Karen Stollznow and Ben Radford are joined by Dr. Dave Martill, reader in paleobiology at the University of Portsmouth, to discuss one of evolution’s most spectacular experiments in flight: the pterosaurs. The occasion is the MonsterQuest episode on the Ropen — a cryptid from Papua New Guinea described by proponents as a bioluminescent, still-living pterosaur — which brought Dr. Martill to PNG as the resident skeptical expert. What […]