SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 22: Ancient Mega with Blake de Pastino
This week, we’re joined by Blake de Pastino from the YouTube channel PBS Eons to talk about how plants, animals, and geologic events used to be so… huge. There are still blue whales and massive natural disasters, but the days of the Megalodon have passed. So were those big tunnels in South America really dug out by giant ground sloths? Where is the largest impact crater in the Solar System? And did humans really huddle under the skeletal remains of the giant armadillo-like Glyptodon?
To learn more about this week's topic, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://natural-history.uoregon.edu/collections/web-galleries/saber-toothed-salmon
https://cals.arizona.edu/classes/ento596c/topic/session9.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2016.1223654?scroll=top&needAccess=true&
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/03/28/paleoburrows-south-america/#.XFC3uc9Khxz
http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/044_Paleotocas_ING.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Glyptodon carapaces:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/ancient-armadillos-grew-big-vw-beetles
https://books.google.com/books?id=kUAKgNfiAvoC&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.jstor.org/stable/971990?read-now=1&seq=6#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2055556315Z.00000000031?journalCode=ypal20
https://books.google.com/books?id=2tk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223
[Butt One More Thing]
Stegosaurus butt brain misconception:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/