The Extinctions Podcast

Rhys Lemoine is a PhD-student based at Aarhus university in Denmark and specialised in megafaunal extinctions and palaeoecology. In this interview, we touch everything from the modern rewilding-movement to extinct hominids, the ecological role of predators and what conservation today can learn from the ancient past.

Find Rhys at:

https://dk.linkedin.com/in/rhys-lemoine-7a0930117

Darío Estraviz López is a PhD student based at NOVA University Lisbon, studying Pleistocene Iberian megafauna and Cenozoic vertebrate paleontology more generally. In this fascinating conversation, we discuss everything from the first human colonisation of Iberia to the last straight-tusked elephants, the Holocene occurrence of lions, the enigmatic Zebro and more. 

Darío's Researchgate profile:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dario-Estraviz-Lopez 

This is the second part of our interview with Ben J. Novak, lead scientist at Revive & Restore and head of the The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback. In this second part, we discuss the ecology, extinction and possible future of the passenger pigeon. We give our sincere thanks to Ben for coming on - you can find link to his work at Revive & Restore below.

Revive & Restore:

https://reviverestore.org/

The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback:

https://reviverestore.org/about-the-passenger-pigeon/

This is the first part of our interview with Ben J. Novak, lead scientist at Revive & Restore and head of the The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback. We discuss everything from cloning and de-extinction to ecological surrogacy and certain media franchises. We give our sincere thanks to Ben for coming on - you can find link to his work at Revive & Restore below.

Revive & Restore:

https://reviverestore.org/

The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback:

https://reviverestore.org/about-the-passenger-pigeon/

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the very first episode of the TE Podcast, where we will be covering everything related to the quaternary extinctions, rewilding-science and the recent past. In this initial episode, we give a general overview of the Pleistocene and Holocene extinctions, when they occurred, what species were lost, and what the current consensus (or lack thereof) is regarding the causes. We hope you enjoy!

More extinctions-related material can be found on our website at theextinctions.com, where we host articles, blog-posts and detailed species-profiles covering taxa both extinct and extant.