paleontologist | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:57:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 paleontologist | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Kirk Johnson, onscreen narrator of “Walrus: Life on Thin Ice” https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/kirk-johnson-onscreen-narrator-of-walrus-life-on-thin-ice/ https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/kirk-johnson-onscreen-narrator-of-walrus-life-on-thin-ice/#respond Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:31:51 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=12065 Kirk Johnson—paleontologist, Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and onscreen narrator of “Walrus: Life on Thin Ice,” a documentary that airs Oct. 22 in the season premiere of the PBS series “Nature”—recalls a research opportunity as a grad student some 40 years ago, involving walruses. It was, he says in the […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2025/10/kirk-johnson-onscreen-narrator-of-walrus-life-on-thin-ice/feed/ 0 12065 Dr. Nick Pyenson, paleontologist and author of “Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures” https://talkinganimals.net/2018/11/dr-nick-pyenson-paleontologist-and-author-of-spying-on-whales-the-past-present-and-future-of-earths-most-awesome-creatures/ https://talkinganimals.net/2018/11/dr-nick-pyenson-paleontologist-and-author-of-spying-on-whales-the-past-present-and-future-of-earths-most-awesome-creatures/#respond Wed, 21 Nov 2018 05:00:29 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=7167 Dr. Nick Pyenson—the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, and the author of “Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures”—traces his interest in fossils to his childhood, when his parents would take him to natural history museums, experiences he called “formative.” […]

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