Episode 77 - God Bless This Meth

Mother Nature Will Kill You

Jillian and Haley talk about how history always repeats itself with a recent news story about Donner pass. Jillian dives into more prehistoric stories with the lost land of Doggerland and the hominids of Rising Star Cave. Haley rounds it out with some seal talk.

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Gray Seal, NOAA Fisheries