Ep. 454: Backwoods University - Southern Dinosaurs
5/11/202640 min
In deep time we know the earth was covered with dinosaurs and ice age megafauna. However, the story gets all the more real and tangible when you narrow it down and dive into a specific region or state. This week we’ll learn about the mammoths, giant aquatic lizards, duck billed dinosaurs, stag moose, caribou, and many other species that used to inhabit Mississippi and other parts of the southeastern U.S.
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First 90 secondsLake Pickle· Host0:00
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George Phillips· Guest1:01
In Mississippi, of course.
Lake Pickle· Host1:11
Crazy cool.
George Phillips· Guest1:12
Um, one of my volunteers is working on, um, portions of a mastodon that was dug up at the Vicksburg Mall in the mid-1980s. We had already prepped and preserved a portion of it, including the tusks, which