24 min

Archeopteryx Specimen Unveiled | Trees And Shrubs Burying Great Plains' Prairies Science Friday

    • Natural Sciences

The Field Museum has unveiled a new specimen of Archaeopteryx, a species that may hold the key to how ancient dinosaurs became modern birds. Also, a “green glacier” of trees and shrubs is sliding across the Great Plains, burying some of the most threatened habitat on the planet.

The Field Museum has unveiled a new specimen of Archaeopteryx, a species that may hold the key to how ancient dinosaurs became modern birds. Also, a “green glacier” of trees and shrubs is sliding across the Great Plains, burying some of the most threatened habitat on the planet.

24 min

More by WNYC

Radiolab
WNYC Studios
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
Dolly Parton's America
WNYC Studios & OSM Audio
Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked
Snap Judgment
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Complexly, John Green
Adulting with Michelle Buteau and Jordan Carlos
Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network