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Everything wrong with Prehistoric Planet: North America

Posted on 31 December, 2025 14:25 by Jura Comment
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features contributions from the following paleontology consultants:
- Steve Brusatte
- John Conway
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
This is the final episode in the series and is another episode that is a potpourri of content. As described in the associated Twitter Megathread, the only overarching “theme” is that it all takes place in North America.

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Everything wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Oceans

Posted on 19 December, 2025 22:18 by Jura Comment
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features contributions from the following paleontology consultants:
- Steve Brusatte
- John Conway
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Kiersten Formoso
- Michael Habib
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Christian Klug
- Takuya Konishi
- Neil Landman
- Luke Muscutt
- David Peterman
- Peter Skelton
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- James Witts
- Darren Naish
This episode has the most input from paleontologists, likely due to it covering such a vast, diverse, and really hard to undrestand area of the prehistoric world. As discussed in the Twitter Megathread for this episode, Oceans is largely a continuation of the first episode, Coasts.

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Everything Wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Swamps

Posted on 12 December, 2025 21:28 by Jura Comment
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features contributions from the following paleontology consultants:
- Steve Brusatte
- John Conway
- David Evans
- Alexander Farsnworth
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
As discussed in the associated Twitter Megathread, this episode was a bit of a hodgepodge of several clips from other episodes. So, a bit of a potpourri here.

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Everything Wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Badlands

Posted on 7 December, 2025 22:10 by Jura Comment
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features contributions from the following paleontology consultants:
- Victoria Arbour
- Steve Brusatte
- John Conway
- Alexander Farsnworth
- Scott Hartman
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mike Widdowson
- Darren Naish
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Everything Wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Islands

Posted on 25 November, 2025 15:01 by Jura 2 Comments
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features contributions from the following paleontology consultants:
- Steve Brusatte
- John Conway
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Scott Hartman
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
This episode is focused on island (or potential island) life of the Maastrichtian.

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Everything wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Forests

Posted on 23 June, 2025 13:44 by Jura Comment
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features contributions from the following paleontology consultants:
- Victoria Arbour
- Steve Brusatte
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
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Everything Wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Ice Worlds

Posted on 13 June, 2025 7:23 by Jura Comment
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features advisement by the following paleontology consultants:
- Victoria Arbour
- Steve Brusatte
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Tony Fiorillo
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
This episode is easily the most fanciful in its interpretations. It pushes a modern-day paleontology myth about a highly temperate Mesozoic that is worthy of a blog post all of its own. I’m keeping things tight here for the sake of the sin theme, but I’ll likely revisit this topic again in the future.

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Everything Wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Freshwater

Posted on 17 May, 2025 20:13 by Jura 1 Comment
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Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features advisement by the following paleontology consultants:
- Steve Brusatte
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
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Everything Wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Deserts

Posted on 30 March, 2025 18:53 by Jura Comment
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Other Episodes

Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features advisement by the following paleontology consultants:
- Victoria Arbour
- Steve Brusatte
- John Conway
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
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Everything Wrong with Prehistoric Planet: Coasts

Posted on 8 March, 2025 0:19 by Jura 5 Comments
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Other Episodes

Coasts Deserts Freshwater Ice Worlds Forests

Islands Badlands Swamps Oceans North America

This episode features advisement by the following paleontology consultants:
- Steve Brusatte
- Alexander Farnsworth
- Kiersten Formoso
- Michael Habib
- Scott Hartman
- John Hutchinson
- Luke Muscutt
- Peter Skelton
- Robert Spicer
- Paul Valdes
- Mark Witton
- Darren Naish
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Coasts	Deserts	Freshwater	Ice Worlds	Forests
Islands	Badlands	Swamps	Oceans	North America