# Henry Fairfield Osborn

As the answer to a century old mystery is proposed, the gates of a hundred new questions are revealed. Follow me on one of the craziest rides through the history of science that I ever recorded. It is a star studded and celebrity packed episode with all your old favourites, J.P Morgan and Rockefell…

William Jennings Bryan challenged evolution for what he saw as the lack of evidence to show that man evolved from lower animal forms. His chief scientific opponent, well I’ll let Edward J Larson tell you about that from his book on the Scopes Monkey Trial, Summer for the Gods: At the time, the popu…

Yes, this is a NEW episode! Thanks to Eesa, Grace, and Viki for their suggestions this week. (Actual episode starts at 3 minutes 28 seconds.) Find the Backerkit campaign here! Further reading: Nix Illlustration: Esconichthys The southern hognose snake [picture by Caudatejake - Own work, CC BY-S…

Blake welcomes back Dr. Brian Regal - historian of science, technology, and medicine, and now Professor Emeritus at Kean University - to talk about his final academic book, Darwin and the Monsters: The Long History of Cryptozoology. Regal has been a MonsterTalk guest since the show was still in sin…