# Donald Prothero
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Donald Ross Prothero (February 21, 1954) is an American geologist, paleontologist, and author who specializes in mammalian paleontology and magnetostratigraphy, a technique to date rock layers of the Cenozoic era and its use to date the climate changes which occurred 30-40 million years ago. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and over 300 scientific papers, including at least 5+ geology textbooks.
Stephen Jay Gould cited Prothero's research on the lack of response to climate change in mammals from the Eocene, Oligocene and Pleistocene epochs to support the punctuated equilibrium model of evolution.
Science Denialism with Donald Prothero
Our guest this week is Donald Prothero, paleontologist, geologist, and author of the new book Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten our Future. He's an expert on the effect of past climate change on the fossil record, as well as the co-author of Abominable Science, a skeptical look at crypt...
Donald Prothero - The Psychology of Cryptozoologists
My guest this week is Donald Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental College, and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. Don is a distinguished academic; a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Paleontological Society, he has received fellowships from...
SYSK Choice: The Psychology of Luck & Weird Earth Conspiracies Debunked
During the holiday season, there are more occasions and opportunities to drink alcohol. So, it’s worth noting that not all drinks are created equal when it comes to how they affect you. This episode begins with some interesting information about the differences between beer, wine and hard liquor ...
Mokele Mbembe
One of Matts favorite cryptids!!! Mokele Mbembe is a dinosaur around the Congo. Here is what Wiki said about it.....
In several Bantu mythologies, mokele-mbembe (also written as "mokèlé-mbèmbé") is a mythical water-dwelling entity that is believed to exist in the Congo River Basin. Variousl...
#46 The Original Talos & Mokele-mbembe
Welp- we had to record it twice. But the second one had brand new tangents. Jack tells us all about Talos, not to be confused with Talos, the much beloved Skyrim God. The producer had to edit out way too many Skyrim jokes. Then Jana tells us about the mysterious Mokele-mbembe in the Congo! No mat...
Toba Volcano: When Humans Nearly Vanished
Smithsonian Magazine article and excerpt from Donald Prothero's book, When Humans Nearly Vanished, explore the catastrophic eruption of Mount Toba 74,000 years ago. The eruption, the largest volcanic event in the past 28 million years, is discussed in detail, including its devastating immediate e...
Science vs. Scripture: The True Age of the Earth
In this episode of Truth Be Told, host Tony Sweet sits down with renowned paleontologist and author Professor Donald Prothero to tackle one of the most debated questions of all time: How old is the Earth? From scripture’s claim of a young world just a few thousand years old, to science’s overwhel...
5 Terrifying Discoveries In Congo That Terrified The Whole World - Unsolved Mysteries
5 Terrifying Discoveries In Congo That Terrified The Whole World - Unsolved MysteriesDeep in the heart of Africa lies the Congo rainforest—a vast, untamed world that has become the backdrop for some of the greatest unsolved mysteries on Earth. In this video, we journey into the “real-life Jurassi...
Could Bigfoot FEASIBLY Exist?
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45. Mokele-Mbembe: Hunting a Living Dinosaur in the Congo
In 1913, a German army captain wrote down the first account of mokele-mbembe, a creature Congo Basin locals said could stop the flow of rivers. Since then, researchers including biochemist Roy Mackal and engineer Herman Regusters have led expeditions to Lake Tele hoping to prove a living dinosaur...
