Episode 47 - Prehistoric Beasts and Where to Find Them

It's another Very Special Sponsored Episode this week! We're talking prehistoric animals of all shapes and sizes (and by all sizes we mean mostly TOO BIG). Learn about giant birds hunted by the first people on New Zealand, the giant sea scorpion that will haunt Amber's dreams, and.. probably more than you ever wanted to know about woolly mammoth butts.

To learn more about these creatures, check out:

Mammoths! (TwilightBeasts)

Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct? (Science)

Dead as the moa: oral traditions show that early Māori recognised extinction (The Conversation)

Scientists use fossilized feces to reconstruct moa diet (Phys.org)

Giant sea scorpion discovered (Nature)

Mammoth or Mastodon: What's the Difference? (LiveScience)

10 Extinct Giants That Once Roamed North America (LiveScience)

Thomas Jefferson Built This Country On Mastodons (Atlas Obscura)

Giant boid snake from the Palaeocene neotropics reveals hotter past equatorial temperatures (Nature)

Pig-Footed Bandicoot (ThoughtCo)

Photo credit: illustration by Joseph Smit (1836-1929) from Extinct Monsters: A popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life (1892). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.