The Wild Life

Mass Extinctions, Dinosaurs, and Chasing Dreams with Juan-Pablo Piña @paleoauthor

The Earth has ended before. Five times in the last half-billion years, life on this planet has been nearly wiped clean—reset by asteroid impacts, volcanic winters, and c

Field Guide of Wonder: The Aye-Aye

Meet the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a creature so strange that early scientists couldn’t even decide if it was a rodent, a squirrel, or… something entirely n

Field Guide of Wonder: The Capybara

Meet the world’s largest rodent—the capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), a creature so wonderfully chill it makes a golden retriever look high-strung. In this episode, w

Field Guide of Wonder: The Honduran White Bat

Hey everyone! I have some news to share 😊 Field Guide of Wonder—my social media video series— is getting a podcast companion! And here is the first episode! It'll be s

Go Green with Alexa Pavan

Hey everyone! I’m really excited to share with you all my conversation with the thoughtful and inspiring Alexa Pavan, aka @GoGreenWithAlexa. We dive into everything fro

Shells, Sunrises, and Side Quests with Emily Hunter

What happens when you follow curiosity wherever it leads? In this episode of The Wild Life, I’m joined by Emily Hunter—a passionate environmental science educator, inter

Archive of Wonder with Jay Meredith

What do a gaur, an aardvark, a flattened musk turtle, and a Matschie’s tree kangaroo have in common? They’ve all been photographed beautifully, reverently, and intention

My Message for World Oceans Day

Today is #WorldOceansDay and I’m feeling a whole lot of things. Wonder. Grief. Hope. Determination. The ocean isn’t just a place to visit. It’s not just a good backdrop

Ancient Finds, Changing Times with Andrew Schwartz

What if the key to understanding our future was hidden in the teeth of creatures that lived millions of years ago? In this episode, we dive into the world of dental micro

Giant River Otters and Other Adventures with Kat Foree

Giant river otters are social, intelligent, and deeply connected to the health of their ecosystems—but what happens when their food supply starts to dwindle? In this epis

Harvest Mice, 3-Legged Beavers, and Elephant Conflicts with Dylan Beckham

Joining The Wild Life today is Dylan Beckham! She spent two years as a zookeeper caring for all sorts of exotics, including reptiles, invertebrates, fish, emus, wallabies

Where There's Smoke, There's Fire—with Ross Barreto

Where there's smoke, there's fire. But when that fire tears through a landscape, what happens next? Today, we dive into the world of pyrophytic ecosystems—those that not

Wildlife Cinematography with Jake Davis

Welcome to The Wild Life! On today's episode, we have a fascinating guest: wildlife cinematographer Jake Davis. Jake’s career began by focusing on the wildlife of the Gr

Animal Ethics with Maggie Herskowitz

In this episode of The Wild Life, animal welfare scientist Maggie Herskowitz helps us navigate the tangled webs society has woven around the treatment of animals, both wi

SciComm, Squids, and Staying Hopeful with Dr Carly Anne York

The world is full of science and, in turn, scientists, and not enough people who truly have that spark for communicating all of that discovery and wonder to the rest of t

Carnivore Ecology with Aidan Branney

Welcome to The Wild Life, the podcast where we explore the wonders of the natural world and the science that helps us understand it. In this episode, we have an extraordi

Feathers, Fossils, and Old Friends with Dr Tiffany Slater

17 years ago, I was a 14 year old attending Connor Middle School in Hebron, Kentucky. Small little town, just across the Ohio River. In 2018, I moved away, back down to H

Secrets of the Octopus with Sy Montgomery and Warren Carlyle

From their three hearts to their ability to transform and communicate, discover the extraordinary world of octopuses with host Devon Bowker and special guest Sy Montgomer

The Joy of Working with Wildlife with Lauren Jackson, Queen of the Wild

In this episode, Devon (@devonthenatureguy) sits down with Lauren Jackson (@lauren.queenofthewild on Instagram and HERp_trap_queen on TikTok) to chat about becoming a wil

Cephalopods and SciComm with Octopus Biologist Meg Mindlin

Today’s episode, social media SciComm, all things cephalopod, their super cool brains, their mind-blowing camouflage, RNA editing, peculiar romances, underappreciated "li