Episode 99

Saving Quokkas Now, Using the Past with Dr Larisa DeSantis

Published on: 4th February, 2021

This episode has it all: Quokkas, trivia, selfies, Australia, the La Brea Tar Pits, Conservation Paleobiology, and somehow manages to tie it all together. Dr Larisa DeSantis, Conservation Paleobiologist and professor at Vanderbilt University, is our guest and she tells us how she is using relics of the past to inform the conservation of species now and into the future.

Check out our new children's e-book on Kindle, Quokka's Aren't Cute!

Also, be on the lookout for the upcoming quokka kids book from Dr DeSantis herself, Fox Food!

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An optimistic, curiosity-chasing show about the wonder and wildness of life, following the threads that connect us to the natural world. The Wild Life is, always has been, and always will be a show about the diversity of life within the animal kingdom, but it's about more than that. It's about connections. It's about how the natural world inspires our culture, movies, and technologies. It's about the patterns that persist throughout not just life, but the universe itself. It's about us.
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