This week, Rosie introduces us to the weird world of cryptozoology, and we learn a little bit of the science behind the pseudoscience. For our SNPit, Ash tells the story of Alfred Russel Wallace, Edwin Rist, and the Great Feather Heist. Listen now!


For more info on the Cryptids we discussed in this episode, head to the links below:

• Why 19th-Century Naturalists Didn't Believe in the Platypus
• How Australia Put Evolution on Darwin's Mind
• The Littlest Human
• Homo floresiensis: Making Sense on the Small-Bodied Hominin Fossils from Flores
• Is the Loch Ness Monster Just a Big Eel?
• Super Natural History: Loch Ness Edition 

More about Alfred Russel Wallace and the Great Feather Heist below:

• The Feather Heist: This American Life
• The Great Feather Heist 
• How an Obsession With Rare Bird Feathers Turned Criminal
• The Man Who Stole Bird Feathers 

Music:

AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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