Alie Ward

And thanks to everyone who leaves reviews of the show and to provide evidence that I do read them all.

Thank you to recent reviewer Coco Reads Books, who said that ologies, quote, can make the most obscure, weird topic super interesting.

Coco, you have no idea.

We're about to do it again.

Okay, paleohistology.

It comes from words for old tissues, and the histo in tissues comes from an older Greek word that means web.

And I was in Chicago a few months ago for a friend's wedding, and the afternoon before the rehearsal dinner, I romped off to the Field Museum to lurk behind the scenes with this ologist I had been admiring from the internet for years.

I saw drawers of bones, millions of years old skulls, microscopes, and the evidence that changed how we think about what grows in our mouths.

So prepare to drop your jaws as we discuss the origins of teeth, why yours hurt sometimes, how they got in your mouth, the long debated rumors of extinct species.

How particle accelerators and paleontology worlds collide.

What tools fossil pickers rely on.

Teeny tiny mysteries.

Busting age old flim flam.

And why you should hug a tree before it kills you.

Plus why a catfish might become your overlord.

With science communicator, researcher, paleontologist, tooth enthusiast, and researcher of ancient tissues, paleohistologist Dr. Yara Haridi.

First thing I'll have you do is we could say your first and last name and the pronouns you use.

So I'm Yara Haridi.

I followed you on Twitter for years.

Before.