Ben Lamm
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There was a site, like, you know, like a slot that you see that are like, so moving.
Imagine one of those that is like, that can make caves because it's so big and it's got claws that get literally burrow caves.
We could walk in and it would literally eat trees because it was as big as a tree.
There's this thing called the glyptodon, which is if you take like an armadillo and make it the size of a Volkswagen beetle, that was awesome.
Um, and, and we have DNA for it, which is crazy.
Um,
One of my favorites is the stellar sea cow.
It's actually really sad.
It was a species that the stellar sea cow was about.
Think of like a manatee or dugong that's the size bigger than a whale.
Slow moving, super nice.
And it's one of those sad stories that it was like eradicated within like 30 or 60 years of ever being discovered.
Because guess what?
It's like big, slow-moving target, lots of blubber and fat, feeds colonies of people.
So that's cool.
Oh, there's also a giant beaver in America.
Beaver?
There's a giant beaver, which I think may be the silliest species, unless you turn it into some weird sci-fi horror movie.
So they were making some big dams.
Exactly.