Beth Shapiro

And I heard those great stories about how he donated material to the American Museum.

Do you know what I think is great about that story?

I really like it, right?

Because I'm sure it's true because they have so much of that material at the American Museum.

When I started working on bison, and I've worked on bison for 30 years, right?

When I started working on bison, getting back to the species concept, I was trying to figure out if the DNA mapped to these species names.

And they've got a fantastic collection at the AMNH.

But a lot of it is crap.

You know, there's so much bone there, broken pieces or other pieces.

And you get to the point where you're like, what the hell am I going to do with it?

Now, they shouldn't have dumped it in the river.

Obviously, that's dumb.

But he is going to get the last laugh.

He won't know because he'll be long dead.

But in 10,000 years, when the paleontologists of the future are looking in that river, they're going to be like, what the fuck?

Yeah, I'm sure it's there.

And they probably didn't mean anything terrible by it.

Well, who knows?

Probably around the 50s.

That was when most of the collection came from.