Beth Shapiro

Yeah.

Right, because we're not going to find the last fossils of something.

That's right.

It's really hard to know, right?

And because the taphonomy, which means like how things are going to preserve, differs so much depending on where you are in the world.

Like when things die in Alaska and you have this glacial silt that preserves things really quickly, we're probably finding a lot of things, right?

But we've never found woolly rhinos in North America.

So the hypothesis is they never made it across the Bering.

When the sea level was lower, the Bering Strait was not a sea level.

Instead, it was what they called Beringia.

It was a land bridge.

Animals walked across that land bridge, including people walked across the land bridge to come into North America.

I don't know.

We do have its DNA.

I love the short-faced bear.

You know what I like the most about it is because I think it's so dumb that it's called the short-faced bear.

Why?

Who was giving it that common name?

Then they're like, oh, here's a bear that if it stands up, it's 12 feet tall.

I'm going to call it the short-faced bear.