Today we’re playing Caveman Movie Bingo again! Creatures the World Forgot (1971) is another 70s caveman-sploitation film that’s heavy on the stereotypical tropes and light on plot. Despite the name, it might be most notable for not featuring any forgotten creatures.

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Watch Creatures the World Forgot on Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/creatures-the-world-forgot

Play Caveman Movie Bingo: https://bingobaker.com#681e1d01d32b436e

Ostrich eggshell beads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich_eggshell_beads

Ostrich egg water bottles: https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/213331

Elephant bird eggshells: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/28/ancient-eggshells-unlock-discovery-extinct-elephant-bird-lineage

Formicola and Buzhilova (2004) Double child burial from Sunghir (Russia): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15197816/

Dance of the Tiger (1995) by Björn Kurtén: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/dance-of-the-tiger/paper

The Asaro Mudmen of Papua New Guinea: https://www.tribes.world/en/community/who-are-the-asaro

The Dogon People of Mali: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogon_people

Big news! An American biotech company announced this week that they have brought the dire wolf back from extinction! We’ve honoured this great achievement by watching the prophetic film Dire Wolf (2009), a gory werewolf movie in which an American biotech company brought back the dire wolf from extinction... to create a military bioweapon! We’ve got our eyes on you, Colossal Biosciences...

Watch Dire Wolf (2009) on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/641656/dire-wolf

The Dire Wolf (Aenocyon dirus): https://tarpits.org/stories/our-evolving-understanding-dire-wolves

Bone Clones Dire Wolf Skull: https://boneclones.com/product/dire-wolf-skull-tarpit-finish-BC-020T

Colossal Biosciences: https://colossal.com/

Colossal’s Dire Wolf preprint on BioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.09.647074v1.abstract

Perri et al. (2021) Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x

Janczewski et al. (1992) Molecular phylogenetic inference from saber-toothed cat fossils of Rancho La Brea: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.89.20.9769

Hank Green – They Didn’t Make Dire Wolves, They Made Something...Else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar0zgedLyTw

Beth Shapiro (2020) How to Clone a Mammoth: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691209005/how-to-clone-a-mammoth

Today we’re reviewing Lisa the Skeptic, a classic episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa discovers an apparent angel skeleton at an archaeological dig. In this episode we dig into hoaxes, the use of AI in academic writing, and the work of Stephen J. Gould. But in a larger sense, this episode will settle the age-old question of Science vs. Religion (spoiler alert: Capitalism wins).

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The Burgess Shale: https://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/

Stephen J. Gould: https://achievement.org/achiever/stephen-jay-gould/

The Cardiff Giant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant

AI in academic writing: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/generative-ai-in-academic-writing/

Operation Flagship: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnd0p192kn2o

Operation Flagship on Stuff You Should Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYcGopqLvEs

The Prophecy (1995): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PSZ7NDEgU

Kenneth Copeland is evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20y2Alkbc30

Christian Science reading rooms: https://apnews.com/article/christian-science-reading-rooms-religion-65a68fb88b7db958aa1c939e0d69719d

Anomalocaris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris

Billy Beer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Beer