MASTODON! (OSAGE ORANGE)

Written By Alex Crowson
 
osage orange fruit, Completely Arbortrary

What do you do when the way of life that you evolved over millions of years was rendered useless in the blink of an eye? Something very similar to that happened to the Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera) at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, and it wasn't alone.

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold
Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals
Episode cover photo by US Capitol

Additional Reading:

The Osage-orange (Maclura pomifera)
The Ghosts of Evolution by Connie Barlow
Ground Sloths and Saber Tooth Cats
The Trees That Miss the Mammoths
Mistletoe

 
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