Best ExtinctZoo Podcasts (2025)

Beneath Germany’s shale, workers uncovered fossils that shouldn’t exist...or at least it would seem so. Instead what was found was proof of evolutions strangest (but perhaps most logical) habit.

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The Human Species That Shouldn't Exist 13:52

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5d ago13:52

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Deep in a South African cave, scientists uncovered a human species unlike any other - small, strange, and seemingly out of place in time. Who were they, what were they doing there, and why do their bones tell such a baffling story? Meet Homo naledi, the mystery buried in the dark.

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The Most Impossible Animals Ever Discovered 19:21

8d ago19:21

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Immortality, wouldn't it be nice? Well, for some animals out there, they don't actually have to wonder, as thanks to some nifty evolution, they have in some ways figured out how to beat death!

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20 Minutes of Dinosaur Facts You Didn't Know You Needed To Know 20:50

11d ago20:50

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All your perfect first date icebreakers in less than 21 minutes, what more could you ask for?

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Shark Attacks So Brutal They Became Fossils 22:34

16d ago22:34

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Dun dun… dun dun… dun dun dun dun

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The Last Time Earth Was Iceless 24:32

30d ago24:32

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ICE ICE BABYYYYYY

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The Strangest Mouths Ever Discovered 20:48

1M ago20:48

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Say cheeseeee

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Extinct Animals That Might Still Be Alive 18:51

1M ago18:51

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When an animal is declared extinct, we generally think that's the last we'll ever see of them. And most of the times this is true, but there are a handful of animals out there who have been declared extinct, but in reality might actually be roaming the earth as we speak...

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The Discoveries That Prove Humans Are Absolutely Insane 23:51

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Humans are a wild wild bunch, I am sure you know that, and even so I guarantee that these archeology discoveries will have you scratching your head on why on earth any would would do such things.

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This Island Turned Animals Into Monsters 22:35

2M ago22:35

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There's just something about islands, that goes hand in hand with spookiness, especially when it comes to animals. And of all the islands to have existed, its this one that might just take the cake of being the strangest.

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Prehistoric Animals Scientists Got Horribly Wrong 24:23

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To figure out what animals millions and millions of years old were like through some bones, is breathtakingly difficult, which is why it may not be surprising, that a few times, paleontologist have gotten things really wrong.

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The Giants Found In The Deepest Parts Of Our Oceans 19:34

2M ago19:34

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Hey everyone! Made a poll a few weeks back about uploading bonus episodes about animals that still exist, and over 90% of you said you wanted it - so here's the first test episode. Let me know what you think!

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When Florida Was On The Wrong Continent 19:53

2M ago19:53

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Turns out that Florida man wasn't always Florida man

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Extinct Animals The Polynesians Saw 20:02

3M ago20:02

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Would you believe me that during the crusades, their still existed on earth not one but multiple giant animals that were the stuff of legends, and they could all be found in one place? Well, this is the truth...

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The Strangest Extinct Creatures Ever Found 17:09

3M ago17:09

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Extinct animals are weird, but only handful are weird enough that we have no clue what in the world they are, despite our current technology and knowledge.

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The Earth's First Known Plague 10:56

3M ago10:56

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If you've watched some of my recent videos, then you'll know that the neolithic kind of sucked, it just wasn't fun, well turns out that somehow it was even worse than we once thought, like way way worse. Check out the website: extinctzoo.org

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The Ice Age That Killed Over 80% Of All Life 17:51

3M ago17:51

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We’ve all heard of the Dinosaurs extinction, and if you're a slight nerd like me, then maybe the Permian’s great dying too, however do you know about the first mass extinction, which was a super mega ice age on steroids? Didn’t think so!

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When A Sea Dried Up And Left Hell Behind (literally) 24:29

4M ago24:29

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Imagine a place where the deadliest waters laid, and then imagine that in the exact same spot the deadliest land also rested, well turns out that really happened, let me explain...

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The Worst Deaths Ever Discovered In Prehistoric Humans 18:45

4M ago18:45

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If pain was a business, then humans have created a monopoly out of it, just ask our early ancestors, who sadly for them, have left us some pretty painful fossils showcasing just how brutal prehistoric times were.

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We're Evolving Backwards 17:34

4M ago17:34

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300,000 years isn't exactly a long time in the grand scheme of things. And yet it was long enough for us to go through some pretty peculiar "changes"...

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Japan Once Had Real Kaiju 26:02

4M ago26:02

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Today Japan is known for anime, good food, and everything kawaii, but once upon a time not only was it not kawaii, it was also one of the worst places you could find yourself on the entire planet, as it seemed to be collecting nightmarish animals like Pokémon.

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The Most Brutal Human Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils 20:59

4M ago20:59

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Life hurts, but seems like in the past it hurt so so much worse... and these real skeletons prove it.

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The Largest Animal To Ever Walk On Two Legs 11:55

5M ago11:55

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Sauropods were the largest dinosaurs to ever live... but what was the second largest? Its an animal you have likely never heard of AND it also happens to be the biggest thing to have ever walked on two legs (if it wanted to)

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Antarctica Before It Froze 23:26

5M ago23:26

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Antarctica today is ice on ice on ice, with a few penguins sprinkled in. But once upon a time, not only was there no ice or snow, yet palm trees, giant crocodiles, noodle mammals and... dinosaurs?

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When Evolution Made The Same Animal Twice 22:15

5M ago22:15

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If you take a look through time you will come to the realization that we are all the same, but different... let me explain.

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The Extinct Animals The First Humans Saw 19:17

5M ago19:17

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Ever imagined what the very first modern humans would have saw on their journeys in late Pleistocene Africa? Well imagine no further, here's the answer! Also stay tuned for a special guest on this episode...

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When Australia Had A Sea 26:04

6M ago26:04

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To keep it short... Australia has no chill and had no chill...

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The Forgotten Prehistoric War That Killed 19 Out Of 20 Men 16:33

6M ago16:33

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7,000 years ago something happened that was so severe that it permanently left a scar within our DNA...

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The T. Rex's Savage Older Brother 17:22

6M ago17:22

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We all love and know the T. rex, but have you ever asked yourself, where did it come from, and what ruled before it? Well.. here's the answer.

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The Most Brutal Deaths Ever Preserved In Fossils 21:26

6M ago21:26

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To scrape by back in the old days you had to be extremely tough, but as these 9 Fossils show, sometimes being among the toughest animals to ever exist, still gets you nothing but a painful ending.

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When Thalassophobia Kept You Alive 23:57

7M ago23:57

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When you go swimming in the ocean or seas, the last thing you want to swim into is a shark... but what happens when everything is a shark?

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The Giant Humans That Hunted & Cannibalized Neanderthals 21:35

7M ago21:35

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Ice age Europe wasn't exactly the most welcoming of places...

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The Only Predators To Dominate The Dinosaurs 19:03

7M ago19:03

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When you think of the biggest and baddest group of animals to ever live, you likely imagine the dinosaurs. And why wouldn’t you? They were the largest land carnivores and herbivores to ever live. So, it may then surprise you that dinosaurs were actually at one point in their existence ruled by a much less famous group of animals……

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The Absolute Worst Dinosaur You Could Get Caught By 16:02

7M ago16:02

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We usually think that dinosaurs, namely theropods, are scary based off of how big they were. And while this can be true to an extent, size can sometimes be deceitful, as there was a secretive family of theropods that once existed, which proved that sometimes its not really the big ones you need to fear.…

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The Hidden Timer That Kills Every Species 18:24

8M ago18:24

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The hardest game ever is the one we are forced to play & that's life, and within it their seems to be a number that only 1% make it past, which begs the question...why?

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26,000 Years Ago Europe Was Hell 24:08

8M ago24:08

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"Am I cooked?" - Cro-Magnon (c. 26,000 BCE)

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The Moment Thalassophobia Was Born 23:54

8M ago23:54

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Water, especially deep water, a big no no for many. And this is for good reason, but once upon a time, the oceans and seas of Earth were actually pretty chill, so how did it go so wrong? When was Thalassophobia born?

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Earth Once Had Hobbits & It Absolutely Sucked To Be Them 21:37

8M ago21:37

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Hobbits have cozy lives right? True, until you put them in the real world and on an island with giant reptiles, then you got yourself some brutally awful experiences.

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The Time When Sharks Were The Least Of Your Worries 15:52

8M ago15:52

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Some 150,000,000 Years Ago, before the Bull Shark, the Great White, or the Megalodon, there was... the Pliosaurus

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The Worst Time To Have Ever Been A Human 22:33

9M ago22:33

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We all go through ups and downs in life, but for this particular human species, it was only downs.

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The North Pole Had Its Very Own ‘T. Rex’ 16:18

9M ago16:18

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Santa Claus had some competition during the Late Cretaceous...

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If This Prehistoric Hyena Was In Lion King Scar Would've Won 17:13

9M ago17:13

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In Lion King, Scar used an army of Hyenas to try and uh..."remove"...Simba, but as we know, this didn't turn out so great for him, well I am here to tell you that things would have panned out quite different, if he had just hired this prehistoric Hyena instead.

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The Closest Life Has Ever Come To Going Extinct 21:17

9M ago21:17

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Of the 31 extinctions (give or take) that life has faced, you may have only been taught in school about the kt event, aka the extinction that took out the dinosaurs. And you might've been led to believe that it was the worst day for life ever... you've been lied too.

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The First Super Predator To Emerge After The Dinosaurs 13:52

10M ago13:52

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Before the killer whale, or the barracuda, or even the great white, there was the king of lizards, or rather a whale, that looked more like a mosasaur or snake than any whale you or me is familiar with.

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The World's Most Terrifying Island... 25:07

10M ago25:07

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Hey you! Yeah you, wanna take a sweet vacation to an Island? I got the perfect place for you...

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Neanderthals Were Absolute Freaks Of Nature 14:21

10M ago14:21

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Harder, better, faster, stronger....Daft Punk really just made a song about neanderthals.

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The Scariest Animal During The Jurassic Wasn't A Carnivore... 17:07

10M ago17:07

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The Late Jurassic Morrison Formation was one of the most brutal places to ever exist. You had giant sauropods and cannibalistic theropods roaming about, and still somehow, things got even crazier when you looked at some of the 'smaller' dinosaurs, with one herbivore in particular actually being more grisly then some of the predators around...…

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When Krakens Were Real 19:47

11M ago19:47

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Arrrr, here be krakens matey! Well, not really, but kind of... especially when you look at prehistoric waters.

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The Only Time In History That Water Was Safer Than Land 22:20

11M ago22:20

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You know how I've reiterated that you shouldn't get into the water, no matter how bad things get on land, well... there is ONE exception to this rule. 0:00Nature’s Unspoken Rule And The Period That Broke It 00:45Geography & Oceanography 02:15What Lived In The Oceans & Seas03:56What Caused Life In The Water To Be So Unscary?04:35The Opposite Story O…