This episode explores new research, which has found that a magnetic field collapse may have triggered the emergence of animals on Earth.
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Read this episode’s science poem here.
Read the scientific study that inspired it here.
Read ‘The Moon’s Magnetic Field Once Came from an Asteroid’ by Rebecca Morgan Frank here.
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Music by Rufus Beckett.
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Episode 123: Knots in Time
Episode 122: Dragons Across the Ocean
Episode 121: An Ancient Burst of Salty Air
Episode 120: Building on the Past
Episode 119: Dirty Light
Episode 118: The Storms of our Past
Episode 117: Rare Earth Water
Episode 116: The Urbanisation of Birds
Episode 115: Beyond the Beeline
Episode 114: Artificial Weather
Episode 113: Volcanic Seas
Episode 112: The Forests are Dying
Episode 111: Residual Snakes
Episode 110: Stabilising Cockatoos
Episode 109: Delisted Wolves
Episode 108: Dulled in Flames
Episode 107: Majestic Migration
Episode 106: Snail Survivors
Episode 105: Rotifers on Ice
Episode 104: California Haze
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