
Ep. 385: A Wild New World
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Asteroid Impact: The Origins of North American Animals
We think of bison as being our classic North American icon of animal. Passenger pigeons, for example, had come to North America and become part of the native beehry far, far longer ago in the past than bison did. There's something that's surprising when you're describing how things shook out with our bsiary. You talk about imagining the Western half of the country is being asiatic. Is it more of a European? Am I messing this up? No, no, you're not.
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