About this podcast
Your one stop shop for all things dinosaurs, paleontology and extinct animals.
Kickback, relax and learn all about the amazing creatures that once existed - welcome to the digsite!
Episodes
The newest 50 of 171 episodes
- The Evolution Of The Largest Things To Ever Live · 29 minExtinctZoo examines the evolutionary milestones that allowed plants to conquer the land, from early symbiotic relationships with fungi to the development of vascular systems…
- The Largest Animal From Every Period · 36 minWake up, its time to meet the largest animals to ever evolve!
- The Deadliest Place To Ever Exist · 28 minExtinctZoo explores the Kem Kem Group in Morocco, a geological formation from the late Cretaceous period. This river delta ecosystem supported an intense concentration of giant…
- Putting Cheetahs In Australia · 25 minMaybe Cheetahs will get a kick out of living in Australia...and I mean that literally.
- Every Time Something Has Evolved Into A Snake · 23 minCarcinization is so 2025, say hello to Serpentization, the phenomenon in which non-snake animals keep turning into danger noodles.
- Every Creature That Lives In And On You · 17 minMeet all the friends you've always had, but never knew you had!
- Pangea Never Got Deadlier Than This · 20 minPangea was never really a safe place to begin with, but this one moment, jeez lemme tell ya...
- Prehistoric Human Deaths That Make Stubbing Your Toe Seem Pleasurable · 17 minAfter watching this video, you'll thank your furniture for stubbing your toe!
- The Insane Science Of Electric Eels · 25 minSpiderman wasn't so off with eels turning you superhuman after all...
- The Science Behind What Happens When A Whale Swallows You · 26 minWhale's may be the gentle giants of the oceans, but if one accidentally swallows you, it ain't gonna feel too gentle.
- Earth's Scariest Flying Predators From Each Period · 32 minLook out Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, y'all got some competition
- When The Sahara Was A Jungle · 20 minThe Sahara might just be the harshest (hot) desert on Earth today. But just a few thousand years ago, it was a lush green paradise filled with lakes, rivers, savannas, and…
- The Most Isolated Ecosystem On The Entire Planet · 14 minThe greatest time capsule ever made, came from mother nature's own hands.
- How Boring Was The Boring Billion Really? · 13 minDo you ever find yourself wondering what your 70 millionth great-grandfather, Slime Sr. would think of you?
- This Channel May Not Exist In 2 Years (Update) · 8 minTo some this thumbnail may seem familiar, to others it may be brand new. A few weeks ago, we launched our patreon along with this video, sadly less than a week into our patreon…
- I Simulated What The K-T Extinction Would Have Felt Like In Real Time · 19 minHow can a world go from wonderous giant reptiles, and sprawling forests to a desolate wasteland in just 24 hours? Find out hereeeee
- Tasmanian Devil: The Animal Going Extinct Because Of Cancer · 24 minTurns out Looney Tunes was missing a few things...
- The Ocean Has An Amazon, And It's Insane · 17 minSubnautica, its a pretty cool game with a pretty cool ecosystem, and it can make one wish that space travel was a real thing, allowing you to visit such places. Yet, don't fret…
- America Might Soon Have A New Big Cat Species · 14 minWatch out mountain lions, there's a new cat in town
- The Triassic Was Earth's Strangest Period By Far · 18 minEveryone has that certain time in their life, where they are just trying things out and experimenting, and perhaps those things are not exactly the most logical or flattering…
- The Deadliest Sea Animal From Every Single Period · 41 minThe oceans and seas of earth have long been home to some of the most nightmarish creatures, and when you include every aquatic animal ever, the list of thalassophobia inducing…
- Skull Island Was Based On A Real Place · 14 minKing Kong may be rooted more in reality than you would thunk.
- The Strangest Fossils Discovered Beneath The Earth · 21 minCaves kinda freak me out, so I am glad other people are brave enough to explore them leading to some pretty metal discoveries over the years.
- When Prey Became Scarier Than Predators · 22 minWe always talk about the big bad predators of old, namely carnivorous dinosaurs, but we don't give enough flowers to the herbivorous dinosaurs that went far and beyond the norm…
- When Earth Got Microwaved · 23 minYou probably think the age of mammals is all cold and grey right? I mean we are in an ice age and all. Yet, this belief would be FOOLISH, cuz guess what, it was actually during…
- The Most Dangerous Rabid Animal To Exist · 12 minRabies in animals is always scary, but a rabid wolf is a whole other ball game, so much so that its often been dubbed the deadliest kind of rabid animal...let me explain.
- Prehistoric Animals That Make No Sense · 18 minEver wondered what you'd get if you combined a Gorilla with a Horse? No? Well evolution has and over the years it has created hybrids of sorts, prehistoric animals that seem to…
- Piranhas: The Animal That Just Doesn't Make Sense · 20 minTerrifying, blood thirsty, lethal. These are just some ways I am sure many people describe piranhas, who over the years have built a pretty respectable reputation built off fear…
- Ice Age America Was Basically Africa On Steroids · 28 minIf you think about Ice Age America, you may picture a bunch of snow, ice, and cavemen. However, that would be wrong, and you would be much closer to reality if you simply…
- When The Sauropods Just…Stopped · 15 minOnce upon a time, the largest animals to ever walk were in the height of their golden age, but then rather suddenly they vanished, just like that. Why?
- The Biggest Land Mammal To Ever Live · 17 minThere's a new king in these parts...and it ain't a dinosaur.
- The Shark Deadlier Than Jaws · 12 minGreat white, tiger shark, and bull shark. These three are what many consider to be the deadliest shark out there, to humans. However, there is a relatively unknown shark, that…
- When Dinosaurs Almost Made A Comeback · 19 minIf you ask the average person when the dinosaurs rule ended, they would say 66 million years ago when that big ol mean asteroid struck. But in truth, this may not really be all…
- The Largest Savanna On Earth Is Not In Africa · 19 minBrazil’s Cerrado might be the stranger, wilder, and more overlooked savanna hiding in plain sight.
- The Largest Lake To Ever Exist · 22 minThe great lakes are probably the most famous group of lakes in the entire world, named for their...well great size. And yet these guys are tiny compared to an ancient lake that…
- These Giants Were Alive Just 300 Years Ago · 34 minEarth used to be packed with giants, and somehow, in just the last few centuries, humans still managed to delete a shocking number of them.
- What Actually Lives At The Bottom Of The Ocean · 17 minThe lower you go, the only weirder things become...
- Dinosaur "Myths" That Are True · 17 minPrepare to have your mind blown by the absurdities that were the dinosaurs.
- The Largest Bird To Ever Fly · 13 minDinosaurs are well known for being absolute units, so it may not come as too much of a surprise, that the largest animal to fly that was not a pterosaur, happened to be a…
- Why Animals Are White In The Arctic But Black In Antarctica · 14 minIf convergent evolution has taught us anything, its that some designs work over and over again, which is why its a bit strange that two places, the Arctic and Antarctic that are…
