I’ve had lots of emails from those who liked reading this report. The most interesting highlighted how people exploited fear to spread conspiracies and disinformation during the Great Plague. Social media has only served to exacerbate that problem over 300 years later!

ANIMAL OF THE EPISODE for episode 5: Dr Joseph Graves Jr Choose your favourite! The coyote 🐕 or the red cardinal 🐦? Find out more about why we chose them in episode 5 - out now! Listen here, or search us on your podcast player: bit.ly/darwinbb

Frogs are cool. Underappreciated. Misunderstood. We look at some of their wildest adaptations that allow them to live in some surprising places... 🐸🐸 open.spotify.com/episode/0hYmMj… 🌎 #frogs #Frog #amphibian #biology #evolution #podcast #ScienceTwitter

For those at the back: FROGS!

We have been featured in Podchaser's '50 Podcasts to Discover in February 2021' list! 🌟 All our episodes are available here. podchaser.com/podcasts/darwi…

The Laysan Albatross. Find out about these loyal beauties and many others (including the meaning of love) in tomorrow's episode - love and monogamy! 💕🦢🐁👨‍❤️‍👨

Episode 9's animal of the episode... two extinct marsupials. Desert Rat Kangaroo 🦘, or the Marsupial Lion 🦁? Vote now, and check out Episode 9: Tasmanian Tigers here! 🌏🇦🇺 open.spotify.com/episode/6uV4wz…

This! What an awesome milestone to reach in half a year, lookimg forward to many many more epsiodes.

"Just to inspire a single person to go and research something further... I'll feel I have done the job I set out to do." 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We speak to Rebekah J White & Thomas Land, creators of the Darwin's Black Book 🎙 evolution podcast: ow.ly/yNF650Emtwc #sciencepodcast #evolution

Why do living things get old and die 🧓👻 if natural selection is so powerful? I'm looking at changes in DNA expression 🧬 to find how life length evolved and how to EXTEND lifespan using treatments 🧀🍻💊 My models: nematode worms 👇👩🏻‍🔬 University of Exeter Doctoral College #TweetYourThesis

Wow. We've reached almost 500 independent listeners and over 1000 streams in our first eight months... Thank you everyone!! 💞🌿🐾🔬🦍🌍

We are in progress of making an episode about this! Look out for it this week 👇

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So this was epic to work on. Take a look 66 million years back in time with #PrehistoricPlanet on @AppleTVPlus on May 23rd.

I cannot wait for this, not just because it's Attenborough and Dinosaurs, but because Gostling Evolution and Palaeo Lab 🦖☄️🦤🪽🐦‍⬛🐀🦒 alum Thomas Land was involved in the production. #ProudExSupervisor #Dinosaurs Biological Sciences UoS BioSoc Lindy Holden-Dye youtu.be/Jk4ZlVEtjsc

After two years silence working on this fabulous #dinosaur series, with an incredibly talented and inspiring BBC Studios team, I’m exceedingly proud and excited to say #PrehistoricPlanet starts streaming on @AppleTVPlus this May.

THE TRAILER IS HERE: #PrehistoricPlanet. The BBC Studios BBC Natural History Unit, and @AppleTVPlus bring you 66 million years into the past. 23-27 May, on Apple TV. Being a researcher on this, with an amazing team has truly been a great experience. youtu.be/vnoNeMlNeD0

And that’s what you cal TEAM #PrehistoricPlanet

OK, hello and let's go as I #livetweet during a watch of ep 1 of #PrehistoricPlanet! I'll try and keep everything in the same thread. This is the COASTS ep - 1 of 5 - that will be streaming one a day on @AppleTVPlus ... Here we go!

MAY 22ND #prehistoricplanet, Season 2 New dinosaurs, in new environments, seen in a new way. Had the pleasure to work on this as a researcher for nearly 2 years. @AppleTVPlus Darren Naish #sirdavidattenborough #jonfavreau #dinosaurs #prehistoricplanet #palaeontology