Plastic Plesiosaur Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Miles' shares one of his favorite episodes of Star Trek with Trey, who finally watches the show for the first time. It's Star Trek Voyager  "Distant Origin" S05E23  where a race of earth's dinosaurs have evolved into intelligent humanoids, but their religion works to suppresses the truth. Miles and Trey talk about the science of it all. Also we finally div...

Send us Fan Mail Trey went on a trip to see the weird and obscure in Georgia. He shares his findings.  Including a mummy somewhere you might not suspect!  Miles details the infamous Gosford Glyphs - Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs found in a rock face in  Kariong, Australia. What could explain this? The Monster Quest for this Episode is S02E29 - Real Dragons.  "MonsterQuest journeys to Australia...

Send us Fan Mail Marine Reptiles of the Past, and River Sharks of the Present (Well 2007)! Darren Naish (Terapod Zoology Podcast, Prehistoric Planet, Tetzoo, Author of many books, etc)  finally joins Trey and Miles to talk shop. Darren answers a few questions about his newest book - Ancient Sea Reptiles : Plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs and more.  On accident the group ends up talking about C...

Send us Fan Mail Trey breaks down the quest to find the tomb of one of his favorite historical characters - Alexander the Great. Has the tomb been found, can it be found? It's a story dating back centuries. Miles looks into the photo the President of Mexico recently tweeted of a Maya Elf life creature? What are these little dudes, what are they up to, and is this photo actually new and intere...

Send us Fan Mail Trey dives into the recent controversy about how smart T-Rex was. A new paper by Suzana Herculano Houzel titled "Theropod Dinosaurs had primate like numbers of telencephalic neurons" has started a debate on how we can tell the cleverness of this ancient creature. Miles looks at the worlds newest - oldest - known sentence.  Found on a ivory comb, it helps give context to...

Send us Fan Mail In the 1970's there was a push to find China's own Bigfoot type creature. Is this an ancient legend or folktale in the region? Or maybe it was the Bigfoot hype of America drifting over and effecting other nations.  Miles and Trey dive into Monster Quest's search for the "Wild Man" of China.   They also sing a Christmas song, poorly.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Graham Hancock has an idea that history unfolded in a very different way than Archeologists suggest. Long in our past there was an ancient  apocalypse that destroyed an advanced civilization.  He has been writing about this since 1995 to massive popular appeal. His books are perhaps the most widely read on the topic of the ancient world, and he is a frequent guest on the worlds mo...

Send us Fan Mail Trey talks about a new DNA method police are using to search for suspects, but the method itself might be using some suspect science. Miles's tells the story of an outlandish paper claiming Octopus are aliens, or their evolution was guided by alien genes, or they were created by an alien retro-virus...or something! Also, how the media covered the story. The Monster Quest is &...

Send us Fan Mail  Ralph the Movie Maker (Film Maker Ralph Sepe ) joins the guys as he watches his first ever Monster Quest .  It's yet another search for Bigfoot, but this time Monster Quest is looking into legends and art in different Native American cultures. Perhaps they saw Bigfoot? Or maybe something else explains art such as the "Hairy Man" at the scared Painted Rock site. The...

Send us Fan Mail Trey has just seen  Jordan Peele 's "Nope", and is excited to talk about some of the interesting cryptology links in the film.  There is likely several Chiropractic around your town. But have you ever wondered were the practice came from?  Miles tells the ghostly story of it's origin. The Monster Quest for this episode is "Vampires in America": Monste...

Send us Fan Mail Trey and Miles welcome  C. M. Kosemen  to the show, who shares  stories of the cryptids of his native turkey. Monsterquest returns to the show! With S02E09 - Chupacabra. An investigation into reports of a Texan cousin of the infamous 'Goatsucker' Trey and Miles five deep into the myth of the goat sucker, and find the source of the story that spawned two different cryptid...

Send us Fan Mail The long awaited dinosaur documentary Prehistoric Planet is finally here! The Apple  TV+ show  unveils the spectacular habitats and inhabitants of ancient Earth in an immersive digital experience. Using modern science and CGI, it gives us a possible look at the earth millions of years ago. Trey and Miles break down the show, the science, and what they thought about the story telli...

Send us Fan Mail The long awaited dinosaur documentary Prehistoric Planet is finally here! The Apple  TV+ show  unveils the spectacular habitats and inhabitants of ancient Earth in an immersive digital experience. Using modern science and CGI, it gives us a possible look at the earth millions of years ago. Trey and Miles break down the show, the science, and what they thought about the story telli...

Send us Fan Mail Trey watched Robert Egger's  "The Northman", and goes over how much real world archeology was used to create the film. From the setting to the artifacts used, it all helps to create a classic story grounded (other then the magical parts) in reality. Miles tells the story of the Lord God Bird. Once North America's most beloved woodpecker, the species was lost, t...

Send us Fan Mail Miles and Trey explore the Exodus story and the building of the Ark of the Covenant, to find out if the legendary artifact actually existed. If it was built, where is it now, and what can we know about it for sure? An announcement about the upcoming special "Prehistoric Planet." Special Guest and snake expert Steven Allain joins the show to talk about Snakes. He lends a...

Send us Fan Mail Trey Miles  tales the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton , the early 1900's captain who was the first to cross the Antarctic. However the journey ended in near disaster, after near disaster, resulting in one of the greatest survival stories of all time. Trey detailed the  recent discovery of Shackleton's famous ship "The Endurance." One of the greatest discoveries...

Send us Fan Mail Trey looks into the culture of Jewish and Christian Mythologies love of Giants. Are new discoveries in Northern Israel confirming the exitance of Giants ? Miles breaks down "The Cult of Tesla." This deep fascination the internet has for Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla . What did he really invent, and how much of the narrative around him is true? Trey and Miles als...

Send us Fan Mail Trey takes a trip to a Bigfoot museum to finally see the evidence for himself! There are bones, casts, pictures, stories, and...something else...that proves the big guy is real! Or at least, that is what the Museum claims. Miles watches "Don't Look Up" a film satirizing climate change and American culture.  Is this style of film a good way to address the climate cha...

Send us Fan Mail The peopling  of the American's has long fascinated people from the "old world." There has been a long history of ideas about how people migrated from North Eastern Asian into this disconnected continent. Geologist Cowboys, and Missionaries have all had a hand in piecing the truth together.  However, two new findings help to fill in the picture even further. Miles a...

Send us Fan Mail After a short break Trey and Miles are back! They watch Monsterquest S01E13 " American Werewolf. " Is a Dog Headed creature roaming the central forests of North America? Where do these tales come from, and is there reason to believe that upright wolves have stocked people from Germany all the way to The New World? Support the show

Send us Fan Mail A new Scientific Paper claims to have found a link between the Biblical parable of Sodom & Gamora and a mysteries Asteroid. Is a peculiar event in Russia in the early 20th century the solution to what happened to these mythical cities? We break down what happened, and why this "report" was published. We are also joined by Blake Smith of Monster Talk and In Research o...

Send us Fan Mail Discovery channel's new show " Hunting Atlantis " is looking for the metaphorical city all over again.  The way they are doing it has caused some uproar in the Archeologist community, that boiled over on Twitter.  Flint Dibble who created one of the most comprehensive  twitter threads on Atlantis, joins us to break down what is going on. The Monster Quest this episo...

Send us Fan Mail We do our first Q&A for our Patreon Backers. Talking some of our favorite books on science and skepticism, As well as what made us fall in love with Science in the first place. Trey looks into an amazing Obsidian Sword that was once a popular weapon in South America. We also interview Geologist and  Scientific Skeptical Researcher - Sharon A Hill. She shares stories about her...

Send us Fan Mail One of the most legendary artifacts of all time may have been found? Reports of the Trojan Horse's discovery are bouncing around the internet. Miles tries to piece together some of the "creative" reporting on the subject. Miles and Trey talk the few things Carl Sagan got wrong on his seminal series Cosmos, and more more varied history topics. The Monster Quest this...

Send us Fan Mail Trey returned from his trip to Poland! He tells the tail of his findings in a 13th century graveyard. Miles uses a little role play to teach Trey about some weird celestial sounds. And a few other exciting announcements!   The Monster Quest this episode is a  S01E08 " Gigantic Killer Fish "! Were we go to known lakes in search of known fish! But maybe they are growing la...