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Bringing an Extinct Owl Back to Life - The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

Bringing an Extinct Owl Back to Life - The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

Update: 2025-11-18
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The work of Richard Meinertzhagen helped convince biologists that the Forest Owlet of India had gone extinct. But after Meinertzhagen’s frauds were exposed, one biologist grew obsessed with finding out whether it just might be alive still. (Part 2 of 2)


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Bringing an Extinct Owl Back to Life - The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

Bringing an Extinct Owl Back to Life - The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean