Joeckel quoted in ‘Killer Pigs’
Oct 14th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Employee News, Issue, October 15, 2009Matt Joeckel, a geologist in the School of Natural Resources, appeared in the “Killer Pigs” episode of National Geographic’s “Prehistoric Predators,” which aired Oct. 12.
Joeckel, whose expertise includes vertebrate paleontology, explains on-camera that Entelodonts have teeth “that would have been perfectly capable of tearing a bite out of a carcass.”
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