Charles Pellegrino

Charles Pellegrino has been known to work simultaneously in entomology, forensic archaeology, paleogenetics, the preliminary design of advanced rocket systems, astrobiology, and marine archaeology. He is the author of eighteen books including Return to Sodom and Gomorrah, Unearthing Atlantis, Dust, Ghosts of the Titanic, Her Name, Titanic: The Untold Story of the Sinking and Finding of the Unsinkable Ship. He is also the scientist whose dinosaur cloning recipe inspired the Jurassic Park series.

Charles has made dives to the Titanic and to the strange oases of the deep ocean hydrothermal vents aboard the Mir submersibles. Together with Dr. Jesse Stoff, he formulated the theory that environments similar to the deep-ocean volcanic zones might support life in subsurface oceans beneath the ice of certain moons of Jupiter and Saturn, in what is often called "The Europa Theory."

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  • Past Epidemics & Coronavirus / Open Lines

    John Barry and Charles Pellegrino delved into past epidemics and parallels with the coronavirus. Open Lines followed.More »
  • Hiroshima/Nagasaki Survivors & Ecological Collapse

    Author Charles Pellegrino discussed the atomic bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his ecological disaster novel Dust about an ecological collapse.More »
  • Microbes & Nature/ Titanic & Hiroshima

    In the first half, Professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington David R. Montgomery and biologist Anne Bikle addressed the latest scientific discoveries and theories surrounding the microbial world and our tangled relationship with microbes, from garden to gut. ...More »
  • Digestive System Stories

    Science writer Mary Roach discussed her research into the alimentary canal - the pathway by which food enters the body and solid wastes are expelled. In her new book, Gulp, she explores the digestive system from "nose to tail." First hour guest, author Charles Pellegrino...More »
  • Hitler's Escape

    Ian Punnett welcomed author Peter Levenda, who discussed how his research suggests that Adolf Hitler faked his death and escaped to Indonesia using an underground network of Nazi sympathizers. In the first hour, author Charles Pellegrino provided an update to his 4/8/12...More »
  • Life of Jesus/ Titanic Stories

    Ian Punnett was joined, in the first half, by historian and Bible expert, Bart Ehrman, who discussed the debate over whether or not Jesus existed. In the latter half, scientist Charles Pellegrino shared untold stories about the sinking and exploration of the Titanic.More »
  • The Phoenix Lights

    Nearly 13 years since the largest mass UFO sighting known as The Phoenix Lights, researcher Dr. Lynne Kitei shared her astonishing eyewitness testimony of the incident, as well as talked about similar sightings leading up to the March 1997 event. In the first hour, author...More »
  • Effects of Hiroshima

    Ian Punnett was joined by scientist and author Charles Pellegrino, who discussed the horrifying days at the end of WWII, after the bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and revealed the strange physics that occurred just beneath the bomb blasts. Gulf War Vet...More »
  • Sites of Destruction

    Author and scientist Charles Pellegrino presented details about sites where great destruction has taken place-- New York's Ground Zero, the Titanic and Pompeii's sister city, Herculaneum. He investigated the Titanic first hand, traveling underwater in a submersible.More »