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The Common Descent Podcast

...But We Digress - Ornithoscelida

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

Science, Education, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8896 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Some big dinosaur-related news dropped last week - so big we just had to talk about it! So here's a mini-episode (a small digression) about the new study by Baron et al., and the phenomenon that has paleontologists going crazy: Ornithoscelida. Read more about the study here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/dinosaur-family-tree-saurischia-ornithischia-childhood-shattered-what-is-real-anymore/520338/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/common-descent/the-common-descent-podcast The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.

0:05.7

But we digress.

0:08.2

Hi Will.

0:09.1

Hey, David.

0:10.1

So this is something a little different.

0:11.9

Yeah, I'm interested to see how it turns out.

0:14.6

Yeah.

0:15.1

So this is basically a little mini episode that we're going to do, because if you follow dinosaur research at all out there,

0:26.0

you have heard that something big happened last week that has been all over the internet.

0:31.4

Yeah, even if you're just interested in passing, you've probably had someone mention this.

0:36.7

Yes, and it's the kind of thing that

0:39.2

we wanted to talk about, but we have more to say than would normally fit in our regular

0:45.1

little news segment, but we don't have enough to say to fill a whole episode. Yeah. So we're

0:51.7

going to do this little minor rambling episode to get out some thoughts on this new bit of news.

0:58.2

And since rambling is kind of what we do, it seemed fitting to make a specialty episode for it.

1:04.3

Yes.

1:04.9

So this is just for that.

1:06.7

So this episode is about Ornitho Scalida and the fact that it's taking the paleontological community by storm.

1:15.7

Yeah, it has blown up.

1:17.3

The day it came out, I had at least three different people mention it as to whether or not I had seen it yet.

1:26.7

Yep.

1:27.4

So let's talk about that. For starters,

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