Episode 101 - Sauropods

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2020

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Is there a group of dinosaurs more iconic than sauropods? Famous for their ridiculously long necks, their global success, their astounding diversity, and of course for their unparalleled size, sauropods have fascinated and puzzled people for centuries. In this episode, we’ll explore what makes sauropods and their ancestors special, and we’ll talk a bit about how they functioned at truly colossal scales. In the news: strange-jawed sharks, ancient walruses, dinosaur demise, and the oldest blindsnakes. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:07:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:38:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:04:30Patron question: 01:42:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Submit your questions for our End of the Year Q&A using this form: https://forms.gle/2BDWts2RaKzRo3hL8 Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent podcast.
0:18.5	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.0	And hello listeners and welcome to episode 101.
0:26.4	Dalmatians.
0:27.2	Of the common design.
0:28.3	We already did the dogs episode.
0:29.8	If we had had foresight, we would have done dogs here.
0:32.7	It would have been real fun.
0:34.2	But no, we are doing sauropods this episode.
0:39.6	We are coming back to dinosaurs.
0:41.1	We figured it was time for another dinosaur episode.
0:43.1	Yeah.
0:43.7	Kick off the triple digits with something exciting.
0:46.9	And what more exciting and iconic group of dinosaurs than sauropods?
0:53.4	These are your brachiosaurus, apatosaurus, little foot
0:58.1	style dinosaurs, long necks, long tails, pillar-like legs. They are famous for how diverse they were,
1:06.1	for how successful they were, for how weird they are compared to modern animals, but above all,
1:14.8	they are famous for how ridiculously big they got.
1:19.9	They were very large.
1:21.3	Today, we are talking about the largest land animals of all time. Yes. And by a wide margin. And it's not even
1:33.3	close. Yeah. That's always the thing that blows me away. Typically when it's like,
1:37.4	here's the biggest thing. There's usually a gradient up to it. Right. There's not a gradient.
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