Episode 11 - Antarctica

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This episode is another listener-requested topic! We’re discussing the fascinating and mysterious continent of Antarctica, its long complex history, and the rare and intriguing fossils that are found there. In the news: a baby bird in amber, ancient elephant genetics, surprisingly early humans, and the formation of a famous dinosaur site. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:02:30Main discussion: 00:33:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/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.
0:19.2	Hi, David.
0:20.2	Oh, Will.
0:22.3	And hello to our listeners once again, and welcome to episode 11.
0:26.8	11.
0:27.8	Yeah.
0:28.7	This is in June, so it's not 7-Eleven, which is cool for slurpees and is when cool people are born.
0:36.6	I've heard that there are some cool people who were born around that time.
0:41.8	Today's episode is about Antarctic paleontology.
0:46.4	Yeah.
0:47.2	And, of course, we'll get into that after our news section, but I wanted to go ahead and say
0:52.1	that this was a requested episode by one of our listeners.
0:56.0	Yes, it was our second episode by request.
0:58.6	Yes.
0:59.1	And so this was by Andrew on Facebook, who message us with a request for this episode and some of the things he was particularly interested in hearing about.
1:08.5	And we'll definitely get to hit on a number of
1:10.8	those for this episode. But thank you, Andrew, for the suggestion. Thanks very much. And once
1:17.1	again, for everyone out there, if you ever have an episode idea that you'd love us to
1:22.3	talk about or that you feel has not been talked about enough in general, talking's what we do, and we will gladly talk about it for you.
1:30.7	Absolutely.
1:31.2	We already have a list building up of requested episodes.
1:34.8	As we've said in the past, we will get to all of them eventually.
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