Episode 120 – Tyrannosaurs

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 171 minutes

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Summary

Ever since T. rex was first identified in 1905, tyrannosaurs have been among the most famous and well-studied dinosaurs of all time. Research, especially in the last few decades, has revealed incredible details of tyrannosaur evolution, lifestyles, and development. This episode, we take a tour through tyrannosaur history, envision what these predators were like in life, and touch on some of the most prominent tyrannosaur controversies, including their notorious popularity. In the news: venom evolution, mammoth roaming, Jurassic land-croc, and climate change. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:07:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:45:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:24:00Patron question: 02:44:30 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Or, make a one-time donation via PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/4c68u4hp Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduwPodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 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.
0:18.8	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, listeners, and welcome to episode 120 of the Common Descent Podcast. This is it. Yep. The one you've been waiting for, the one you knew, we knew when we started this podcast. If there is a single episode, we know we're going to do, it's going to be
0:39.4	this one.
0:39.9	Yeah, we basically talked about it when we started the podcast.
0:43.9	When are we going to do this one?
0:45.7	Because it's going to happen.
0:47.1	Tyrannosaurs.
0:48.4	The tyrant dinosaurs.
0:50.8	We are talking about this episode, Tyrannosaurus rex, its extended family,
0:57.2	their evolutionary history, what makes them so interesting, what makes them cool,
1:01.6	what makes them so gosh darned popular that everybody wants to hear a Tyrannosaurus episode.
1:10.2	After the announcements and after the news, we'll get into our main discussion where we will
1:14.2	talk about Tyrannosaur, evolution, diversity, what we know about their lifestyles, and just
1:20.1	revel in this group of animals that everybody knows is very cool.
1:25.9	Yes, I agreed.
1:27.2	And when we say this is the one you've all been waiting for,
1:29.4	we don't just mean that facetiously or idiomatically.
1:33.3	This is the most requested episode topic in the history of the podcast.
1:39.8	Our requesters for this episode are
1:42.2	Jonathan, Ryan, Rebecca, Philip, Ryan, Christian, Zabby, Vushali, Cobb K, Catherine, Sam, Evan, Levin, and James.
1:53.9	Yep, that's everyone.
1:56.0	That's all of our listeners requested this episode.
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