Episode 13 - The Fossil Preparation Lab

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2017

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

The episode comes to you from inside the fossil prep lab, where we explore what goes into cleaning, repairing, and generally making fossils ready for study. We are joined by our friend Shawn Haugrud, as well as two of his lab’s head preparators: Shayleigh Maden and Davis Gunnin! In the news: swimming strategies of plesiosaurs, surprise marine mass extinction, a bone-crushing Jurassic croc, and the temperature of dinosaur eggs. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:00Main discussion: 00:32:30 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/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.
0:19.6	Hey, Will.
0:21.4	Hey, David.
0:26.7	Hello, listeners, and welcome to Common Descent Podcast episode 13.
0:27.9	Lucky 13.
0:30.0	Lucky number 13.
0:34.3	13 was always my favorite number back when I was of mind to have a favorite number.
0:34.8	Mm-hmm.
0:40.6	I remember it because of movie references and all the weird stuff around it, but I always liked it because it's a...
0:41.8	I like once you start getting weird prime numbers above double digits, you know, into the
0:47.2	double digits.
0:47.9	I don't know why.
0:48.4	I've found prime numbers always really funny.
0:50.3	It's a cool number.
0:51.1	We are eagerly anticipating episode 17.
0:54.2	Woo-hoo.. Woohoo.
0:54.9	But for now, episode 13 is a very special episode.
0:59.3	Once again, something a little bit different.
1:01.5	Mm-hmm.
1:02.1	Not only is our topic a little different.
1:04.6	Today on the episode, we are talking about fossil preparation.
1:09.3	Yeah.
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