Episode 149 - Ants

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

In our modern world, ants are so ubiquitous that it’s difficult to image our planet without them, so successful that they shape the environments around them despite their tiny size, and so diverse that we couldn’t possibly discuss even a small fraction of their diversity in this one podcast episode. We’ll touch on some of what makes ants unique, list a few of our favorite examples of modern ant lifestyles, and dive into what is known about their ancient history and evolution. Get ready for fire ants, bullet ants, dinosaur ants, hell ants, and more. In the news: mysterious maybe-molluscs, giant otters, tuatara cousins, and fossil fish organs. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:31:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:16:30Patron question: 01:54:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow this link for a 30 day free trial to Audible!www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent 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 Join the Common Descent Discord server! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev 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 You can email us at commondescentpodcast(at)gmail.comOr send us physical mail at:The Common Descent Podcast1735 W State of Franklin Rd. Ste 5 #165Johnson City, TN 37604 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.
0:19.0	Hello, David. Hello, Will.
0:21.2	And hello listeners.
0:22.7	Welcome to episode 149 of the Common Descent Podcast.
0:27.0	Today we're talking about ants.
0:29.3	Ants.
0:30.0	Ants are super duper cool.
0:33.6	This is one of my favorite groups of animals.
0:36.6	Yeah.
0:36.9	Ants are a very interesting group, even for invertebrates.
0:40.5	Yeah, no, like, I love ants.
0:43.0	I'm very excited to get to talk about them for an episode length.
0:47.3	They're super awesome.
0:49.0	We will be discussing as much as we're able to in one episode's worth, there's a lot to talk about with ants.
0:56.6	Yes.
0:57.0	Because there's a lot of ants.
0:58.7	So we will discuss what an ant is and what it means to be an ant.
1:04.7	You know, what features do ants typically have?
1:08.3	And then we're going to take just kind of a breezy snapshot look at a couple
1:13.7	of different cool ants. This episode could be done a dozen different times with all different
1:19.5	examples and it would be just as interesting every time. Yeah. There's a lot of ants.
1:24.0	There's a bunch of them. So we'll talk about that. We'll look at fossil ants and what
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