Episode 182 - Camouflage

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2024

⏱️ 142 minutes

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Summary

Blending in with the surroundings is an incredibly useful habit. Even without evidence, this fact would be obvious from the sheer variety of organisms that do it and the vast diversity of strategies and adaptations they use. This episode, we look at what camouflage is and how it works in its many forms, and we explore how we can spot camouflage – and what we can learn from it – in the fossil record. In the news: curled-up trilobites, Antarctic octopus DNA, crab organs, and giant whales. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:35Main discussion, Part 1: 00:37:25Main discussion, Part 2: 01:29:35Patron question: 02:14:40 Check out our website for this episode’s blog post and more:http://commondescentpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here:https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/ We’re an Audible Affiliate Partner! Use this link for a 30-day free trial to Audible: https://www.audibletrial.com/CommonDescent Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent 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.
0:20.3	Hello, David. Hello, David.
0:21.7	Hello, Will.
0:22.8	And hello, listeners.
0:24.2	Welcome to episode 182 of the Common Descent podcast, podcast where we talk about Earth
0:29.7	History, Evolution, Paleontology, and stuff like that.
0:33.6	This episode is about camouflage.
0:37.2	Camouflage.
0:37.8	This is our first episode of the new year.
0:39.3	Yeah, we're in a brand new year.
0:41.4	Also, I'm sick, and that's why I sound the way I did.
0:44.4	I think my hello will was a little bit off there.
0:47.9	Hello, Will.
0:49.6	So, we'll see how I sound by the end of this intro.
0:51.8	Yeah, New Year, New You.
0:53.1	This is the voice for 2024.
0:55.9	This is what I'm going to sound like for the whole year.
0:58.7	Welcome back, everybody.
1:00.6	Welcome back.
1:01.3	Hope you all had a wonderful holidays, new year, winter break, whatever it was.
1:06.1	Hope you enjoyed.
1:06.9	Hope you're safe and sound and it all went well.
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