Episode 186 - Owls

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

Owls are among the world’s most iconic and charismatic birds, and they’re also among the most effective aerial predators. This episode, we’ll take a tour of the amazing adaptations that have allowed owls to achieve their modern diversity and worldwide range, and we’ll explore what we know – and what we don’t – about their evolutionary history. In the news: snake evolution, ancient polar life, dinosaur joints, and dragon teeth. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:10Main discussion, Part 1: 00:40:35Main discussion, Part 2: 01:23:50Patron question: 02:03:15 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 3.0 http://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.
0:22.4	Welcome to episode 186 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:27.4	This episode, we will be discussing owls.
0:30.6	Very cool group of birds.
0:32.3	Very cool.
0:32.6	Very odd group of birds in many ways.
0:35.5	And we'll be discussing all of the features that make owls
0:38.5	unique among birds and how they allow owls to be the ultra-specialist hunters that they are.
0:46.0	Yeah, I'm very excited. Owls are very cool, and I know very little about birds.
0:49.9	Yeah, I learned a ton taking notes for this. Like, I had lots of owl fun facts in my head.
0:55.6	Same.
0:56.2	But learned a whole bunch of things that I didn't realize or didn't realize the extent of.
1:02.0	Very, very cool, excited to get into it.
1:05.1	Well, decided to learn about who owls are.
1:07.5	Yeah.
1:08.4	That's a little pun, a little owl humor we're in.
1:12.2	We will be discussing owls because it was requested, but also we were called out a little bit
1:17.9	on our Q&A form by Eric, a self-proclaimed owl enthusiast who said they thought it was
1:23.5	funny that we keep pretending owls aren't the best animals out there.
1:28.6	They are pretty cool. They are pretty cool.
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