Episode 190 - Cicadas

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Cicadas are among the most famous insects in the world, and in summer 2024, they’re set to put on quite a show in North America! This episode, we explore the function and evolution of cicadas’ most famous features, including their notoriously loud calls and their incredible life cycles, and we’ll take a peek into the past at the fossil record of cicadas and their ancient cousins. In the news: giant snakes, big kangaroos, dinosaur amino acids, and echolocation tissues. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00 News: 00:03:45 Main discussion, Part 1: 00:39:35 Main discussion, Part 2: 01:18:50 Patron question: 02:00:30 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/ 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.
0:22.6	Welcome back to the Common Ascent podcast.
0:24.7	This is episode 190, and we will be discussing cicadas.
0:30.1	Cicadas.
0:30.7	I had a brief moment when you said hello to me to do a spooky thing and just scream into the mic.
0:35.7	For the Cicatas episode.
0:38.8	We will be discussing cicadas.
0:40.9	These are super interesting insects that are particularly topical because we are in a year
0:46.6	where there's going to be a whole bunch of them coming out this summer here in the U.S.
0:50.1	Starting shortly after this episode releases.
0:52.6	We'll talk more about that in the discussion, but keep your eyes out.
0:55.6	This is a great way to gear up and get excited for cicadas.
0:58.7	Cicadas are fascinating as a group in general, but particularly a number of members have very extreme lifestyles.
1:06.3	And so we're excited to go through and talk about what a cicada is, what that lifestyle is,
1:11.3	and then a whole bunch on how something like that would evolve.
1:15.0	What sort of fossils do we have?
1:16.8	The whole normal chabang, just with the particular focus on their crazy, crazy lifestyle.
1:22.1	Yes.
1:22.8	This episode, like all our episodes, was requested.
1:25.7	We got requests from Larissa, Hugh, Nathan,
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