Episode 198 - Eels

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Eels are long-bodied fish found in a variety of aquatic habitats, famous for their unusual body plans, distinctive life cycles, and occasional anatomical oddities like extra jaws. This episode, we’re joined by special guest Shay Maden to discuss the diversity, evolution, and fossil history of the true eels of the Order Anguilliformes, and we’ll also make mention of other famous “eels” and the repeated evolution of the eel-like body shape. In the news: dog brains, giant beans, marine crocs, and opening oceans. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:07:50Main discussion, Part 1: 00:40:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:17:30Patron question: 01:44:55 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, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.4	Hello, everybody listening, and welcome to Common Descent to podcast about paleontology, evolution, natural history, and so on.
0:28.7	This is episode 198, and it's a fish episode.
0:35.2	Fiche.
0:36.1	This episode's topic is eels. We have not done very many fish episodes previously on the podcast, so it's a fish episode. Fiche. This episode's topic is eels.
0:38.0	We have not done very many fish episodes previously on the podcast, so it's very exciting
0:42.5	to come back to a group of fish, especially eels, which are an extremely cool group of fish.
0:47.7	They really are.
0:48.9	But of course, one of the reasons that we don't do a lot of episodes about fish is because
0:52.6	neither one of us knows all that much
0:55.1	about fish.
0:56.5	Yeah.
0:57.4	Outside of Will and his aquarium experience and being the ocean guy on the podcast.
1:02.1	Yep.
1:02.8	We've been talking for a while about trying to get a fish guest on the podcast, and this is that
1:08.5	episode.
1:08.9	For the main discussion to teach us about eels.
1:11.5	We will be joined by Shea Maiden, who is in fact a returning guest, the longest distance
1:17.8	between first and second appearance of a guest we've ever had.
1:21.8	Shea was on the podcast seven years ago.
1:24.1	Yep.
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