Episode 2 - Crocodilians

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

We’re back for Episode 2! This episode we’re talking about Will’s favorite group of animals: crocodilians, their fascinating modern diversity, and their even more astonishing fossil history. In the news: our bag-like ancestors, dinosaur proteins, giant otters, and Australian extinctions! Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:02:30Main discussion: 00:27:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: https://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:18.8	Hi, David.
0:20.4	Hi, Will.
0:21.5	We are back for episode two.
0:23.6	Episode two, Common Descent Podcast, the sequel.
0:27.1	Yeah, the sequel returns.
0:30.5	The sequel returns back to the miners.
0:35.2	All right, well, welcome back, everybody.
0:37.3	This is our second episode, and we're now going to start jumping into our actual subjects.
0:43.3	Yes.
0:44.3	So this first one is going to be all about crocodiles, crocodilians, their relatives, what they are,
0:50.5	kind of a breeze by overview of them as a group.
0:55.7	They're really cool of animals.
0:57.5	Huh?
0:58.2	I said they're a really cool group of animals.
1:00.1	Oh, they really are.
1:00.9	I thought you said they were cooler than mammals.
1:02.5	And I was like, oh, that's a very definitive statement, but I agree.
1:05.1	Well, duh.
1:06.2	Cool than mammals.
1:09.1	So we're going to still stick to our typical episode structure of starting with some science
1:14.6	news and then going into our discussion.
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