Episode 202 - Fungi and Animals

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 176 minutes

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Summary

It’s the final part of our fungal trilogy! Fungi and animals interact in a wide variety of ways, from parasitism to partnership to predation. This episode, we explore how fungi and animals have evolved alongside each other and the adaptations they have developed to take advantage of each other, and we’ll examine how far back we can find these fungus-animal interactions in the fossil record. In the news: pterosaur feet, sauropod tails, a Cretaceous crater, and fossil fireflies. Time markers:Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:13:20Main discussion, Part 1: 00:44:10Main discussion, Part 2: 01:35:15Patron question: 02:42:00 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.
0:21.2	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Common Descent podcast.
0:24.9	This is episode 202, Fungi and Animals.
0:30.3	This is the third and final part of our Fungus Celebration Trilogy.
0:36.6	Episode 200 was Fungi, the most requested topic in the history of the podcast.
0:41.6	Last episode, we did Fungi and Plants with our favorite paleo-botanical guest, Allie.
0:47.7	This episode, we're rounding off the series with fungi and animals.
0:52.0	Episode 200, Part 3.
0:53.7	Episode 200, Part 3, Episode 202, Fungi and Animals. Episode 200, Part 3. Episode 200, Episode 2002, Fungi and Animals. This is it. This
0:58.9	episode, we're going to get to talk about the relationship between fungus and animals. We're
1:03.3	going to get to talk about stuff that we are far more familiar with in the previous two episodes.
1:08.6	And we'll get to talk about a bunch of the things that haven't yet made it into this trilogy.
1:14.6	So be prepared for fun discussions of symbiosis and pathogens and parasitism.
1:20.7	And also mushrooms.
1:21.7	We'll talk about mushrooms.
1:22.5	This is going to be a whole bunch of fun.
1:24.0	I feel like this will be a fun thing for people who have been listening along.
1:31.9	And now we are probably going to get to finally check off, like fill out the rest of your bingo card for the things you've been waiting for us to mention about fungi. We should have
1:35.6	a fungi episode, bingo, yeah, we really should have. Ah, that'd be cool. Yes, you will finally hear
1:41.3	us get to some of the stuff you've been waiting for us to get to. Next episode 200, we'll do that.
1:45.4	And if we, episode 400, if we don't get to things that you wanted to hear about, send in a request for things you want to hear about.
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