Episode 22 - Micropaleontology

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2017

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This episode, we take a super up-close look at the tiniest components of the fossil record, the microscopic remains that are so essential to our understanding of earth history, and the field of study devoted to them: Micropaleontology. In the news: daytime mammals, unusual dinosaur teeth, the dinosaur family tree (again), and dead male mammoths. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:01:30Main discussion: 00:27:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://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=2YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduw 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.
0:19.1	Hello, David.
0:20.4	Hello, David.
0:22.1	Hello, Will.
0:25.4	And hello, all of our lovely listeners.
0:26.9	Hello, listeners.
0:32.1	Welcome back for episode 22 to the Comincent podcast.
0:33.9	Yeah.
0:34.9	What a number. I love double-digit numbers, where the numbers are the same.
0:37.9	There's something wonderfully poetic about it.
0:40.1	Right.
0:41.5	Today's episode's a fun subject.
0:44.2	It's micro-palientology.
0:47.8	Ooh.
0:48.3	Yeah, which is going to be an interesting one because it's not a hard concept because it's
0:52.1	paleontology, but it's got a very interesting
0:55.3	focus. And so we'll be covering it a little differently than we typically do when we do
1:01.0	fields of study. The other cool thing about today's episode is that it is a suggestion
1:07.5	from one of our listeners. Yeah. And not just a listener, it was one of my friends, Amber.
1:13.2	Oh, cool.
1:14.0	Yeah, she sent this suggestion in early on when we started the podcast.
1:17.2	She texted me and said, we should do micropalientology.
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