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Hello, David. Hello, Will.

And hello, listeners.

Welcome to episode 243 of the Common Descent Podcast.

This episode, we will be discussing burrowing or burrowers, the act and adaptations for digging and living underground.

This will be a very interesting topic, but like many behavioral topics, it's going to be vast, because a lot of animals like to go beneath the surface.

Yeah, we'll get to talk about some of our favorites and some of the standout examples,

but this is going to be one of those where it will be incumbent upon you, dear listener, to go to

the Discord and let all of your fellow listeners know your favorite examples that we missed.

That we slighted by snubbing from the episode.

Rest assured that if there is an animal that is relevant that we didn't mention, it is because we

hate them. Yes, absolutely. Like, this is the official stance. Yeah, that that is, that is how you can

tell. 100%. During this discussion, we'll be going over what is burrowing in its benefits, what are some

of the general typical adaptations you often see in digging animals, and then of course,

the fossil record of burrows, which is vast, and the more difficult task of how do you

identify who burrowed the borough that you have found. We'll be discussing this because it was

requested quite a few times, as all our episodes are requested these days. We got requests

for this topic from Nina, Kylie, Aaron, Kai, Tobias, Sam and Sierra,

Big Bossman, A Zola Event, Helpless Droid, and KamenSaurus. Thank you, everybody, for your requests.

We're taking requests for episode topics. Constantly, you can submit them to these days to the topic request

forum on our website. Link in the episode description. Absolutely. Before we get into the discussion

and before we get to the news, some quick announcements, as always, we have a Patreon. Our Patreon

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