Episode 25 - The Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we firmly establish a tradition of extinction-talk! This time, by request, it’s the latest major prehistoric extinction in Earth history, the event that took from us the mammoths, ground sloths, and other giants of the Ice Age, a mass extinction that our own species was around to witness (and perhaps even cause): the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction. In the news: mistaken Archaeopteryx identity, ticks with a taste for dinosaurs, evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, and ancient bear hibernation. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:30Main discussion: 00:32:00 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.
0:18.9	Happy New Year, Will.
0:22.1	Happy New Year, David. And happy New Year, Will. Happy New Year, David.
0:26.1	And happy new year to you, dear listener.
0:26.8	Yay!
0:32.3	This is Common Descent Podcast episode 25.
0:33.9	Mm-hmm.
0:40.0	This is the final episode for the year 2017, although most people will be listening to it in the year 2018.
0:41.3	In the future.
0:43.3	In the future.
0:44.3	Hello from the past.
0:46.3	Just like everyone's saying hello.
0:48.3	We've come to warn you.
0:50.3	Don't come back.
0:52.3	Don't come back.
0:53.3	It's terrible. It's better where you are.
0:57.0	Today, we are talking about a very exciting, well, exciting, maybe a little depressing.
1:06.0	It's always a mixture with these.
1:09.0	With talk of extinctions.
1:17.9	As we've said, much of paleontology, the best paleontology is based on really horrible tragedies of the past.
1:20.1	It sure is, but before we get to that, a reminder here at the end of 2017 that a lot of our work is supported by patronage from our patrons
1:32.9	on Patreon.
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