Episode 30 - Prehistoric Poop

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Everybody poops! Throughout the history of life on Earth, animals of all lifestyles have been littering the planet with little presents, and those few that fossilize become coprolites: unique time capsules that can serve as invaluable sources of information, not just on obvious stuff like ancient diets, but also about evolution, extinction, and more. This episode: we talk turds.In the news: de-escalating plant evolution, reverse speciation in ravens, upside-down dinosaurs, and record-keeping giant sponges. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:00Main discussion: 00:37:30 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.
0:19.0	Hi, Will. Hey, David.
0:22.2	Hello, listeners on the internet, and welcome to episode 30 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:29.9	I'd blow a trumpet if I had one.
0:31.9	Do do, do, do, do.
0:33.0	That's how a trumpet sounds.
0:35.2	Those common descent trumpets.
0:38.0	We spare no time. Tooets. We spare notes.
0:38.8	Too much.
0:39.7	Too much water.
0:40.7	So today's episode is about, man, I'm excited.
0:44.4	I'm excited just to say the title of today's episode.
0:47.6	Episode 30, prehistoric poop.
0:51.5	It's going to be hard to resist just not to punctuate.
0:57.5	Oh, man, believe it or not, I didn't even think about that.
1:00.0	I'm going to have to hold back every other sentence.
1:04.3	All right, we're going to try to keep the poop sounds to the minimum.
1:08.7	Today's episode, here's who you can blame for all the immature jokes that we are no doubt going to be making throughout this episode.
1:17.6	Yeah.
1:18.4	This was requested by Lauren Carter.
1:22.9	Now, Lauren is an avid interactor with us on Twitter and on Facebook, which is awesome.
1:29.2	And she is also a patron.
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