Episode 31 - The Ediacaran Biota

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2018

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Before life as we know it, and before even the Cambrian Explosion, there was a time when the Earth was home to an assortment of strange squishy creatures so unusual that they defy most of our best attempts at classification. This episode, we discuss life’s earliest experiments with complex bodies: the Ediacaran Biota.In the news: the last pterosaurs, ancient lost tails, island spider evolution, and the legs of gators and crocs. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:30Main discussion: 00:31:30 Please take our LISTENER SURVEY! https://goo.gl/forms/sY8YUr5cme59ORR03 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	Hello, David.
0:20.5	Hello, Will. Hello, listeners. Hi, listeners. And today we welcome you back to the common descent podcast as usual. And with today's episode, we are going to talk about something. This is a very interesting one called the Ediacron Biota.
0:39.5	Yes.
0:40.5	This came up a while ago.
0:42.3	Indeed.
0:42.8	So you, as we are with the MCU movies, we are finally making good on a brief teaser we made in a much earlier episode.
0:56.7	Yes, 21 episodes ago or something.
0:59.4	See, so we're even farther back, you know, number of things-wise than Marvel was.
1:04.5	So really...
1:05.4	Take that.
1:06.1	Yeah.
1:06.7	We are referring back to our Cambrian Explosion episode because we mentioned this suggested episode there because they are, these subjects are tied together.
1:17.3	Yes.
1:18.1	Because the Ediacron biota is a very unusual group of organisms that appeared on Earth right before and lasted right up until the Cambrian explosion.
1:31.3	Yes, this was the appearance of multicellular creatures before the famous appearance of multicellular creatures.
1:39.0	Yeah, it's a weird one, and we're going to get into it.
1:43.1	Today's episode, as we mentioned, was suggested to us by one of our listeners over
1:49.0	Gmail and this was requested by Samuel.
1:52.5	Thank you, Samuel.
1:53.9	Thanks.
1:55.2	I've been looking forward to this one.
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