Episode 32 - Naracoorte Caves, Australia

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2018

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Over the past several hundred thousand years, Australia has witnesed numerous ice age cycles, ecosystems dominated by giant marsupials, the arrival of humans, the extinction of those giant animals, and more. And there may be no better window into this dynamic time period than the world-famous Naracoorte Caves of South Australia.In the news: an infected dinosaur, humans' earliest steps in Canada, horny dinosaurs, and a four-eyed ancient lizard. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:32:30Main discussion, Part 2: 00:57:30 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 Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org. Muscial Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.5	And greetings, Earthlings.
0:25.0	Welcome.
0:25.7	Welcome.
0:27.1	Welcome to Common Descent Podcast, episode 32.
0:32.0	Yeah.
0:33.0	Today, our subject of discussion is the Narakort Caves of Australia.
0:40.0	The Naruto Caves of Australia.
0:42.0	The Naruto Caves of Australia.
0:44.7	No, sir.
0:45.9	No, that is not what it is.
0:47.6	The Narakort Caves are a series of caves in South Australia that host among the world's most impressive collections
0:57.1	of recent Pleistocene, late Pleistocene-aged fossils, including lots of tiny creatures,
1:05.7	lots of cool Australian extinct megafauna and so on.
1:11.1	The Narakirt Caves are one of the best fossil sites in the world.
1:14.6	In fact, they are designated as such.
1:17.2	More on that in a bit.
1:18.4	Very cool.
1:19.6	And they offer us a way to study the last several hundred millennia of time through Australia that we simply don't get elsewhere in the continent
1:31.6	or pretty much anywhere else, most places, otherwise in the world.
1:36.4	Yeah, it's exciting for Australia because their fossil record is very sparse in other areas.
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