Episode 37.5 - More Birds

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Surprise! We've gotten a lot of bird requests, so to follow up our Evolution of Birds discussion, we put together three mini-discussions based on other birds our listeners have asked to hear about:1. The evolution and fossil history of flamingos.2. The fossil record of the famous predatory "terror birds."3. Argentavis and Pelagornis, history's largest flying birds. Time markers: Intro: 00:00:00Flamingos: 00:02:30Terror birds: 00:23:30Giant flying birds: 00:46:30 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.
0:21.3	And hello, listeners. Surprise.
0:24.4	Welcome to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:27.0	A very special in-between bonus extra episode content that we are calling episode 37 and a half.
0:35.3	Yeah.
0:36.1	You know, sometimes we get requests, we get a lot of requests,
0:39.2	and sometimes we get requests that we're not quite sure when we're going to be able to get to
0:44.6	them and we're not quite sure how to form an episode or if we want to fit them into another
0:50.0	episode or something like that. The last episode, episode 37, was about the evolution of birds.
0:56.0	And we've actually gotten a bunch of bird-related requests for very specific bird topics.
1:02.0	And at first I was trying to think of a way to maybe I could fit those in at the end of that episode.
1:08.0	But there were a bunch and that didn't really seem to fit.
1:11.1	And then that episode was filling up.
1:12.5	So I thought, you know what?
1:14.0	Let's do a bonus smorgas board episode.
1:17.6	Yeah, just a mixed-matched bird episode.
1:21.9	Yes.
1:22.3	So on this special bonus episode, we are going to work our way through three specific bird-related
1:29.9	requests that have come from our listeners, basically many discussions. So in this short episode,
1:36.2	we are going to discuss the three subjects of flamingos, which was suggested by Nick, one of our
1:42.9	patrons, the terror birds, which was suggested by Nick, one of our patrons. The Terror Birds, which was suggested by two other patrons, Lydia and Cheryl, both suggested this.
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