Episode 40 - Madagascar

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

The island of Madagascar, isolated from all other landmasses on Earth, hosts one of the planet’s most unique ecosystems. But it’s not just an interesting place today – the geologic and fossil history of this land is equally fascinating! In this episode, we take a tour through time, stopping off at some of Madagascar’s most magical moments to marvel at some truly unique and incredible assortments of life. In the news: an early giant dinosaur, more on human origins, ancient fish appendages, and a baby snake in amber! Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:06:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:37:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:07:00 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 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.
0:26.5	Hello, listeners, and welcome to episode 40 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:28.1	Yeah, we're 40 now.
0:31.3	We are. What a cool number to be at.
0:36.7	Our topic for this episode is the land of Madagascar.
0:37.4	Oh. Madagascar is a cool place. This is actually the second episode Madagascar. Oh.
0:39.4	Madagascar is a cool place.
0:43.6	This is actually the second episode we've ever done on a part of the world.
0:45.4	Yeah, location, which is... Yeah.
0:45.9	We did Antarctica back in episode 11.
0:48.9	I like these because it's a different angle to come from.
0:52.9	So it's cool when we get suggestions.
0:55.6	It is. So in this episode, we're going to talk about why Madagascar is interesting today,
1:00.7	because it is. Oh, yeah. Geographically and biologically, a very, very cool place.
1:06.1	There's a reason we have a random Madagascar area in my aquariums to have lemurs because people all the time are
1:12.5	like, why do you have lemurs? Why wouldn't you have lemurs? What do you, not want lemurs?
1:16.4	What do you? Some kind of lemur hater? Do you not like to be happy? So then we will, after that,
1:21.7	we'll do a tour through the history of Madagascar, the ancient history, and we will take an extended stopover on that
1:30.7	tour in the late Cretaceous of Madagascar.
1:35.0	For two reasons, number one, because that's one of the most famous fossil localities on
1:41.0	the island, and also because that was the request that inspired this episode,
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