Episode 49 - Fake Fossils

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2018

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

It’s no secret we love paleontology; it’s a fascinating field of study. But sometimes our favorite subject is polluted and perverted by fraud. In this episode, we’re talking about fake fossils: why they happen, how they happen, and what effect they have on the paleontological community as a whole. And then it’s story time, where we review some of history’s most famous fossil fakes. In the news: an early long-neck, tiny footprints, a huge dicynodont surprise, and the marsupial lion. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:03:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:31:00Main discussion, Part 2: 01:08:30 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Don't forget to submit your question for our End of the Year Q&A:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZjgAw5vghNPOYJ7e1rKJnqMA-QUn2WgYjM5F4Oj336O49gQ/viewform?usp=sf_link 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.
0:20.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David. Hello, Will.
0:21.2	Hello, David.
0:22.4	Hello, listeners.
0:24.3	And welcome to episode 49 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:29.3	Woohoo, 49.
0:30.5	Next episode is 50.
0:32.0	We've done almost 50 of these things.
0:33.7	That's so exciting.
0:35.4	Today, we are talking about the subject of fake fossils.
0:41.5	Ooh, controversial. Yeah. Oh, it's going to be fun. We're going to talk about what, well, first,
0:48.2	we're going to talk about what makes a fossil and what makes something not a fossil. We're going to
0:52.7	talk about the phenomenon of fossil frauds, frauds and forgeries.
0:57.7	And then we will discuss some things that are called fakes but are not.
1:03.1	And then some of the most famous stories of fake fossils from the history of paleontology.
1:10.0	Yeah, there's some of those, to live in infamy examples.
1:15.2	Yes.
1:16.1	So if I might borrow a phrase from our friend Ryan over at the Science Sort of podcast,
1:21.9	this episode we're going to talk about things that are fossils,
1:25.2	things that are sort of fossils, and things that wish they were fossils.
1:30.2	Yeah, that is, that is absolutely the perfect way to intro this.
1:35.1	This episode was inspired by Cheryl on Patreon.
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