Episode 59 - Bats

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Many groups of life have conquered the land and water, but only four times in evolutionary history has life taken to the air. The most recent group to achieve flight are bats. Their combination of flight and advanced echolocation have earned them an incredible diversity, a worldwide distribution, and a deep-seated place in human culture, but their evolutionary history is a long-standing mystery, and their fossil record is nearly non-existent. But that's not going to stop us from geeking out about them! In the news: dinosaur scales, diverging crows, a new human, seal evolution, and that butchered mastodon again! Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:04:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:36:00Main discussion, Part 2: 01:09:30Patron question: 01:49:00 The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent 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, David. Hello, Will. And hello, David.
0:22.1	Hello, Will.
0:23.7	And hello, listeners.
0:27.7	Welcome to episode 59 of the Common Ascent Podcast.
0:28.8	Welcome.
0:33.6	And today we are talking about a topic I'm really excited for.
0:38.1	I had tons of fun looking up this one because today we are talking about bats.
0:44.7	Yes. With this episode, we have we have we have now done the two best groups of mammals.
0:51.8	Yes. No, yeah. I'd agree with that. We this is going to be a ton of fun. So first and foremost,
0:57.4	this episode was requested by Samuel on Facebook. So thank you.
1:04.7	Thanks, Samuel. Good suggestion. Bats, everyone, are super duper cool. First off, one of the reasons I'm excited for this is way back at the beginning of the podcast, we did an episode on the
1:10.6	evolution of flight.
1:12.5	Episode six.
1:13.6	And we briefly mentioned bats in there.
1:16.7	I actually went and re-listen to it to remind myself.
1:18.6	Very briefly.
1:19.4	Very briefly.
1:20.7	And we said our classic line of, man, we could do a whole episode on this.
1:26.1	Well, here it is.
1:27.2	Hey, there you go. We were right. And I believe, I mean, you could kind a whole episode on this. Well, here it is. Hey, there you go.
1:28.2	We were right.
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