Episode 6 – Evolution of Flight

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2017

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we’re discussing one of nature’s most incredible inventions: flight – who has it, how do they do it, and most mysteriously, how did it evolve? In the news: Dinosaur footprints; tyrannosaur faces; life in a crater; and a beautiful ancient bird. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:02:30Main discussion: 00:29:30 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=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/common-descent/the-common-descent-podcast The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:17.9	Hello, David.
0:19.5	Hello, Will.
0:20.6	And welcome back everyone else to episode six of Common Descent.
0:25.7	Yes. Our last episode seems to have gone over really well with the listening populace.
0:33.2	And it also seems like people really liked our little mini episode that we did.
0:37.2	Which was a lot of fun.
0:39.5	Yeah, that was a cool, just to ramble for 20 minutes about something cool.
0:44.6	Yeah, just kind of dive into it.
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:47.4	So today's topic, and we're going back to overviewing something big, is on the evolution of flight, which is a really
0:57.6	exciting subject, a really, really diverse group of things we could talk about with this.
1:04.9	Yes.
1:05.8	And heavily studied.
1:07.0	So we could go into detail on just about every aspect of this subject
1:13.2	at length. There's a whole lot we could talk about here. We often say that the topics that
1:19.7	we're talking about could be their own entire podcast. This subject could be at least four entire
1:26.0	podcasts. Yes. It could have four separate podcasts and you'll. Yes. Yes, it could have four separate podcasts, and you'll see why.
1:31.1	And that's just one group of flying animals.
1:33.7	Yeah.
1:34.9	So this episode is going to be a bit of a flyby, if you will.
1:42.7	One of us had to say it.
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