Episode 61 - Behavior in the Fossil Record

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2019

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

It’s easy to see how fossils can teach us what ancient animals looked like, or how they evolved. But what about the ways they moved, ate, socialized, reproduced? In this episode, we explore the innovative ways paleontologists have devised to interpret the behavior of ancient animals. From their bones, their tracks, their living relatives, and modern clever experimentation, we can come to understand more than you’d ever imagine about behavior in the fossil record. In the news: a Denisovan jaw, a new bat-winged dinosaur, a cave of wonders, and a flapping robot. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:32:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:07:30Patron question: 01:41:30 The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent How do you become a paleontologist? A GREAT post by our friends at Time Scavengers!https://timescavengers.blog/2019/05/13/how-do-you-become-a-paleontologist/ 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.
0:22.6	And hello listeners.
0:26.4	Welcome to episode 61 of the Common Ascent Podcast.
0:27.4	Woohoo.
0:28.5	We're getting up there.
0:31.8	Today's episode is one that I've been looking forward to.
0:35.7	For today, we are going to discuss behavior in the fossil record.
0:40.0	A very cool, very broad subject. This is a really interesting, because it applies to anything that's ever fossilized, like any animal that's
0:46.6	ever fossilized, there's potential behavior to interpret. So, or at least to try to figure out,
0:52.2	we're going to dive into that a little bit today. This was suggested
0:55.7	by Jonathan via Gmail, so thank you, Jonathan, for this suggestion. And the plan for today is not so
1:04.5	much to tease out the behavior of any fossil animals, because there's too many, too many examples, too many
1:11.6	topics to cover. Instead, we're going to go through how do we determine, or at least get ideas,
1:20.3	get suggestions for the behavior of these fossil organisms. Right. What are the ways that we can go
1:27.4	beyond just, these are some bones, this is an imprint,
1:32.1	this is a shell, like how do we get to understanding how these creatures were doing what
1:37.4	they did?
1:38.1	Absolutely.
1:38.5	So we're not going to go through and I don't know, for instance, talk about who was and
1:42.7	wasn't a scavenger or anything like
1:44.1	that, this episode.
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