Episode 62 – Amber

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to exceptional forms of preservation, it’s hard to beat amber. These fossilized chunks of tree resin have provided some of the most incredible ancient remains ever found. In this episode, we’ll discuss how amber forms and where the most famous amber deposits are, and we'll just scratch the surface of the astonishing diversity of amber-enclosed treasures that teach us so much about ancient ecosystems. In the news: dinosaur baby steps, ancient red mice, tip-toeing sauropods, and really old fungus. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:05:30Main discussion, Part 1: 00:27:00Main discussion, Part 2: 00:57:00Patron question: 01:27:30 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. Musical 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.
0:21.3	Hello, David.
0:22.5	Hello, listeners, and welcome to episode 62 of the Common Descent podcast.
0:28.7	Woohoo.
0:29.6	In today's episode, we are discussing amber.
0:33.9	Yeah, we are.
0:34.8	Not the color, not the friend of yours from work.
0:37.5	Nope.
0:38.4	The material, the organically derived material, it's not a mineral, more on that later,
0:44.6	material that we find all up and down the fossil record that is famous for its place in earth history,
0:51.5	not just for being a nifty trace fossil in itself,
0:54.6	but also because of its habit of including within it remains of other organisms.
1:01.2	Yeah, it's one of the holy grails for finding really well-preserved small animals.
1:08.7	It is the source of some of the most incredible and rarest fossils in history.
1:14.8	We learn just amazing stuff from Amber. So we're going to talk all about it. We're going to talk
1:21.1	in this episode about what Amber is, where it comes from, and what it means as a source of
1:27.2	fossil material.
1:28.9	And then at the end, I'm pretty sure what's going to happen is I'm just going to start
1:32.1	listing cool examples of Amber.
1:33.7	Because there's a punch.
1:34.9	Because they're, oh my goodness.
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