Episode 95 – The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2020

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

This episode marks the end of our extinction series, but on the bright side, Aly’s here! Most of the extinction events we discuss are very animal-focused, but the end of the Carboniferous Period featured one of history’s worst plant extinctions. This event wiped out the famous ecosystems of the Carboniferous, reshuffled ecosystems, and ushered in a more familiar world of plants. In this episode, as usual, we discuss what happened, why, and how it impacted the world. In the news: a croc-bitten sloth, a dinosaur embryo, dinosaur dimorphism, and ancient hibernation. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00News: 00:09:00Main discussion, Part 1: 00:46:30Main discussion, Part 2: 01:21:00Patron question: 01:55:30 Follow Aly on Twitter (@kyrietree) or Instagram (@paleolorax) Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ New merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descentFeaturing art by Rob Soto! https://www.rob-soto.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @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.
0:19.3	Hello, Will. Hello, David. And hello listeners and welcome to episode 95 of the Common Descent
0:26.5	Podcast. Hey, that ends in a five. It ends in a five, which means that this is following our tradition,
0:31.5	an episode about extinction. This episode's topic is the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse.
0:38.2	That sounds like an extinction.
0:39.6	It sure is.
0:40.2	Now, we've been doing this extinction tradition since the beginning.
0:45.2	This episode is a very special extinction episode for two reasons, which I'll get into in a bit.
0:51.5	But first, the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse was an extinction event that
0:57.1	happened at the end of the Carboniferous period, about 300 million years ago, and it's a very
1:02.2	biome-focused extinction, right? As the name implies, we lost a lot of those characteristic
1:09.0	carboniferous rainforests and plant biomes, and they were replaced, and in the process, we lost a lot of those characteristic carboniferous rainforest and plant biomes, and they were
1:12.8	replaced. And in the process, we lost a lot of plant species and animal species. There's a whole
1:17.7	turnover as you move into the Permian period. So as we do with most extinction episodes, we'll
1:23.8	talk about what happened, why it happened, and how the world changed in the process.
1:29.2	Sounds good.
1:30.3	This episode was requested a surprising number of times for an event that I knew nothing about before this by three of our patrons, Thomas, Lydia and Eric, and Avana.
1:42.0	Thanks. You're all more informed than we are.
1:45.5	Thanks, everybody.
1:46.6	Now, I said that this is a very special addition to our extinction tradition for two reasons.
1:53.6	Number one, we're not doing it alone.
1:56.1	We aren't.
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