Pok-É – Koraidon and Miraidon

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Welcome ... to Pok-É! This year is the 30th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise, so we’re picking some of our favorite Legendary Pokémon and speculating upon how they – or something like them – might evolve in real life, pulling inspiration from species throughout our planet’s history! This episode, we take a tour of the Paradox Pokémon. Where on the tree of life could we find a pair of dragons built for battle and all-terrain travel? Our creatures to create this time: Koraidon and Miraidon. Join the Common Descent Discord server for more Pok-É discussion! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast More ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent The Intro and Outro 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.
0:07.6	And welcome to Pokey.
0:11.3	Hello, Will.
0:12.8	Born to be wild.
0:16.3	David.
0:17.0	Funny.
0:17.5	Hello, everybody.
0:18.7	And welcome back to Poke E, our special series. We are running through February into March, where we are speculatively evolving Pokemon in honor of the 30th anniversary of the franchise. This episode, we are tackling two Pokemon, Coridon and Miridon, the legendary dragons of Pokemon Scarlet
0:42.3	and Violet.
0:43.2	Yeah, these are cool ones.
0:44.9	They're pretty cool.
0:46.0	And also, as is becoming tradition going through these Pokemon, very odd.
0:52.6	Yeah.
0:53.1	This is going to be weird.
0:54.6	It's not going to be quite as weird as the last one, but there's a lot to, there's a lot
0:58.4	to go over here.
0:59.7	The goal of this series, just like the series it's spun off of, Spooky, is for us to pick
1:07.3	these fictional creatures and discuss how might this creature or something like it evolve
1:13.8	on earth in our normal, understood evolutionary tree of life following the rules and patterns
1:21.4	of evolution by natural selection. This is our fun little game that we love to play on those podcasts, get you a chance
1:29.6	to your listeners to enjoy the discussion and weigh in yourselves. And of course, it is just for fun.
1:36.1	We're not aiming to come up with a definitive answer, but instead to use the toolkit of biology
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