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The Common Descent Podcast

Pok-É – Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2026

⏱️ 67 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 on the super-ancient Pokémon of Hoenn. How could natural selection result in masters of the sea, land, and sky embroiled in an endless feud? Our creatures to create this time: Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza. 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 Pogue E.

0:11.2

Hello, Will.

0:12.8

Let them fight, David.

0:14.3

That's what I was going to suggest.

0:16.2

Yep.

0:17.9

And hello everybody and welcome to the fifth and final episode of PokeE in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Pokemon franchise.

0:28.1

We have been evolving legendary Pokemon all throughout the series.

0:33.4

There has been, this hasn't come out yet, but no doubt, lots of fun discussion and even some fan art on the discord that we've gotten to engage with with our listeners.

0:43.0

This episode for our grand finale, we will be speculatively evolving Kyoger, Groudon, and Rayquaza.

0:52.4

All three of them, the weather trio, as the fans sometimes call them.

0:58.3

The goal of this episode, like all the ones in the series, is to discuss how might these

1:04.5

fictional creatures or something like them evolve in the real world as part of our known

1:10.4

evolutionary tree. from what ancestry

1:13.2

might they come and what conditions might lead them to evolving their distinctive features?

1:19.4

This episode is going to be interesting because one of the most important parts here is the

1:23.5

relationship between these three very different creatures.

1:28.0

Yeah.

1:29.1

If you haven't already, go check out our previous four episodes of Pokey.

1:33.4

We've been focused on legendary Pokemon the whole time.

1:36.8

And if you want more last year's spooky was Monsters of Nintendo.

1:41.7

So we're on a real Nintendo kick for these last several months.

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