Silver Screen Science – Prehistoric Planet

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2022

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Recently, BBC Studios put out a new documentary series set in the world of the Late Cretaceous, so we’re doing our first-ever Silver Screen Science discussion focused on a documentary! The documentary in question: Prehistoric Planet. Happy Croc Month! Special things are going on throughout this (and next) month in all the places linked below! Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Or make a one-time donation via PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/4c68u4hp Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Join the Common Descent Discord server! https://discord.gg/CwPBxdh9Ev Follow and Support us on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @commondescentpodcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCePRXHEnZmTGum2r1l2mduwPodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 You can email us at commondescentpodcast(at)gmail.comOr send us physical mail at:The Common Descent Podcast1735 W State of Franklin Rd. Ste 5 #165Johnson City, TN 37604 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.
0:19.0	Hello, Will. Hello, David.
0:21.4	Hello, listeners, and welcome to Silver Screen Science, the first Silver Screen Science of 2022.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:27.7	And one that kind of snuck up on us a little bit.
0:29.6	We didn't expect to do this one until we saw the thing.
0:32.1	Yes, no, we were watching said thing and went, you yeah, we probably should talk about this.
0:38.0	Silver Screen Science is our series where we talk about science on screen, usually in movies,
0:43.5	although this episode we are discussing a documentary series, the one that recently came out
0:48.8	prehistoric planet.
0:50.4	That's slightly different format to what we usually do here.
0:53.7	It will be. So we're going to do
0:55.1	the same thing. So we normally do for movies. We're going to talk about the animals that are in it,
0:59.8	the ancient creatures. We're going to talk about the science that's being portrayed on screen.
1:05.7	And we're going to talk a little bit about scientists and where, you know, how they factor in.
1:09.8	But then we are also going to have an extra little section toward the end about the series as an educational program.
1:16.7	Yes, as a documentary.
1:18.1	So this episode is going to focus.
1:19.6	We're going to talk about the science.
1:20.7	We're going to talk about the education.
1:22.1	And if you are a patron, we will put up after this on our Patreon, as is tradition, a more thoughts episode, which is just
1:29.4	going to be us talking about our experience as viewers.
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