Spook-E - Hydras

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. It’s October, and we’re back with more Spook-E! Each week this month, we’re choosing a creepy creature and discussing how it – or something like – might evolve biologically, pulling inspiration from critters of the real world. This month’s theme: monsters of Greek mythology. This episode, we tackle the great monster of Lerna. How can we use nature's toolkit to evolve a poisonous lake-dwelling beast whose multiple heads constantly grow back? Our creatures to evolve this time: Hydras. Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ The Common Descent Store is open! Get merch! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: 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. Muscial 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.
0:06.9	And welcome to Spuiculative Evolution.
0:12.0	Hello, David.
0:13.6	Hello, Will.
0:15.2	Hello, Will.
0:19.2	And hello, listeners.
0:21.3	Hi, everybody.
0:22.6	Welcome to episode three of spooky 2019.
0:26.2	This episode, we're visiting another creature of Greek myth, probably one of the most famous.
0:33.9	Yeah, probably the first one that I would name.
0:36.5	Yes, like this is, this is definitely one of the biggest names, not only because of Marvel
0:42.4	comics, but also just because this monster is notable.
0:45.3	It was in Hercules.
0:46.1	Yes, it was in Hercules.
0:47.2	It was the only one they really gave a big fight scene to, and it is the Hydra.
0:52.0	Oh, boy.
0:53.6	So we're going to talk a little bit about the hydra.
0:56.1	But once again, a reminder for anyone, if this happens to be your first time ever,
1:00.3	the whole point of spooky, spuculative evolution, is that we're going to take a look at these creatures,
1:05.5	the hydra this time, and see how could a creature resembling this, like this, or with this thing's abilities, or all three, be evolved in the natural process?
1:20.4	Just through the natural mechanics of evolution, could we arrive at something similar to this?
1:25.7	And what biological features can give us answers for its monster
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