Spook-E – Metroids

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. Spook-E Season is back! All throughout October, we pick monsters from myth and media and speculate how they – or something like them – could evolve here on Earth, pulling inspiration from real-world species across our planet’s history. This year’s theme is Monsters of Nintendo! This episode, we take the hunt across the stars. What biological explanation can we find for jellyfish-shaped parasites with a complex and terrifying life cycle? Our creatures to create this time: Metroids. Join the Common Descent Discord server for more Spook-E 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.
0:06.7	And welcome to Spookulative Evolution.
0:12.0	Hello, Will.
0:13.2	David.
0:15.8	Impressive.
0:16.7	Well, my.
0:17.3	And hello, everybody.
0:18.6	And welcome back to SpookyE 2025.
0:23.8	Spooky is our annual series throughout October where we choose monsters of myth and popular fiction
0:30.1	and discuss how something like that might evolve in the real world on the earth family tree of life
0:36.9	under the real world conditions of biology and evolution.
0:41.6	This year, our spooky theme has been monsters of Nintendo.
0:47.2	This is the fourth and final episode of our spooky series.
0:52.4	For the month of October, there will be one bonus episode of QTE,
0:57.1	the first weekend in November,
0:58.4	and then we will also have a spooky live stream on November 8th,
1:02.6	on YouTube for anybody to join.
1:04.7	Come and check it out and chat with us.
1:06.9	Yes.
1:08.0	So far, this year, we have done piranha plants, octarocks, and Kremlings.
1:14.0	And, as usual, we like to save the weirdest choice for last.
1:18.7	This episode, we are tackling Metroid's.
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