Spook-E – Octoroks

The Common Descent Podcast

Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2025

⏱️ 57 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 a trip to the Kingdom of Hyrule. How might nature develop an octopus-like monster with a penchant for projectiles? Our creatures to create this time: Ocotoroks. 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 Spuiculative Evolution.
0:12.1	Hello, Will.
0:13.6	Oh,
0:15.4	David.
0:16.9	And hello, everybody, and welcome back to Spooky.
0:21.4	Spuculative Evolution is our Halloween-ish-themed series that we do every year in October.
0:28.4	We release a bunch of episodes where we choose monsters from myth and popular media
0:33.7	and discuss how those creatures or something like them might evolve under the regular
0:39.9	rules of real world biology.
0:43.1	It is our own fun little game of Monstery Speculative Evolution.
0:47.8	Every year we have a theme.
0:49.7	This year's theme is Monsters of Nintendo.
0:53.6	As always, there will be four spooky episodes releasing every Saturday throughout the month of
0:58.8	October, and then a bonus cute E episode, the first weekend of November, and then we will have
1:05.3	a spooky live stream on November 8th.
1:07.7	Come join us and chit chat about all sorts of monster-y, speculative evolutiony stuff.
1:12.9	That'll be at 3 p.m. Saturday, November 8th.
1:17.7	Last episode, we tackled the question of how to evolve piranha plants.
1:23.4	This episode two, we are swapping monsters and swapping franchises.
1:28.5	We are moving away from the baddies of the Mushroom Kingdom, this time picking some monsters from Hyrule Kingdom.
1:36.4	Our monsters this episode are Octorox.
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