Spook-E - Sea Serpents

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Welcome ... to Spookulative Evolution. It’s October once again and time for Spook-E! Each episode throughout this month, we’re choosing a monster and discussing how it – or something like – might evolve biologically, pulling inspiration from critters of the real world. This month’s theme: sea monsters. This episode, we tackle a particularly prevalent body shape among sea monsters. How might evolution produce an ocean full of enormous slithery beasts fit for sailors’ nightmares? Our creatures to create this time: sea serpents. Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures:http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Find merch at the Common Descent Store! http://zazzle.com/common_descent Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcastInstagram: @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.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:07.0	And welcome to spookulative evolution.
0:12.5	Hello, David.
0:15.0	Well, and hello, listeners.
0:18.6	Serpents don't make a lot of noise.
0:19.7	They don't make a lot of noise.
0:20.7	Listen, I started this bit two years ago, and I've had to get really creative about it. And hello listeners. Serpents don't make a lot of noise. They don't make a lot of noise.
0:24.9	Listen, I started this bit two years ago, and I've had to get really creative about it.
0:28.4	Let's see how that turns up on the microphone.
0:31.7	Hello, Will, and hello everybody.
0:33.3	Welcome back to Spooky.
0:36.5	Episode two of our 2020 series.
0:37.8	Sea Monsters. Sea Monsters.
0:39.1	Sea Monsters.
0:39.7	Yes.
0:43.9	We are on our second episode where we will be discussing sea serpents.
0:46.4	As was evident from the splashing noise.
0:49.5	Yes, because what else would make that kind of splash?
0:50.6	It's very distinctive.
0:55.4	So, spooky, once again, for anyone who might be checking in on episode two,
1:01.4	is our series where we take classic mythical, monstrous movie creatures and think, how could something like that, resembling it with those features,
1:08.8	evolve by the normal mechanisms of natural selection and earth evolution.
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