Spook-E - The Leviathan

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Common Descent

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

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2020

⏱️ 55 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 explore a monster whose name is synonymous with immensity and might. What biological history could explain a dangerous sea giant worthy of divine association? Our creature to create this time: the Leviathan. 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.
0:06.7	And welcome to Spuculative Evolution.
0:12.2	Hello, David.
0:13.4	Call me Ishmael, Will.
0:16.5	And hello, listeners.
0:18.3	Welcome to the third episode of 2020 spooky.
0:22.2	Spookylative evolution back again.
0:24.7	With Leviathens.
0:26.7	Oh, boy, that's right.
0:27.7	This year's topic is Sea Monsters.
0:30.5	Yeah.
0:30.9	And we just keep getting bigger.
0:32.8	Yes.
0:33.2	Well, that's not true.
0:34.1	The Cracken's pretty big.
0:34.8	Yeah, the Cracken was bigger than I thought it was going to be when I started taking those notes.
0:39.5	We are doing the Leviathan this episode.
0:41.7	So every episode of Spooky, the goal is to take the rules of evolution, a natural selection, the real world processes of evolving an animal, and apply it to monsters, mythical creatures, creatures
0:57.9	from stories, whatever has come up for that theme.
1:02.7	Something you could reasonably apply the term monster to in honor of the month of October
1:07.9	and everyone's favorite holiday.
1:10.7	And this year we've been doing sea monsters, and today we will be looking at the
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