Marisa Tellez of the Crocodilian Research Coalition.It has been a little over fifteen years since Ben Hammersley coined the term podcast. In this special episode, we talk croc conservation and geek out about crocs with special guest Dr. Once again, we return to the Jurassic franchise! And as usual with these movies, there’s lots to discuss about the portrayal of ancient animals, scientific concepts, and scientists.Īnother trilogy concludes – Jurassic World: Dominion (2022) We recently made a guest appearance on Third Pod From the Sun, where we discussed the K-Pg mass extinction! IT’S CROC MONTH! Check out our Croc Month activities on our social media, Discord, and Patreon! In the news: dinosaur belly buttons, tiny frogs, snake venom, and giant dwarf crocs. So, what features did phytosaurs share with crocs? Where did they differ? And just how croc-like were their lifestyles? Listen in and find out!
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Take a walk along the waterways of the Late Triassic, and you could easily think it was a world full of crocodiles! But in fact, those are not crocs, but phytosaurs, a group of predatory reptiles that represent not only one of the oldest groups of carnivorous reptiles to achieve a near-global distribution, but also one of evolution's most famous cases of convergent evolution. Links to the organizations we mentioned in the Intro: In the news: vampire squids, dinosaur eggs, octopus intelligence, and pickled snakes. That’s a cool group of lizards! In this episode, we discuss what makes these lizards so unique and fascinating, and we dive into their long but often mysterious fossil record to address some major questions about monitor evolution. Also, they’re closely related to snakes (it is Snake Month, after all). Monitor lizards are charismatic, surprisingly diverse, full of surprising biological features, and on top of all that, they include the largest terrestrial lizards in history. Twitter: Education and Community Awareness Program (SECAP): Ĭheck out more Snake Month activities on our social media, Discord, and Patreon (links below)!Ĭheck out our blog for more info about us and our episodes: We talk about what it takes to save snakes, why snakes are so worthy of our attention and respect, and why education is such a major part of snake conservation! In this bonus episode, we discuss snake conservation and geek out about snakes with special guest Hiral Naik of Save the Snakes. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (). The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. You can email us at commondescentpodcast(at) Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content! IT’S SNAKE MONTH! Check out our Snake Month activities on our social media, Discord, and Patreon!Ĭheck out our blog for bonus info and pictures: In the news: krait venom, a frozen pup, parental water bugs, and giant storks. This episode, we discuss what it means for life to evolve huge or tiny, what trends researchers have identified in body size evolution, and which of those trends actually holds up to further scrutiny. But the factors that lead to evolutionary miniaturization or embiggening can be quite varied and are not all fully agreed-upon by scientists.
The history of evolution is full of species of unusual size, big and small.
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