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These are among the most famous – and noisiest – insects in the world. This episode, we explore the evolution and fascinating life cycles of Cicadas.
Listen to Episode 181 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
They’re among the world’s most skilled fliers, most efficient predators, and most ancient lineages. This episode, we discuss the evolution and lifestyles of the living and extinct members and cousins of Dragonflies.
Listen to Episode 156 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
During the Paleozoic, the so-called “sea scorpions” were among the most successful carnivores in the world’s waters. This episode, we explore the ancient history and claims-to-fame of Eurypterids.
Listen to Episode 149 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
Incredibly diverse, eternally fascinating, and so ubiquitous today that it’s hard to imagine a world without them. This episode, we discuss the deep history of Ants.
Listen to Episode 123 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or anywhere you can find it!
With eight legs, eight eyes, venomous fangs, and a knack for living just about everywhere, they’re the famous famous arachnids and among the most famous arthropods on Earth, and they’ve been successful for a good 300 million years. This episode, we discuss the diversity and evolution of Spiders.
Listen to Episode 117 on PodBean, YouTube, Spotify, or wherever else you can find it!
Several thousand living species – and many more fossils – are called “crabs,” but they don’t all share an evolutionary history. The crab-like body plan is a repeated trend in crustacean evolution, and there are differing opinions on what exactly counts as a “crab” and why natural selection keeps making them. This episode, we talk Crabs and Carcinization.
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They’ve been on Earth for around 400 million years, they have occupied nearly every ecosystem on land for most of that time, they come in a more dazzling diversity than arguably any other group of life, and they have a fascinating, complex, and deep evolutionary story. This episode, we try our best to touch lightly upon the Evolution of Insects.
Listen to Episode 82 on PodBean, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast place!
Throughout the Paleozoic Era, the oceans were home to an extraordinarily diverse and charismatic group of hard-bodied arthropods, successful enough in their time to have persisted for over 270 million years, and abundant enough in the fossil record to have become some of the most popular and recognizable fossils in the world. This episode, we talk Trilobites.
Welcome to our Spotlight Series!
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We’re talking paleo-science with some paleo-people! Across this 5-part series, you’ll get to know some paleontologists as we interview them about their research and their lives as scientists.
Our theme for this series is Invertebrate Paleontology
Here on this blog post, we’ll collect information on our guests, ways you can find them on the internet, and some photos of what we discussed in the episodes!
We’ll be updating this post as we release our Spotlight episodes throughout September!
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In this episode we dive into the concept of reefs. Reefs today are one of the most crucial environments in the oceans. They promote extremely high biodiversity and protect coast lines. Today we are accustomed to coral reefs, but throughout history many organisms have built reefs that proved just as important to ancient ocean life.
The Common Descent Podcast 