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Join David and Will as they explore the paleontologists’ perspective on various topics in life and earth history. Each episode features a main discussion on a topic requested by the listeners, presented as a lighthearted and educational conversation about fossils, evolution, deep time, and more. Before the main discussion, each episode also includes a news segment, covering recent research related to paleontology and evolution. Each episode ends with the answer to a question submitted by subscribers on Patreon. New episodes with new topics every fortnight!
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Saturday Jun 13, 2020
Saturday Jun 13, 2020
In the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia sits one of the most important, well-studied, and scientifically influential fossil sites in the world. The Burgess Shale not only provides us a glimpse into the tail end of the Cambrian Explosion, and not only yields tens of thousands of fossil specimens, but also includes some of the most exceptional fossil preservation of any fossil locality anywhere. This episode, we’ll dive into how it got that way, and what it has to tell us about some of Earth's earliest animal communities.
In the news: baby sharks, hungry dinosaurs, a pregnant ichthyosaur, and one dino’s last meal.
Time markers:
Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00
News: 00:06:30
Main discussion, Part 1: 00:34:00
Main discussion, Part 2: 01:00:00
Patron question: 01:37:00
In light of current events, we invite you to explore these links to educate yourself, as we have been doing, about the subject of racial injustice:
Smithsonian NMAAHC - Talking About Race
https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
TimeScavengers - Black Lives Matter
https://timescavengers.blog/2020/06/01/black-lives-matter/
Ally Anti-Racism Resources
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MjUESaOh2H-846KKiHUWHDUIhi3PlaFts-rqy9EQ43g/edit#
We’ve also made a donation to the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund:
https://www.naacpldf.org/
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The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome.
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Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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