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The Common Descent Podcast — 379 episodes
Snake Stuff with Ali Ashraf
Episode 247 – Vipers
Episode 246 - Gharials
Croc Chat with Maddie Turala
Episode 245 - Cycads
Episode 244 - Sea Turtles
Episode 243 - Burrowers
Leaf it to Us Season 2 Trailer
Silver Screen Science - The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Episode 242 - Fire
Silver Screen Science - One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Silver Screen Science - Dinosaur Shorts (Gertie, Slumber Mountain, Fantasia)
Episode 241 - Digestion
Silver Screen Science - The Lost World (1925)
Episode 240 - Terror Birds
Episode 239 - Nocturnality
Pok-É – Kyogre, Groudon, and Rayquaza
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation #7
Episode 238 - Osteoderms (Skin Bones)
Pok-É – Koraidon and Miraidon
Pok-É – Zygarde
Episode 237 - The Dinosaur Renaissance
Pok-É – Giratina
Pok-É – Lugia
Episode 236 - Chalicotheres
Episode 235 - Aquatic Plants
Episode 234 - Snails and Slugs
End of the Year Q&A 2025
Episode 233 - Flies and Mosquitoes
Episode 232 - Vertebrate Origins
Episode 231 - Back to the Water (Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates)
Episode 230 - Pachycephalosaurs
Silver Screen Science - Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
Cute-E – Pikmin
Episode 229 - Myrmecophagy (Ant-Eating)
Spook-E – Metroids
Spook-E – Kremlings
Episode 228 - Dinosaur Provincial Park
Spook-E – Octoroks
Spook-E – Piranha Plants
Episode 227 - Beaks
Episode 226 - Dodos
Episode 225 - Forests
Episode 224 - Bipedalism
Episode 223 - Mutations
Episode 222 - Shrews
Episode 221 - Legless Lizards
Episode 220 - Terrestrial Crocs
Episode 219 - Beringia
Episode 218 - Lungs
Episode 217 - Bears
Episode 216 - Plankton
Silver Screen Science - Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Episode 215 - Ferns
Silver Screen Science - Planet of the Apes (2001)
Silver Screen Science - Planet of the Apes (1968)
Episode 214 - Saber Teeth
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation #6
Episode 213 - Decomposers
Leaf it to Us - Before We Leaf
Leaf it to Us - Pilot Episode
Episode 212 - Temnospondyls
Episode 211 - Edward Drinker Cope
Episode 210 - Bones
Episode 209 - Chimaeras
Episode 208 - The Karoo Supergroup
End of the Year Q&A 2024
Episode 207 - Therizinosaurs
Episode 206 - Vestigial Structures
Spotlight 2024 - Kallie, Gabriel, and Blake, Eons
Episode 205 - Parasitic Plants
Episode 204 - The Messinian Salinity Crisis
Spotlight 2024 - Amy and Meaghan, Weird and Dead
Cute-E - Jackalopes
Episode 203 - Rodents
Spook-E - Redcaps
Spook-E - Salamanders
Episode 202 - Fungi and Animals
Spook-E - Fairies
Spook-E - Gremlins
Spotlight 2024 - Dave Marshall, Palaeocast
Episode 201 - Fungi and Plants
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation #5
Episode 200 - Fungi
Spotlight 2024 - Gavin, Fia, and Mike, I Wish You Were Dead
Episode 199 - Hibernation
Episode 198 - Eels
Spotlight 2024 - Meredith Johnson, Origin Stories
Episode 197 - Durophagy (Eating Hard Stuff)
Episode 196 - Boas and Pythons
Episode 195 - Leaves
Spotlight 2024 - Travis Holland, Fossils and Fiction
Episode 194 - Alligators and Caimans
Episode 193 - Hopping
Spotlight 2024 - Sabrina and Garret, I Know Dino
Episode 192 - Tongues
Episode 191 - Language
Spotlight 2024 - Dylan Wilmeth, Bedrock
Episode 190 - Cicadas
Silver Screen Science - Jaws
Silver Screen Science - Deep Blue Sea
Episode 189 - Dromaeosaurs
Silver Screen Science - Meg 2: The Trench
Spotlight 2024 - James, Amanda, and Curtis, Palaeo After Dark
Episode 188 - Cannibalism
Episode 187 - Migration
Spotlight 2024 - Adele Pentland, Pals in Palaeo
Episode 186 - Owls
Episode 185 - Cacti
Episode 184 - Richard Owen
Episode 183 - Feathers
Episode 182 - Camouflage
End of the Year Q&A 2023
Episode 181 - Dragonflies
Episode 180 - Filter Feeding
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation #4
Episode 179 - Thermoregulation
Episode 178 - Ears
Cute-E - Friendly Dragons
Episode 177 - Neanderthals
Spook-E - Turtle Dragons
Spook-E - Wyverns
Episode 176 - Hadrosaurs
Spook-E - East Asian Dragons
Spook-E - European Dragons
Episode 175 - Plant Defenses
Episode 174 - The Mesozoic Marine Revolution
Episode 173 - Herbivores (Plant-Eaters)
Silver Screen Science - 65 (2023)
Episode 172 - Toothed Whales
Episode 171 - The Tethys Sea
Episode 170 - Milk
Snake Stuff with David
Episode 169 - Sea Snakes
Episode 168 – Marine Crocs
Croc Chat with Will
Episode 167 – Geologic Dating
Episode 166 - Monotremes
Episode 165 - Fruit
Episode 164 - The ”Boring Billion”
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation #3
Episode 163 - Claws
Episode 162 – Caecilians
Episode 161 - Sleep
Episode 160 - The Messel Pit
Episode 159 - Giraffes
Episode 158 – Charles R. Knight
Episode 157 - Bioluminescence and Biofluorescence
Episode 156 - Eurypterids (Sea Scorpions)
End of the Year Q&A 2022
Episode 155 - Gymnosperms
Episode 154 - Live Birth
Episode 153 - Armadillos
Episode 152 - The Jehol Biota
Episode 151 - Tails
Spook-E - Mimics
Spook-E - Beholders
Episode 150 - Stegosaurs
Spook-E - Displacer Beasts
Spook-E - Owlbears
Episode 149 - Ants
Episode 148 - Gliding
Episode 147 - Genetics
Episode 146 - The Jurassic-Cretaceous Transition
Episode 145 - Photosynthesis
Episode 144 - Evolutionary Gigantism and Dwarfism
Saving Snakes with Hiral Naik
Episode 143 - Monitor Lizards
Episode 142 - Phytosaurs
Silver Screen Science - Jurassic World: Dominion
Conserving Crocs with Dr. Marisa Tellez
Episode 141 - Supercontinents
Silver Screen Science – Prehistoric Planet
Episode 140 - Horns and Antlers
Episode 139 - Vultures
Episode 138 - The Moon
Episode 137 - Fossilization
Episode 136 - Seahorses
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation #2
Episode 135 - Seeds
The Art of Common Descent with Rob Soto
Episode 134 – Sanguivores (Blood-Eaters)
Episode 133 - Symbiosis
Episode 132 - Mary and Louis Leakey
Episode 131 - Volcanoes
Episode 130 - Sense of Smell
End of the Year Q&A 2021
Episode 129 - Rhinos
Episode 128 - The Deep Sea
Silver Screen Science – Prologue, Jurassic World: Dominion
Episode 127 - The Hell Creek Formation
Episode 126 - Mimicry
Episode 125 - Orchids
Spook-E - Triffids
Spook-E - Mandrakes
Episode 124 - Snowball Earth
Spook-E - Animated Trees
Spook-E - People-Eating Plants
Episode 123 - Spiders
Episode 122 - Plate Tectonics
Episode 121 - Brains
Episode 120 – Tyrannosaurs
Episode 119 - India
Episode 118 - Trace Fossils
Episode 117 - Crabs and Carcinization
Episode 116 - Ichthyosaurs
Silver Screen Science - Anaconda (1997)
Silver Screen Science - Lake Placid (1999)
Episode 115 - Biomes
Episode 114 - Polar Life
Episode 113 - Paleoclimate
Episode 112 - Caves
Episode 111 - Eusociality
Silver Screen Science – Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Episode 110 - Mazon Creek Fossil Beds
Episode 109 - Hyenas
Episode 108 - Penguins
Episode 107 – Tusks
Episode 106 - Franz Nopcsa
Episode 105 - Carnivorous Plants
Episode 104 - Pinnipeds
End of the Year Q&A 2020
Episode 103 – The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
Episode 102 - Parasites
Episode 101 - Sauropods
100 Episodes: A Look Back
Episode 100 - The Origin of Life
Episode 99 - Evolution of Insects
Spook-E - The Sirens
Spook-E - The Leviathan
Episode 98 - Species and Speciation
Spook-E - Sea Serpents
Spook-E - The Kraken
Episode 97 - Venom and Poison
Episode 96 - Marsupials
Episode 95 – The Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse
Episode 94 - Dogs
Episode 93 - Cats
Episode 92 - Eggs
Episode 91 - Frogs
Episode 90 - "Living Fossils"
Episode 89 - The Burgess Shale
Live Chat - Conservation Paleontology
Live Chat - Paleopathology
Episode 88 - Evolution of Teeth
Live Chat - Turtles
Episode 87 - Ceratopsians, the Horned Dinosaurs
Live Chat - Ancient DNA
Episode 86 - New Zealand
Episode 85 – The Ordovician Mass Extinction
Silver Screen Science - Animals of the James Bond Franchise
Silver Screen Science - Godzilla (1998)
Episode 84 - Paleopathology
Silver Screen Science - Evolution (2001)
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation
Silver Screen Science - Tremors
Episode 83 - Coelacanths
Episode 82 - Trilobites
Episode 81 - Metamorphosis
Episode 80 - Mary Anning
Episode 79 - Pterosaurs
DragonCon 2019 Paleontology Hour Panel
Episode 78 - Exaptation
End of the Year Q&A 2019
Episode 77 - Fins to Feet: The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Episode 76 - Horse Evolution
...But We Digress - Pokemon Paleontology
Episode 75 - The Great Oxidation Event
Episode 74 - South America
Episode 73 - Trees
Spook-E - Chimeras
Episode 72 - Plesiosaurs
Spook-E - Hydras
Spook-E - Gorgons
Episode 71 - The Western Interior Seaway
Spook-E - Harpies
Episode 70 - Convergent Evolution
Episode 69 - Ankylosaurs
Episode 68 - Evolution of Eyes
Voices of La Brea - Bonus Episode
Episode 67 - The La Brea Tar Pits
Episode 66 - Elephants
Episode 65 - The Late Devonian Extinction(s)
Episode 64 - Paleoart
Silver Screen Science – Godzilla (2014) and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Silver Screen Science – King Kong (2005) and Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Episode 63 - Sexual Selection
Silver Screen Science – Kaiju Concepts
Silver Screen Science - Gojira (1954)
Episode 62 – Amber
Silver Screen Science - King Kong (1933)
Episode 61 - Behavior in the Fossil Record
Episode 60 - Turtles
Episode 59 - Bats
Episode 58 - The Bone Wars
Episode 57 - Evolution of Flowering Plants (Angiosperms)
Sloth Chat Livestream 2018
Episode 56 – The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory
Episode 55 - The "Sixth Extinction" (Modern Biodiversity Crisis)
Episode 54 - Alfred Russell Wallace
Episode 53 - The Baculum (Penis Bone)
Episode 52 – Sounds of the Past (Fossil Bioacoustics)
End of the Year Q&A 2018
Episode 51 - Mosasaurs
Episode 50 - Australia
Episode 49 - Fake Fossils
Episode 48 - Sharks
Episode 47 - Early Synapsids ("Proto-Mammals")
Spook-E - Zombies
Episode 46 - Cryptozoology
Spook-E - Fish-People
Spook-E - Werewolves
Episode 45 – The Permian Extinction (“The Great Dying”)
Spook-E - Vampires
SciFest in St. Louis
Spotlight - Ranjeev Epa (5/5)
Silver Screen Science - The Meg
Episode 44 - Hybridization
Spotlight - Chris Mah (4/5)
Spotlight - Alycia Stigall (3/5)
Episode 43 - The Great American Biotic Interchange (GABI)
Spotlight - Adriane Lam (2/5)
Spotlight - Dave Marshall (1/5)
Episode 42 - Spinosaurs
Episode 41 - Evolution of Whales
Episode 40 - Madagascar
...But We Digress - Mermaids
Episode 39 - Speculative Evolution
Episode 38 - Grass
Silver Screen Science - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (5/5)
Episode 37.5 - More Birds
Silver Screen Science - Jurassic World (4/5)
Episode 37 - Evolution of Birds
Silver Screen Science - Jurassic Park III (3/5)
Silver Screen Science - The Lost World: Jurassic Park (2/5)
Episode 36 - Reefs
Silver Screen Science - Jurassic Park (1/5)
Episode 35 - De-extinction
Episode 34 - Ancient DNA
Crocs vs Snakes - The Poll Returns
Survey Response and Q&A
Episode 33 - Ontogeny
Episode 32 - Naracoorte Caves, Australia
Episode 31 - The Ediacaran Biota
Episode 30 - Prehistoric Poop
Episode 29 - Placoderms, The Armored Fish
Episode 28 - Charles Darwin
Episode 27 - Domestication
Episode 26 - Astrobiology
Episode 25 - The Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction
Episode 24 - Sloths
Episode 23 - Jurassic Park
Episode 22 - Micropaleontology
Episode 21 - Dinosaurs, An Introduction
Episode 20 - The Scientific Method
Diversity in Paleontology - Special Episode
Episode 19 - Women in Paleontology
Episode 18B - Human Evolution Part 2
Episode 18A - Human Evolution Part 1
Episode 17 - The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)
Episode 16 - Cephalopods
Episode 15 - The End-Triassic Extinction
Episode 14 - The Gray Fossil Site
...But We Digress - The History of Earth
Episode 13 - The Fossil Preparation Lab
Episode 12 - The Geologic Time Scale
Episode 11 - Antarctica
...But We Digress - Tyrannosaur Skin (and Feathers?)
Episode 10 - The Tree of Life
Episode 9 - The Cambrian Explosion
Episode 8 - Conservation Paleontology
Episode 7 - Primates
Episode 6 – Evolution of Flight
...But We Digress - Ornithoscelida
Episode 5 - The K-Pg Extinction (the "Dinosaur Extinction")
Episode 4 - Island Evolution
Episode 3 - Snakes
Episode 2 - Crocodilians
Episode 1 - Paleontology