Episode 140 - Horns and Antlers
Who doesn’t like a flashy bit of headgear? A wide variety of cranial ornamentation is found on a wide variety of animals: sharp horns, branching antlers, bumpy knobs, and more. In this episode, we bre...
29 Touko 20222h 24min
Episode 139 - Vultures
Scavenging isn’t easy. There’s a reason most scavengers are only part-time carrion-eaters. But vultures are exquisitely adapted for a dedicated lifestyle of finding and feasting on carcasses, and as a...
15 Touko 20221h 52min
Episode 138 - The Moon
It's an easy mistake to think of the Moon as a simple accessory to our planet, but the Earth and Moon are a close-knit pair, and the Moon influences everything from our tides to our magnetic fields to...
1 Touko 20222h 5min
Episode 137 - Fossilization
We talk about fossils a lot on this podcast – every episode, in fact – but we rarely take the time to discuss how fossils get the way they are. This is a crucial subject, because the fossilization pro...
17 Huhti 20221h 59min
Episode 136 - Seahorses
Seahorses are very strange fish, with their upright posture, tube-like mouths, and various other unusual features. Along with their cousins in the family Syngnathidae, seahorses have been the subject ...
3 Huhti 20222h 15min
Patron Mini-Episode Compilation #2
Our highest-level supporters on Patreon get their own special mini-episode on a topic of their choosing! We released the first five in a compilation a while ago, and now that we’ve done five more, her...
28 Maalis 20221h 29min
Episode 135 - Seeds
Every plant starts somewhere, and often that somewhere is inside a seed. Seeds are among the most diverse and important evolutionary innovations of plants, allowing species to survive, thrive, and tra...
20 Maalis 20222h 30min
The Art of Common Descent with Rob Soto
Paleoartist Rob Soto has created some fantastic artwork for the podcast over the years. Most recently, for our Five Year Anniversary celebration, he produced our Five Year logo and a series of movie-p...
14 Maalis 20221h 47min
