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Podcast: The Common Descent Podcast
Episode: Episode 25 - The Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction
Description: In this episode, we firmly establish a tradition of extinction-talk! This time, by request, it’s the latest major prehistoric extinction in Earth history, the event that took from us the mammoths, ground sloths, and other giants of the Ice Age, a mass extinction that our own species was around to witness (and perhaps even cause): the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction.
In the news: mistaken Archaeopteryx identity, ticks with a taste for dinosaurs, evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, and ancient bear hibernation.
Time markers:
Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00
News: 00:05:30
Main discussion: 00:32:00
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