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Podcast: The Common Descent Podcast
Episode: Episode 143 - Monitor Lizards
Description: Monitor lizards are charismatic, surprisingly diverse, full of surprising biological features, and on top of all that, they include the largest terrestrial lizards in history. Also, they’re closely related to snakes (it is Snake Month, after all). That’s a cool group of lizards! In this episode, we discuss what makes these lizards so unique and fascinating, and we dive into their long but often mysterious fossil record to address some major questions about monitor evolution.
In the news: vampire squids, dinosaur eggs, octopus intelligence, and pickled snakes.
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