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Episode 83 - Coelacanths
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:43:08
Publish Date: 2020-03-21 20:00:00
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In 1938, a fishing crew pulled up a fish that everyone thought had been extinct for 70 million years. Since then, coelacanths have become famous not just for their strangely incomplete fossil record, but also for their unique anatomy, their reclusive lifestyle, and their close relationship to land vertebrates. From fossils to genetics, this episode is all about what we know – and what we’re missing – of the story of coelacanths.

In the news: an old weasel, fish through time, daily bivalve growth, and cave cockroaches.

News: 00:06:00 Main discussion: 00:34:30 Mid-discussion break: 01:03:00 Patron question: 01:36:00

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The Intro and Outro music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

Musical Interludes are "Professor Umlaut" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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