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Episode 236 - Chalicotheres
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Episode 236 - Chalicotheres

The Common Descent Podcast

February 1, 20262h 1m

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Show Notes

The Cenozoic Era was home to many unusual ancient mammals, but few so strange as the “gorilla-horses,” the ungulates that swapped their hooves for claws, chalicotheres. This episode, we discuss the features that make these animals distinct and which confused paleontologists for decades, and we go over what is known – and still unknown – about their evolution and lifestyles.

In the news: Let’s Botanize, Prototaxites identity, and giant kangaroos.

Find Let’s Botanize here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ben-goulet-scott/lets-botanize/9781635869040/
Book preorder promo: https://www.letsbotanize.org/preorder-promo.

Time markers:
Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00
News: 00:07:30
Main discussion, Part 1: 00:50:20
Main discussion, Part 2: 01:28:50
Patron question: 01:53:20

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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 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0