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Scientific insight meets down-to-earth deliberation and irreverent humour. Our diverse team is united by curiosity, even though we often have different points of view. Bring on the quirky debates driven by critical minds! Sometimes we’re funny, often we’re opinionated, always we’re entertaining. Support us: https://ko-fi.com/techspeak_podcast Twitter: @TechnicallySp11 Instagram: technicallyspeaking.podcast Reddit: techspeak_podcast Email: techspeak.podcast@gmail.com
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Thursday Sep 28, 2023
Thursday Sep 28, 2023
The dinosaurs might take all the glory but well before they existed there was a very important period. Laura and Ellie discuss the 'explosion' in animal biodiversity that started around 541 million years ago and how we know it happened. They also speculate on what sort of animal might be missing from the fossil record and somehow come to the strange conclusion that balloon animals might have been real.
Sources of information for the factual stuff:
- Rocks (iron) absorbed free oxygen from britannica.com
- The study suggesting that animals left the seas as their eyes evolved and got bigger was reported on quantamagazine.com
- The study on the oldest animal (the floppy sea-dwelling bath mat) was reported on inverse.com
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