Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Episode 215 - Ferns
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Episode 215 - Ferns
With several thousand living species, ferns are the second most diverse vascular plants around today, after angiosperms. Ferns are also abundant and well-known in the fossil record. This episode, Aly joins us to explore the dizzying variety of ferns and their ferny-friends, past and present.
In the news: When the Earth Was Green, weird wasps, and ancient claws. And also dire wolves.
Time markers:
Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00
News: 00:04:20
Main discussion, Part 1: 00:46:45
Main discussion, Part 2: 01:37:00
Patron question: 02:20:40
Check out our website for this episode’s blog post and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/
Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast
When the Earth Was Green:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-the-earth-was-green-plants-animals-and-evolution-s-greatest-romance-riley-black/21356911
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781250354211-when-the-earth-was-green
Find Riley at @restingdinoface.bsky.social
And http://rileyblack.net/
Support links:
Assigned Media: https://www.assignedmedia.org/
Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/
Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent
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
View all episodes
By Common Descent
4.8
690690 ratings
With several thousand living species, ferns are the second most diverse vascular plants around today, after angiosperms. Ferns are also abundant and well-known in the fossil record. This episode, Aly joins us to explore the dizzying variety of ferns and their ferny-friends, past and present.
In the news: When the Earth Was Green, weird wasps, and ancient claws. And also dire wolves.
Time markers:
Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00
News: 00:04:20
Main discussion, Part 1: 00:46:45
Main discussion, Part 2: 01:37:00
Patron question: 02:20:40
Check out our website for this episode’s blog post and more: http://commondescentpodcast.com/
Join us on Patreon to support the podcast and enjoy bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast
When the Earth Was Green:
https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-the-earth-was-green-plants-animals-and-evolution-s-greatest-romance-riley-black/21356911
https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781250354211-when-the-earth-was-green
Find Riley at @restingdinoface.bsky.social
And http://rileyblack.net/
Support links:
Assigned Media: https://www.assignedmedia.org/
Got a topic you want to hear about? Submit your episode request here: https://commondescentpodcast.com/request-a-topic/
Lots more ways to connect with us: https://linktr.ee/common_descent
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
More shows like The Common Descent Podcast
View all
In Our Time
5,412 Listeners
In Our Time: Science
723 Listeners
The History of English Podcast
6,381 Listeners
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
513 Listeners
Origin Stories
486 Listeners
In Defense of Plants Podcast
1,217 Listeners
Ologies with Alie Ward
23,778 Listeners
History Time
561 Listeners
History of the World podcast
908 Listeners
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
515 Listeners
Terrible Lizards
181 Listeners
The Ancients
3,053 Listeners
Geology Bites
6 Listeners
The Science of Birds
784 Listeners
Eons: Surviving Deep Time
838 Listeners