{"id":2154,"date":"2025-11-29T00:52:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/?p=2154"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:53:02","slug":"ancient-grasslands-and-grass-evolution-in-paleontological-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/2025\/11\/29\/ancient-grasslands-and-grass-evolution-in-paleontological-podcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Grasslands and Grass Evolution in Paleontological Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DJI_0922.jpg\" alt=\"Golden grasslands in California.\" class=\"wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DJI_0922.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DJI_0922-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/DJI_0922-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the pandemic, one of the best things I liked doing was walking around the neighborhood and listening to podcasts. In terms of botanical topics there was nothing even remotely close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indefenseofplants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In Defense of Plants<\/a>, but I also followed some paleontological  podcasts like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palaeocast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Palaeocast<\/a>, and especially enjoyed topics like the Eurypterids and Trilobites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Later, I discovered  another paleontological podcast called <a href=\"https:\/\/commondescentpodcast.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Common Descent<\/a>, which I also enjoyed. Both these podcasts had episodes that focused on grasses and grasslands, which of course reinforces the importance of this plant family to life on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such podcasts cannot really provide dense information on any one topic, but they are very entertaining and easy to listen to when one is otherwise engaged in other activities, such as walking or hiking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I listed below the two episodes from each of the podcasts, and I invite you to check them out and enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commondescentpodcast.com\/2018\/07\/01\/episode-38-grass\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"139\" src=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/banner3-e1762602834112-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Common descent podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-2158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/banner3-e1762602834112-copy.jpg 700w, https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/banner3-e1762602834112-copy-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commondescentpodcast.com\/2018\/07\/01\/episode-38-grass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">THE COMMON DESCENT &#8211; EPISODE 38: GRASS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palaeocast.com\/grasslands\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" src=\"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/palaeocast.png\" alt=\"Palaeocast podcast.\" class=\"wp-image-2157\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palaeocast.com\/grasslands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PALAEOCAST &#8211; EPISODE 168\/169: GRASSLANDS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the pandemic, one of the best things I liked doing was walking around the neighborhood and listening to podcasts. In terms of botanical topics there was nothing even remotely close to In Defense of Plants, but I also followed some paleontological podcasts like Palaeocast, and especially enjoyed topics like the Eurypterids and Trilobites. Later,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[101,13,89,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolution","category-grasslands","category-origin","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2154\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keyapa.com\/sp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}