{"podcast":{"title":"The Common Descent Podcast","slug":"the-common-descent-podcast-466591","podcast_index_feed_id":466591,"rss_url":"https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"http://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/1598752/CommonDescentLogo.png","author":"Common Descent","episode_count":379,"summary":"Join David and Will as they explore the paleontologists’ perspective on various topics in life and earth history. Each episode features a main discussion on a topic requested by the listeners, presented as a lighthearted and educational conversation about fossils, evolution, deep time, and more. Before the main discussion, each episode also includes a news segment, covering recent research related to paleontology and evolution. Each episode ends with the answer to a question submitted by subscribers on Patreon. New episodes with new topics every fortnight!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T04:20:14.679099+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast-466591"},"episode":{"title":"Snake Stuff with Ali Ashraf","slug":"snake-stuff-with-ali-ashraf","published_at":"2026-07-16T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast-466591/snake-stuff-with-ali-ashraf","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast-466591","url":"https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/e/snake-stuff-with-ali-ashraf/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/dme9d24yrih2atqx/Snake_Stuff_with_Ali_Ashraf7pif4.mp3","summary":"Happy Snake Month! In this bonus episode, we're joined by friend of the podcast Ali Ashraf to talk about his research on the distribution and evolution of water snakes! This month only! Join the Snakes & Crocs Tier on our Patreon to receive a Snake Month sticker and to contribute to charitable donations toward reptile and other wildlife conservation!www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast This year, our donations are going toward:Save the Snakeshttps://savethesnakes.org/The Crocodile Research Coalitionhttps://crocodileresearchcoalition.org/The Natural Resources Defense Councilhttps://www.nrdc.org/ 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","meta_description":"Happy Snake Month! In this bonus episode, we're joined by friend of the podcast Ali Ashraf to talk about his research on the distribution and evolution of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3442,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-common-descent-podcast-466591/episodes/snake-stuff-with-ali-ashraf/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast-466591/snake-stuff-with-ali-ashraf.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}