12 March 2020: An ancient bird trapped in amber, and life beneath the ocean floor
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🗓️ 11 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
This week, a newly discovered bird species from the time of the dinosaurs, and microbes hundreds of metres below the ocean floor.
In this episode:
00:44 A tiny, toothy, ancient bird
Researchers have found a perfectly preserved bird fossil trapped in amber, with some rather unusual features.
The paper covered in this podcast has been retracted. New evidence suggests that the specimen might actually be a lizard, and not a bird-like dinosaur.
Read more in this article. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02214-7
The retracted paper can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2068-4
08:09 Research Highlights
Dental hygiene in the time of the Vikings, and wildebeest bones feed an African ecosystem. Research Article: Bertilsson et al; Research Article: Subalusky et al.
10:21 Deep sea life
Scientists have uncovered traces of life 750m below the ocean’s surface. Research article: Li et al.
17:31 News Chat
Updates on the Coronavirus outbreak, and peer review in predatory journals. News: Coronavirus: latest news on spreading infection; News: Labs rush to study coronavirus in transgenic animals — some are in short supply
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| 0:00.0 | On the first day of Christmas my true love said to me |
| 0:03.9 | Rip up the chariot |
| 0:05.6 | Forget about the telly |
| 0:07.6 | Let's play scratch cards |
| 0:11.1 | Coins out to scratching |
| 0:12.6 | Everybody laughing better not be cheating |
| 0:15.3 | And the chance to win a pound or three |
| 0:18.2 | Add some play to Christmas |
| 0:20.1 | With scratch cards from the National Lottery. |
| 0:22.7 | Please gift responsibly. Rules and procedures apply. |
| 0:24.7 | Players and gifters must be 18 or over. |
| 0:26.2 | And the chance to win a pound or three. |
| 0:36.2 | In an experiment, we don't know yet. |
| 0:38.4 | Why is Blight so far? |
| 0:40.3 | Like, it sounds so simple. |
| 0:41.6 | They had no idea. |
| 0:43.1 | But now the data's... |
| 0:44.2 | I find this not only refreshing, but at some level, astounding. |
| 0:52.0 | Nature. |
| 0:55.9 | Welcome back to the Nature podcast. |
| 0:58.8 | This week, a tiny ancient bird trapped in amber. |
| 1:03.0 | An evidence of life far beneath the ocean floor. |
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