A New Stonehenge Discovery and Why Females Feel Colder
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Learn about a mysterious new archaeological discovery around Stonehenge; and why females feel colder in many species.
More from world-renowned Stonehenge archeologist Susan Greaney:
- STONEHENGE: LAND OF THE DEAD’ Premieres Sunday, November 28 at 8 PM ET/PT on Science Channel: https://press.discovery.com/us/sci/programs/stonehenge-land-dead/
- Start your free trial of discovery+ at https://discoveryplus.com/curiosity
- Follow @SueGreaney on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SueGreaney
- Academic page: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/research-students/view/122326-susan-greaney
Females feel colder in many species -- scientists say it was an adaptation to keep the sexes separate by Grant Currin
- A new study reveals the evolutionary reason why women feel colder than men. (2021, October 5). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/930578
- Magory Cohen, T., Kiat, Y., Sharon, H., Levin, E., & Algar, A. (2021). An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of sexual segregation in endotherms. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13393
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:06.7 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.7 | Today, world-renowned Stonehenge Archaeologist Susan Greenie will help you learn about |
| 0:12.4 | a mysterious new discovery around one of the best known prehistoric monuments in the world. |
| 0:17.0 | He'll also learn why females feel colder in many species. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.0 | There are some pretty mysterious places in the world, but one of the most mysterious |
| 0:29.0 | has got to be Stonehenge. It's a ring of massive vertical stones topped by |
| 0:34.7 | horizontal stones, all of which were carded in from hundreds of kilometers away and |
| 0:40.4 | have been worked to fit together like wood's joints. It's located in southern |
| 0:45.8 | England and it's as old as the pyramids of Giza. And we're not sure why it |
| 0:51.3 | exists. |
| 0:52.8 | But the mystery keeps getting weirder, |
| 0:54.8 | as our guests today is about to explain. |
| 0:57.6 | Susan Greeny is an archaeologist who works for English heritage |
| 1:01.1 | as a senior properties historian historian where she's been researching |
| 1:04.3 | the ancient structures of England for more than 16 years. She's also featured in a new |
| 1:10.4 | documentary on Science Channel that debuts next week. |
| 1:14.0 | Details on that in a few minutes. |
| 1:16.0 | For our first question, we asked her what it's like to see Stonehenge in person. |
| 1:21.0 | So many people probably think of the stones of Stonehenge, the |
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