Biology's Biggest Mystery: The Origin of Life
The Naked Scientists Podcast
Dr Chris Smith
4.6 • 958 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have you loud and clear. |
| 0:03.6 | Hello. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome. |
| 0:06.6 | Science and that is the same physics medicine, nature or space, time, brain, life, the universe. |
| 0:16.7 | Hello, this week on the program we are asking one of the most difficult questions of biology. |
| 0:22.2 | We actually cannot answer the question. |
| 0:24.4 | Trying to turn back the clock. Oh we really wish we had a time machine and could see what |
| 0:28.6 | was going on and piece together the clues. So it's a very difficult jigsaw puzzle to find out how did life. the Scientists Podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk. So this is the monster bed which has been excavated out of the main quarry |
| 1:00.3 | and placed in this safe area for us to hunt for you today. |
| 1:05.0 | Kings Dyke Nature Reserve in Peterborough. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm with Jamie Jordan from Fossils Galore and we've gone Fossil Hunting. |
| 1:12.0 | You never know, it might come across some bones or teeth |
| 1:15.0 | or other prehistoric creatures as well that lived in this shallow tropical sea. |
| 1:19.0 | From the Jurassic. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm so excited, might I find a dinosaur? |
| 1:22.0 | You might do. Yeah, you do yeah you never know just get some |
| 1:24.6 | tools out yes show me your tool set okay so I've got the hammer a a hammer, chisel, you got that? Hammer and chisel? |
| 1:35.5 | Yeah. Okay, so we'll start heading down and I'll, okay. I'll show you how to find them. |
| 1:48.2 | So, you've're looking for material like this one over here so can you see how Shelley it is? Oh yes. So what we've got here we've got lots of almonites which are |
| 1:52.4 | prehistoric sepulopods as such. |
| 1:55.8 | So they'd have lots of tentacles a little bit like the modern day nautilus that's swimming around today. So as you can see there's |
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