...But We Digress - Tyrannosaur Skin (and Feathers?)

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Common Descent

Science, Education, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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We’re back for another digression! Another new study is making (ridiculous) headlines all across the internet! It’s the first published investigation of Tyrannosaurus scales, by Bell et al., and it has people asking: where are the feathers? You can access the study itself here: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/13/6/20170092 Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/common-descent/the-common-descent-podcast The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:05.6	But we digress.
0:08.0	Hello, Will.
0:09.1	Hey, David.
0:10.2	Hello, listeners.
0:11.3	We are back for another brief digression.
0:15.6	We digress again.
0:16.6	We digress again.
0:17.9	A step away from our regularly scheduled programming to talk about a bit of news that is so blowing up on the internet that we just had to take the time to discuss it.
0:31.0	This time around, we are talking about the news piece.
0:34.3	You may have noticed it about T-Rex skin.
0:37.4	Something to do with T-Rex, something new with skin.
0:40.9	It's not about skin.
0:41.7	There's a whole lot of headlines bouncing around the internet right now saying,
0:44.7	New Study shows that T-Rex had scales and not feathers.
0:48.7	Yep.
0:49.0	Which is a mostly mischaracterization of what is a small and interesting little paper that just came out.
0:58.4	Yes.
0:59.2	So we're going to talk about this and sort of set the record straight on what this paper says and what it actually means, and why it is cool and why it is not what you might think it is from what you've been seeing on the Internet.
1:16.1	Yeah, it's been greatly oversimplified, and as is often the case with titles, made to sound as catchy and important as possible.
1:28.2	Yes.
1:29.7	So let's talk about what this is.
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