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Brains On! Science podcast for kids

Dinosaur bones: How do we know their age?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.514.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Fossil dating is a lot like eating a delicious ice cream cake. Well, sort of. We find out how scientists look at the rock and elements AROUND a fossil to figure out its age. Plus: We talk to a scientist who studied one of the coolest fossils discovered recently: a dinosaur tail trapped in amber, complete with feathers! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi friends, it's me Mark. I'm just dropping in to tell you about a virtual party brains on is having Saturday, July 29th

0:07.3

It's free and you're invited

0:10.2

Not only are we celebrating our 10th birthday, we're also super excited to share our newest book with you

0:17.1

It's called meet my micro pets. The book is a fact-filled

0:22.4

hilarious journey through the weird and wonderful world of microbes. I know I know you're thinking

0:28.7

But Mark, will there be cool games at this virtual party on July 29th?

0:32.7

I mean, yeah, only the coolest and before you ask

0:37.5

There will absolutely be epic stories and yes

0:41.7

Molly Sandin and I will be there answering as many questions as we can during the whole event

0:47.2

This is a one-time only live virtual party. You do not want to miss again. It's on Saturday, July 29th

0:55.5

11 a.m. Pacific one p.m. Central and two p.m. Eastern had to brains on dot org slash events for a link to sign up

1:04.7

That's brains on dot org slash events. See you on July 29th

1:14.3

You're listening to brains on where we're serious about being curious

1:18.7

I'm Molly Bloom and we want to revel in the newness of this new year by talking about some newer news about something very old

1:25.1

We're talking about dinosaurs. That's Kate Wexler. If you've been listening to brains on for a while

1:30.1

You might remember her as the co-host of our episode about extinction. That was a long time ago

1:35.4

Not as long ago as dinosaurs, but yeah, it was one of our very first episodes

1:39.7

It's also a personal favorite so if you haven't heard it go check it out. Thanks for being here Kate. Oh, yeah, of course

1:45.2

I love it. So time has passed and you're now officially taller than me, but you're also still interested in dinosaurs. Yes

1:52.5

I really want to know more about dinosaurs and since you follow the latest dyno and fossil news

1:58.9

We asked you to come back to help us with an interview about a very exciting recent discovery. Oh baby

2:05.7

Trapped into amber

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