Fascinating Fossils

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6 • 957 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2014

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In front of a live audience at the Cambridge Science Centre, Chris Smith is joined by three paleontologists to discuss fascinating fossils! Alex Liu explains where the first animals evolved from, Stephanie Pierce describes how animals first crawled out of the oceans and Jon Tennant digs into how the dinosaurs died out. The team also answer questions like how big are fossilied spiders? Plus, Dave Ansell and Kate Lamble break down bones and discover how we know how fast dinosaurs ran... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:45.4	Center for the wonderful assembled audience.
0:47.8	Hello to all of you!
0:51.8	My name is Chris Smith and we're in the company of three experts this week
0:56.2	who are going to tell us all about their science and their science looks at things
1:00.5	that happened millions to hundreds of millions of years ago.
1:04.5	Let's meet them.
1:05.1	So first to my right, Alex Lou.
1:07.5	Hello, hello Alex.
1:08.5	Tell us about you.
1:09.5	I'm at the University of Cambridge.
1:11.2	I'm a paleontologist and my area of expertise is looking at the fossils of the very earliest animals.
1:17.0	So we're looking around 500 million years ago.
1:20.0	And sitting to Alex's right, Stephanie, Stephanie Pierce, hello, where are you from and what do you do?
1:25.0	Yeah, so I work at the Royal Veterinary College in London and I'm a vertebrate paleontologist.
1:31.0	So I work on animals that have backbones and I specifically
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