Feathered Dinosaurs
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Having dominated the earth for millions of years, it's no wonder Dinosaurs have always fascinated us. Depicted in films and TV shows as monstrous scaly beasts - they inspire a terrifying image. But what if we told you that the T-Rex could have been covered in feathers? It's a question that's haunted palaeontologists for years - were dinosaurs actually covered in feathers, and if so, what purpose did that serve?
In today's episode, Tristan is once again joined by palaeontologist extraordinaire Henry Gee. Looking at the fascinating new discoveries from the last decade, was there a close connection between modern birds and dinosaurs? And do we need to change the way we picture these jurassic beasts?
The Senior Producer for this episode was Elena Guthrie. Assistant Producer Annie Coloe. Audio production by Thomas Ntinas.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the ancients on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's |
| 0:17.9 | podcast where we're talking all about dinosaurs again dinosaurs there's just |
| 0:22.2 | something that we all love about them and it's always good on the ancients that |
| 0:26.1 | once in a while we release an episode about dinosaurs, a particular area of the |
| 0:31.8 | dinosaurs and the millions of years that they inhabited the earth. Today we're |
| 0:37.6 | talking about a really exciting groundbreaking part of the dinosaur story. We're |
| 0:44.2 | talking all about feathered dinosaurs. To talk all about this we've got a great |
| 0:49.7 | dinosaur expert, a paleontologist returning to the podcast, a man who's filled |
| 0:56.0 | with witty stories with funny incredible anecdotes who just a brilliant |
| 1:01.4 | storyteller. I am of course talking about Henry G. Now Henry he was on the |
| 1:06.4 | podcast quite recently. We sat down together and we talked through our top five |
| 1:11.4 | dinosaurs. That was a great chat. Naturally Iguonodon sits right at the top of |
| 1:16.7 | that list. Of course. Okay maybe that is a personal bias of mine. I can see why |
| 1:22.7 | some might think actually it's quite a boring dinosaur but not to me. Listen to |
| 1:26.4 | that episode to find out why. Anyways feathered dinosaurs. We're talking all |
| 1:30.2 | about feathered dinosaurs today and why this field of paleontology is developing. |
| 1:36.4 | Why has been so exciting over recent decades and Henry is the perfect guest for |
| 1:41.6 | it because he has been to the conferences. As you're going to hear he has been |
| 1:46.7 | in the front line of learning about this research over the past decades. There |
| 1:52.2 | are some really good stories and I've got no doubt you're going to absolutely |
| 1:54.9 | love this episode. So that further ado to talk all about feathered dinosaurs. Here's |
| 2:00.6 | Henry. Henry it is good to be on the podcast again a me go. Hello again Tristan. You've been on a few |
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