Flashy dinos
Mysteries of Science
Fun Kids
4.6 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Over the past few decades, our ideas about what dinosaurs looked like have changed. Dinos were once thought of as scaly creatures, closely related to reptiles. Now, they are thought to have come in a beautiful array of colours, some with flashy feathers. The Science+Nature team, along with expert guests, unpack this mystery as we ask: what did dinosaurs look like?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back young detectives to Mysteries of Science. This is the podcast where we dig up and |
| 0:04.7 | investigate some of the strangest puzzles of the future, the present and the deep past. From the |
| 0:11.5 | archives, we've unearthed a classic case for you. How do we know what dinosaurs look like? |
| 0:17.4 | There were no cameras, no witnesses, and we've only got ancient bones to guide us. |
| 0:21.5 | So how does scientists piece together the evidence? Step into the time machine? Because we've got |
| 0:27.6 | a rawsome Dino mystery for you. Hello and welcome to Mysteries of Science. My name's Stevie, |
| 0:35.5 | and I'm the deputy editor of Science and Nature, |
| 0:41.4 | the monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior. And I'm Michael, the junior editor. |
| 0:45.9 | On this podcast, we take a look at our favourite mysteries of science. These are the strange phenomena and bizarre events and have left scientists scratching their heads and despite their |
| 0:49.8 | best efforts remain well and truly unsolved. This episode is being released on the 10th of June 2022, which is a big day for dinosaur fans. |
| 0:59.7 | Why is that, Stevie? |
| 1:00.8 | Well, the release of the latest Jurassic Park movie, of course. |
| 1:04.7 | Well, not Jurassic Park, Jurassic World Dominion. |
| 1:07.8 | Of course, I love those films. |
| 1:09.8 | Everything I know about dinosaurs comes from Jurassic |
| 1:12.0 | Park and Jurassic World. Well, Michael, I hate to break it to you, but as great as those movies are, |
| 1:16.5 | they aren't always scientifically accurate. What if I told you that T-Rex might actually have had feathers? |
| 1:22.8 | Or that some dinosaurs behave more like modern-day birds than the fearsome monsters shown on the screen. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, I'd be pretty surprised to hear that, but pretty interested too. |
| 1:31.8 | I mean, how do we know all of this? |
| 1:33.4 | How can scientists know what dinosaurs look like |
| 1:36.6 | or how they behaved, considering they all went extinct 66 million years ago? |
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