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How Bird-Like Were Dinosaurs?

CrowdScience

BBC

Science

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Birds are dinosaurs, but did their extinct relatives move, look, or even sing like their avian relatives? From revealing the hidden information within fossilised dinosaur footprints, to reading the messages left by muscle attachments on fossil bones and seeing how modern palaeo-artists have started to draw fluffy feathered Tyranosaurs, presenter Geoff Marsh starts to reimagine dinosaurs as living animals.

Beginning with CrowdScience listener Malcolm asking about hopping dinosaurs while on a fossil finding mission with world expert Dr Peter Falkingham, Geoff explores the vaults of the Natural History Museum with Dr Susie Maidment and meets palaeoartist Dr Mark Witton’s pet dinosaurs in his living room studio.

Producer: Rory Galloway

(Image: A Velociraptor dinosaur. Credit to Mark Witton)

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and maybe it's when I had a hand in.

0:04.0

I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts for the BBC.

0:08.0

My role is to give new and diverse creators a voice with the opportunity to build a career.

0:12.0

That's the thing I love about podcasts.

0:14.4

You start with just a good idea, but then you have the space to see where it goes.

0:18.4

And doing that at the BBC means we can really run with the best stories

0:21.9

while developing the most unique audio talent.

0:24.3

So if you like what you hear, why not check out the huge range of podcast we've got on BBC

0:29.1

Sounds. Hello dear listener and welcome to crowd signs. I'm Jeff Marsha.

0:37.0

You're currently being serenated by living dinosaurs on the show that answers all your questions about science.

0:46.4

The sorts of things you think up while naval gazing in the bathtub,

0:50.2

or as was the case for this week's listener watching birds hop around in the garden.

0:54.4

Don't worry you didn't miss hear me

1:00.8

you really are being serenated by living dinosaurs yes this is

1:06.1

bird song but birds are dinosaurs and if you don't believe me here are a few dinosaur

1:11.0

experts that we'll meet in this episode hammering that message home.

1:15.0

Dinosaur just isn't a term for something that's dead.

1:19.0

Dinosaurs are very much alive.

1:21.0

And that's why we can say that I've got dinosaurs in my backyard because they never really

1:25.1

stop being dinosaurs.

1:26.1

They are always dinosaurs.

1:27.1

Like we're always mammals.

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