Nature Podcast: 23 March 2017
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🗓️ 22 March 2017
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| 0:00.0 | This week, after a century of consensus, the dinosaur family tree gets a shakeup. |
| 0:08.0 | A lot of people are going to be very surprised by this result, and I think this is wonderful for the field. |
| 0:14.0 | And astronomer's ambitious plan to photograph a black hole. |
| 0:18.0 | So you need a pretty large telescope. You actually need a telescope the size of the Earth. |
| 0:22.3 | Plus finding successful new combos of cancer drugs. |
| 0:25.7 | This is the Nature Podcast for March the 23rd, 2017. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm Adam Levy. |
| 0:30.3 | And I'm Kerry Smith. |
| 0:44.3 | Just a good one of the first of the first. Just before we get started, we have a little favour to ask. |
| 0:50.6 | If you like what you hear in today's show, please vote for us to win the listener's choice at the British Podcast Awards. |
| 0:54.1 | That's British Podcast Awards.com slash vote. Just search for nature and fill in your name. |
| 0:57.0 | Right, on with the show. Dinosaurus became celebrities in the Victorian era when loads of bones of these |
| 1:02.8 | strange ancient reptiles were being found and studied. In 1888, Henry Ceeley divided dinosaurs into |
| 1:09.3 | two main groups, based, among other things, |
| 1:12.5 | on the anatomy of their pelvices. |
| 1:14.7 | There were the bird-hipped ornithiscians on one side, things like stegosaurus, triceratops |
| 1:19.6 | and iguanodons, and the lizard-hipped sorriscians on the other, including giants like |
| 1:25.0 | diplodocus and teeth gnashes like T-Rex. |
| 1:28.4 | This basic division is described in children's books and museum displays across the world. |
| 1:34.1 | Only now, almost 130 years later, is a new paper starting to shake things up. |
| 1:39.8 | To find out more, Sharmony Bandel went to meet author Matthew Barron at the Natural History Museum in London, |
| 1:45.2 | where he gave her a quick tour of one of their most popular galleries. |
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