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Nature Podcast

Nature Podcast: 23 March 2017

Nature Podcast

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Science, Technology, News

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🗓️ 22 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week, peering into a black hole, reorganising the dinosaur family tree and finding drug combos for cancer.

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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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