Palaeo Ponderings: Can You Dig It?

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Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 14 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Did dinosaurs live in herds? Why are mountains pointy? And what's the best preserved mummy? Plus we had a giant snake, a few skulls, a couple of "feet" and one of the oldest rocks on Earth in the studio. Scientists Lee Berger, Meghan Strong, Jason Head, and Owen Weller team up for an Early Earth QA show Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.2	Hello.
0:04.2	Hello.
0:05.2	Welcome.
0:06.2	Science.
0:09.2	And that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or space, time, brain, life, the universe.
0:16.0	This week, why are mountains, pointy, did dinosaurs live in large herds?
0:20.5	And we have a giant snake, a few skulls, a of feet and one of the oldest rocks on earth here in the studio.
0:27.0	It is Q&A time and we're taking things right back to the very beginning.
0:32.0	I'm Chris Smith and this is the naked
0:35.0	naked scientist the naked scientist the naked scientist
0:36.2	the naked scientist podcast is powered by UK fast dot co-dot UK Well, let's meet the panel of experts who are going to tackle your questions.
0:49.4	Megan Strong is an Egyptologist.
0:52.1	You're not as ancient as the rest of our panel. I mean
0:54.8	that in the nicest possible way, Megan. What are we talking about when we're talking
0:58.1	about the ancient Egyptians? Yeah, it's not frequent that 2,500 BC is the most modern person on the panel.
1:05.0	But yeah, roughly that's the period that we're starting 2,600 BC and then up to about
1:10.0	323 BC.
1:12.0	Right, so about 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. Yeah, absolutely. A long old time.
1:16.4	Thank you, Megan. Well on the other side of the room is Lee Berger. Lee is from
1:19.9	Vitz University in Johannesburg, South Africa. He's not discovered one, but several in fact new species
1:26.1	of ancient human ancestor.
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