The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color

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News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Science’s Online News Editor David Grimm joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about a 2000-year-old pet cemetery found in the Egyptian city of Berenice and what it can tell us about the history of human-animal relationships. Also this week, Dipon Ghosh, a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about how scientists missed that the tiny eyeless roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which has been intensively studied from top to bottom for decades, somehow has the ability to detect colors. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF) [Image: HINRICH SCHULENBURG; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; David Grimm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.7	with usage and settings. Welcome to the science podcast for March 5th, 2021. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we feature the most
1:19.2	interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up, online news
1:24.8	editor, David Grimm, talks with me about an ancient Egyptian pet cemetery,
1:30.1	dating back to the second century BCE, or maybe a little bit before,
1:34.0	and what this cemetery can teach us about animal-human relations way back in time.
1:40.6	Then I talk with researcher Deepon Ghosh about color vision in eyeless worms.
1:45.8	Somehow, the tiny roundworms, the elegance, has been detecting color without eyes.
1:55.1	First up this week, we have online news editor David Grimm.
1:58.4	He's here to talk about what looks to be the oldest pet cemetery anywhere.
2:03.5	Hi, Dave.
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