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🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:20.1 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacL. |
0:32.2 | They are very unlike a bird that you typically think of sitting at a bird feeder. |
0:38.6 | You know, definitely not that kind of bird. |
0:45.8 | I'm Flora Lichten with Scientific Americans Science Quickly. |
0:50.1 | Today, episode three of our four-part fascination on really big birds. |
0:55.7 | We're going on a gargantuan goose chase. |
0:59.6 | I love talking about these big birds because most people think ostrich and they think that's big. |
1:06.2 | But actually, they were real giants around at one time. |
1:10.7 | This is Anusia Chinami-Turan of the University of Cape Town in South Africa. |
1:15.3 | And she's talking about the Dramornethids. |
1:18.0 | That's their scientific name. |
1:19.9 | But in big bird circles, you'll hear them called Thunderbirds. |
1:25.3 | Their name the Thunderbirds is really quite wonderful because kind of immediately you can |
1:31.7 | understand these really large animals coming. |
1:35.0 | Thunderbirds lived in Australia and they had a long run. |
1:38.0 | The earliest members of the group date back 50 million years or so and one species persisted |
1:43.1 | to about 40,000 years ago. |
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