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🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
0:03.0 | It's the fifth episode of the Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry |
0:07.0 | and the last in our current series, |
0:09.0 | the series where we try and take your everyday mysteries |
0:12.0 | and solve them using the power of science. |
0:15.6 | Yes and last week we covered the whole of time and space all of cosmology and the |
0:21.2 | universe and the speed of light and things like that and so this week we thought we'd go |
0:24.1 | entirely in the other direction and focus on two very small animals. |
0:29.4 | First of all we're going to be talking about dinosaurs which is obviously one of my |
0:33.8 | favorite subjects and then we're going to be talking about bats which is also one of my |
0:38.9 | favorite subjects you're quite happy about this entire thing, aren't you? |
0:42.8 | Absolutely delighted. |
0:44.6 | So first of all, let's deal with a grand and the epic but today's question is small and |
1:00.6 | perfectly formed. |
1:01.6 | Ellie Cook aged 11, what is the tiniest dinosaur? |
1:06.1 | Okay, so at first glance, this may seem like a bit of a sort of top Trump's question, |
1:10.4 | but it turns out that size is one of the very first things that |
1:14.0 | paleontologists try to work out when they find a new fossil and we are currently |
1:17.5 | living in a golden age of dinosaur discovery on average one new species of dinosaur is discovered every week. |
1:25.0 | That is right. And another thing that many people don't realize is just how incredibly successful |
1:29.8 | dinosaurs were in an evolutionary sense. It's something that really gets under the |
1:34.1 | skin of paleontologist Steve Brusati. It pains me every time you know I see on the |
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