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Episode 60: Determining Diet
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Mar 4, 2016
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Podcast episode
Description
Diet is perhaps the most important aspect of ecology. As such, understanding the diet of extinct animals is crucial if we wish to reconstruct the ecosystems of the past. However, determining what was on the menu for extinct animals, known only from fragmentary fossils, is far from straight forward. We spoke to Dr David Button, from the University of Birmingham, to learn about the techniques palaeontologists use to deduce diet from fossils.
Released:
Mar 4, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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