- 137
- Episodes
- 52
- Transcribed
- 32
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Quirks and Quarks
CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks covers the quirks of the expanding universe to the quarks within a single atom... and everything in between.
- Publisher
- CBC
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
52 of 137 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
A feather found in dino poop and more...
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4 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sweat, comets and dino milk. It’s our summer question show!
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A feather found in dino poop and more...
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So hesperonithiforms are birds that have been known since 1872. This is the first time we've ever seen their feathers. They're secondarily flightless, like foot-propelled diving birds. So they're aquatic. So then we went one step further to test that hypothesis by checking if the feathers had aquatic specializations. So we were able to see that these feathers are indeed better adapted for aquatic locomotion than any other feathers we've ever seen in the Cretaceous before. It's like a preponderance of evidence that allowed us to make this hypothesis. We definitely don't have a smoking gun, and I'd be the first person to say that it's possible we're incorrect. […]
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- 32 ratings
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- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 82
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