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Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 – So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs – Q&A with Ben Garrod

Ben Garrod Q&A –          Were you interested in dinosaurs as a child?

Not just dinosaurs, but anything prehistoric. My first fossil find was on a beach near where I grew up. I was five years old and was on a day out with mum and dad. We wound the fossilised shell of a belemnite, which was a relative of the squid we see alive today. It was over 100 million years old and that blew my socks off!…

I saw this articlethough a facebook link and thought I would have a quick read of it. This article, by Sam Wollaston, is positive about the series – which is great, but I feel they could have gone further. For starters the article only focuses on the final episode (which I haven’t seen yet) and not the entire series. This is a shame because there were some pretty awesome things mentioned in the…

Image taken from http://warezltd.net/tv_shows/multi_secrets_bones_s01e05_hdtv_xvid_afg-132672/

So I’ve finally managed to catch up on the last couple of epiodes of Ben Garrod’s Secrets of Bones. These episodes first looked how the skeleton in vertebrates helped to sense the world whilst the second looks how it helps with hunting. As with the previous episdoes Ben Garrod takes us through a…

Pentadactyl limbs of various animals. Image taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent

So I finally managed to catch up on episode 2 of Ben Garrod’s Secrets of Bones and what can I say it’s just as good as the first ! This episode looked at the skeleton and how it assisted with movement and therefore focused on the vertebrae and limbs bones of animals to see how different…