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  • Dinosaurs had bones in their eyes, with Stephan Lautenschlager

    October 27, 2026 · 33 min

    Dinosaurs had bones in their eyes. You don’t, and nor does any other mammal, from dogs to whales to elephants. We’re the odd ones out. Birds, lizards, turtles and fish all have a ring of thin bony plates sitting in the white of the eye…

  • Why you can’t hide from a T. rex, with Jared Voris

    October 19, 2026 · 43 min

    The most important part of your nose is inside your brain. Your nose catches the smell, but it’s a lump at the front of your brain that works out what it is: sweet, horrible, or dangerous, like gas in the kitchen. Humans tend to put smell…

  • Dinosaur chicken nuggets with Jingmai O’Connor

    October 12, 2026 · 36 min

    Loads of dinosaurs had wings, but not many of them could fly. There’s a dinosaur in your garden right now, probably the one that keeps stealing your chips, because a seagull is a dinosaur, and so is every robin, pigeon and chicken…

  • Why dinosaurs never dragged their tails with Pasha van Bijlert

    October 5, 2026 · 33 min

    A dinosaur’s tail could be a third of the whole animal, about as heavy to lug around as a concrete block, and for well over a century people drew dinosaurs dragging theirs along the ground. They didn’t. Palaeontologists have found…

  • Life in a super greenhouse with Kirsty Edgar

    September 28, 2026 · 31 min

    The dinosaurs had around 160 million years on Earth, so there was never just one dinosaur climate. There were deserts, volcanoes and jungles, and there were forests at the North and South Poles, because for most of that time there was no…

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  • What the thagomizer?! with ReBecca Hunt-Foster

    September 21, 2026 · 33 min

    If something wants to eat you, you have three options: get so big that knocking you over is not worth the trouble, get fast enough to leave, or make yourself so expensive to attack that nobody bothers. Plenty of dinosaurs took the third…

  • Dinosaurs never needed a dentist with Emma Nicholls

    September 14, 2026 · 39 min

    Nigersaurus grew around 500 teeth and replaced the whole lot roughly every two weeks. It never brushed them, never had to be careful with them and never once saw a dentist, because there was always another tooth coming up behind. The word…

  • Dinosaurs with necks full of air with Mike Taylor

    September 7, 2026 · 32 min

    The longest neck any animal has ever grown belonged to Mamenchisaurus, and the neck on its own was more than 15 metres, longer than a school bus before you even get to the rest of the dinosaur. Which raises the obvious question: how do you…

  • The dinosaurs that ran faster than Usain Bolt with John Hutchinson

    August 31, 2026 · 30 min

    Dinosaurs ruled for 160 million years, and the thing that made them a runaway success was where their legs went. Not out to the side like a crocodile, but straight down underneath them, a stance that costs less energy and frees the arms up…

  • This is Dino Quest

    August 24, 2026 · 1 min

    Legs that could outrun the fastest human alive. A neck longer than a double-decker bus. A tail people were once sure could crack like a whip. Every week Lauren and Cassius Morrison dig up one brand new, completely true fact about…

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About the show

Dinosaurs were awesome. But no dinosaur ever got everything right. Each episode, Lauren and Cassius pick one dinosaur speciality and dig into it. The fastest legs. The longest neck. The sharpest teeth.  They talk to the scientists who actually study this stuff – from the woman who found a dinosaur underneath a car park to the palaeontologist who builds them inside computers – and they make a choice: one real feature, from one real fossil, to add to the perfect dinosaur they're building across the series. By the end, they'll have built a dinosaur that never existed, made entirely out of bits that did. Dino Quest is from Fun Kids, the UK's children's radio station.