Steve Brusatte
Professor of Palaeontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh
3 episodes
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The Evolution of Lungs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the diverse ways animals extract oxygen from air, from the highly tuned lungs that enabled dinosaurs to grow tall and birds to fly high, to buccal pumping.
12 June 2025
Also featuring: Emily Rayfield, Jonathan Codd
The Fish-Tetrapod Transition
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great evolutionary change that gave rise to all the land animals on Earth with a backbone, when some fish developed limbs, lungs and necks.
20 October 2022
Also featuring: Emily Rayfield, Michael Coates
Feathered dinosaurs
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss theories about dinosaur feathers. Which ones had them, what sorts of feathers were they and where were they found on their bodies?
26 October 2017
Also featuring: Mike Benton, Maria McNamara