Ira Flatow
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1,345 appearances
25 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
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Okay.
Because I know between the asteroid and now we had 66 million years of bird evolution.
And I know there are some really weird, I'm going to say weird sounding birds and scary birds.
Like let's start with this, this flashy name, the demon duck.
OK, now there's another scary sounding terror birds.
Well, speaking of big birds and next up, and I was thinking about this before when you talked about birds that about dinosaurs that had feathers and wings and just couldn't fly.
And now I heard in your book, the giant penguin.
How giant are we talking about?
Yeah, let's turn the clock ahead a little bit to more present eras.
I know you study extinctions and what comes before and after them.
And as we have been following over the years, birds are facing multiple threats.
In North America, the number of breeding birds has declined by, what, 3 billion in the past 50 years?
Yes.
Is this an extinction that we're facing, Steve?
Well, Steve, they will when they read your book.
You know, we could go on forever.
This is a great book.
Steve Brussati, paleontologist and author of The Story of Birds, A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present.
Steve is based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
This episode was produced by Kathleen Davis.
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