Nick Petrichow

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224 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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Nature Podcast · Briefing Chat: Baby T. rex were killers from birth, suggest new fossils · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

waves and when they did so, the bone suggested that these princesses were, you know, maybe using weapons, maybe doing archery and that sort of thing, which challenges the sort of long held belief that they were, you know, doing more sedentary things, sitting around being pampered, that sort of thing.

Well, there is an important caveat here.

It is an interpretation, and one of the researchers interviewed in this article disagrees with that interpretation and says there isn't enough evidence to do this.

So the way that this works is you look at the bones and you look at muscle attachment.

So this is where the muscles are attached into the bones, and based on like what people were doing over the course of their lives, you can then make inference.

Differences and what they were doing.

So, like if the surface area where the muscle is attached has become bigger, it may be that the muscles were being used a lot.

However, it could just be that lives in general were more strenuous then.

So the researcher who was a bit skeptical said it would be good to compare these bones against non-elite people and see like what they were doing as well before we jump to the conclusion that perhaps the

These princesses were going out and, you know, slaughtering their enemies or whatever it was.

Yeah, I mean I think that is broadly true, and you know, these were princesses that were given a bit more special treatment.

But it is an interesting reinterpretation of the past and if it holds up.

And the other thing that they found with these princesses as well is lots of weapons.

And historically that's always been thought that that was ceremonial.

Whereas in fact the researchers behind this news study are saying that.

But perhaps it could be that, you know, these were their weapons.

So it does open the door to a lot more questions about what we have thought about the past.

Exactly, exactly.

And you know, one of the researchers behind this work said that this interpretation was often based on outdated gender stereotypes that restricted martial activities to the male sphere.

And this could imply that the picture is actually a little bit more complicated.

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