Nicola Davis

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Something very strange was brewing, and an unpaid bill was just the start of it.

That's tomorrow's episode.

A Scottish Tea Mystery was reported and presented by me, Nicola Davis.

It was produced by Madeleine Finlay, the sound design was by Joel Cox, and the executive producer was Ellie Burey.

Science Weekly · The dinosaurs who survived the asteroid · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

It was the most cataclysmic event in the Earth's history.

Yes, one type of dinosaur is miraculously still around today.

That's right, girls.

And every other bird, too.

Birds are, in fact, dinosaurs.

It's estimated that there are just over 6,000 species of mammals around today.

But birds?

10,000 species.

So how did birds evolve from their reptile ancestors into our feathered friends?

And if they survived the asteroid, can they survive us?

I'm Nicola Davis, Guardian science correspondent, and this is Science Weekly.

Professor Steve Brussati is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Edinburgh.

And he's the author of a new book, The Story of Birds, an evolutionary history of the dinosaurs that live among us.

Scientists estimate that somewhere between 165 million and 150 million years ago, birds first appeared.

The oldest known bird that's so far been discovered is the Archaeopteryx.

To picture this fossil, imagine the imprint of a bird that's flown very hard into a window.

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