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EPISODE · Feb 13, 2017 · 3 MIN

How did birds survive the dinosaur mass extinction?

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists · host Dr Chris Smith

If birds are dinosaurs, why didn't they get killed by the asteroid 60 million years ago? Tom O'Hanlon put Fay's query to David Norman from the University of Cambridge. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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