Investigating Darwin's Legacy

Audio Report on Feb 09, 2009 by KQED QUEST staff from QUEST Northern California
Topics: Biology, Radio

This year marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin – and the 150th anniversary of his landmark work, "On the Origin of Species". One of the iconic fossils that supports Darwin's theory of evolution is called the Archaeopteryx and it was recently flown out to Stanford University for an unusual test. Scientists are bombarding this dino-bird with high-tech gadgetry to unlock even more information about how we came to be here.

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• The Secrets of Darwin's Dinobird
• The Secrets of Darwin's Dinobird
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