"Yeah, there are, there are ways in, and maybe we’ve got to get lucky because maybe it’s not the breeding season or maybe that was just happened to be a group of all males, and therefore we’re not going to get the signal we’re looking for. But there’s enough of them, and they’re common enough, and yet, still digging in Mongolia. We keep finding new species. We keep finding new cooler stuff. But I’m like, “Can we, can we dig up some more Protoceratops?” Because actually, however cool these new things are, genuinely if you want to know what dinosaurs are and how they worked, another hundred Protoceratops will actually probably tell us a lot more than 50 new species, however cool 50 new species might be."

"…because they’re the primary feathers on the wings. And what it actually does is it makes it harder to fly. So you’re basically going, “Look how tough I am. I’ve grown this big, and I can fly and carry on with my giant curly feathers because I’m really tough and I’m in good shape.” And it’s the same with the lion. The reason you get pale lions in the south is because it’s, or close to the equator, because it’s too hot. So there’s the trade-off, because if you have a really black mane, yeah, all the males know you’re great and all the females know you’re super sexy, but you just die of overheating."

"And you’re going to see stuff like, you know, it’s the famous one of… I think it was a Neanderthal. There was a famous question of like, “At what point do you think society exists?” And maybe one of the answer was basically this skeleton because it was someone with a properly busted leg and then it fully healed. And it’s like if that person was on their own, just dead, someone had to look after them for months to get that level of healing. You only do that to someone you’re really devoted to and probably a group of people because even one person can’t look after one other person. Right, so that’s your society. And yet you think about the pathology of skeletons in the human race. How many of us have broken a bone?"