Harvey and Adam discuss bewildering berries, sizeable sauropods, intoxicated octopuses and plastic penguins.

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SHOW NOTES:

The Next Big Berry™

• The yam
• The groundcherry (i.e. physalis)
• Scientific paper
• News and views

Humongous dinosaurs

• Chicken with fake plastic tail (video in paper) 
• Baby green heron
• Sinornithosaurus (dandruff dinosaur scientific paper)
• Patagotitan paper 
• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 

List of dinosaurs mentioned:* Allosaurus Argentinosaurus Brachiosaurus Brontosaurus Dreadnoughtus Diplodocus Patagotitan Tyrannosaurus rex Velociraptor

Octopus narcotics

• Theresa May dancing
• Spiders on drugs
• Scientific paper 

Telford Exotic Zoo's penguins

• Macaroni penguin 
• News article (The Mirror)
• Telford Exotic Zoo

*Please note - due to character limits we couldn't include links to pictures of all the dinosaurs mentioned, but a quick Google search of their names should show plenty of results.

Harvey and Adam discuss philosophical fish, noisy neighbours, devious droids and the importance of udders in the art of cheesemaking.

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SHOW NOTES:

Harvey's holiday to Crete

• Crystals photo
• Saturn Devouring His Son by Goya
• My Boyfriend Has No Balls (Cosmopolitan)

Facial recognition in cleaner wrasse

• University of Portsmouth Macaque Cognition Project
• Cleaner wrasse photo
• Scientific paper

Suppressed footsteps

• Scientific paper

Robots and emotional manipulation

• AIQ by Nick Polson and James Scott
• Runaway by The Corrs 
• What Can I Do by The Corrs
• Black Mirror - Metalhead (trailer)
• Spot Mini video by Boston Dynamics
• Atlas video by Boston Dynamics
• Boston Dynamics abusing robots compilation 
• Article on Boston Dynamics (Wired) 
• Scientific paper

Ancient cheese

• British Cheese Board website
• Scientific paper

Harvey and Adam discuss leaf-blowing lizards, lunar lifeforms and the virus that might be making you fat.

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SHOW NOTES:

Adam's Three Peaks Challenge

• Photo

Anole evolution

• Anole image
• The video
• Scientific paper 

Was there life on the Moon?

• Animation of giant impact hypothesis
• Scientific paper

The obesity virus News article (New Scientist) 

Harvey and Adam discuss fossilised frogs, the salamander sisterhood, robots of Mars and astrobiological algae.

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SHOW NOTES:

Fossilised frogs

• Steven Spielberg murders a triceratops
• Frog image 1 
• Frog image 2 
• News article (Nat Geo)
• Scientific paper 

The Lake Pátzcuaro salamander

• Achoque image
• Axolotl image 
• News article (BBC Radio 4) 
• Chester Zoo conservation programme 

Robots of Mars

• Guide to Mars opposition 
• Dust storm animation 
• Jupiter through Harvey's telescope 
• News article (BBC) 

Far-red photosynthesis

• News article (Eurekalert) 
• Scientific paper 

Harvey and Adam discuss the formation of Pluto, fossilised dinosaur dandruff and the rise of the machines.

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SHOW NOTES:

Pluto

• False colour image of Pluto
• Near true-colour image of Pluto
• Enhanced colour image of Charon
• News article (Forbes)
• Scientific paper

Fossilised dandruff

• Microraptor
• Beipiaosaurus
• Sinornithosaurus
• Scientific paper
• News and Views

Artificial intelligence

• DJ Roomba 
• Mr. Beauregard (from Rick and Morty S2E4, Total Rickall)
• Google Duplex demo at Google I/O

Harvey and Adam discuss houseplants, lentil-sized Neanderthals, potions from the Dark Ages and interstellar spacecraft.

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SHOW NOTES:

Fake Plastic Orchids

• Marks and Spencer's homeware section

Lentil-sized brain organoids

• News article (The Guardian)

Ancient antibiotics

• Scientific paper

Alpha Centauri

• News article (Scientific American)
• Scientific paper

Harvey and Adam discuss handsome hermit crabs, birds of paradise, 10,000 year old sloth footprints and reptilian humanoids.

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SHOW NOTES:

New hermit crabs

• Scientific paper
• Adam's clownfish/anemone costume

Birds-of-paradise

• Pigeon video
• Wilson's bird-of-paradise
• Greater bird-of-paradise
• King of Saxony bird-of-paradise
• Article (The Atlantic)
• Scientific paper
• Vantablack
• Carbon nanotubes
• Bird-of-paradise courtship dance

Giant ground sloth footprints

• Scientific paper
• Footprint images
• Nothrotheriops
• Paramylodon

The Silurian Hypothesis

• Article (The Atlantic)
• Scientific paper
• Silurians (Doctor Who)
• Drake Equation 

Harvey and Adam discuss pigeon problems, tactile turtles, "mind-reading" robots, and review the sci-fi horror film Annihilation.

SHOW NOTES:

Turtle tactility

• Scientific research

Alter Ego

• News article (Forbes)
• Videos
• Scientific study

Harvey and Adam discuss bird feeders, lunar phone reception, roving on the Red Planet, earwig PR problems, and a five thousand year old tattoo.

SHOW NOTES:

Bird feeding

• The Egyptian goose
• The domestic goose
• The Canadian goose
• RSPB call to feed more birds (The Ecologist)

4G network on the Moon

• News article (The Telegraph)

Curiosity Rover

• Photograph 1 (Mars landscape)
• Photograph 2 (Earth from Mars)
• Photograph 3 (Curiosity selfie)
• News article (BBC)
• Microsoft Sam generator

Earwigs

• Earwig wing simulation (Video)
• Paper folding and the size of the observable universe (Sploid)
• News article (Science News)

Ancient tattoo

• News article (Science News)

Harvey and Adam discuss cave paintings, pet cloning, bringing animals back from extinction, and how sea turtles are being affected by climate change.

SHOW NOTES:

Cave paintings:

• Photograph
• Scientific paper

Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs:

• News article
• St Bernard

De-extinction:

• News article
• Megatherium

Sea turtles:

• Scientific paper