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TWiEVO 7: Pigeon fashion week, feathery boots edition
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 01:23:55
Publish Date: 2016-04-23 09:48:59
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Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Mike Shapiro

Mike joins Nels and Vincent to talk about his work on what controls whether pigeons have scaly or feathered feet, and reveals that the hindlimbs of domestic birds with feathery feet are more like wings at the molecular level. 

 

Links for this episode Science Picks

Mike - Pigeon exhibit, Natural History Museum of Utah; Pigeonetics (App store); Darwin's PigeonsNels - National Parasite CollectionVincent - The Story Collider

Music on TWiEVO is performed by Trampled by Turtles

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